Press Kit

This is K.P. Davis’ Press Kit. The information shared on this page is provided for promotional purposes, and may be used without seeking permission from author or publisher. Thanks so much for spreading the word about Kim’s book(s)! We do ask that if you are promoting the book, you let us know and share a link.

Cornerstone Press/Fiction/November 2025
ISBN 978-1-968148-14-0/US $24.95
Trade Paper / 5.5 x 8.5 / 160 pages

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Trust Issues is 20 tales of hardheaded folks fighting to be heard when nobody listens.

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Hardheaded women stand their ground in Trust Issues.

Synopsis

Trust Issues: Stories by KP Davis. Final front cover shows half a woman's face drawn with pen and ink. She has windblown whispy hair and wears dark glasses. She is peering over top of the glasses and you can see the top of her eye and arched eyebrow. Reflected in the left lens of the glasses is a yellow hibiscus, and a pink hummingbird pecks at the reflection. Blurbs on the cover say: Kim Davis is a master of moments. In Trust Issues, she brings her keen eye to the lives of ordinary people not often seen in literary fiction. With great skill, Davis shows how even the most mundane moments are fraught with meaning. – Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of The American Daughters Title and author's ame are scribbled in a handwrtten font on the woman's forrehead and hand.

This is a collection of short stories focused on marginalized citizens, mostly women, carrying on their daily struggles in a dangerous world. Someone or something lurks around every corner, but the characters in these stories have come prepared. They include Nell, an antisocial, nomadic, shade-tree mechanic and getaway driver; ‘Bula, an odd girl who talks to animals, and a whole host of others who follow lonely paths spreading empathy while kicking ass. The endings aren’t always happy, because as the final story tells us, “Sh*t Happens.” The stories take place in the modern United States and in the Caribbean. These women have plenty of reasons to be afraid, but they Keep. On. Going.

Praise for Trust Issues: Stories (blurbs)

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Excerpts from Trust Issues: Stories

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Kim’s Bio

Kim Davis digital business card. It lists her as VP/Director of Madville Publishing

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Kimberly Parish (K.P.) Davis was once upon a time an adrenaline junkie. Director and founder of Madville Publishing, Kim grew up in Texas, but sailed around the world as a chef aboard private yachts for fifteen years before returning home. Her short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in literary journals, anthologies, and online.

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Final full cover for TRUST ISSUES: STORIES by K.P. Davis. the colors are bright yellow, pale blue, and pink. The background image shows a pencil drawing of a wonam in sunglasses that reflect a yellow hibiscus flower with a pink hummingbird trying to drink from the reflection.
Final full cover for Trust Issues by KP Davis
Author KP Davis October 2025. Photo shows a woman with brown shoulder length hair. She wears a blue t-shirt and smiles with teeth showing. The background is varying shades of green.
Author KP Davis, October 2025
Kim Davis in the Madville Publishing booth at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee in October 2023. Kim has long dark hair and sunglasses, a pink t-shirt under a black blazer. She's standing in front of a banner that shows many of Madville's titles.
Kim Davis, Director of Madville Publishing posing at the booth during Southern Festival of Books, 2023
Kim Davis
Photo by John R. Fortune at Caddo Lake
K.P. Davis photo by Jacqueline V. Davis
Kim in front of the beautiful azaleas that used to surround Texas Review Press.
Kim in front of the azaleas that surrounded Texas Review Press. (2015)
Photo by Sheri Berry (2005)
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.
Kim Davis’ second book (Adlard Coles Nautical, 2004)
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.
KP Davis’ first book, (Booklocker, 2002)
Kim aboard s/y Augustine, 2021
Me with my pony, Ricky. Photo shows a black-faced Shetland pony with blue eyes. If we could see the whole pony we'd know he was a paint. A little girl, also with blue eyes holds him and smiles. Her eyes twinkle because she'd been crying and her arm is clearly straining with the effort to hold the little sh't's head up!
Little Kimmy Davis with Ricky the pony

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