Kim Smith's Blog – January 2009 Archive (7)

Review by Aaron Paul Lazar



A great read doesn't have to be fancy, full of literary allusions or deep musings. Nor does it need a ritzy setting, plots that twist your brain into a pretzel, or elite protagonists.



What a great read does need is a story that moves, characters who linger in your mind, and a voice that calls you back to its pages. Avenging Angel by Kim Smith accomplished all three.



Smith has written a suspenseful cozy mystery set in the south in a… Continue

After a long and trying journey, I finished A Will to Love and submitted it.

My editor just responded with kudoes on the writing and a shiny new contract! I am so thrilled!!!

Hope all my mystery fans will enjoy my first ROMANCE! It is a short novella or long short story, however you want to look at it.

More info coming~!
xxoox

In advance of my virtual book tour next month with Pump Up Your Book
Promotions, there was an interview out today at California Chronicle :
HERE

If you wanna go and see about it :)

Register now for:



How to Jumpstart the Muse by Kim Smith



Have you ever had long stretches where your Muse goes on holiday and didn't invite you? Did it take off and didn't leave a forwarding address? I have too! Daily writing prompts and free-style writing can save the "empty mind" syndrome every time. Come and join in the fun as we "locate" the Muse once it takes a hike and leaves us still on the porch.



Date: January 26



Time: 7pm… Continue

Tonight, Lea Schizas will be my guest on Introducing...WRITERS! -- Lea will be talking about her books, her job as Editor in Chief to Red Rose Publishing, and life as a stay at home mom.

Join us, won't you?
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kims
730 pm central
830 pm eastern

I am the blogger of the day (sort of like soup du jour!!) over at SRR --
come over and play!
http://simplyromancereviews.blogspot.com/

Kim

Welcome to the Murder Mystery E-Dinner!



2nd PRIZE - ecopy of Avenging Angel and mention on the radio show!



1st PRIZE - $20.00 gift certificate to Amazon.com and mention on the

radio show!



How can you enter? It's easy!



1. First, email me at pubd2b at yahoo dot com with Murder Mystery E-

Dinner in the subject line!



2. Then I will begin sending out details for you to try and put the

mystery together!



See? It's easy to… Continue