She’s been a Miss DC and competed for the Miss America crown. She’s been a Hill staffer. She’s the writer of a well-read blog. And now, Kate Michael is adding “author” to her resume.
The 2006 Miss DC is finishing up a kids book based on a poem she wrote on “colors and how colors make us feel.”
The book is aimed at a third-grade level, and she had third-graders from Bruce Monroe Elementary School in the District draw some of the illustrations for it. And once she gets a few more illustrations from another grammar school, she’ll put the finishing touches on it. She aims to publish it in February.
Meanwhile, she’s developing an idea for another, more adult-themed book. Called “One-Date Kate,” the book plays off her nickname in college, when she had a reputation for “going on one date with just about anybody — but not two.”
“On every first date, I’d meet someone [else] I’d want to go on another with,” she said, “until I found someone I wanted to keep going out with.”
