We caught up with the brilliant and insightful K.M. Daughters a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
K.M., appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to go back in time and hear the story of how you came up with the name of your brand?
We’re sisters and team writers, so coming up with an author name had to convey who we are – combined. Kathie gets credit for our pen name: K.M. Daughters, and the minute Pat heard it, she thought it was perfect. Our author name is dedicated to the memory of our parents, Katherine (Kay) and Michael (Mickey) Lynch. We are K’s and M’s Daughters. We also love to name secondary characters after our parents. They live on in our books as well as our hearts. And they get to have a little fun, too.
K.M., before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Our dad who was first generation American from Irish immigrant parents, wrote children’s stories for us when we were little. The writing bug and overall “blarney” was inherited. As adults, Kathie and I aspired to be published authors and independently penned manuscripts. At a Romance Writers of America conference in 2007, Kathie suggested we brainstorm plot lines and character arcs for a Contemporary Romance for which she only had a title: Reunion For The First Time. In between sessions, we collaborated to the point of drafting a plot outline. When done, Kathie suggested we write the book together. We worked out the kinks in the writing process and K.M. Daughters was unofficially born. We published our first novels – ironically not our first manuscript until later in our career – an inspirational romance, Jewel of the Adriatic and a romantic suspense, Against Doctors Orders in 2008. We’re multi-genre award winners and our Christian fiction, Rose In The Desert, hit the Amazon Best Seller list. Regardless of genre, all our novels are uplifting – love heals.
How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?
Reader rave reviews sell our books more than any other sales stoking method. We have built the reputation for creating compelling, vividly populated, fictional worlds – thanks to Readers’ opinions.
Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?
Yes, social media marketing services. Since we’ve hired professionals to manage our social media accounts, we have lots more time to write.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://kmdaughters.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/kmdaughters2018
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/kmdaughters2018
- Twitter: @kmdaughters
- Other: https://linktr.ee/kmdaughters
