Unmoderated Moderate Attempts Moderation
I got into an unplanned debate on Facebook the other day. Most debates on Facebook are, in fact, unplanned. you know how it is. Most of the time, it begins with some innocent status update of mine, but...
View ArticleScribe’s Melancholia, Literary Mind-Expansion & 50 Shades of Grape
I’m in a bit of a funk, a tizzy, a doldrum (take your pick) about writing at the moment. (I know it’s not just me, since my wife is also a writer, and suffering the same condition–call it Scribe’s...
View ArticleScott Crowder Interview of me on House of Fists (reblog)
reblog Kelli Jae Baeli My favorite of her book covers. Grumpy Cat cracks me the hell up. Kelli Jae Baeli is different from most of the writers I interview here at The House of Fists in that it was [...]
View ArticleGoing Mainstream
CAUTION: FRUSTRATED RANT HOVERING NEARBY. When you find yourself, as a writer, lamenting about why you’re even writing at all, and entertaining the idea of not writing any more, something has to...
View ArticleOh Victory in Earworms (A Melodious Malady)
Kelli Jae Baeli #IronyoftheDay I’m an atheist, & yet I woke up with a HYMN stuck in my head. I’d pray to God to make it stop, but then, well. You know. Pasted from...
View ArticleExcerpt from Walker of Edges (memoir in progress)
Excerpt from Walker of Edges Preface, Introduction, & Other Forewordy Stuff Caveats to Keep in Mind While Reading this Book If you are expecting a story that includes tight plotting and heroic...
View ArticleBeing a Delicate Organism (A Peek into the daily life of an HSP)
Highly Sensitive People are, as the moniker suggests, acutely aware of stimuli. Which is one reason I prefer the designation of Highly Aware Person. HAP. I’m a Hap. A Happy. Sounds much better to me...
View ArticleQuick Concept Art 1
Kelli Jae Baeli 21 minutes ago via iOS Quick concept art. What do you see? Discuss.
View ArticleBack to the Future
This is the woman who has my heart and always will. She has been incredibly devoted and loving and kind. Our unconventional and blindingly unique set of challenges (while still remaining in love and...
View ArticleNonfiction & Non-nonfiction
I’m not exactly firing on all cylinders lately, but I was thinking about this topic and then started writing it down, as I normally do, to sort out what I think about it, and decided I’d just blog it....
View ArticleLiterary Loitering
In a certain writing magazine a certain author was featured, and in that story, we are told The notebooks filled. But he reached a point where he had to stop. “I just begin, and then find I write...
View ArticleMuse Recovery & Descriptive Prose
{dusting off the blog}. It’s been a while since my last entry. I was busy with moving back from New Zealand to Denver area, to prepare a life for me and my Sweetie, and we have of course been missing...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgivoween
NOTE: I typed in Thanksgivoween, as the title of this blog, while thumbing it into my iPhone…and the autocorrect made it Thank Gully Nig (sounds like a good title- who’s Gully Nig?–I’m sure I’ll come...
View ArticleWin8, Lose2
Since I sleep most of the day and stay up all night in order to be on my baby’s schedule so we can visit during the day via Facebook text messaging or Skype video, I have gotten into the habit [...]
View ArticleCharcoal Thursday Sale
I had stretched my budget to the limit at the end of this month, and wasn’t sure when my check would go in, but assumed I’d be spending Thanksgiving eating an avocado pocket sandwich, rather than...
View ArticleHybrid Methodology
(and 3 New Books for the Holidays) I have just completed three books, and am going to make my deadline to get them out for holiday sales. One is a standalone novel in the Crime/Vigilante vein: Another...
View ArticleCareless Editors & Languishing in Romantical Writer-Myths
What’s wrong with this sentence? “My only child was struck and killed by a car riding a bicycle home from the beach one afternoon in September.” (From Enon, by Paul Harding) So, there was this car...
View ArticleSyzygy gets GLOWING review!
WHILE BLINKING AWAY HAPPY TEARS::: If I never get another review in my life, this will suffice. I have never been so overjoyed by not only how well this reviewer understood what i was trying to...
View ArticleRain Falls hits #1 on Amazon!
After only a week of sales, my book, Rain Falls reached #1 on Amazon in its genre. {happy dance} –my undying gratitude to Kate Genet for being my editor, and not letting me get away with anything but...
View ArticleHolding Saddlehorn
There is nothing quite like riding high on a successful book. But I’m holding onto the saddle horn with both hands, because I know that at any moment that horse can dart to one side and throw me. And I...
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