Kim Nelson Writes

Be kind, expect goodness, release judgment, love unconditionally, embrace your wonder…

… little excerpt from the fun interview Sherry Blue Sky posted over at Poets United.

Poets United is a supportive, educational and enlightening site for readers and writers of poetry. I count the site and the community of people who participate there amongst my many blessings. Here is the text of the interview:

by Sherry Blue Sky

Kim: … I have an eclectic career past, beginning with twelve years as an educator in California and Arizona. Always a passionate gardener, I turned that interest into an avocation by becoming a Certified Master Gardener and coordinating a community plant-clinic for several years. During this time a publisher’s rep attended one of my presentations and saw my copious notes. This meeting led to my first two books, A Desert Gardener’s Companion and Southwest Kitchen Garden, both published by Rio Nuevo Publishers.  I also wrote a gardening column for Sunset Magazine and did additional freelance work in garden writing and design for a number of years. During most of the garden-writing years, I was entrenched at home caring for two teenagers with early-onset bipolar disorder; and I poised my pen on that topic. I wrote for a year, and then shopped the manuscript to agents and publishers for nearly nine months before Behler Publications made an offer and published Mommy I’m Still in Here, which I produced under the pen name, Kate McLaughlin. As an adjunct to Mommy…  I ran a website for families with kids and teens diagnosed with serious mental illness for several years.

Poets United: Kim, you have been a very productive woman! I am so impressed with your writing a book about bi-polar with that title. Parents need to know,  when this happens to a family,  that their child is still in there.  So, what led to your starting a poetry blog?

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