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Announcing Countdown Deals!

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliJuly 8, 2016

I will be offering book deals on a rotating basis. Right now, the Rain Falls Countdown Deal is underway. Get each book in the series for 99 cents for this week only. [ends July 5th] Just click the Countdown Deals link in the menu bar of my page for the most current one.{Click image} Save Save … Continue reading →

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New Museletter is out!

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliJune 25, 2016

The new Museletter is out! I’ve done something different with it, and it also includes an excerpt from Melissa Walker-Baeli’s Work in Progress. Check it out, and let me know what you think! (those on my mailing list have been sent an email) If you’d like to be added to the mailing list, please let me know, through the contact box on this site. Otherwise, you can get the Museletter when I post it on my Facebook page. If you prefer, just send me a PM, with your email address and your location. And if you’d like to include your … Continue reading →

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New Harbor Witches: Keepers hits top TEN on Amazon

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 5, 2017

New Harbor Witches: Keepers is now officially a top ten ‪#‎bestseller‬ {happy dance} I have always been so proud of this book, and the second in the series, Ravens, even though it had yet to get a good foothold in the market, because it’s in such a specific niche category. I do believe it has universal appeal, however, and maybe this increased visibility will help those readers find it. My next project is likely to be book three of that series, as a matter of fact. Been toying with it a bit, and it’s pulling at me a bit stronger … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, bestsellers, BOOKS, fantasy genre, happiness, hope, independent author, indie publisher, Kelli Jae Baeli, Lesbian fiction genre, lesfic genre, magic, mainstream fiction genre, metaphysics, mystery genre, New Harbor Witches, Psychological Suspense genre, PUBLISHING, romantic suspense genre, science fiction genre, scifi genre, speculative fiction genre, supernatural, suspense genre, witches, WRITING LIFE | Leave a reply

Pooly Fall is now #1 bestseller!

Posted on June 18, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 5, 2017

Woo hoo!  Pooly Fall is now a #1 bestseller in its category on Amazon! Thanks to all my readers for making it so. In this new offering, the author blends her most popular characters into one storyline, making this a segue into the next book in each series. “What happens when you mix a small town sheriff’s department with writers, private eyes, paleontologists, and witches? Maybe this. The AKA Investigations team have a new tour bus, and on their maiden voyage, pleasure turns to business when two deputies fall victim to a heinous crime. Meanwhile, the forces of darkness and … Continue reading →

Posted in adventure genre, Amazon, bestsellers, BOOKS, Colorado, fantasy genre, Humor genre, independent author, Lesbian fiction genre, lesfic genre, mainstream fiction genre, mystery genre, novelwriting, Pooly Fall, Psychological Suspense genre, PUBLISHING, romance-genre, romantic suspense genre, science fiction genre, scifi genre, speculative fiction genre, suspense genre, Time-Travel, WRITING LIFE | Leave a reply

Drive-by Marketing? Really?

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 5, 2017

A commenter on one of the sites I market to, objected to my promotions, (and I responded as forthrightly as I could)>. COMMENTER: I am seeing “Attachment Unavailable This attachment may have been removed or the perso who shared it may not have permission to share it with you” on both is post and the immediately preceeding two previous by Kelli Jae Baeil. Thefirst post by Kelli Jae Baeil, smells like drive-by marketing. -Three- posts following that promo post, each of which consists entirely of “Attachment Unavailable” makes it look even more like drive-by exploitation. I wrote the rant below … Continue reading →

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Pooly Fall released in digital

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 5, 2017

Just ordered the print proof for Pooly Fall (Cross-Pollination #1). The digital copy is already at #3 on Amazon–a bestseller! It’s available NOW. Go to https://www.amazon.com/Pooly-Fall-Cross-Pollin…/…/B01GZWBJBA Below, is the After Words for Pooly Fall. After Words Most of my followers/readers know that I have been in recovery from Adrenal Exhaustion since returning from New Zealand in January, 2015. This has had a detrimental effect on my productivity, and on the day-to-day composition quality of my work. Writing well has become much more difficult. But I keep trudging away, trying not to think about how my usual write-a-book-every-two-to-four-months is not currently … Continue reading →

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Tropes, Motifs and Being Meta

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 31, 2017

Tropes, in one definition, are “devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations.” There are many types, but one, in the subcategory of devices, we see quite frequently in crime shows on TV or in mystery books. There is a crime, and an investigation, and the first suspect is never the true suspect. That also gets into the Red Herring territory. For myself, I have always tried not to rely on tropes, simply because I don’t ever want the reader to easily predict what will happen. But I … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Armchair Detective, CREATIVITY, Fiction Writing, GENRES, memes, methodology, novelist, novelwriting, PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLISHING, Rain Falls, repetition, social politics, SOCIOLOGY, Writer's Block, WRITING, WRITING CRAFT, WRITING LIFE | Leave a reply

No Such Thing?

