Kim Smith

63, Female

Memphis Tenn

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:: Memphis Tenn
About Me:: Mystery writer
I Am A:: Writer
Website:: http://www.mkimsmith.com
Books And Authors I Like:: Patricia Cornwell, Lee Childs

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Jordan Dane

Hey Kaycee--Looks like you are having good fortune with your short stories and I love a good mystery. Thanks for the invitation to get to know you and your work. Have a great week.

Aug 31, 2007
Janet Reid

Thanks for the invite! I'm a fan of Lee Child too!

Sep 11, 2007
Brenda Chapman

Hi to you in Texas! You're a warm world away from me in Canada - lots of snow and frigid temperatures here. Thanks for inviting me as a friend. Congrats on being accepted with Espiren Press.

Brenda

Dec 10, 2007
Graeme S. Houston

Hi Kim, nice to meet you! Thanks for the invite. Congrats on Avenging Angel. Did you Nano this year? I missed it, somehow, but I was still writing anyway, so it doesn't matter, I just missed all the fun, that's all...

Dec 10, 2007
Kim Smith

Brenda, I am unhappy about this heat in Tennessee, where I am. It was 77 yesterday! I want snow! Thank you for friending me!

No Graeme, I didn't Nano this year. I have done it for the last three years and have made so much headway on WIPs that I am sort of mad at myself for not going there. But everything works out in the end, and I am only about 10 thou words from the end of the first draft on my current book. Thanks for the congrats, great to meet you!

Dec 10, 2007
Tom Cain

Hi Kim, thank you so much for the invite. And don't you be complaining about 77 degrees. It wasn't that hot in July, this year in England! Snow, schmow ... I'd rather have some warmth in my bones ...

Dec 12, 2007
Rick R. Reed

Hi Kim! Thanks for adding me to your line-up of friends. I look forward to finding out more about you. I hope you’ll check out my new thriller, IM, about a serial killer preying on gay men using Internet hookup sites.

Dec 23, 2007
Kim Smith

Watched the video trailer for IM. In the excited words of a famous actor, "I GOTTA GET ME ONE OF DEM!" ( I still do not know how to make one!)
best, Kim

Dec 23, 2007
Brian L Porter

Thanks for the invite Kim. Nice to know you. Merry Christmas from England

Dec 23, 2007
Anne Brooke

Hi there, Kim - thanks for the add. Lovely to meet you here and hope you're having a lovely Christmas!

Hugs

A
xxx

Dec 23, 2007
Kim Smith

welcome to all my new friends :) Merry Christmas!!

Dec 24, 2007
Tony Berry

Greetings from Australia, Kim. Thanks for adding me to your friends. I think I'll be taking a look at your crime-writing hints over the coming weeks. I need something to get me over the final hurdle. Have an enjoyable festive season.

Dec 24, 2007
Patricia Gulley

Don't forget Malice, Kim, April 25-27 2008.

Dec 26, 2007
Kim Smith

Hey Patricia, I think it is listed, you just have to click on the continue reading linky--- in fact, I have a few more listed :)

thanks for comments!

Dec 26, 2007
Mitzi Szereto

Thanks very much! And the same to you!

Dec 28, 2007
Timothy C. Phillips

Kim, thanks for the add! Got to love Crimespace. Always good to meet another crime writer, but great to find other Southern writers in particular. Now I have to find a copy of your book!

Jan 5, 2008
Tony Black

Hi Kim, thanks for the invite...glad to meet you! And your page's colour scheme is so calming, I can feel all the stress of the day just seeping away...ahhhh...
Tony.

Jan 5, 2008
Kim Smith

aww shucks... thanks Tony :)

Jan 5, 2008
Karen from AustCrime

Hi Kim - thanks for the friend invite :)

Jan 6, 2008
Hazel Edwards

Hi Kim ( that's also my daughter's name) The cake eating hippo series of picture books (5) should be available on Amazon in US.Published by Penguin. Or can be bought online via the Australian Books online link on my website.Delighted to make contact and just learning abotu webchatting.

Jan 7, 2008
Karen from AustCrime

Well 200 at a bare minimum :) :) :) I think I've got about 600 at the moment in the unread pile which is a nice / safe against all possible natural disasters that might keep me from a bookshop level.

Obsessive... me.... whatever gave you that idea [VBEG]

Jan 7, 2008
James Oswald

Hi Kim, thanks for the invitation. Nice place you have here;}#

Jan 8, 2008
Camilla Trinchieri

Hi Kim-Happy New year. Thanks for the invite. Youkeep very busy-good for you. Ciao

Jan 9, 2008
George Wilder Jr.

