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Kimberly Davis spent a lot of years sailing. She is currently a writer, editor, and teacher. She also designs websites and is the director at Madville Publishing.
A woman smiling, seated in a chair with two children in her lap. One is a tiny baby who is screaming her head of, and the other is a toddler holding on tightly. The reason for this is that behind them is a person in a full-body Easter bunny suit. The eyes are particularly terrifying and make the Easter bunny look like an alien.
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That Scary Easter Bunny

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Kim

Easter Bunny costumes are weird. I mean, did you ever see a human-sized rabbit costume that wasn’t frightening? Easters through the years… I wrote a...

Book covers for Maurice Carlos Ruffin's three books, The American Daughters, The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You, and We Cast a Shadow.
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Exploring Trust Issues: Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s Perspective

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Kim

Trust Issues received a blurb from Maurice Carlos Ruffin! This will go right on the back cover of the book: Kim Davis is a master of moments. In Trust Issu...

Preliminary front cover for TRUST ISSUES: STORIES, a new collection by K.P. Davis. the image shows a stylized photo of a woman in sunglasses with a hummingbird pecking at a drawn on hibiscus flower. The woman peers over the top of the sunglasses. The colors are brignt yellow, pink, and blue.
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First Blurb for Trust Issues

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Kim

I received my first blurb from a fellow author to go on the back cover of Trust Issues. What’s a blurb? A blurb is not quite the same as a review, though ...

Crewing Aboard a Superyacht: A guide to working afloat by Kim Davis. background image is of a crewmember on a large sailing yacht sitting on the bow with feet dangling over a calm sea with light shining through clouds.
Features/Kim's Books/Publishing/Writing Craft

Lessons Learned from Publishing My Nautical Books

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Kim

Crewing Aboard a SuperyachtA Guide to Working Afloat by Kim Davispublished by Adlard Coles Nautical 2004 I have learned some lessons the hard way For those who ...

Kim's mother dressed for Mardi Gras a few years ago. A white woman with short blond hair wears a black dress with white scarf and feathered headdress and boa. She has a bird painted on the side of her face and stands in profile smiling.
Personal Essays/Publishing/Showcase

My Mother’s Stories

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Kim

I did my best to collect my mother’s stories when she died. Curating a life in stories, trying to capture the memories, is a chore that many of us find su...

The Yachtie Bible: How to Get Paid While Traveling in Style. Green book cover has gold text and a brass porthole in the middle of the page with a photo of a sailing boat sitting at anchor beneath a rainbow.
Kim's Books/Personal Essays/Showcase

From Marine Life to Fiction: My Writing Journey

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Kim

Trust Issues won’t be my first book, but it is my first full collection of fictional stories. So, it’s a little like starting over. Becoming an auth...

Preliminary front cover for TRUST ISSUES: STORIES, a new collection by K.P. Davis. the image shows a stylized photo of a woman in sunglasses with a hummingbird pecking at a drawn on hibiscus flower. The woman peers over the top of the sunglasses. The colors are brignt yellow, pink, and blue.
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Trust Issues – cover reveal

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Kim

Trust Issues has a cover! Things are beginning to happen with my new short story collection, Trust Issues. We now know what the cover will look like! I did a fi...

Screen capture from Well REad Magazine's title banner for the story. Background shows Kim Davis grinning in a bookstore with white lettering laid over top. The text says, Well Done! Essays Memoirs, and True Stories: SLEEPING SICKNESS by Kimberly Parish Davis
Features/Personal Essays/Showcase

Sleeping Sickness: a childhood memory

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Kim

Link to "Sleeping Sickness" that Kimberly Parish Davis wrote and that was just published by Well Read Magazine

Front cover of Girl in Flight: a memoir by Cat Buchanan. The cover is illustrated in a graphic stule showing a plain flying between Hollywood and New York City. The colors are bright breen, yellow, and red
Reviews

Girl in Flight by Cat Buchanan

Posted on November 3, 2024 by Kim

A book review that kim wrote for cat buchanan of her new memoir, Girl in Flight. Kim mat Cat at the Frankfurt bookfair, in October, 2024.

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Before Hurricane Helene

Posted on October 20, 2024 by Kim

Kim's impressions of Asheville, North Carolina, days before Hurricane Helene decimated the area.

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