About Kym
I’m Kym Summers, a Colorado-based writer of upmarket suspense with speculative edges.
I’ve been inventing stories since grade school, usually by taking something perfectly ordinary and imagining the darkest possible explanation for it. A scrap of paper in the gutter became a love letter an old man had carried for decades, only to lose before he could deliver it. Every stranger on the street had a secret. An empty house that wasn’t truly empty. Even then, I was fascinated by the hidden part of people’s lives—and by what can happen when love, fear, and bad choices collide.
In 2023, after two decades in corporate marketing and leadership, I gave myself permission to step away and pursue a creative life. What began as a midlife gap year has become a new way of living with writing at the center.
On submission: THE INCENTIVE
An upmarket dystopian suspense that asks the question:
“Why do we choose to have children?”
What happens when the government decides having a baby is not just a personal choice, but a patriotic duty? The Incentive is an adult speculative suspense novel about teenage girls offered life-changing rewards for becoming mothers—and the women who begin to question the system asking them to sacrifice their futures.
More about me
In 2023, my decision to take a midlife gap year and pursue writing was featured on Good Morning America. It taught me to slow down, reconsider what success meant to me, and build a life with more room for creativity.
I have two teenagers, two dogs, two fish tanks, and an axolotl.
Before turning seriously to fiction, I spent two decades working in marketing, communications, human resources, and leadership.
Follow along with my writing, reading, and hopeful publishing adventures:
I’m drawn to books with complicated women, unsettling questions, and huge emotional stakes.
- Chain-Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
- Dear Edward by Anne Napolitano
- Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
- The Secret Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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