Thanks so much for the add. Keep in touch. God Bless

Jan 10, 2008
Austin S. Camacho

Hi, Kim! thanks for the invite. This is my year to con-hop, so I'll be at Love is Murder, Malice Domestic, ThrillerFest, Deadly Ink, and Bouchercon. Did you miss Deadly Ink in NJ and Magna Cum Murder in Muncie? I'll hit those too. Hope to meet you in person at one of these shindigs.

Jan 10, 2008
David Magayna

Hi Kim,
Thanks for the invite. I'll take a look at your website. Maybe we'll see you in Baltimore.
Dave

Jan 10, 2008
Timothy Hallinan

Hi, Kim --

Thanks for befriendling me -- and thanks for the Van DIne list. It certainly applies to the classic mystery form, although I think many of the rules can be considered once and then forgotten by writers today. Mysteries are a much broader genre now than they were then.

But some of them will apply forever. You should think about posting those in the forum area and asking members to comment on which ones they feel are valid or invalid for writers today.

Jan 10, 2008
Naomi Hirahara

Good luck on your book launch!

Jan 10, 2008
Loretta Ross

Hi Kim! :) Thanks for befriending me and thanks for the good wishes! I was very lucky to snag Janet (even though she's being mean and bullying me into having a picture taken >:O).

Jan 11, 2008
Ron Adams

Hey Kim! Keep me posted on your guardian "Angel". See ya in the funny papers, kid

Ron

Jan 12, 2008
Loretta Ross

LOL! Yes, pictures are evil and me too on the beautiful instead of brilliant thing. I called my niece for help and she has Plans.

I'm scared!

Jan 12, 2008
Rick Mofina

Kim: Thank you so much for the very kind words on A PERFECT GRAVE. It has been well received and many readers have responded kindly. I deeply appreciate your generosity, R.

Jan 22, 2008
Kim Smith

You are totally welcome Rick. I feel so honored to be able to read your work. It is phenomenal.

Jan 22, 2008
Jeri Westerson

Yo Kim! Thanks for adding me.

Feb 3, 2008
Kim Smith

Hey Jeri! Thanks for being my friend!

Feb 3, 2008
Camilla Trinchieri

Hi Kiki I wanted to add a quote for your wbesite, but the website didn't tel lme how. I send it to you here. "I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times--once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. Bernard Malamud.
It's very good advice.
Camilla Trinchieri, author of The Price of Silence.
As Camilla Crespi autgor of seven The Trouble With mysteries featuring food-loving Italian sleuth, Simona Griffo.

Feb 15, 2008
Camilla Trinchieri

I forgot to add my website--www.Camillatrinchieri.com
Ciao Camilla

Feb 15, 2008
Kim Smith

Thanks for this Camilla! I am going to email you soon. Kim

Feb 15, 2008
Camilla Trinchieri

You're very welcome.Ciao camilla

Feb 15, 2008
Troy Nelson

Thanks for the invite!

Feb 23, 2008
joe miller

Hi KIm,

Thanks for the invite. I'm working on a Romance Suspense story. Look forward to talking in the future.

Feb 27, 2008
Karen Allingham

Hey there Kim, nice to meet you! Thanks for the add.

Mar 12, 2008
Alison Bruce

Hi Kim,

Thanks for inviting me to join your friends. We have great memories of Memphis, we visited in 99 and hung out with Paul Burlison, a local musician who, since then, has sadly died. He made it a very special visit.

Mar 12, 2008
Goldie Alexander

Hi Kim,
Thank you for contacting me. Have to admit that I've been a bit slack about keeping up with crimespaxe as I have lots of other stuff on the go. I look forward to reading your latest book I have never been to Memphis, only know of is as an 'Elvis' shrine

Mar 12, 2008
Naomi Hirahara

Kim--

I hope that you have a good week as well. May we both be productive at our computers!

Mar 12, 2008
Allan E. Ansorge

Hi Kim, thanks for the invite. LIM was as usual a lot of fun. The guests of honor did some great interviewCozy always rule no matter how wet I got.

Mar 12, 2008
Kim Smith

Thanks for commenting back you guys! I love my ning friends!!!

Mar 12, 2008
Timothy Hallinan

Hi, Kim --

Anyone can have 5000 songs on his/her iPod if he or she is willing to suspend all common sense, budgetary considerations, and the demands of so-called real life in order to accumulate music and more music and more music.

I had a head start, though, since I had a couple of thousand CDs when I started, all of which have now been given back to the universe, with only the songs I like preserved for my listening pleasure. And then I simply spent an unlimited amount of money on iTunes and Amazon's music sites.

And it was worth it,

Mar 12, 2008
Jean Henry Mead

Thanks for the add, Kim. I look forward to talking to you.

Sep 9, 2008
Patrick Balester

Thanks for the new yahoo group, Kim. I'll be sure to check it out. My debut novel is a cozy (at least, I think so).

Sep 17, 2008