Unfixed

a memoir by founder Kimberly Warner

For anyone who has ever wondered about the creation story behind Unfixed—it’s finally here! Empress Editions has acquired the world rights to Unfixed: a memoir of family, mystery, and the currents that carry you home, set to release in bookstores everywhere on October 14, 2025.

Unfixed is a sweeping narrative of a woman’s inner journey into wholeness, despite physical and psychological derailments along her path. Through visceral, immediate prose, imaginary correspondence, and poetry, Kimberly revisits the unnerving circumstances of childhood in the 80’s and 90’s when the New Age movement redefined marriage, health, and sexuality. Finding her own salvation in the self-improvement dogma, she replaces grief, confusion, and uncertainty with magical-thinking and perfectionism long into adulthood until her body breaks and family secrets emerge. When her paternity, health, and very self become tethered to a nervous system unmoored, Kimberly is forced to lean into a steadiness of spirit where the incomprehensible becomes imaginable, and the possibility that frightens her most becomes a doorway into peace.

Presenting life experiences in single layers and then deep, looping complexities, Kimberly weaves her own fluid becoming into a larger ancestral story of past and future, calling in extraordinary lives both intimate and distant. As she reckons with a myriad of unknowns, she learns more than she ever expected to know, ultimately discovering a surprising kind of healing that embraces a wild and untamable life.

Praise for Unfixed

I won't be able to sleep tonight. Just cry. This is way more than a page turner. It's a bloody masterpiece. The writing is exquisite. It takes you on a journey you didn’t know you needed - Kim Vanbruggen, former journalist and CEO.

Without a doubt, it is the bravest piece of writing that I have ever read, full of soul-bearing passages. So much of this story resonated with me and I feel enriched by seeing so many things through Kimberly’s eyes and heart. - Greg Temple, CEO

I cannot recommend this serialized memoir enough. Here’s why. Guess who else pull up seats at this tea party? Honesty. Deep reflection. Mercy. Stunning prose. Kimberly’s story is gripping in itself. But/And so is the writing. I particularly love a writer whose work calls me to an empty page. I don’t quite know how to put it in words, other than it’s like a conversation I want to be part of through my own writing. - Holly Starley, freelancer, editor

Kimberly’s recounting of her childhood is so alive and raw. She writes about her parents’ crazy choices with the open, judgment-free perception of a child while infusing it with the wisdom and facile language of a woman who’s lived a full life. This memoir is personal and intimate, but it also provides a window into American life in the 1970s when so much was being questioned about marriage and family and sexuality. - Ben Wakeman, author, producer, musician

This story has all the makings of a limited series. It has perfect A and B storylines, two mysteries running in parallel timelines, two layered characters with two hearts both in deep conflict with themselves, both fueling the engines for the overall story—yearning curiosity versus fear/delight at what one discovers about one's parentage. It's so Noah Hawley meets folk mystery. - Alisa Kennedy Jones, TV writer/author

Chilling. Horror. Kimberly’s words are so powerful, I felt as if I were going through the experience with her. - Sara Davidson, NYT best-selling author

This is beyond memoir for me. Kimberly’s writing skill takes it to another level. I love these characters so much, they live inside of me somewhere, she draws them so beautifully that we can’t help but be moved. - Jan Cornall, writer, performer, teacher

It is so rare when a writer eradicates language after reading their work and replaces that absence with pure feeling. That silence is where the healing and magic thrive. Such achingly beautiful words on loss. - Jenovia Webb, author, trauma advocate and speaker

Tremendous writing. The unease is inescapable. - Kenny Farquharson - senior columnist with The Times, Edinburgh

I am never not breathtaken when I read this memoir. So raw. So unassuming. So immediate. This is forceful writing that drives straight to the heart. - Renée Eli, Ph.D, transdisciplinary scholar, educator

I like checking out the work of new subscribers, but nothing could have prepared me for this. I’m completely bowled over by Kimberly’s writing. - Safar Fiertze, writer

Kimberly speaks in ways that hide nothing—she writes in single layers, then in deep, deep complexities, and I feel everything because she knows how to show me. - Toni Prehoda Kahler, artist