“I write books that seek to raise your awareness, make you feel something, look deep within yourself and create positive change all around you.”
– – KK
Communicator meets creative
I’m a writer, illustrator and speaker, but I’m also an entrepreneur, and a happy wife and mother of two. Quality family time is something I treasure tremendously and trumps just about everything else in my life. Over the years I’ve learned that the connections we make with others and the deep relationships we share with the people around us are among the most fulfilling experiences we’re capable of having on this earth. Second to family fun, I also relish in all the feels that come with forest walks, travel, strong espresso and meaningful conversation.
I consider myself privileged to do the work I love. Crafting stories, drawing pictures, developing digital content and speaking in front of live audiences each give me an unprecedented feeling of aliveness. When I do my life’s work, I am communicating with the world around me, be it from a distance when someone buys a book, directly when I’m presenting, or indirectly when I touch someone through the content I produce.
In all that I do, I bring an element of creativity inspired by my real life experiences, passions, interests, beliefs, and sometimes, a force deep within me I cannot fully explain.
How I got here
From writing my own stories in a notebook when I was little, to running my own writing business for 15 years and counting, I suppose you could say writing has always been with me. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t something I abandoned for a long time (primarily the academic years where all “good writing” absolutely needed to have an introduction, a thesis, three arguments and a conclusion).
In my mid-twenties, however, the craft came back. I worked as a copywriter in a couple of corporate jobs and then started Katie Kuperman in my spare time. Once I was too busy to handle it all, I left my full time position and gave Katie Kuperman my full attention. For over a decade I wrote all kinds of marketing content for my clients. This eventually morphed into full-blown ghostwriting for client books.
And then it hit me. I wanted to write my own book.
Fast forward to 2021 and my first book was finally published (after years of setting it aside, dealing with imposter syndrome and putting other things first). Then my second book was published in 2023, and now my third and fourth in 2024, the latest of which also encompass my self-taught journey of becoming an illustrator. And I assure you, there are many more books and illustrations to come.
Today, even though it’s frightening at times to be the creative I know I am, it’s also liberating and exciting. I’m doing precisely what I want to do and sharing my work with the world every single day. Each day, I work diligently and with everything I’ve got. The end result? Books that make an impact on those who choose to keep flipping the pages. (I hope!)
WHY?
This is a question I’ve been asking my clients for years.
“Why do you do what you do? Why do you get up in the morning? Why this line of work? What is your ‘WHY’?”
Here’s mine…
I write because I love the challenge of taking a thought in my mind and putting it down on paper in a way that is linguistically beautiful, and that has an impact on the people who read it.
I illustrate because it feels like magic. From a raw story, to an image in my mind, to a pencil sketch and then finally to the digitized end result, this is the finishing touch on my creative output.
I give talks, presentations and workshops because there’s nothing quite like connecting LIVE with other human beings – particularly young ones who I hope to have a positive influence on as they grow and evolve in their own lives at a rapid pace.
I produce digital content that revolves around positive, solid communication in our everyday lives because I’m passionate about the concept that we can “communicate better to live better.” One content creator taught me that you’ve got to do something that drives you personally in order to succeed in the long haul. Every time I produce positive communication content, it makes me feel good. And this is something I want to share with the world in the hopes that it will make others feel good too.
What are you interested in?
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