Meet the Team

Brandy Bowen

Owner, Developmental Editor

I LOVE owning Watermark Book Company. It is a very exciting and exhausting job. I am married to Ben, and he works for the Washington State Ferries. I have 4 kids–they range in ages 8 years to 21 years old. I like to visit with friends and try new foods. I like dark beers… really dark beers. I love to crochet, read, and roller skate. I like to hike and ride my bicycle. I LOVE to travel! I have been to Ireland, Iceland, Denmark, Italy, Banff (Canada), Scotland, Mexico, and we often bugger off to Hawaii for a little reprieve and some sunshine.

I will read just about anything. However, if I don’t like something I’m reading, I give myself permission to stop. I really enjoy nonfiction, memoirs, and horror.

Amberly Baker

Copy Editor

I have spent my whole life in the Pacific Northwest! I have a BA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University and a Professional Sequence in Editing Certificate from UC Berkeley and I’ve been on the Watermark Book Company team for more than six years. I love to read and write, write letters, cook and bake (I AM a “Baker”), watch cooking and baking shows, and knit when my cranky arm will cooperate. I have a cat named Nicky, and he is my boy.

Kathleen Kaska

Writing Coach

I’m a Texas gal. Except for an eighteen-month hiatus living in New York City after college, I lived in the Lone Star State continuously for fifty years. Since then, Texas has been hit and miss—a little hit, but a heck of a lot of miss. There was a time when I thought I would happily die in Austin, Texas. But circumstances and weather—especially weather—changed that. Now I spend most of the year on Fidalgo Island in Washington State, with a view of the bay and the mountains. When I get homesick, my husband and I listen to Willie Nelson. Soon we are dancing the two-step, imagining we are at our favorite honky-tonk in Tokio, Texas, where the mayor is believed to be a dog. Who wouldn’t miss that?