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K.L. Romo

K.L. Romo

K. L. Romo writes about life on the fringe: teetering dangerously on the edge is more interesting than standing safely in the middle. She is passionate about women’s issues, loves noisy clocks and fuzzy blankets, but HATES the word normal. She blogs about books at Romo's Reading Room. For more, visit klromo.com, @klromo on Twitter and @k.l.romo on Instagram.

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K.L. Romo

Thrillers

Yin & Yang & Chinese Face Reading in “Faces Tell All”

Imagine an app that could analyze faces to match you with your perfect mate. And maybe the app could evolve into fashion advice and party games. But what if someone also used that same face-reading technology to spy on the American population and create propaganda? These are the techno what-ifs…
K.L. Romo
May 21, 2019
Nonfiction

Battling Fears With Jekyll and Hyde Husband

In psychotherapist Diane Pomerantz’s heartfelt memoir, Lost in the Reflecting Pool (She Writes Press), the insidiousness of emotional abuse intertwines with her story of love, betrayal and her search for identity. Diane begins her tale of revelation from the start of her relationship: 1981 Baltimore. Diane takes readers inside the…
K.L. Romo
May 13, 2019
Nonfiction

Talking to Your Mother Isn’t Always Easy

Mothers. At least for an instant, everyone has one. No mother is perfect, but some know how to mother more than others. Sometimes a mother-child relationship is a bitch. Sometimes it’s beautiful, sometimes bitter-sweet. But it’s always complicated. In the essay collection What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About:…
K.L. Romo
April 26, 2019
Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Killing, Comedy, and Country Music

Sophie Hannah’s not a stand-up comedienne… yet. But she gets to play the part in her newest thriller, The Next to Die (William Morrow Books). In it, comedienne Kim Tribbeck finds herself center-stage in a string of homicides that have an unusual twist—the murdered couples are all best friends. But…
K.L. Romo
February 20, 2019
Book Club NetworkFiction

Chandler Baker: Women, Work and Waging War

Those three words uttered by any man is bad enough, but your boss? Whisper Network (Flatiron Books), a novel of domestic suspense by Chandler Baker, vividly portrays the razor-sharp, double-edged sword of being a professional woman in corporate America. Whisper Network chronicles several months in the lives of professional women of…
K.L. Romo
February 19, 2019
Fiction

Abandonment, Anger, and a VW Van Named Ernie

In Remember Us (Morgan James Publishing) by Lindsay Blake and Layne James, that's exactly what happened to Reese Hamilton and her twin brother, Ben. Now, 13 years later, their father Carl has cancer, and Ben and Reese travel home to be with him. With no forewarning, their quirky mother Bernice…
K.L. Romo
January 29, 2019
Fiction

Ann Lineberger: Murder, Mysticism and Kinky Sex

In the comic murder mystery Sunday Best,  Ann Lineberger shows us that even in a small, seemingly innocuous town with wealthy residents, things aren’t always as normal and virtuous as they seem. This satire dives deep into investigating seemingly polished high-end lives, and exposing the hilariously flawed personas and obsessions…
K.L. Romo
January 14, 2019
Fiction

A Quest for Meaning and Moby-Dick—A Whale of a Tale

The Moby-Dick Blues (Roundfire Books) by Michael Strelow chronicles the hunt for not only literary treasure, but the search for admiration and purpose: “The story of Arvin and his family and the manuscript for Moby-Dick, the unlikely tale of unlikely characters just like Melville’s story.” Arvin Kraft is used to being…
K.L. Romo
December 5, 2018
Thrillers

Spies, Lies, Goodbyes and the Quest For Blue

The color blue—one of the rarest colors on earth. It is the color of the sky and sea, of eternity, of divinity. And sometimes the color of death. A color which proved to be at the heart of the race for the most coveted porcelain in the world. In The…
K.L. Romo
December 3, 2018

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