Evening all,
I’m Kim from London. I’m pretty new as a Coffee Time & Romance Author, so before I let you all know about my newly released romance suspense story set in London, France and the UK coast I’ll tell you a bit about me.
Bio:
Kim is 33, from London in the UK. She’s a qualified teacher and mother to a beautiful toddler. As a reader she’s head over heels in love with romance, historical fiction, crime fiction, African- American, suspense and thriller genre books. After submitting three chapters of a romance /suspense novel she was writing to a USA based publisher in 2016, she scored her first publishing contact. Kim’s first novel is released September 2016, A Stranger in France. Her second novella will be released Christmas 2016. As a writer Kim likes to create stories within the romantic -suspense and general thriller genres. Kim also writes beauty and book related articles published in Love Life, Live magazine.
When she’s not reading or writing novels of her own, her other passions include practising her French, fashion and spending time at her sewing machine dress making, watching make –up and beauty tutorials on YouTube, letter writing and being a mum.
Hi it’s Kim! From London
OK now we got that over, here’s what’s new this month for all you romantic suspense lovers.
Book Blurb: A Stranger In France:
In A Stranger in France readers are taken on a fast paced, modern day romantic journey, that spans between the city of London, the glitz and glam of France, and the beautiful English coast in a gripping romantic story, between two complete strangers with enough suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat turning pages.
When career driven and successful 32 year old London born Kate Brown faces hard times in her marriage, she confides in her best friend Tanya Adams in Marseille southern France. Kate makes a bold move and spends two weeks in Marseille away from her husband in London. Her path crosses with tall, dark, devilishly handsome and wealthy Nicholas D’Coix. An immigrant to France from the Ivory Coast west Africa as a young boy, who turned himself around and built up an empire of wealth as a hustler and money maker, and now one of Paris’ top three entrepreneurs. In a whirlwind of sexy, lustful romance Nicholas and Kate fall in love, Kate returns to London to a few surprises of her own and still very much in love with Nicholas as she makes yet another bold move. Touching on real life issues these two strong characters battle it out against all the odds in the name of love, across the UK and France.
Except From Inside The Book:
Nicholas guides me to the side of the bar, to the back and unexpectedly we reach a lift, we step in and he presses P on the lift button. Alone in the lift I face him dead on, I can’t help myself, his scent, and presence it’s doing things to me and awaking parts of me that have been dead for so long since Danny and I hit our rough patch. I grab his tie and pull him towards me then kiss him with passion. He’s stunned and taken back I can tell. His hands are full with a champagne glass in one and a bucket with iced champagne in the other, he’s unable to touch me or push me away; by the way he’s kissing me so passionately in return I doubt very much we wants our passionate kissing to stop. We reach our destination and I release him, leaving a lipstick stain on his lips I playfully remove it with a finger and step out the lift in front of him swaying my hips. I half turn around to face him, Nicholas is still standing in the same spot I left him with his champagne glass, ice bucket and a huge wide grin on his face…. Damn he looks so good.
“What are you waiting for Mr D’Croix?” I turn and say over my shoulder in a seductive way, he laughs. “You took me by surprise Ms. Kate.”
What Inspires Me When I Write?:
So many things inspire me when I write, not just my love of it and passion for it. When it comes to story idea generation, creating conflict and drama for characters, I like to create a story line that the everyday average romance, suspense and thriller lover can relate to. By this I mean real life issues. I’m a big fan of reading within the romance genre, I love to read about love and intimacy and watching two characters fall in love in a straight forward heart melting way, it’s lovely- but personally as a writer I try to throw in real life issues and topics so my writing is modern , diverse and of course sexy! I don’t write for a gender, I just write for genres and hope both sexes enjoy.
I love a multi-cultural and diverse society as human being, I think life would be so boring if we were all the same and there were no other cultures, religions and ways of life or sexuality. This inspires me, when writing. I try to have diverse characters in race, culture, religion and sexuality to reflect our everyday society.
Music is a big inspiration for me also, I’m a massive music lover and I don’t write without some form of background music, unless I’m writing outside of my own kitchen like a café. When I wrote A Stranger in France I took certain songs and placed them within scenes, to add drama or help create a mood and show how a character feels rather than tell. Some of the songs featured just randomly came on my Spotify player while writing A Stranger in France, talk about the right place at the right time! They just fit the scene I was writing.
In A Stranger in France I used letter writing as a way for my main hero and heroine and her best friend to communicate while in different countries. This inspired me as this is a love of mine. The magical feeling I get when a personal handwritten letter arrives from a friend abroad or even in the UK is so exciting! And fulfilling (for me). This helped inspire me to create suspense, love and good old drama! As there is a natural delay with snail mail.
Being a women in her thirties inspires me, romantically you have different needs than when you were in your twenties.
Society inspires me, I’ve grew up in inner city London. This inspires me, especially when writing crime or thrillers.
Writing challenges/prompts set by other blogger which you can read on my author site also really motivate me.
I’m a massive fan of a lot of authors, but I try to be myself and not what is or has already been done- using my own inspiration.
What’s Coming Your Way Next?:
Christmas 2016 will be the release of my ”feel good” romance novel set in London. I won’t say too much! Apart from it’s a nice festive story that can be enjoyed all year around. At present I am writing a romantic-thriller… so a romance with a murder involved *wink. I hope for a 2017 release. Stay tuned, you can sign up for updates on my author site, like me on Facebook, or follow on Twitter.
If Readers Follow Me What Do /Will I Write/Blog About?:
Lots of stuff! I do a lot of writing prompt challenges set by other bloggers, and the WordPress writing prompt challenge of the day each day, or from a writing challenge book I have. These include poems, short stories, ramblings on life and my experiences. I do book excerpts and chapter reveals, cover reveals all sorts. I update my author site at least every other day. You’ll also be the first to know about new releases, discounts, free days and competitions. Go take a peek at my author site.
Interact With Me And Follow Me Here:
www.kimknightauthor.com – Author site
@kimknightauthoruk– Facebook
@kimknightauthor- Twitter
Wanna Read A Stranger In France??:
Download a copy of A Stranger in France from Amazon on the links below, 5 star reviews so far! Just £2.30 for UK readers and $2.99 for international readers as of the date of posting this blog.
Nice meeting you readers! Hope to interact with you soon,
Kim Knight
Romantic Suspense & Thriller Author
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