The body of author Katherine Lawrence was found March 27 by a group of hikers along the San Pedro River. She had been reported missing to Tucson police days earlier. Exactly what occurred is not known, nor is her age, but she was a relatively young woman in (I'm guessing) her late thirties or early forties. Many people reading this knew her under the name of Kathy Selbert when she was pursuing a career in television writing. She wrote for, among other shows, Dungeons and Dragons, Conan the Adventurer and Hypernauts and was active in a number of our attempts to get animation writing covered by the Writers Guild…a movement that has finally, slowly, achieved some real progress.
I did not know Kathy well. She was a quiet type who preferred to express herself in her stories. Still, the news comes as a shock and a lot of us are very sorry to hear it.