About Kim Terry

ABOUT AUTHOR KIM TERRY

Kim Terry, author of suspense novel, FROM HER MOTHER'S ARMS, is a retired college English professor, wife, mother, and grandmother. In May 2017, she and her husband moved out of their brick-and-stick home and into a fifth-wheel RV with plans to travel all over Texas and the USA with their dog, 'Russet', a Finnish Spitz/German Shepherd "rescue" who graciously shares "her" space with them, in exchange for a soft bed, a grassy yard, and a tasty bone or two.

Presently, Kim Terry and her husband are camp-hosting at Appalachian Campground in Hiawassee, Georgia. When she is not working on her next sequel or other novel-in-progress, she answers the camp phone and helps him in other ways.

Before she started writing fiction, Kim published two poems in a teen magazine called Ingenue when she was thirteen years old. Her other poems written in free-verse and haiku, have appeared in Christian Bible Teacher, Asahi Network, and a number of school literary magazines.

Kim salutes her mother, Lois Terry - a fellow teacher and writer -- for inspiring and fostering her writing; her daddy, Chem Terry - an announcer on radio and television - whose smile beams down on her, and her husband, Jeff Schwarz, as the "wind beneath her wings" in all of her writing ventures.

Kim Terry launched into fiction writing in January 2009 after receiving an email from her cousin, BeeGee McBride, of Port Aransas. The Laughing Gull Writing Workshop, she said, had Kim's name written all over it, Kim hopped a plane down to Port Aransas to reunite with her cousin after thirty years. She had planned to focus on the poetry sessions, but they were full. The mystery workshop, next door, had one seat left. Her creativity piqued by exercises led by David Ciambrone, celebrated author of eight mysteries and one deliciously gruesome reference titled POISONS HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS, she began pre-writing for a mystery novel of her own during her flight back to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

In April 2016, Kim Terry completed FROM HER MOTHER'S ARMS, about a teenager whose parents coerce her into giving her baby up for adoption because, in 1950's Lamesa, Texas, it's the "only right thing to do" for the baby, but FROM HER MOTHER'S ARMS tells baby Mona Lisa's side of the story.

In Kim's next books -- to be eventually marketed as a three-book set, MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS, AND OTHERS and BY HER DAUGHTER'S HANDS, many of the same characters plus one or two new ones, will appear in the last chapter in the mother-and-daughter saga to be released in 2018.

When Kim Terry is not writing or camp-hosting, she reads good fiction from a variety of genres, including mystery and suspense. She believes that her appetite for suspense was whetted by Joy Fielding's psychological suspense and she names GRAND AVENUE as her favorite by Fielding. Karin Slaughter, author of TRIPTYCH, KISSCUT, and other "chillers" is another of her favorites. Others include Lisa Gardner's THE PERFECT HUSBAND; Tess Gerritsen, author of THE SURGEON and just about anything written by Mary Higgins Clark.

Kim also loves to curl up with a glass of red wine, a piece of dark chocolate and riveting medical thrillers by Robin Cook, author of COMA or Tom Combs, author of NERVE DAMAGE both of which have kept her awake at night.

On the occasion when she craves romances, she downloads works by Brenda Novak and Lori Wilde. Having developed an openness to new genres, she has found herself enjoying science-fiction such as CONVERGENCE, a futuristic story penned by J.R. Rains and Matthew S. Cox;
T.W. Brown's realistic zombie tale DEAD: THE UGLY BEGINNING, and fellow author M.E. Krueger's supernatural Western, DUST AND BLOOD.

Kim Terry's advice to aspiring authors? Write like the dickens and never give up.

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