Yvette Keller

Category: Fiction

  • Dad Time

    Dad Time

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    About a year after my father passed away, I found myself needing to “clean out” his belongings. I sorted through all the bits and pieces and found that I had a difficult time managing the detritus of his life. I had helped my father clean out his Arizona home when he was diagnosed with cancer…

  • Erotica for A Clothing Addict

    Erotica for A Clothing Addict

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    The J. Peterman Company has been around, publishing its glorious owner’s manuals since 1987 (the year I started High School). Yes, I had to look that up. I never saw one, nor watched Seinfeld, until I went away to college. That was when my mentor, Steven Crain, shared one of the catalogs on a cool,…

  • My first published short fiction!

    My first published short fiction!

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    After only seven rejections, my first “finished” short story is published! I’m happy. It is a huge deal because my struggle is that I never FINISH anything. So this is a big win, people! Although I don’t think Roundabout Protection started off as much, I like what it turned into. I’ve heard there’s a market for…

  • National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is Coming!

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    It is time to buckle down and prep for NaNoWriMo! (I’ve actually been prepping since this summer when an idea came to me, and I started running to and fro with it.) This year I am writing the first book in a series of mysteries. I was inspired by the audiobook work on the Viola Roberts…

  • ‘Voice’ in Writing

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    I’m finally in bed after Day 1 of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Alarm in four hours. You may not get much from me for the next five days. The guest speaker, Rufi Thorpe, was phenomenal. This paraphrase doesn’t do justice to her beautiful, heartfelt presentation about finding your material and voice, but it is…