Just a quick intro. I'm Kelli Jae Baeli, author of 29 books of fiction and non-fiction. I am an American currently living in New Zealand-came here to be with my soulmate, Kate Genet, who is also an author. Anything you might ever care to know (and some things you don't, probably) can be found at my author site and blog. I'm also on Facebook and Twitter. http://jaebaeli.com/ http://jaebaeli.com/blog https://www.facebook.com/jaebaeli https://twitter.com/JaeBaeli
I have recently rededicated myself to writing lesbian fiction, exclusively, as my diversification in this Indie-publishing climate is not an effective marketing plan any more. (see blog Diversify and Die http://jaebaeli.com/blog/2012/12/dive...)
I just completed a novel, Also Known as Syzygy, but haven't released it yet because I need to finish Book 4 in that series first, just in case there are changes...it's complicated. By way of explanation, here's an excerpt from one of the blog posts below about it:
"It sprang from the first draft pages of my AKA Investigations Series, Book 3. I was getting so bogged down in the plot machinations, filling my dry erase board and desk pad and index cards with scribbles and bubbles and off-shoot ideas…and suddenly my main characters had been pushed into the background, and the secondary and tertiary characters were taking over the story. So in a fit of brilliance (which looks very much like a Grand Mal seizure, and may or may not have come from Kate–though she doesn't have seizures when she has ideas) I figured out that maybe I was trying to write two different books–maybe this other one wanted to be written first.
But because of this intertwining with the main characters of my AKA series, I was dealing with a whole new species–at least for me. Syzygy is like a spinoff-prequel, as the events in it happen parallel to the other story of my main characters, with only a slight difference in timeline. But the book was unique also in that it wasn't just a sequel or a spinoff, but it was an alternate point of view, in the sense of not being the usual First Person or Third Person Omniscient, but Third Person Limited, and also in the sense that details about the events behind the scenes, going on with the other characters, during the same storyline. I found the concept fiercely intriguing."
http://jaebaeli.com/
http://jaebaeli.com/blog
https://www.facebook.com/jaebaeli
https://twitter.com/JaeBaeli
I have recently rededicated myself to writing lesbian fiction, exclusively, as my diversification in this Indie-publishing climate is not an effective
marketing plan any more. (see blog Diversify and Die
http://jaebaeli.com/blog/2012/12/dive...)
My partner Kate and I also have started a joint effort for our literary efforts. Still new, since we were so busy merging our lives and also recently relocated to Dunedin. But check out Lesbian Literati on Facebook and YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lesbia...
http://www.youtube.com/user/LesbianLi...
I just completed a novel, Also Known as Syzygy, but haven't released it yet because I need to finish Book 4 in that series first, just in case there are changes...it's complicated. By way of explanation, here's an excerpt from one of the blog posts below about it:
"It sprang from the first draft pages of my AKA Investigations Series, Book 3. I was getting so bogged down in the plot machinations, filling my dry erase board and desk pad and index cards with scribbles and bubbles and off-shoot ideas…and
suddenly my main characters had been pushed into the background, and the secondary and tertiary characters were taking over the story. So in a fit of brilliance (which looks very much like a Grand Mal seizure, and may or may not have come from Kate–though she doesn't have seizures when she has ideas) I figured out that maybe I was trying to write two different books–maybe this other one wanted to be written first.
But because of this intertwining with the main characters of my AKA series, I was dealing with a whole new species–at least for me. Syzygy is like a
spinoff-prequel, as the events in it happen parallel to the other story of my main characters, with only a slight difference in timeline. But the book was
unique also in that it wasn't just a sequel or a spinoff, but it was an alternate point of view, in the sense of not being the usual First Person or Third Person Omniscient, but Third Person Limited, and also in the sense that details about the events behind the scenes, going on with the other characters, during the same storyline. I found the concept fiercely intriguing."
http://jaebaeli.com/blog/2012/11/preq...
http://jaebaeli.com/blog/2012/12/also...\
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You can find my author bio at http://jaebaeli.com/about.shtml
I'm always intensely interested in the perspectives of readers (and also other writers), so I look forward to chatting with all of you.
Until then, just know you survived the Mayan Zombie-Sheep apocalypse, and let that inspire you in the new year. :^)
Jae