Kim Lock | Public figure
Kim Lock
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24.01.2022 Hi friends! I’ve been keeping my head down writing, but today I read a wonderful interview with one of my all-time favourite writers, Ann Patchett, and thought I’d share. This particular quote hit me right in the light bulb feels: ‘You can write something very autobiographical that has never happened to you because it’s what you’re afraid of.’ (THE DUTCH HOUSE is at the top of my TBR pile, and I can’t wait!)... https://www.theguardian.com//ann-patchett-interview-the-du
22.01.2022 Rogues, vagabonds, and WOMEN WHO DRINK: If you're feeling a little tired of today's news, I thought I'd read you some headlines from over a hundred years ago! This too shall pass, my friends. (Just like all these potatoes.) xo
18.01.2022 I am so excited to tell you that THE THREE OF US is now available as an audiobook! Narrated by the gorgeous voice of Kathryn Hartman, with enormous thanks to Aurora, Ulverscroft. Available at all your favourite audiobook retailers. For more info: https://bit.ly/2Vc7DF1
18.01.2022 Love this 'The arts are here for you. Please be here for us.'
14.01.2022 Ten years ago you finally began writing the first novel you would actually finish. Most of your life you had begun this novel but never had it gone anywhere. It would take some time to reveal itself, but you would finish the thing. Seven years ago your first novel was published. It would be the culmination of a lifelong dream. You would not understand until it happened quite how privileged you were to actually have a lifelong dream to begin with, let alone to have it realise...d. Seven years ago you wrote your second novel. You wanted to to see if you could do it again. Turns out, you could. Four years ago your second novel was published. This story was different more difficult. You were still ‘finding your voice’. (Maybe you always will be? Who knows?) Three years ago you finished writing your third novel. Into this story you kindled all the heart, warmth and lightness that you crave for the world. Or maybe just for yourself. You concentrated, sinking into the work, taking the greatest care. Every sentence mindful. Every word, a Buddha. Two years ago your third novel was published. Quietly, but those readers it touched expressed the same love for the story that you felt. This gratitude felt expansive. Two years ago, you started something. But then your head and heart were turned. You set something aside and instead you wrote a fourth manuscript and it was in your blood: the story you always wanted to write but never felt brave enough, good enough, experienced enough. Enough, enough. You wrote this story in complete solitude; it broke your heart and you didn’t know how good and necessary that was, not at first. That was as far as it needed to go. You put it away, rinsed clean. Last year, you wrote your fifth manuscript. You turned off your phone, put off your friends, cleared your schedule you wrote all day until it was done. You resisted and fought it the entire time. It was too fast, too absurd, too surely-not. But you also guarded it fiercely, like hands cupped around a flame. You had an absolute ball. You threw everything you thought mattered out the window and just wrote how you bloody well wanted to. It made you laugh out loud. You didn’t want to send it to anyone (except your mum, hi Mum), and you rewrote it and rewrote it and rewrote it but then you sent it, because it is your job and you love your job although you feel fear, you really, really, really want people to read it. And then there were fires. A global pandemic. There was uncertainty and there was waiting. And amidst all that, you did your job and your fourth novel found a publishing home. You are so happy. In this world, right now, you can’t wait to tell people about this story that would not be un-told, this story that made you laugh. And for now you comfort yourself that share it you will, when the time is right. Soon!
13.01.2022 Hellooo! New upcoming book means new photo, and on this particularly stunning winter’s day in Adelaide, I was very lucky to be photographed by the super talented Fiona Melder I Photographer. Thank you, Fiona, for the lovely walk around the gardens, and for your warmth and awe-inspiring skills! And, according to my 9-year-old son, my jumper looks like a biscuit.
12.01.2022 Books ready to post to our giveaway winners! I was overwhelmed by all the entries, so a huge THANK YOU to you all. Congratulations to Natasha, Kim and Susan! Still wanting a book? Never fear! For THE THREE OF US, click here: https://bit.ly/2O4j41R For LIKE I CAN LOVE, click here: https://bit.ly/2Qv9diB... And if you're looking for PEACE, LOVE AND KHAKI SOCKS, there are limited paperback copies left, but the ebook is always available: https://bit.ly/2OyudHW
12.01.2022 "In our hyper-therapeutic, ultra-positive times, no matter what tragedy befalls us, no matter how tough life might become, when we share our tales the expectation is that by their end we overcome adversity, find closure, master the art of acceptance, even experience personal growth... But what if we can’t? Have we then failed? And should we keep these failures to ourselves, as shameful secrets?" Love this beautifully insightful piece by Lee Kofman... https://tinyurl.com/y2emue8v
12.01.2022 Can you believe it? This little nugget was released one year ago today! I can tell you now, the writing of this book saw me through some personally difficult time. To be honest, in a world that felt so lacking in love, I wanted to create something that would remind me of the human capability to love without limits. I wanted to spark for myself a little piece of light, to push away the dark. At least for a time. This is what came out, and I do still love it so!... I have always been lucky enough to be supported to write what I care about. And readers (beloved, amazing creatures that you are) seem to have cared about it, too. And that means I'm currently frolicking* in rewrites of a manuscript that I absolutely adore. (Most days. It's a mercurial thing, this creative process.) One day, I hope, I can share this new story with you, too. So happy book birthday, Elsie, Aida and Thomas! And here's to the next 12 months ... *figuratively
11.01.2022 To all those women who are raising or have raised little humans I see you. To all those folk who care less about commercially-confected expectations or gendered idealism than about completely dismantling patriarchy, or, failing that, desiring just one day where you’re not expected to fix anyone else’s shit, care for someone else’s shit, carry someone else’s shit, repair, find, nurture, explain, soothe, validate, negotiate, pander to, clean up, be interrupted by or remember ...someone else’s shit, all without entirely losing your own shit I see you. And I honour you. And I don’t just see you today. I see you every day of the year. And if you carry pain and grief, I see and honour your pain and grief, too. Your heart is my heart. We’re in this together. Happy Mother’s Day! Love, Kim. (Daughter of Julie, granddaughter of Colleen, great-granddaughter of Moya, great-great-granddaughter of Stella.)
