Category Archives: Kimberly Pauley

Welcome to My Overstuffed Bookshelf! To start off can you tell the readers a little about yourself?

Hi! Thanks for having me! My shelves are pretty overstuffed themselves. 🙂 Let’s see…a little about myself. Well, I’m little. Like 4′ 11″ (literally little). So when I do school visits, I usually wind up being the shortest person in the room. But my husband? He’s pretty tall. He’s 6′, which means that hopefully our son (little Max) has a fighting chance. He’s only one and a half right now, so it’s hard to tell. He’s also really, really cute. We also have a cat who is slowly driving us insane (she likes to meow. A lot.) and a dog (we just got her this year from a local rescue shelter). We live in a really cool neighborhood north of Chicago. It’s a conservation neighborhood with a farm and lots of trails and a lake and almost no fences and lots of playgrounds. Very nice people, too.

The next book I have coming out is STILL SUCKS TO BE ME, the sequel to Sucks to Be Me. And I’m working on two books right now, one of them with a writer friend of mine. I’m excited about both of those, though neither one have a publisher at the moment (though, hey, you guys, buy my books and that’ll help get these new ones sold! 🙂 ). Neither of the new ones have vampires, but both have fantasy-ish elements and will be funny. In the one I’m working on with my friend, I’m actually the GUY. Which is weird, but kind of fun. So I’m trying to channel 17 year old boy but without the stinky gym shoes.

When you’re not writing, what kind of books do you like to read? Do you have any favorite authors that are must reads?

I read mostly YA, but that’s also because I started YA & Kid’s Book Central (www.yabookscentral.com) back in 1998. I actually have a staff of reviewers now, but I still review some books. I read a bit of everything, but my favorites are probably fantasy and science fiction. I have waaaaaay too many authors that are must reads! It’s even harder now that I know a lot of them personally.

My laptop (though I’m dying to get a new one), some quiet time, and paper & pen. I still scribble a lot of notes down, especially in the middle of the night — which is always when ideas seem to strike. Well, there and in the shower! But paper and pen don’t work out so well there. One weird thing — I hate wide-ruled paper. Always have. So it has to be college rule.

I wish I had some! LOL Well, really, we love to travel. Little Max has already been to 11 states and flown quite a few times. I also love to make stuff. I paint, knit, draw…the list of hobbies goes on and on.

Yep. Actually, more than one, really. My main website/blog is http://www.kimberlypauley.com but I also have the YA Books Central site at http://www.yabookscentral.com and the associated blog: http://yabookscentral.blogspot.com. Then I’m on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/kimberly.pauley and also have a fan page there at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kimberly-Pauley/81688255502 Hmmmm, then I’m also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KimberlyRPauley …not to mention, I also Twitter for YA Books Central at http://twitter.com/yabookscentral And then I have a family blog (that I don’t update nearly enough) at http://go2chicago.wordpress.com and a personal blog that I mostly just post silly poems on (I don’t advertise that one, but people could probably find it easily enough if they wanted to for some reason). Whew. Too many sites! Oh, ha, I forgot, there’s also a MySpace page. But I hardly ever go there (the status updates just get fed from Twitter). But, it’s at http://www.myspace.com/yabooksgoddess if you wanted to find it. Okay, seriously, that really is too many! But it’s something you gotta do these days.

Favorite 5:

Food– Anything wrapped in puff pastry.
Color– Probably Red. Though it used to be green.
Alcoholic Drink– Red wine. Or eggnog (during the holidays)
Ice Cream– Oh, wow. Um, I really like ones that have toffee bits and caramel in them, but really, any ice cream is good. I mean, it’s ice cream.
TV Show and movie– I don’t watch too many shows anymore, but I’d have to say my favorites (can’t pick just one) are Eureka, Burn Notice, Bones, and House. Movie? I’ll say The Princess Bride. There are other movies that I love, but I’ve been indecisive enough already!

If you weren’t an author, what do you think you would be doing?

Well, I used to be a web development manager. But I hated it, so I definitely wouldn’t be doing that if I could help it (the corporate thing is very soul-sucking). So I think I’d be doing something creative. Honestly, I’m not sure what. Thanks again for having me on your blog!