Renee Tipton a.k.a. Kim Jenkins. My daughter-in-law.
Writing runs in my family. My father wrote voluminously on Biblical subjects. I have been writing scripts, magazine articles, ad copy, and books since the late 1960s. My son Rob, a professor of English at Georgia State University, writes perceptive political commentary and is the author or co-author of many books. His latest is "Shooting After Practice," an account of his thirteen years as a junior college basketball coach. (Now available at Amazon.com.) My oldest granddaughter is a fine writer and blogs at peachesandpotatoes.com. My oldest grandson once wrote for a newspaper. My second oldest grandson teaches marketing at Mississippi State and writes on the subject.
But that's all on my side of the family.On the other side are some fine, very intelligent people, but none with any apparent literary inclinations. Kimberly, wife of my second son Don, surprised us all when her first book was an immediate success on Amazon.com.
Her approach to authorship is even more surprising. She is an accountant -- a numbers person -- and was not particularly interested in being a writer. Although she works with her husband in his business, she was looking for something she could do on her own that would provide long-term, sustainable income and would not require much hands-on involvement, such as online retailing, which would involve buying and selling, maintaining an inventory, and shipping.
Looking at the possibilities, she decided she could create small books, using Amazon's online publishing system. She chose gardening, a subject in which she had some expertise, did some research, wrote the text, then, through the Amazon system, found an editor and a designer to polish her book into publishable form. She utilized all the marketing helps the Amazon system provides and launched her first book, The Self-Sufficient Homestead Garden. She soon followed up with two more books on related subjects. All three are selling well. And she's working on more.
Kim's first three books. More in the planning stage.
About the photographs: The portrait of Ms. Tipton was made with a Canon EOS 5D Classic camera with the 24-85mm EF lens. The collage of her books was photographed with a Fuji X-T20 camera and the Fujinon XF 16-80mm lens.
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