About Kimberly
I imagined fantastic scenes in my head from the time I was old enough to string thoughts together. It didn’t occur to me to write them down until I was about ten. My stories weren’t really complete. They were more like anecdotes that might be collected in someone’s memoir…if that someone were rich and famous, larger than life, and being chased by aliens, spies, or the mafia.
Initially, I wrote to entertain myself and my childhood best friend. She was an audience of one for many years, which was quite enough in the beginning. Later, I decided I wanted my readership to be a bit larger, so I began to focus on getting published.
I went to a boot-camp style writing retreat and discovered a few missing pieces of writing craft that I needed to properly finish a novel. For several years, I researched things and wrote several drafts of a story, honing my craft. Then I went to a writers’ conference and pitched the story to an agent who took me on as a client.
A few months later, my humorous fantasy, Would-Be Witch, sold to the Berkley Publishing group. Since then, three books in the Southern Witch series have been released: Would-Be Witch (February 2009), Barely Bewitched (September 2009), and Halfway Hexed (February 2011).
At the writing of this bio, I am working on my new paranormal romantic series featuring archangels, human-vampire half-breeds, and descendants of the ancient muses. I’ve been told it’s my best work yet!
The first story in the “Etherlin” series is “First Light” and it is part of a multi-author anthology called TIED WITH A BOW. The anthology hit #23 on the New York Times Trade Fiction Bestseller List.
The first novels in the series All That Bleeds (January 3, 2012) and All That Falls will be out in 2012.
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If you need more Kimberly-related information, please visit the Free Extras page for essays and interviews where you can learn really important things about me, like what my favorite ice cream is and why I like ocelots.
