About K.M. Daughters
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
Kay and Mickey Lynch gave birth to two daughters - US. Patricia Noel was born in their native city, Bronx, New York, but only resided there while in the hospital nursery. The little family moved to a two-family house in New Jersey - Kay and Mickey's "house in the country". Three and a half years later Kathleen Ann was born, and the Lynch family was complete.
If you’ve read a K.M. Daughters novel, our parents' names might sound familiar. We name characters in each of our books after our mom and dad - whether they just have cameos, or they have some fun as secondary characters. This way they live on in our pages as well as our hearts.
Daddy was a doorman for the exclusive Fifth Avenue designer, Hattie Carnegie, until her death and the close of her shop. A natural born storyteller, he regaled us with stories of the famous people he helped into and out of the shop every day: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Jackie "O" (before she became a Kennedy or an Onassis) and Lucille Ball. We extended an invitation to Lucy and Desi to come for dinner and watch I Love Lucy with us, and we could never understand why that never happened.
Mickey started his own paint contracting business in town, and Mike The Painter was much beloved by his clients. In his spare time, he wrote children's books that delighted us – available for Kindle – The Slippers With the Turned-up Toes, Twilight Twins and Sasperilda by Michael J. Lynch.
We were teenagers when Daddy died, and Mom was nearly destroyed with grief which fostered in us an "us against the world" mentality which lives on today in our special bond with each other. We relish "sister time" and never consider the time spent together enough.
Kathie is married to Tom Clare and has two sons, Tom and Michael. Kathie is the proud "Nana" of Natalie, Michael John, Maeve, and Colleen. Kathie and Tom live on the Outer Banks.
Pat is married to Nick Casiello and has two daughters, Jen and Emilie; and a stepson, Brian. Pat is the doting “Nani” of Lillian, Madelyn, Steele, and Leo.
K.M. Daughters (our pen-name dedicated to the memory of Kay and Mickey) was “born” on January 26, 2008 with “THE CALL” from The Wild Rose Press offering contracts on an inspirational romance and a romantic suspense novel.
Since that eventful day we have published fourteen award-winning novels and three novellas. With more to come…