Caitlin Rose Foley,

writer of fantasy & romance

The official stuff

Caitlin is a writer of (mostly) fantasy romance, originally from Massachusetts, US. She has a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing (fiction) from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA and currently lives on the moody west coast of Ireland with her husband and a herd of noisy cats.

Caitlin is represented by Lauren Bieker at FinePrint Literary Management (MOURNSOUL) and Mara Hollander at Azantian Literary Agency (MOURNSOUL & future projects).

Some other stuff

Fun facts? Stuff you probably didn’t need to know? You got it!

Caitlin day-jobs at a digital agency which covers branding, web development, and marketing.

She has three cats — Tia, Mr. Scruffles, and Rua — who are a joy when they’re not plotting each other’s deaths, or 5am wake-up calls.

She moved to the west coast of Ireland in 2016, and has lived there ever since.

She takes a lot of writing inspiration from video games. Her favorites to date are Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Baldur’s Gate 3.

Some of her favorite books are We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb; Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak; If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio; and Middlegame by Seanan Mcguire. Her favorite movies are Labyrinth, Practical Magic, Dune 2, the 2020 version of Emma, and the Pride & Prejudice 1995 miniseries.

Let’s stay in touch!

Current writing projects!

If you would like more information, please get in contact directly with Caitlin’s agents, Lauren Bieker and Mara Hollander at FinePrint Literary Management!

  • Lua has lived 99 lifetimes in service to her goddess. But when betrayals from reincarnations past come to light, she’s forced to ally with a dangerous enemy: the prince she’s fated to kill, in every lifetime.

    Filled with religious angst, world-ending stakes, and enough romantic tension to make any reader blush, Caitlin Foley’s MOURNSOUL is a 95,000-word young adult fantasy romance that explores how to choose your own future when the weight of the past is pressing down on you.

  • Inspired by Irish myth & history, SAVAGE OMEN follows Líadan into the cursed depths of the forest that borders her kingdom, as she tries to find and kill the legendary Swan King and prevent her visions of disaster from coming true — before a bargain with a goddess turns her into a monster.

    Featuring the shapeshifting curses and surrealism of 1985 ‘Ladyhawke’ and the feminist mythology of ‘The Morrigan’ by Kim Curran, SAVAGE OMEN explores themes of feminine desire, rage, and monstrousness.

  • KilldarkWIP is an urban fantasy romance targeting 95,000 words. It combines the high-stakes neo-noir setting of CERTAIN DARK THINGS and the urban-Gothic atmosphere of THE CROW (1994), with a second-chance romance rife with longing and tension.

    It centers around a soldier who returns to her derelict home city to investigate a dangerous weapon, and kicks off an underground war between magically-protected cities, a religious cult who worship the corrosive mists that plague their world, and the criminal mastermind ex-boyfriend she’s falling for.

  • To find her missing mother, high school senior Jack joins her school’s Paranormal Research Society in time for their trip to one of America’s most haunted towns — the same place she and her mother ran from twelve years ago, pursued by red-eyed and bloodthirsty crows. There, she discovers generations of secrets, an outcast boy who’s strangely familiar — and starts unravelling her own dark family history, with deadly consequences.

    Targeting 75,000 words, CrowsWIP features the small town New England setting similar to Horrid by Katrina Leno, and the twisting family secrets of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power, with a healthy dose of Halloween horror.

Stay in touch

For anything book-related, please contact Mara Hollander and/or Lauren Bieker at FinePrint Literary Management!