Kim Taylor Blakemore
Autor de After Alice Fell
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Kim Taylor Blakemore
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Blakemore, Kim Taylor
- Otros nombres
- Blakemore, K.T.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Premios y honores
- Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical - After Alice Fell; WILLA Award for Best YA Fiction - Cissy Funk; Tucson Festival of Books Winner - The Companion; Women's Fiction Writers Star Award Finalist - The Companion
- Biografía breve
- K.T. Blakemore grew up in the west and never left. Her novel THE GOOD TIME GIRLS is the first in the Wild-Willed Women of the West Series, featuring women who take no prisoners and succeed through sheer grit, determination, and a parcel of luck. Look for the next adventure, THE GOOD TIME GIRLS GET FAMOUS, in November 2023.
Her award-winning historical suspense and young adult historical fiction, written under the pen name Kim Taylor Blakemore, has been awarded a Silver Falchion Award for AFTER ALICE FELL, Tucson Festival of Book Literary Award for THE COMPANION, and a WILLA Award for Best YA Fiction for CISSY FUNK.
She is a member of Historical Novel Society, Women's Fiction Writers Association, and Women Writing the West.
She is a develomental editor and founder of Novelitics which provides workshops and community to novelists in the U.S. and Canada (come write with us!). Her goal is to foster a supportive environment for authors to refine their craft, connect with fellow writers, and support their publication paths. She teaches editing and craft workshops to writing groups around the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, working with working such renowned organizations such as History Quill, WFWA, RWA Kiss of Death, Murder & Mayhem, Sisters In Crime, and Permian Basin Writers Workshop.
She has hung her hat in California, Colorado, and currently the Pacific Northwest. The rain does not deter her research whether it be train timetables from 1905 or the best way to catch a loose horse.
Visit her at: www.kimtaylorblakemore.com
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How do you feel about the US spiritualist movement of the late 19th Century? About unethical characters with twisted backgrounds? About fake mediums? About real mediums? About disinterested cops on the take? About true and not-so-true love?
If any of these possibilities are catching your interest, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy reading Kim Taylor Blakemore's The Deception.
Maud, who has worked as a (real) medium since childhood find herself becoming more and more marginalized, while her bills mount higher and higher. She contacts Clem (short for Clementine), who makes a business of assisting mediums facing circumstances just like Maud's. In almost no time at all, Clem has improved Maud's fortunes, not by helping Maud reconnect with her spirit guide, but by adding layers of attention-getting flimflam to what were once Maud's very sincere, if frequently unsuccessful, seances.
That's the set-up in The Deception, which expands outward in concentric circles of fraud, criminality, blackmail, and attempted debunkings.
If you're looking for an exciting read that will pull you away from the day-to-day, The Deception should serve you well.
I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley; the opinions are my own.… (más)
If any of these possibilities are catching your interest, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy reading Kim Taylor Blakemore's The Deception.
Maud, who has worked as a (real) medium since childhood find herself becoming more and more marginalized, while her bills mount higher and higher. She contacts Clem (short for Clementine), who makes a business of assisting mediums facing circumstances just like Maud's. In almost no time at all, Clem has improved Maud's fortunes, not by helping Maud reconnect with her spirit guide, but by adding layers of attention-getting flimflam to what were once Maud's very sincere, if frequently unsuccessful, seances.
That's the set-up in The Deception, which expands outward in concentric circles of fraud, criminality, blackmail, and attempted debunkings.
If you're looking for an exciting read that will pull you away from the day-to-day, The Deception should serve you well.
I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley; the opinions are my own.… (más)
A hard life story of NYC in the 1880's. Mollie (a pickpocket) and Annabelle (a prostitute) are just trying to survive, while fantasizing about a new life in Brooklyn. That is until a wealthy do-gooder offers a way to earn a respectable living. Pretty good, I just wanted more story, more engagement with the do-gooder and the training.
I had high hopes for this one, but found it very slow moving.
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- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 322
- Popularidad
- #73,505
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 29
Absolutely brilliant this excellent read as a bit of everything for everyone.
If the 'Western ' genre puts you off don't let it this book would work in any genre. Quality writing and research, atmospheric clever descriptive totally engaging from first to last page. Superb characterisation throughout especially the brave fearless female leads, Martha Ruth in particular. At times poignant and sad others witty and occasionally laugh out loud funny, always a riveting unputdownable page turner.
My thanks to the Author publisher's and NetGalley for providing me with a Kindle version of this book to read and honestly review.
Completely and utterly recommended.… (más)