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The End of the Tour: Broken Homes & Gardens Visits 15 Blogs in a Whirlwind Fashion
I wasn’t sure I was going to write a post about my TLC book tour. I mean, what if they all hated Broken Homes & Gardens? In that case, I figured I could just quietly fade into the shadows, and no one would be the wiser. Now, I’ll admit that at least five reviewers claimed…
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Today is Release Day for Broken Homes & Gardens!
Today is the day I officially become a published novelist. To celebrate the debut of Broken Homes & Gardens, let’s watch the new, improved book trailer my sister Gina E. Kelley helped me create. It is the official book trailer for BH & G: Amazing film editing, Gina. Thank you! Also, check out this essay…
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The Painted Veil (or, Loveless in the Time of Cholera)
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve read so many books about affairs tearing marriages apart. But could a passionate, torrid affair bring a husband and wife closer together? Could the affair be what allows them to finally love each other? This premise intrigues me. It turns out…
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Broken Homes and Gardens to be Published by Blank Slate Press in Spring 2015!
Whoa! Okay, I guess that is kind of small. I will transcribe this screenshot for you. I’ve always enjoyed touch typing. Here it is: Rebecca Kelley’s BROKEN HOMES AND GARDENS, pitched as When Harry Met Sally meets Portlandia, about an unconventional romance between two twenty-somethings who begin a correspondence as friends, end up as roommates…
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How to Grill Artichokes without Boiling Them First
Today’s post will be about artichokes. This has nothing to do with writing at all, except for the fact that I am writing the recipe out. To be honest, if you want to make your artichokes truly delicious, you’re going to have to roast them. (475-degree oven, covered, 35 minutes.) Cranking the oven up to…
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Taipei by Tao Lin: The Way We Live Now
Taipei by Tao Lin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Tao Lin is like a robot who is trying his hardest to understand human emotion. Or maybe a wooden puppet who yearns, more than anything, to turn into a real boy. Paul, the point of view character in Taipei, tries to feel, but he has…
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The Broken Homes and Gardens Book Trailer is Here!
As this book trailer will soon make evident, my sister (director of photography and editor, Gina Kelley) and I are no strangers to film making. We got our start in our grandparents’ basement in Denver, Colorado. Along with our cousins, we wrote, acted, and directed a groundbreaking piece of cinema we called “The Forbidden Toilet.”…
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