Kate Rorick Books in Order

Kate Rorick writes about modern motherhood, Jane Austen, and the messy overlap between private life and public attention. She also works in television, which makes sense for a writer drawn to stories that move through screens, conversations, and the things people choose to share.

Rorick graduated from Syracuse University and later built a career writing for television. Her credits include Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Terra Nova, and Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger. That work gives her fiction a quick, scene-ready feel, but her novels stay focused on the pressures people carry at home.

In 2014, she was part of the writing team for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the Emmy-winning web series that brought Pride and Prejudice into the world of vlogs, texts, social media, and student debt. The project turned a familiar story into something built for an online audience, while keeping its attention on family, friendship, money, romance, and bad first impressions.

It also led to books.

With Bernie Su, Rorick wrote The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, a companion novel that lets Lizzie tell the story away from the camera. It follows the graduate student as a video project makes her unexpectedly visible online, even as her family’s finances and relationships become harder to ignore. The book gives readers more time with Lizzie’s sharp observations, her sisters, and her complicated response to William Darcy.

She later co-wrote The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet with Rachel Kiley. This time, Lydia gets the microphone. The novel follows the younger Bennet sister as she deals with the damage caused by unwanted online attention and tries to rebuild trust with the people she loves. It is a story about growing up after a public mistake, told with Lydia’s restless humor and directness.

Rorick’s standalone novels move from Austen updates to present-day family life.

In The Baby Plan, three women face pregnancies that do not fit neatly into their plans. Lyndi, Nathalie, and Sophia each approach parenthood from a different stage of life, and the book finds comedy in family announcements, money worries, social expectations, and the strange rules of modern pregnancy culture. Little Wonders takes on the competitive world of preschool parents, beginning with a viral Halloween meltdown and following two very different mothers who become reluctant allies.

Across these books, Rorick is interested in people trying to look composed while life refuses to cooperate. Her characters manage careers, relatives, relationships, money, children, and social media, often all at once. The humor can be broad, but the stakes stay personal: being seen clearly, being forgiven, and figuring out what kind of life feels like your own.

She lives in Los Angeles with her family. She also writes historical romance under the name Kate Noble, a second writing life that sits neatly beside her work in contemporary fiction and television.