What here, KimBoo?
Welcome to the Scriptorium! House of York is my “publishing arm,” so to speak, and this blog (we’re calling them newsletters these days, but I know a blog when I see one!) is all about my writerly errata and etcetera, written for fun and (hopefully) profit!
For a full guide to this publication, visit my Start Here! page.
Who here, KimBoo?
I am an elder goth, elder GenX whose main life purpose is to provide my rescue mutt, Keely-Boo, a good life. 🐶
I am a professional writer, having my first book published in 2011, and have been publishing irregularly since then. I am also a librarian (M.L.I.S., 2012) with a background in archives and the history of text technology. I have been building websites since 1998 (remember frames? *shudders*) and left I.T. after the Dot Com Bubble burst mostly because of the misogyny and greed of the narcissistic CEOs I had the misfortune to work for. I worked in disability services for a large university as their accessible technology coordinator until I felt that the tech made my position obsolete and left. Somewhere in there I’ve driven taxi in Orlando for a couple of years, survived the deaths of my parents, got married then divorced, and also ended up homeless once. ….damn, I feel old. 😂
I’m also Jewish ✡, feminist ☿️, socialist 🌹, queer 🏳️🌈, anti-TERF and anti-MAGA. JSYK.
Why here, KimBoo?
In early 2023 I decided to revive my career as an author. I had done pretty well by that back in 2012, but…well, for reasons we do not need to explore at this juncture, I reined myself in. Made myself small. Gave up my dreams. Again.
But the stories remained and kept pestering me. When presented with a new way to share them online, I jumped on it! I had a Ream account for a while, but it was not meeting my needs or expectations. I’m still figuring out the best solution for myself, but in the meantime (as of August 2024), I’ve set up a separate blog for my fiction, KimBoo’s Bibliotheca. Follow me there to find the stories!!!!
So if that’s what is going on with my fiction writing, why a separate blog called “The Scriptorium”? I just wanted a place to spread out and talk about a lot of different things without cluttering up my “fiction feed.” And here we are!
Membership here, KimBoo?
And what do YOU, dear reader, get out of it?
Mostly you get me, and updates on my work. This is the fully-public face of what I’m doing and it is freely available to everyone!
You can read everything I have at the Scriptorium for free! But it helps me a lot if you subscribe to support me and my work (thank you!).
I am an independent and self-employed writer, so I rely on people like you to help keep my dog Keely-Boo well fed!
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