08.01.2022 I recently had a lovely chat with S. J. Morgan about how I came to be a book cover designer for MidnightSun Publishing, and how I combine that with my own writing ... as well as a few other things!
07.01.2022 Happy new year, everyone! How has your 2019 been so far? Mine has been red-penned and sticky-noted! I hope this year has lots of beautiful things in store for you. <3
07.01.2022 Yesterday I went to my local corner store and they were almost out of toilet paper. I live in a tiny town in the Barossa Valley. Wine country. Wealthy tourists country. Older folk driving their Mercedes at 60 in a 90 zone country. And yet, even here while the scent of harvesting grapes is in the air, the fear of lack has spread. Believe me, I know fear. Fear and I are on intimate terms. Four years ago, I had a nervous breakdown. It came over me like falling asleep slowly, ...Continue reading
05.01.2022 Late last year, just before I turned thirty-eight, I decided to take up running. Not in any competitive sense, mind you. Nor an especially athletic sense. Heck, I didn’t even have any aspirations to be graceful about it, having believed all my life that I didn’t have ‘sporty legs’. But one evening, late in my thirty-seventh year, I was yet again scrubbing cat piss out of the new carpet and I found myself terrifically puffed out. Showering the sudsy carpet with my tears, I was...Continue reading
05.01.2022 SA friends! The lovely folk at OrganicBox have created an 'Adelaide Hills & KI Bushfire Box,' to support our growers and businesses affected by bushfire. The box contains produce locally grown in the Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island, and $10 from every box will be donated to the State Emergency Relief Fund and Adelaide Koala Rescue. Delicious healthy local food delivered to your door, supporting our community in need, and giving your taste buds a delicious treat! What's not to love? Orders close 9pm tonight (Monday) for delivery this week.
04.01.2022 My dear friends, I am utterly thrilled to share this news with you: I have a new novel coming out! I’m beside myself with excitement to announce that my fourth novel, THE OTHER SIDE OF BEAUTIFUL, will be published by HarperCollins HQ Fiction Australia in mid 2021. I’ll share more about this story over the coming months, but right now I can tell you this: there’s a sausage dog, a tiny van, and a fair amount of medicinal whisky. It is a story about fear and hope, self-annihilat...ion and discovery, and red dirt. Writing this novel was, for me, a time of the greatest doubt it was also the most fun I have ever had a on a first (and second, and third, and fourth, and fifth) draft. Huge thanks to all of you for supporting my writing over the years. I cannot tell you how much love, gratitude and appreciation I have for you. Yes, you, reading this right now I love you! Big squishy hugs to you! And I’m so excited to tell you more very soon With my warmest thanks to the wonderful folk at Harlequin Australia. I’m so pleased to be joining the team and can’t wait to get to know you all. Stay tuned for more updates about THE OTHER SIDE OF BEAUTIFUL, and in the meantime I am sending you all my love! Kim xo
03.01.2022 CLOSED! Thank you all SO much for your entries! As always, I wish I had more books to give away ... Winners have been notified by PM. Do take care all, and sending you all my love. Kim xo ********** BOOK GIVEAWAY! Since we're all spending time inside, catching up on reading (and Netflix, and staring out the window) I thought I'd give away some books! Want one? (A book, that is. You can't have the cat, sorry.)... I have a signed copy of each of my novels to give away. (So, 3 people will win 1 book of their choice each.) To go into the draw, just comment below with which book you would like. Winners drawn Thursday 23 April 2020 at 8pm (ACST). I'll notify winners by PM. Thank you for entering, and good luck! If you'd like help selecting a book, you can find out more about them on my website: https://www.kimlock.com.au/books-by-kim-lock.html
03.01.2022 My dear friends, the 2nd day of 2020 feels right to wish you the happiest new year! There is much love, good and beauty in the world and I wish you a waterfall of it this year, this new decade, and onward. Let it rain!! Love, Kim xo
02.01.2022 First draft! I haven't seen this for a month. I also haven't re-read anything beyond the first 3 pages. I LOVE THIS PART. (If I'm not out in three or four months alert the authorities. Or not. This really could take a while.)
02.01.2022 Friends, there are few things more relaxing and just NICE than being read to ... so I made this for you! Make a cuppa, pop in some earphones, and chill with me for a little while. <3 <3
