Kim Golden's Blog - Posts Tagged "interview"

A few weeks ago, fellow writer and former expat Emily Breunig asked me if she could interview me for her blog. We ended up having a great chat session in which we talked about Maybe Baby, our characters, the expat life and a whole lot more.

One of the things we ended up talking about a lot was this idea of the disconnect and rootlessness a lot of expats feel. I've been an expat American for over twenty years now, so I can relate. I love the life I have here in Sweden. I sometimes miss my life in the US but I've been away so long that I feel like a tourist when I am there. It's disconcerting.

I think my character Laney feels a similar rootlessness. For her it is more pronounced: she has no family to go back to the US for--her mother is dead, her father abandoned her. Her only family now is her cousin Eddy, Eddy's mother and her Swedish boyfriend, Niklas. Is it any wonder she feels so confused about exploring the unknown? Well, that's for you to decide when you read Maybe Baby.

Emily and I have both written about the expat experience. Her novel, A Ghost at the Edge of the Sea, is out on submission and is represented by the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. And while Maybe Baby deals with the game of love and an expat woman at a crossroads in her life, A Ghost... deals with ghosts, parallel universes and the afterlife in modern day Shanghai.

I can't wait for Emily's book to finally be published. Or maybe she'll take the plunge and go down the self-publishing road.

It's Friday and...wow! What a day it's been! Well, lots of crazy things going on at my 9-to-5, but--on the good side--author duo GL Thomas stopped by Kim Talks Books to talk about writing, books and a whole lot more.

A week ago the weather here in Sweden was positively autumnal. Now it's like summer again. Go figure! I won't complain. I love this weather.

I'm sitting in the sun, writing. I've got three projects ongoing--one of which is a historical IR love story set partly in Scandinavia and partly...well, still not sure if it will be London or Vienna, but I am just trying to
get a quick and dirty first draft done and then I will do all the necessary research to tweak details. :)

I can tell you that there will soon be a new version of Maybe Baby: special edition. This one will replace the current version, which only has Maybe Baby + Maybe Tonight in it. The new version will focus on the three Laney & Mads stories (Maybe Baby, Maybe Tonight and Maybe Forever) plus a never before published short story about the couple. No release date yet, but I am working on it as we speak.

In the meantime, check out this interview I did with Nicole Falls. :)