Kay Smith-Blum

“Cinematic writing” A new craft talk caught my eye. Halfway through writing TANGLES, and experiencing a growing sense of this-is-the-one,...

My deep dive into the world of all things nuclear began with a random conversation with a writing pal, discussing my concept for a new...

The last week of August, this dropped into my inbox forwarded by Gerry Pollett: The Sierra Club Grassroots Network Nuclear Free Team is...

My newly hired publicist emails me a link to an article in the Washington Post from July 10th covering a restart effort on Three Mile...

A chat with Trisha Pritikin_author of The Hanford Plaintiffs In the Fall of 2022, I had made my way through several volumes of excellent...

A chat with Gayle Greene_author of The Woman Who Knew Too Much I’d been serving on the editorial committee for an anthology of...

I’d wandered down to Peter Miller Books—one of Seattle’s treasures—the legendary architecture and design bookshop in Pioneer Square....

On March 14, 2024, a news alert from the Seattle Times dropped into my email inbox with the headline: "In WA, another massive melter aims...

As any historical fiction author knows, research is good but talking to folks who have history in the place your are writing about is...

As I launch my blog, on this first day of March, I wanted to reflect upon the journey to a publication contract. As I'm sure many of my...

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