About Me

I grew up in the American west and never left. There's so much the draws me and keeps me here: big sky and lemon yellow prairies, red rock canyons and deep river gorges, craggy peaks and thundering ocean. And the people. Tough and practical. Tied to the land. Dreamers and schemers.

The first novel I wrote was Cissy Funk, a young adult novel set during the Great Depression on the desolate plains of eastern Colorado. The novel won the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West and that pleased me greatly.

Then I turned to the east coast - 1883 New York City for Bowery Girl. Then, writing as Kim Taylor Blakemore, I wrote a series of award-winning historical thrillers for Lake Union Publishing that were set in New Hampshire in the mid and late 19th century, including The Companion, The Deception, and Killer Nashville Silver Falchion in Historical Fiction award winner After Alice Fell.

All the while, the west called me home. Then came a prompt in a writing workshop - and that one page of writing, filled with the noise of a dancehall and the vivaciousness of Pip and Ruby, blossomed into the books you have here. I fell in love with the two women. With their grit and humor and terrible planning and their friendship.

Learn more at www.kimtaylorblakemore.com