Kay Smith-Blum

With TANGLES selling steadily in year two and my literary talk continuing to be requested by many, I am turning my daily writing focus on three Texas stories set between 1930 and 1965. All have strong female protagonists based on real women and all have an undercurrent of greed and profiteering that occurred during those years.

Biography

Kay Smith-Blum, a former fashionista and Seattle School Board President, launched her third career as a writer of mid-20th-century history in 2016. The recent upheaval over leaking radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Nuclear site and an odd dream compelled her to write her debut novel, TANGLES. A deeply human Cold War tale about the issues created by any type of nuclear production, TANGLES was recently honored as Best Historical Mystery/Suspense at the 2025 American Fiction Awards Book Fest, Best Debut Fiction by the American Writing Awards, 2025 Best Regional Fiction/West by the Nat’l Indie Excellence Awards, and also named Book of the Year by the Literary Global Book Awards. Smith-Blum, a sunrise writer, has lived in Seattle for four decades. Smith-Blum also works out her writer’s block in her sons’ gardens and the nearest lap pool. A new novel is in the works. See more: https://www.kaysmith-blum.com

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