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Never Give Up (aka the rejection letter that made me cry tears of joy) | Kellifornia Dreaming
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Writing for a living, living for writing. Never Give Up (aka the rejection letter that made me cry tears of joy). To blog or not to blog? Honestly, I haven’t blogged in so long because a) I didn’t feel I had anything inspiring to say and b) I made a decision to spend more time writing, and that’s what I’ve been doing. I’ve reworked and rehoned (I know not a real word but I’ve decided to employ it anyway), my first novel and am deep into writing my second. And this particular agent was wonderful. She ...
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IAF – Kelly Hartog
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Author, Editor, Journalist. It’s never too late to say thank you. This is the Israeli Air Force Hercules we flew home in from Mombasa, Kenya. Last week I had the privilege of meeting members of Israel’s Air Force at an event I was covering in Beverly Hills – a fundraiser for the Israel Air Force Center Foundation. You can read that story here. As most readers know, I survived an Al Qaeda suicide bombing in Kenya in 2002, while on assignment from Israel. You can read about that here. At the gala event in ...
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About – Kelly Hartog
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Author, Editor, Journalist. My name is Kelly Hartog and I’m a left-brain and a right-brain writer. I’m a journalist, editor, reporter, fiction writer, short story writer, attempting to live the writing dream in sunny California. I’m also a trained actress, and a theatre director and I’ve lived in four countries (England, Australia, Israel, and America) and have an accent with an identity crisis. My screen name is after my favourite writer of all time, Charlotte, NOT Emily as I believe Emily was a one-hit...
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Writing Life – Kelly Hartog
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Author, Editor, Journalist. It’s never too late to say thank you. This is the Israeli Air Force Hercules we flew home in from Mombasa, Kenya. Last week I had the privilege of meeting members of Israel’s Air Force at an event I was covering in Beverly Hills – a fundraiser for the Israel Air Force Center Foundation. You can read that story here. As most readers know, I survived an Al Qaeda suicide bombing in Kenya in 2002, while on assignment from Israel. You can read about that here. At the gala event in ...
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Connie Thompson Kuhn: October 2012
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Contemporary Southern Belle Novelist • Book Reviewer • Sunday Dinner Cook. Wednesday, October 31, 2012. The cool fall air, leaves and acorns crunching beneath your feet, children laughing and squealing, and smiling Jack O' Lanterns brightly lighting the porches of the salt box houses — as I got ready for work this morning, the Halloweens of my childhood came to me. The costumes I remember were a witch, a hobo, a gypsy, and a black cat. This past Sunday my sister-in-law posted on Facebook:. This year will...
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The Giraffe Head Tree: May 2013
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Like the plough mud that ribbons through salt marshes the Carolinas tend to seep into your pours, invade your nostrils and stick to your shoes. Visiting lush gardens, walking shell-lined beaches, feasting on crab cakes, riding ferries and tasting salt air is wonderful, but. I have a deep need and desire to know this place on a deeper level. To do so I am compelled to read. Carolina authors who have lived these rhythms and know them best. Ink and paper books. There it was - my first...
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Girlfriends Book Club: The Best Christmas Gift Ever
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Sunday, December 18, 2011. The Best Christmas Gift Ever. Christmas tree hand-picked by Mom. 8221; Only my mother’s idea of “good” was a wee bit different from his. A half hour and two dozen trees later, my mother would nod and say, “This is it! Let the tree-trimming begin! Once the ornaments were up, it was tinsel time! We had our big family dinner on Christmas Eve (still do! The Herald Angels Sing” and sit in silent awe as the star vocalist belted out “Ave Maria” and “Oh, Holy Ni...I’d love to kno...
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Girlfriends Book Club: June 2014
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Monday, June 30, 2014. I Like Weird People. Here I am. Riding a bike. When I pick up a book in the bookstore or the library and look it over, deciding if I want to read it, I hope for an interesting character. In fact, I prefer. A novel filled with eccentric folk, and by that I mean creative, interesting unusual, complex (not simply a a character who has more sex or happens upon more dead bodies than I do). One of the masters of creating this kind of character is the incomparable Elinor Lipman. Wrote abo...
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Girlfriends Book Club: IT'S NOT EASY BEING A FUNNY GIRL
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014. IT'S NOT EASY BEING A FUNNY GIRL. Funny Girl Saralee Rosenberg. Who needs a laugh? Yet women like me who write funny novels are considered the Rodney Dangerfields of publishing. We get no respect. Actually, we’re likened more to the childrens’ photographers at Sears. Everyone loves our work but rare is the reader who considers it art. Why do you think that when J.K. Rowling wrote an adult thriller last year, she resurfaced using the man’s name, Robert Galbraith? It’s no joke.
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