NOVEL: UP CLOSE & CUNNING
Nonfiction Drama
ABOUT THIS STORY:
What do you do when the person who taught the world how to heal ghosts you into silence?
For nearly thirty years, she survived the chaos of a life built on trauma, loyalty, and illusion. She endured a fractured childhood, a decaying marriage, and the slow unraveling of her identity—clinging to the hope that one day, she’d find her fairy tale ending.
Then, just as her world collapsed, he appeared. The voice. The dream. The illusion. A man who taught millions to speak their truth—until he disappeared without a word, leaving her to confront every wound she thought she’d already healed.
Up Close and Cunning is a raw, unflinching memoir about waking up from the narratives we’re handed, breaking free from the roles we’re cast in, and learning to rescue ourselves when no one else will. Through piercing insight, gallows humor, and fearless vulnerability, this story shows what it means to rebuild—not just your life, but yourself—from the wreckage.
For anyone who’s ever been ghosted, gaslit, or gutted—and still got up swinging—this one’s for you.
NOVEL: HALF QUASI
Psychological Thriller
ABOUT THIS STORY:
Her mind has been hijacked and rewired to observe the world through a lens of pretense, mystique and alluring beauty, otherwise oblivious to the horrors that everyone else sees.
But nothing is more dangerous than the implications of detachment from self where time is lost and sufferance pains without reason. When Grace’s health takes a turn for the worse, reality exposes a cadre of disturbed alter-ego parasites conjured up from a labyrinth of deception.
In search for deliverance, Grace continues to hunger for the irreproachable alter-egos who squat on her nerves and crawl around her psyche at the twitch of a thought. Worse…, these creeps will do anything to keep her spinning through the clutches of neurosis in a beautifully delirious way.
Half Quasi
About the author...
Kimberley McGill is the author of the psychological thriller Half-Quasi. She has published on her website, www.tobeexpressed.com, over 110 short stories spanning ghostly encounters, rivalry wars, and profound life reflections. Her memoir, Up Close and Cunning channels a lifetime’s worth of struggle, grit, and awakening, offering readers a visceral, honest experience grounded in real emotional stakes. Her mission is to help others learn life’s hardest lessons without having to endure the same pain firsthand.
