About Kim Pink

Story-teller of Little & Big Tales

The spider that...

...and so it all began when…

“I was sick. It was tonsillitis. But when you’re a 10-year-old who loves school and you’ve been quarantined to your almost entirely purple bedroom, it felt like I was dying.

So I escaped. I dove into the words of E.B. White and fell in love with Charlotte, Wilbur, Fern and even awful Templeton.

I finished the book in two days and remember closing it and feeling such sadness that it was over. And then the exhilarating seed of a thought, that if I had a pencil and paper, I could go wherever I wanted.”

From her earliest years of almost ingesting novels whole (post-tonsillitis recovery, that is), Kim unequivocally knew that her calling was story-telling.

Originally from a very small town in North Queensland, Kim was a young graduate from Queensland University of Technology with a challenge: how to get paid to write?

So prior to beginning her first novel, Kim established a successful career as a professional writer in Public Relations and marketing. For over 15 years, she showcased the beauty of presenting the little stories from the everyday world through media channels, websites and online media.

Armed with a pen, a laptop and a husband, her writing led her to specialise in crafting vibrantly colourful tourism stories that invited readers to feel the cool azure waters lapping at pristine island shorelines or the red dust between their toes in outback Australia. Stories so utterly, viscerally persuasive that these readers could not help but book immediately.

Her success led her to live in 11 different locations around the world, including some of the most remote and beautiful parts of Australia, and in 6 different countries. These included Hervey Bay, Byron Bay, Yulara (a tiny town of about one thousand people that surrounds Uluru and Kata Tjuta in the very heart of Australia), as well as Fiji, Koh Samui Island (Thailand) the Maldives, The Seychelles and London.

Kim now writes about the Australia of our past from the Sunshine Coast hinterland where she lives with her husband and daughter. She’s irretrievably drawn to historical women who challenged convention and real stories that would seem unbelievable as fiction.