🙂 You were born in Bath, England then moved to Australia and then to the United States. Kym: LOL, I think everyone can relate to that fear of breaking a teapot! I’m glad you got the opportunity but refrained from letting it shatter. Frankly, every award since has felt amazing and special. I don’t know how I made my way up to the stage and how I didn’t drop the teapot. So yes, totally gobsmacked, as we’d say in UK. I thought it was a joke and was not amused. Someone emailed me and said, “Did you see this?” and it was a list with me, Michael Connelly, Jeffrey Deaver, Ian Rankin and a couple more men. Rhys: My first nomination was for the Barry Award for my second mystery. Which award shocked you the most and why? Kym: Wow! That is sooo cool! I hope it comes stateside ) You’ve been nominated and received multiple awards for your writing, including several Agatha Awards for best novel and best historical mystery. It’s the first time I’ve seen my work on stage and I really enjoyed it. I went to the opening performance and it was such fun. And one of my picture books, Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine was made into a play at the Unicorn Theater in London this year. Rhys: Well, I wrote a book called Ten Boy Summer, a spoof on romance that sold half a million copies, so I’d have to like that one. Kym: Do you have a favorite picture book or young adult book that has more meaning to you? Or one that was more popular with your own children? YA books, when I wrote them, were not so dark and mine were usually funny high school stories, similar in many ways to Lady Georgie’s adventures. I suppose I like the playfulness, silliness and the complete belief in a world of good and evil with no gray areas. Rhys: I’ve always loved children’s books.
What did you like most about those two genres? Kym: You started your career writing children’s picture books and then young adult books under the name Janet Quin-Harkin. Kym: Hi, Rhys, welcome to the Cozy Corner! She’s polite and funny, hard-working and talented and vastly loved throughout the world of mystery writing.
I’m very excited to have one of the leading historical cozy mystery writers here at the Cozy Corner.
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