Name: Kim Burke Hometown: Memphis, TN Website: Incidents and Accidents Started with Just Laugh: July 2001

Favorite Food: chips & salsa
Favorite TV show: Friends
Favorite Comedians: Bill Cosby, Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Rudner, Ellen Degeneres, Julia Sweeney - too many to name!!!
Favorite Movie(s): The Shawshank Redemption, Dogma, High Fidelity, Trip to Bountiful, Vanilla Sky
Favorite Book: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. and anything by Nicholas Sparks
Favorite Flavor of Jello: Orange
Awesomest Candy: See's Key Lime Truffle (there is none other greater)
Hobbies: Reading, Remodeling my house, drives in the country, music
Nickname: Idiot, babydoll, doofus-butt, Kimbo, Kimber, hey you
Sexiest Disney Character: The beast in Beauty and the Beast
How I Want to Die / Thing Heard at Funeral: I want to be buried in a Survivor t-shirt, just for kicks.
Letterman or Leno: Letterman!!!
Pet Peeves: Self-righteous people, loud and obnoxious behavior, too many things going on at one time, headaches, backaches and yeast infections.
Turn-Ons: 72-degree weather, my husband, the smell of honeysuckle, country drives with great music, lazy Sundays and William Fitchner (actor in Passion of Mind - he was also the blind guy in Contact).
Turn-Offs: Church leaders (or any adult) that molests a child, negativity (unless I am the one doing the venting, dammit), bad breath
Most Memorable Event(s): 

• Birth of my daughter, Christy.
• The day I was in bed with pneumonia and received word that my book was being published by Spectacle Lane Press.
• I figured I'd live a while longer and see what happens.

Indio Girls, Shaming of the Sun
Clannad, Banba
Shawn Colvin, Fat City
and a collection of CD's I burned off of my favorite 70's and 80's music - I'm a retro-babe!

How did you get started in the business?

I was inspired to begin the project of 'Incidents & Accidents' by Rosie O'Donnell.  The first time I saw Rosie on her talk show, I was channel flipping and stopped on this woman singing 70s music VERY off-key and thought, "This is someone I can relate to."  It wasn't long after this that I happened to stumble upon her web presence on AOL.  Shortly after the discovery, I began writing funny excerpts about her show.  One in particular entitled 'What Rosie's Reduced Us To' apparently got her attention.  She responded by writing, "Kimber...You Crack Me Up!"  

It was then that I thought, "If I can make Rosie laugh, who's heard it all - ever joke, every one-liner and every pun, then I can make all women laugh."  I started sending her excerpts of Incidents & Accidents and she had Bernie Young, her now producer but then manager, call me.  He gave me advice on how to get my work protected and how to go about getting published...

Because it is challenging, fun and a great adventure!

GOD

The two I like the most are in the book.  One is entitled The Circle Goes
Round and the other is A Curve in the Road.  These two chapters came at 
a time when I did not believe I had a drop of creativity left.  I prayed and whined, groaned and even thought, at one point, that I didn't have what it took to be a humor writer.  Shortly after midnight when everything was quiet (including me), poof - these two chapters came through me.  I cannot explain in words how wonderful the moment was.  It was like a dance.  One I had never been shown before - divine intervention.  It was then that I knew the direction my humor writing was to take and where (to a degree) it would lead.

In my COMPLETELY remodeled home that will be paid off.  YES!  I will see my daughter, Christy, graduate from high school, three (so far) more published books, my husband's business will skyrocket, even more than it is already.  Oh, and I'll be a gazillionaire and be able to take care of all of the people I love.

Thank you to everyone who reads and enjoys Incidents & Accidents.  I especially thank those who have commented with e-mail.  Thank you for taking a moment out of your busy day to write.  I really appreciate all of you.  It is a pleasure and an honor to entertain you.