Five Things You Didn’t Know About Kathy Holmes

1. When I was a kid, I had to have a pair of candy apple red shoes.
2. My family and I saw Walt Disney at Disneyland.
3. I was a sixth grade spelling bee champion.
4. My first love is music, but I haven’t performed since high school.
5. I started writing as a kid but got distracted with how the books were actually made, leading to an early career in print production.

Kathy Holmes was born in Los Angeles but grew up in nearby Orange County halfway between Disneyland and the beach.

Tantalized by the tropics since Adam Troy set sail on the Kon Tiki in James A. Michener’s “Adventures in Paradise,” she’s traveled to tropical destinations such as Hawaii, Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Asia Pacific. Eventually, she moved to Florida where she wrote and secured representation for her first published novel, REAL WOMEN WEAR RED. She also wrote for Walt Disney World, fulfilling two dreams at once.

Her second novel, THE TOM JONES CLUB, published by Bookstrand Mainstream Romance, begins its journey in Orlando and finds its way to Las Vegas. She credits her step dad for the inspiration because, like a character out of Mad Men trying to quit smoking, he drove the family to Las Vegas to keep his hands busy playing craps.  You can find out more at her web site – http://www.kathyholmes.net.