I’ve been so busy I have neglected to tell everyone about the contract I signed with Cornerstone Press back in January. Well, I mentioned it on Facebook, but I think that’s it… So, forgive me if you read this already, but I signed a contract with Cornerstone Press! And I just love the way it worked out. A writer friend I meet with in an accountability group every week shared to the group one week that Cornerstone Press was open for submissions, and because I had a note on my desk to remind me, in an insane moment, I actually submitted a collection of my stories. (I don’t submit as much as I should.)
I will be K. P. Davis for the cover of Trust Issues
Trust Issues will be out in the fall of 2025
The Cornerstone contract is for a collection of my short stories to be called Trust Issues. If you have followed my writing for very long, you will recognize some of the stories, but I’m sure there will be plenty of new ones, too. Remember all the stories I wrote during the COVID-19 lockdown? The majority of those pieces never made it out of whichever writing group I was meeting with at that time.
It’s going to be a while before the book is available, but rest assured, I will let everyone know when there is any news about it. I am especially happy that my editor liked the characters I like best. Suffice it to say that those favorites are all women with attitude.
A sampling from previously published work.
These are a couple of stories that will appear in the collection, but I’m not sure if any of you have met the star of the book–a real favorite character named Nell. She isn’t in these stories, but I bet she’s running some back road a few states over.
You may notice that for these stories I spelled my whole long name out, Kimberly Parish Davis. There’s a story there… As I was beginning to publish fiction, there was another Kim Davis getting a lot of press, and I did not wish to be confused with her. It also makes it easier for the high school reunion committee to find me! All that said, my editor suggested I go with K. P. this time. I was K. P. for my first how-to-get-a-job-on-a-yacht book, The Yachtie Bible, so why not? I suppose I should now instruct my friends and family, and hopefully their friends and families to search for me as K. P. Davis.
- “A Simple Twist of Fate,” Kestrel, Issue 43, Summer 2020.
- “Chumming for Sharks,” The Helix Magazine (2017). (This story begins on page 19.)