David Kim Author · Seattle, WA The departure list

Seattle, WashingtonNovelist · Workshops · Speaking

One line.
Five stops.

David Kim writes novels and works with writers. Workshops, manuscript critiques, book club visits and speaking events are all one route — and The Silent Shore is where that route ends.

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The route

  1. Workshops
  2. Manuscript critiques
  3. Book club visits
  4. Speaking events
  5. The Silent Shore

The stops

Four stops
on the line.

Each stop is a different way to work with David: write in a room with him, send him a manuscript, bring him to your book club, or put him in front of your audience. Take one stop, or ride the whole line.

Workshops Stop 01

Sit down. Write something.

Workshops for writers who want time on the page and honest company while they are there. Bring a draft in progress, or arrive with nothing but a notebook.

You write, you read back, and you leave with pages and a next step.

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Writers working at a long table in a bright room

Stop 01 · Workshop table, Seattle

Manuscript critiques Stop 02
A manuscript, red pencil and reading glasses on a desk

Stop 02 · A draft, read closely

A close read of your whole draft.

Send a finished or near-finished manuscript and get it back read the way a reader reads it: what is working, what is drifting, and where you lose the thread.

The aim is a clear next step, not a list of everything that went wrong.

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Book club visits Stop 03

Next stop: your book club.

Book clubs can bring David in for the evening — the questions your group has been arguing about, answered in the room where you asked them.

Read the book, pick the date, and the route runs to you.

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A book club gathered in a living room in the evening

Stop 03 · A book club evening

Speaking events Stop 04
A speaker at a lectern seen from the back of a full room

Stop 04 · Speaking to a full room

Bring the line to your stage.

If your event needs a novelist, send the date, the place and the audience, and the invitation lands on the desk.

Talks are shaped around the room — whether the people in it are writers or readers.

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Terminus

The Silent Shore

The novel at the end of the line, and the reason the other four stops exist. The workshops, the critiques, the book club visits and the talks all run back to the book.

David Kim is a novelist in Seattle, Washington, and works with writers at every stage — from a first notebook to a finished manuscript.

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A novel on a windowsill above the water
Terminus · The Silent Shore

Departure list

Get the departure list.

One email when there is something to announce: a new workshop date, a book club visit, a speaking event, or news from the desk. Nothing in between.

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What arrives

  • Workshop dates When the next session opens for writers.
  • Book club visits Evenings when David is joining a group to talk about the book.
  • Speaking events Where the line stops next, when there is a date to share.

Invitations

Put David
on your stage.

Readings, panels and talks for rooms full of readers and writers. Send the date, the place and who will be listening, and David will answer from the desk.

Seattle, WA · Invitations and critiques