The Latest from Kim
Montana Cherries Blog Tour Giveaway Winners!
Congratulations to these Montana Cherries Blog Tour winners: Ally Swanson (Swag Pack), Bonnie Hilligoss ($25 Amazon GC), and Lisa Brown ($10 Amazon GC! My assistant will email you soon with details on how to get your winnings! Thank you to everyone who participated in the tour and helped spread the word about this release!
August Newsletter Winner
Congrats to winner Jennifer B. of Wilmington, DE! She’s won a $50 gift card for signing up for my newsletter. If you want to sign up for the newsletter, to keep up with all Kim Law news and be eligible for future giveaways, go here!
Montana Cherries Blog Tour
That’s right! I’m doing another blog tour for my release, Montana Cherries, my first stand-alone (not connected to a series). Below is a list of all the blog tours stops for MC. I hope you’ll follow along,. There will be an opportunity to enter for a tour-wide giveaway!
Bloggers interested in being a stop in this tour can contact my assistant, Crystal, at assistant@kimlaw.com
July 21: Review by Mrs B’s Books
July 22: Review by Buffy’s Ramblings, KT Book Reviews, & Live Read Breathe
July 23: Review by Forever Book Lover
July 24: Review by A Soccer Mom’s Book Blog
July 25: Review by Ms C’s Diversions, Spotlight with Will Read For Feels
July 26: Review by Two Book Pushers
July 27: Review by A Book Addicts Delight
July 28: Review by Confessions of an Unsuspected Bookworm
July 29: Spotlight with Paulette’s Papers
July 30: Review by Jennifer Avery
July 31 Review by: Romantic Reads and Such
August 1: Spotlight with I Read Indie, Random Redheaded Ramblings, & Illustrious Illusions
August 2: Review by Cocktails & Books, What’s Beyond Forks?
August 3:Review by Endless Reading Blog, Novels Alive.TV
August 4: Review by Crystal Blogs Books
August 5: Review by Book Freak, SJParkes30
August 6: Review by Blogging by Liza, Spotlight with Books and Benches
August 7: Review by Reviews by Crystal, & The Romance Dish
August 8:Review by Jen’s Reading Obsession, & Under the Covers
August 8-9: Spotlight with Just Contemporary Romance
August 10: Review by Book Reviews and More by Kathy, Spotlight with Read Your Writes
August 11: Review with Brooke Blogs, Tifferz & Her Sisters, & LibriAmoriMeie, Spotlight with Butterfly-O-Meter Books, & After Hours at Lilybloombooks,
January Newsletter Winner
Congrats to winner, Signi S. of Crystal City, Canada! She’s won a $25 gift card and Caught in the Act t-shirt for signing up for my newsletter. If you want to sign up for the newsletter, to keep up with all Kim Law news and be eligible for future giveaways, go here!
Caught in the Act Book of the Month!
CAUGHT IN THE ACT was chosen as a Best Book of the Month for romance! Check out the list here!
November Newsletter Winner!
Congrats to winner, Robin T. of Estacada, Oregon! She’s won a beautiful, turquoise wrap bracelet for signing up for my newsletter. If you want to sign up for the newsletter, to keep up with all Kim Law news and be eligible for future giveaways, go here!
Caught in the Act Blog Tour
That’s right! I’m doing a blog tour for my next release, Caught in the Act, book two of the Davenport series. Below is a list of all the blog tours stops for CITA. I hope you’ll follow along,. There will be reviews, Q&A’s, and an opportunity to enter for a tour-wide giveaway!
Bloggers interested in being a stop in this tour can contact my assistant, Crystal, at assistant@kimlaw.com
January 19 – Spotlight by Just Contemporary Romance
January 20 – Q&A with Be My Bard, Spotlight by Forever Book Lover
January 21 – Review by Reviewing in Chaos, Review by SJParkes30
January 22 – Spotlight by Books & Benches
January 23 – Spotlight by Read Your Writes
January 24 – Review by Live Read and Breathe
January 25 – Review by A Chick Who Reads
January 26 – Review by Blogging by Liza
January 27 – Spotlight by Cocktails and Books
January 28 – Spotlight by KT Book Reviews, Spotlight by Love Romance Passion
January 29 – Review by My Guilty Obsession
January 30 – Spotlight by Books-n-Kisses
January 31 – Review by Have You Heard My Book Review
February 01 – Review by What’s Beyond Forks
February 02 – Spotlight by Paulette’s Paper
February 03 – Review by Novels Alive.TV
Sugar Springs — Deal of the Week!
Sugar Springs is the Kindle Love Stories deal of the week, August 18th – August 24th. Get it for your Kindle for only $1.99! Check out KindleLoveStories for more details.
Read-a-Romance Month. Why I celebrate romance.
I am *thrilled* to be recommended by the fabulous Darynda Jones for Read-a-Romance Month. How awesome is that? Not only do I get to read the amazing books by my favorite authors, but I also get to share a little about myself with everyone too. So thank you, Darynda! (And everyone else who’s either read my books, or might give them a try in the future!) Thank you for letting me be a part of something that is deeply ingrained in my soul. Romance.