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 5, 2017

It has been said that being a writer is like playing god. You have the power to make anything happen. Writing about witches and magic and newly created myth is even headier stuff. And a whole hell of a lot of fun. But it was also a great deal of challenge, to keep track of all the history, fictional and otherwise. In all my books, I do my best to stick close to the truth. The same is true for a book about witches. I didn’t want to fall prey to the usual tropes found in books about magical beings. … Continue reading →

Posted in adventure genre, BOOKS, evolution, history, Kelli Jae Baeli, Lesbian fiction genre, lesfic genre, magic, mainstream fiction genre, New Harbor Witches, retro, speculative fiction genre, TECHNOLOGY, Willing Suspension of Disbelief, witches | Leave a reply

Fiction as World View

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 5, 2017

I have had some criticism from a few readers who were disappointed when I introduced new characters and locations and plots in my series fiction, and allowed the main characters to have a slightly smaller role to make room; apparently these readers wanted the same story again, the same characters, the same sex scenes, the same dynamics, the same formulaic challenges, the same everything. Essentially, they wanted to read about characters who lived in a vacuum, and never had any interaction with others, nor any natural progression. This mindset is not only elitist, fearful, and unrealistic, but within fiction, stale, … Continue reading →

Posted in BOOKS, change, characters, courage, ethics, fear, frustration, happiness, harsh realities, honesty, hope, Human Nature, independent author, indie publisher, Kelli Jae Baeli, Lesbian fiction genre, lesfic genre, life, mainstream fiction genre, meaning, methodology, novelist, novels, novelwriting, PHILOSOPHY, plot, plotting, PSYCHOLOGY, reality, social politics, Social Psychology, truth, willful ignorance, Willing Suspension of Disbelief, writer, WRITING, WRITING CRAFT, WRITING LIFE | Leave a reply

Pitfall

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Kelli Jae BaeliFebruary 5, 2018

      150 million years ago. The Jurassic. 400 thousand dinosaurs. Dr. Veronica Hill just found a strange stone artifact in her recent dig at Pitfall Cave in New Zealand.  Just as she’s about to examine it in the basement of the museum where she works, the janitor, Jonna Clarke, touches the wrong thing on it and both of them are zapped into the past. The very, very distant past. The kind with Dinosaurs. And Jonna and Veronica are face that face with them. Although Veronica’s not finding them all that scary. A paleontologist, she’s used to looking at … Continue reading →

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Toward the Light

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 26, 2015

I was reworking the cover for In Absentia (Rain Falls series #2), which I released fairly quickly after Rain Falls, and it sort of fell through the cracks like an orphan. Someone mentioned that I had a bunch of new reviews on it. I didn’t know. Last I looked, I only had 2 on that book… Anyway, I was pleased to see that they were all really good: 4 and 5 stars, which is always a joy, and profoundly validating. But more than that, the readers/reviewers were saying things that reflected what I had talked about with this series. I … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Indie Publishing, Incident #227:

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 12, 2014

Amazon informed me that they pulled my book, Rain Falls, off sale, because they were getting too many complaints from readers about a chunk of missing text in the digital version. I realized immediately what was happening, and I rolled my eyes so hard, I could see my brain. My apparently way-too-clever brain. I made adjustments in the file to accommodate this, and added this note to readers in the front:   SPECIAL NOTE TO READERS Recently, Amazon pulled this book down, because too many readers were complaining about missing text. Apparently, those readers did not understand that the missing … Continue reading →

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The Pitfall of Literary Segregation

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Kelli Jae BaeliSeptember 4, 2017

I believe it is a pitfall to think that fiction for lesbians is all that different from/than fiction for straight people. And I can say that as a person who reads largely mainstream fiction, and very little of what is termed “lesfic.” I grew up reading mainstream, and I continue to do so, and I am quite picky about what I read. It’s hard for an author to get and keep my attention, if there are any thin spots in his/her craft. I think I might be in the process of forming a new list of Favorite Authors. So far, … Continue reading →

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A Bowl of Cherries Vs. Sucking Beetroot

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Kelli Jae BaeliAugust 12, 2014

Greetings, Precious Readers. As most of you know, I’ve had a rather eventful few years. Yes, i found the love of my life, and we are now happily engaged to be married. But getting to this point was a path strewn with rocks and blocks and sharp pointy things, and quicksand and befanged beasts, attacking from all sides. Okay, that might have been a tad melodramatic. But it’s been really challenging. It’s harder than it seems to leave everything behind and start from scratch in another country when you don’t even like to leave the house, and you’re also an … Continue reading →

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“well-written, quick, entertaining read with very engaging characters.”

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Kelli Jae BaeliJuly 2, 2014

  A Review of Also Known as Rising and Falling, by Kelli Jae Baeli Posted on June 24, 2014 by wspice4815 under lesbian protagonist(s), Mystery READ JUNE 2014 ONLINE SUMMARY – Jobeth O’Brien discovers that even when she’s out of commission, due to a back injury, there’s no way she can stay out of the loop. Not when so much is going on in her household full of women. There’s a disturbing theme to things though, when time after time she and Phoebe, Izzy and Ginger are forced to help women out of violent situations, and go after the men intent on … Continue reading →

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