Catching up with Kim Smith, author

the very latest and greatest info Kim Smith, author – page update Thank you for being a part of the Kim Smith, author family. I know I have gone out and stretched your patience to its utter limits by not being active online. There is a reason for that though, and I hope you will follow along here to find out more. So, in our LAST post – I said I was going to send out a newsletter to the Zanies, and I didn’t do it. Sorry, you guys, life is a beach and are we having fun yet? I
When pitching to an agent is a bad idea

Once upon a time, there was a writer who desperately wanted to write a blockbusting commercial fiction piece of work that would make everyone stand up and shout. He even started writing it! woot! Then he decided to go to a conference and promote it via an agent/author sit-down. Want to know what happened? Check it out. What happens when you try to pitch a book before it is even finished? Mr-I-Am-Writing-A-Book went to a writer’s con and signed up to sit down with an agent to talk about his work. Pitch it to her. Her response? You are wasting
Loran Rudder and the Secret Key
So…I am getting so freaking anxious about the upcoming release of Loran Rudder and the Secret Key. I have never done everything all on my own before. I have never arranged a book tour before, gotten pre-release reviews before, or any of that stuff. I am CHEWING ON MY NAILS. This is HARD you guys. But before I go all whiny on you…I would like to respectfully ask for anyone interested to pitch in and host a cover reveal, a blurb, an excerpt, or maybe an interview of moi, to help me get the ball rolling. I want LRATSK to
Get over it
So, let’s discuss the nature of getting published by the big world. That bright and shiny world called NY publishing. Quite a different animal from doing it yourself. It’s hard to get their attention. It’s mostly, “thanks for asking, but no our lists are full”. I feel sort of like how can a lowly author ever know when it is a good time to submit, if the lists are always full? When I was at the festival recently, the bathrooms were always full. Now that sort of ‘always full’ I get, right? But this full list thing, argggg. But really?