Kimberly Belle, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/kimberlybelle/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 10:10:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Kimberly Belle: 5 Things I’ve Learned From Writing Through A Global Pandemic http://booksbywomen.org/kimberly-belle-5-things-ive-learned-from-writing-through-a-global-pandemic/ http://booksbywomen.org/kimberly-belle-5-things-ive-learned-from-writing-through-a-global-pandemic/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:03:45 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=31417 As an author of domestic suspense novels, I like to think that my premises are firmly grounded in reality. A cheating spouse. A missing child. Friendships turned lethal. Open any newspaper or scroll through Facebook, and you’ll find stories much like mine, tragedies that can—and do—happen all too often in the world. It’s why I […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/kimberly-belle-5-things-ive-learned-from-writing-through-a-global-pandemic/feed/ 0 31417 On Rewriting Real-Life Tragedy: Part II http://booksbywomen.org/on-rewriting-real-life-tragedy-part-ii/ http://booksbywomen.org/on-rewriting-real-life-tragedy-part-ii/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2019 04:30:55 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=27067 Write what you know. It’s every writer’s mantra, what we tell ourselves and each other. But what’s a suspense writer to do when she had an idyllic childhood? My father has never been arrested for murder. My husband has never disappeared without a trace. Up until recently, the parts of me that made it into […]

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