Kim has been an animal lover since childhood, bringing home animals, or pleading to keep a stray. She had all sorts of pets, but was never allowed to have a cat. Shortly after she married, her cousin called, who is now a veterinarian, and told her about available kittens. She jumped at the chance and brought home a little fluff ball they named Skeamer (she is the cat on the cover of You Had Me at Meow). Her husband jokes that he missed that part in their wedding vows which stated they just had to have pets. She worked in furniture sales and interior design for twenty years, and was self-employed for the last fifteen of those years. She felt like she needed to move on and try something different. She considered pet sitting or working with a veterinarian, but her husband, knowing how much she liked animals, especially those in need, did not think much of those ideas. Before Kim decided to close her retail store, they lost Skeamer at the age of seventeen. It wasn’t long before the house started to feel empty and Kim added her name to a Ragdoll Rescue website to be notified of available Ragdolls in her area. Almost immediately, exactly what she had wanted showed up on Petfinder, and the Ragdoll Rescue website. She drove a few hours away, to pick up her two Ragdoll wannabe kittens, she named Tyler and Trinity. She closed her business without knowing what would follow. A few months later she had a desire to make a coffee table photo book, but when she started on that, the idea evolved in to a full fledged detailed book about Ragdoll cats. Kimberly is now designing book covers while she continues to write. She released You Had Me at Meow in June of 2015. In addition to her love of cats, especially Ragdolls, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, photography, and all aspects of design. She also has a heart for Jesus. She lives in a small town, in the Carolina mountains with her husband of over twenty years, and their two cats, Tyler and Trinity. |
Tyler and Trinity pictured with “The Friendly Floppy Ragdoll Cat”. |
The majority of the hundreds of photos in The Friendly Floppy Ragdoll Cat were taken by their |
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