Please Welcome J. Colby!

First off, thank you Kim for having me here today! I’ll do my best not to leave a mess or too many crumbs or anything. While I’m definitely excited for Playing the Lines to be released on July 22nd, this whole ‘pimp my writing’ thing is a bit new to me so hopefully I don’t …

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Math

I have something to admit. I stink at math. I got as far as calculus in high school, but I barely passed and don’t remember a thing. It was a stressful experience; even now, aeons later, I still have nightmares about being in that class. Luckily, I got to take a foreign language in college …

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Astounding! bonus 1: Keith and Freddy in San Francisco

KEITH AND FREDDY IN SAN FRANCISCO A bonus to the novel Astounding! ***Contains spoilers for Astounding!, so read the book first!*** by Kim Fielding “You’re thinking about your book.” Freddy startled slightly and gave Keith a guilty smile. “How could you tell?” Maybe he’d been typing his fingertips on the coffee shop table. “You were totally …

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Dam it

Have you read my novel Motel. Pool.? An important scene takes place at Hoover Dam. Well, I guess I have a thing for dams, because in Astounding!, my newest, there’s also an important dam scene. This time it’s Bonneville Dam, which lies on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington. We used to visit the …

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Carter’s trip–in reverse

If you’ve read my newest book, Astounding!, you know that Carter takes a road trip from Seattle, through Portland, to Yosemite, and then to California’s Central Valley. As it happens, my family vacation this year is Carter’s trip in reverse. Minus Yosemite and minus a Tab Hunter lookalike who claims to be an alien. I’m …

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TV

I don’t watch much TV. I know, lots of people say that and don’t really mean it. But seriously, nowadays I watch a couple of hours a week, tops. It’s not that I have anything against television; I just don’t have time for it. Day job, writing, kids, daily walk… you know how it goes. …

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