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 | 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...
by Kim Conrey | Jul 25, 2023 | A Writer's Life, Musings, Updates
On a 16th century globe, there is a portion of it where cartographers did not yet know what lay beyond. So, it seemed prudent to them to leave a warning to would be adventurers. It read simply: “Here Be Dragons.” Recently I spoke to our members at the Atlanta Writers...
by Kim Conrey | Sep 20, 2022 | A Writer's Life, Musings, Updates
“…we are writers. We earned the title. We stay in the race even though it hurts, and damn it, it hurts. Sometimes, a helluva lot. Can we just acknowledge that? Of course we can. It doesn’t make us weak. It makes us human. It makes us real. It makes us...
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