by Kim Conrey | Jan 26, 2026 | A Writer's Life, Musings
The One: The book that means the most I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in first grade as I stood there clutching my copy of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, as the librarian at my elementary school told me, “Kimberly, you have to turn in that...
by Kim Conrey | Aug 21, 2024 | A Writer's Life, Musings, Updates
Recently a friend of mine, Kay Paschal, who authored a book titled Insert Giggle Giggle, primarily about midlife reinvention and a look back on her parenting journey, gave me a fine compliment indeed. She told me she’d never read a book in my genre but discovered that...
by Kim Conrey | May 28, 2024 | A Writer's Life, Book News, Updates, Wayward Saviors
As the snarky, orange-eyed demon from Noory and the Eternal Light says, “Taking up with immortals is always a problem.” Maybe not as big a problem as getting a book out on time when you’re juggling writer’s conferences, kids, multiple projects,...
by Kim Conrey | Feb 5, 2024 | A Writer's Life, Ares Ascending, Book News, Musings, Updates
“I think we all have something in our lives that we’ve been doing for so long, judging for so long, that we’ve lost the thread of beauty. Here’s to the sacred moments when we’re given a window of opportunity to find it again.” I’d...
by Kim Conrey | Dec 17, 2023 | A Writer's Life, Musings, Updates
It’s been a very busy year. Nicholas Eternal, a book I wrote back in 2015, was finally published this past summer. The next book in the Ares series, Losing Ares, came out in October, and my memoir, You’re Not a Murderer: You Just Have Harm OCD, about living with...