When not busy writing, Kristin often flies to France. She also co-founded the weekly podcast and web show “Friends & Fiction”, which she co-hosts. She also has technically worked in the movies, appearing as an extra in 2003 for the American Idol movie– all while waiting to interview Kelly Clarkson. Kristin has also been on Good Morning America and other local morning television shows. One of these assignments was traveling to London not once but three times for the purpose on interviewing the Harry Potter film cast. She was their travel expert and often flew abroad in her work for the show. She contributed on a regular basis to The Daily Buzz, a nationally aired morning show on television. In addition to being a writer and reporter for magazines, Kristin Harmel also has worked in television. The 2012 book became an international best seller.

It partly inspired her novel The Sweetness of Forgetting. One was on Henri Landwirth, a Holocaust survivor that had become a philanthropist. She most enjoyed writing the feature “Heroes Among Us”, which covered the stories of regular people that did extraordinary things. There she covered a variety of topics, from murders to football to celebrity interviews (she has interviewed Patrick Dempsey, Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, and others).

She would work for the publication for over a decade. Kristin then worked as a writer for PEOPLE magazine. She has also written for American Way, Runner’s World, and Ladies’ Home Journal, as well as Every Day with Rachael Ray, Glamour, and Travel + Leisure. Kristin wrote for Woman’s Day, Men’s Health, and American Baby in the health and lifestyle vein. She would cover NHL hockey and Major League Baseball.Īfter that, she wrote for several other publications. In the late nineties, she worked for a magazine set locally in Tampa Bay, Florida. That is when she first started working as a sports writer. Kristin has been writing on a professional level ever since she was sixteen years old. They reside in Orlando along with their son. She has spent a significant of time living in Los Angeles in Paris. She also graduated with a minor in Spanish. She would attend the University of Florida at their College of Journalism and Communications, graduating summa cum laude and obtaining her journalism degree.

Many of her novels have been translated into different languages for readers all over.īorn on in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up there as well as St. Kristin Harmel is an American published author.

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