Act I, Scene I, Round I: Writers vie for shot at fame

Katie Harding Smith, shown in Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, wrote a thriller about an evil and wealthy bread maker. (Globe Staff Photo / Yoon S. Byun)

By David Filipov

Globe Staff / May 25, 2009

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SALEM - Katie Harding Smith's dream is to give you nightmares. She spends hours each day at her computer in her Danvers condo, tapping out the scripts for would-be blockbusters about homicidal maniacs, ghosts, and gore, her fingers working around her calico cat, Cali, who likes to saunter in front of the monitor as Smith works. The 26-year-old, in between ... (Full article: 1174 words)