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Apr 16, 2020
1 min

Take Good Care of You

Just a greeting of well wishes as we all learn to handle our health and safety during the pandemic. Thank you for your continued support ...

Tracey Kelley

Jan 2, 2020
2 min

All the Hats

It's time to update this website. I have to revamp the scheme, choose a more "hot right now!" Pantone color palette, revise some portfoli...

Tracey Kelley

Oct 20, 2019
1 min

The Power of Like Minds

Most of the time, I believe it's critical for personal and professional development to expand my circle of influence as wide as possible....

Tracey Kelley

Aug 15, 2019
2 min

Saying goodbye to ending projects

If you move in entrepreneurial circles, you understand the bobber doesn't always rise. When you do contract work, it's essential to be pr...

If you can't stand the heat, don't do the audition

Tracey Kelley

Jun 11, 2019
2 min

If you can't stand the heat, don't do the audition

Voiceover auditions are both fun and trepidatious, especially when vying for a "new" voice of a project. Clients obviously called you in ...

Tracey Kelley

May 14, 2019
1 min

More festival fun: Wordplay

Just a quick note of admiration for the Loft Literary Center's "Wordplay" in Minneapolis. This weekend event was incredible, especially f...

Great fun at the Des Moines Book Festival!

Tracey Kelley

Apr 3, 2019
1 min

Great fun at the Des Moines Book Festival!

I, along with co-author Lynne A. Kasey, had a wonderful time at the revamped Des Moines Book Festival last month! Iowa has marvelous writ...

Tracey Kelley

Feb 13, 2019
1 min

Here's the juggling bit

I try with valor to not succumb to the "I'm So Busy!" refrain of modern life. We recognize and accept what we prioritize, and it's import...

Tracey Kelley

Dec 16, 2018
2 min

Ah, the waiting...

So remember when I excitedly talked about the arrival of one moment of a single day: essays? Well, what a difference a few days make. As ...

Tracey Kelley

Nov 29, 2018
1 min

The book baby has arrived!

Each chapter's end allows a reader to pause, using Kasey's provocative imagery to delve deeper into a feeling, memory, or considerat

Tracey Kelley

Oct 31, 2018
3 min

Turning on a dime

All resources--time, money, and intention--were promptly diverted in order to focus solely on the immediate matter at hand. I had to learn a

Tracey Kelley

Aug 20, 2018
3 min

The value of quality critique

The value of constructive critique is immeasurable, both in professional and creative writing. Offer it freely and it's returned to you

Tracey Kelley

Jul 16, 2018
1 min

New Essay!

Using prompts for writing is a marvelous way to jumpstart the creative process or keep it flowing. I used this one to respond to an open sub

Tracey Kelley

Jun 18, 2018
1 min

The uneven journey of creation

So today I received word that a key creative project in development that was close to completion simply...wasn't. And won't be for anothe...

Tracey Kelley

May 10, 2018
1 min

No time for blogging

One would think one who makes part of one's living editing wouldn't need to make 97 passes at the "final" draft of one's book, wouldn't o...

Happy Place: The Tucson Festival of Books

Tracey Kelley

Apr 5, 2018
2 min

Happy Place: The Tucson Festival of Books

For years, my niece and her husband--both professors at the University of Arizona--invited me to visit during the Tucson Festival of Book...

Iowa Writers Interviews Yellow Suit Publishing

Tracey Kelley

Mar 1, 2018
1 min

Iowa Writers Interviews Yellow Suit Publishing

In the Iowa Writers' interview, Chad of Yellow Suit Publishing shares his vision and motivation as a small press, as well as news about

Tracey Kelley

Feb 16, 2018
2 min

Making time for portable magic

I miss book hangovers. You know the kind. The stories that keep you up late into the night, infiltrate your dreams, preoccupy your next few

This Is Us: Universal themes for the win

Tracey Kelley

Feb 4, 2018
4 min

This Is Us: Universal themes for the win

It wasn't one of those Hail Mary narrative twists that happen in lesser tales when there doesn't seem to be any other choice and the

Tracey Kelley

Jan 23, 2018
1 min

one moment book sneak peek!

...like a jigsaw puzzle with the end-piece border in place, but so much of the in-between remaining....

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