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Ruby Nickname:Ruby Belle Hometown: Born in small-town Kentucky, currently living in small-town Tennessee Age: 40 GH Year(s) 2009 Completed Manuscript(s) 5 Genre(s): Contemporary Started Writing: Completed first story at age 11. Highlights Magazine had no interest in any of my stories so I took some time off and didn’t really get started again until 25 years later. Day Job: Cubicle rat in an IT department. I’m a programmer turned project manager. For Fun: Read many of the books I now rarely have time for because I write. Also enjoy traveling and visiting new places. |
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Two Birds, One Stone…The Treadmill DeskPosted by Kim Law Apr 11 2012, 12:01 am
Yep, got my attention too! Even scarier, sitting is so detrimental, its effects are almost impossible to exercise away. The percent rises about twice as much for women than it does for men. And the least active women in the study who also reported the highest amount of sitting were 94% more likely to die than those who said they sat the least and exercised the most. I sit in the car travelling to and from the day job for two hours a day, sit at the day job eight plus hours a day, come home to sit and write more, then struggle to build in any exercise time in the middle of all of that sitting. Scary!!! Reading Your Manuscript Out LoudPosted by Kim Law Feb 20 2012, 12:01 am In preparing for today’s blog (and while working through edits lately), I decided to pull out a post I did a while ago on reading your manuscript out loud. Time often gets short for edits, and reading out loud is not a fast experience, but one I continue to highly encourage. It’s potentially a matter between having [...] Winter Writing Festival: Check-In #4Posted by Kim Law Feb 8 2012, 12:01 am in Winter Writing Festival One…breathe…two…breathe…three…breathe… *sigh* Who’s like me and has hit that sagging middle part of the Winter Writing Festival? If only a few crunches would right our world real quick, huh? Because that’s right, just like our stories, we can also suffer from a sagging middle during the festival. And I’m not talking about our wasitlines! I’m [...] What I Learned Standing Naked in Front of OthersPosted by Kim Law Jan 30 2012, 12:01 am in presenter, workshop I recently got the opportunity to present my first ever full-length workshop. Yikes! Yep, it was nerve-wracking. And it was to my own RWA chapter! This means, the nerves were far less than they will likely be when I do the same workshop at my lovely ruby sister Liz Talley’s chapter’s conference in March. In [...] A Quick Primer on Joining Winter Writing Festival Chat Room Sprints!!Posted by Kim Law Jan 9 2012, 12:01 am in Winter Writing Festival, writing sprints Are you ready for some sprinting???? Woohoo! I hope so! I know I am. So okay, here’s the deal. I thought I would jump in here and do a real quick how-to for Ruby sprinting. Many of you joined us last year (and I can’t wait to sprint with you again!), but I know there [...]
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2009 Golden Heart winner for Series Contemporary, Kim Law spends her days in the world of information technology and her nights and weekends penning small-town and sexy contemporaries. She lives in middle Tennessee with her husband, two dogs, and two cats who make a game out of leaving hairballs on only her stuff, and is looking forward to the release of her debut novel, coming Spring 2012.
