Today my very special guest is Kim Adams, creator of the very popular SOS Aloha Blog.Q: What is your typical day like?
I am a romance blogger living in Paradise! I wake up to sunshine, check the romance blogs (since we are five hours behind the East Coast), and take a walk along Pearl Harbor – it reminds me how thankful I am to live in freedom. I blog at night after the children have gone to bed. But I frequently have to double check it in the morning for midnight errors!
Q: Tell me about your blog.
I write a blog, www.sosaloha.blogspot.com, to promote romance reading, military families and Hawaiian culture. It is an outreach of Kathryn Falk’s military charity, SOS America (Kathryn Falk is the founder and CEO of RT Book Reviews.)
Q: What influenced you to write this blog?
Each year, RT hosts a Booklovers Convention. It includes the SOS Military Tribute. After the SOS Military Mixer in Orlando/2009, readers asked how they could support military families. So I created a monthly newsletter to spotlight organizations that support military families, authors with military connections, and international holidays (to honor the different cultures where military families live). Several readers encouraged me to transform the newsletter into a blog, so I posted my first blog on March 3, 2010. Over the past year, it has morphed from a monthly newsletter to a daily blog. I giveaway romance books donated by publishers, authors, and reviewers. I also giveaway Hawaiian trinkets in the spirit of Aloha. My blog is open to all readers – not just those connected to the military.
Q: Are you a fan of romance?
Oh, yes and I'll tell you how I fell in love with romance as it's a fun story! I worked as a contracts officer in the Air Force. I did not read any books off duty. After getting married and leaving the Air Force, my husband was reassigned to a NATO assignment in the Netherlands. At that time, NATO deployed peacekeeping troops to Afghanistan. The deployed personnel called back to the headquarters unit to request donations for local orphanages. Since I was a volunteer in the American Spouses’ Thrift Shop, we literally emptied our shelves with clothes, shoes, and toys. Left behind were romance books. A blue book with a red tartan called to me – Cathy Maxwell’s A MARRIAGE CONTRACT. Considering I was living across from a castle and taking tea with the British ladies, it was a perfect storm to become hooked on romance books and the Happily Ever After. It is pure escapism from the war business. After we moved to Baltimore, I attended my first RT Booklovers Convention and discovered SOS America. And the rest is history!
Q: What’s the craziest, bravest, or stupidest thing you’ve ever done?
I frequently blog about my travels through Europe as a new Lieutenant with my friends (before I met my husband). I have promised to share the story about meeting East German students in a Prague beer hall at RT in the bar.
Q: That sounds like a great story! Kim, I applaud you for your efforts and wish you much success.
Mahalo, Donna, for giving me the opportunity to promote SOS Aloha! I invite you to join me in virtual Hawaii for a bit of sun, romance, and history!
And one lucky blogger will win this Hawaiian trivet as a "door prize" so leave a comment!
Kim in Hawaii
www.sosaloha.blogspot.com
