K.M. Cookie

Three years ago, as I approached a milestone birthday, I gathered friends around me and declared something terrifying and exhilarating to the world: "I'm going to write a book." One year later, we celebrated again—this time because the manuscript was complete. Rough, raw, filled with typos and syntax errors, but the work was done. But today, we celebrate the publishing of that book. 526 pages. Years of cultural research. Reading, re-reading, and reading again. 100+ carefully curated songs. 30...

Dear Readers, Friends, Fellow Dreamers, Today, November 4th 2025, Song of Hummingbird Highway became available for pre-order on NetGalley (ISBN 9798888249925). I should have the perfect words for this moment. I'm a writer, after all. But all I can say is: I did it. I'm humbled. Proud. Frightened. Bold. Overwhelmed. Concave—yes, that's a word that describes me, hollowed out, curved inward, like the inside of a bowl. If you've ever started a journey not knowing where it would lead... If you've...

This week I finally completed my debut novel, Broken Melody , turned it in to the editor at Koehler Books, and met with the cover...