Kimmery Investigates Slow Time
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across an article in National Geographic about the longest train ride through India. You know how every now...
In Which Kimmery Thanks Five People* You Wouldn’t Expect
For this post about people without whom The Queen of Hearts would not exist, I decided to go rogue in order to list a few unexpected...
The Debutante Ball and the Princess
At my wedding, my sister told a story of how we used to play a game when we were little called The Princess and the Servant. In this game...
A Celebration and a Smackdown: An Update on The Queen of Hearts
I was contemplating the time course of novel-publishing the other day, after someone asked me an interview question about how long it...
New YA Fiction: Elle Boyle Reviews The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
“Fat moths the size of palms wreathed my hair like pearls and moonstones. And then, as I had done since before language burgeoned in the...
An Interview With Holly Goddard Jones, author of The Salt Line
I am so excited about this book! It has already vaulted up to become one of my favorite thrillers ever and I think it is going to be...
Kimmery's Guide to Toronto
O Canada! The True North strong and free! It is July, and the temperature at home is hellish and accompanied by near-lethal humidity. I’m...
Hot Books of Summer/Fall 2017, Part I
I'm back! Summer always unglues me, what with the heat and all the travel and the thousands of children running around and the alcohol....
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The problem with reviewing a large amount of books is it's possible to use up all the superlatives, particularly if you are excitable by...
An Interview With Lisa Duffy, author of The Salt House
One of the things I love most about reading fiction is the opportunity to inhabit a consciousness completely alien to my own. Recently...