I read an article the other day about the benefits of reading fiction. Basically, it gives your brain time to shut down everything else that may be going on in your life and allows you to simply enjoy the moment. To disappear, to be in another world, another setting. To feel! To get swept away. What better way is there to enjoy a moment than stepping into a world where you know that love wins in the end? Where you not only feel the characters’ struggle with everyday moments—with their careers, their heath, their relationships (whether family, friends, enemies, or their significant other)—but you KNOW without a doubt that in the end they’ll come out winners. Maybe not with every situation, but their hearts will be healed. They’ll have a steady partner. They’ll have love. They’ll have a deep happiness and a life that they’ll want to charge through with passion.
I love it. That right there. Knowing that good conquers evil, and that love wins in the end.
Yes, I’m a rose-colored glasses kind of girl. I’m optimistic, and I want world peace. I know there is ugliness in the world, I’m not naïve, but there is also beauty and happiness and big, beautiful feelings that can be the steady in your life every single time you need it. All you have to do is pick up a romance novel.
Romance books will do this for you. Always. Because the promise of a romance is that it *will* have a happily-ever-after. And I can’t think of a better thing to have with me every single day.
Describe the most daring, adventurous or inspiring thing you ever did.
I would say that the most daring thing I ever did was walk away from my good paying, four-weeks-a-year of paid vacation, I’d-been-there-long-enough-to-get-really-good-perks job to write full time. It was four days before my first book came out, but I quit. Walked out without looking back (though I did give them notice!!). The job was out-of-control at that moment and had been for the previous eighteen months, requiring far too many hours of my time, and it wasn’t my long-term ambition. Full-time writing was. So I decided that if I was going to make a run at this new career, then I needed to jump all in. I needed to have the time to actually write. So I walked away. And I really only panicked over the fact for the next year. 🙂
I still could go broke at any minute and have to get another job. I know that. Nothing is guaranteed in this career. But I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I love this too much not to give it my all.
Tell us about your journey to becoming a writer. (How did you decide to get started? Did you always know or was there a specific moment when you knew?)
I always knew. I started writing stories as a kid. I even submitted some of them to Highlights magazine. (I was rejected.) I had my parents get me writing books for Christmas, and I romanticized the whole career I was going to someday have. Then reality happened and I went to college and got a computer programming job. J With a kid to raise, I didn’t have time to write, but I still always knew. Writing was a part of who I was, therefore I would do it. It simply had to be the right time. I studied romance novels over the year, every time I read one, and I planned, and I dreamed. Then one day it occurred to me that if I was ever actually going to make this a career, I really needed to put words on the page. So I joined Romance Writers of America and began writing!
Tell us about The (or A) book that changed your life. (Why?)
I’m sorry, but I don’t have an answer to this question. There were so many amazing books I’ve read over the years that I can’t pinpoint The One. I do remember reading one years ago, though—it was a Silhouette Special Edition—and realizing that my whole body was tense with anticipation with practically every page I turned. What would happen? When? And why was the author keeping me on the edge for so very long? For crying out loud, just let them be together!!! 🙂
That’s when I knew that that was how I wanted readers to feel when reading my books. I want to make them feel every emotion under the sun, and then I want to do it to them again! I wish I knew whose book that had been when that revelation happened (there’s a high chance it was one of Nora’s, as she swept me away from an early age and I devoured her books), but I don’t. I do remember where I was, though. Not that that helps 😉
Thanks for stopping by today! And here’s to celebrating romance! I have a new book coming out on August 19th, SPRINKLES ON TOP, and am celebrating the days leading up to it by running daily giveaways on my Facebook page. I hope you’ll join me over there and enter to win free books and prizes!
As a child, award-winning author Kim Law cultivated a love for chocolate, anything purple, and creative writing. She penned her debut work, “The Gigantic Talking Raisin,” in the sixth grade and got hooked on the delights of creating stories. Before settling into the writing life, however, she earned a college degree in mathematics and then worked as a computer programmer—for far too many years. Now she’s pursuing her lifelong dream of writing romance novels. She has won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award, has been a finalist for the prestigious RWA RITA Award, and has served in varied positions for her local RWA chapter. A native of Kentucky, Kim lives with her husband and an assortment of animals in Middle Tennessee.
20 copies of SPRINKLES ON TOP up for grabs!
Enter to win one of twenty copies of my upcoming release over on Goodreads!
For Holly Marshall, there’s no such thing as a perfect match. That’s reflected in the unpredictable, fun clothing combos the aspiring artist wears around her hometown of Sugar Springs—and in her inability to fit in anywhere else. But when she sets out to prove to her family that she’s ready to grow up by settling down, could she have found her perfect mismatch in a play-by-the-book guy wearing a business suit?
High-powered attorney Zack Winston is a man who always gets what he wants. While Holly wouldn’t mind sampling what Zack so deliciously has to offer, she needs someone who plans to stick around—and Zack’s disdain of small towns suggests he won’t. But as the camaraderie of Sugar Springs begins to charm, and Zack’s brothers show what family is all about, he and Holly may just get the chance to have it all…if they’re brave enough to reach out and take it.
