Kelly Fitzpatrick

Do you watch the show 30 Rock? What do you think of Liz Lemon and her “That’s a dealbreaker, ladies” gag? You know, “If your man is over thirty and still wears a nametag to work…that’s a dealbreaker, ladies.” Cracks me up. And got me thinking about deal breakers for readers.

Welcome to Free-4-All Friday! You know the drill. Ask us anything. If we don’t know the answer, we’ll make something up. Tell us everything. Your secrets are safe. Probably. Got the blues? We’ll help you turn your misery into a best seller by adding a picturesque locale, a murder, some magic, a hot cop/vampire (or [...]

Awhile back I went to the Rose City Reader’s Luncheon in Portland. It was my first unofficial function as a published writer, although I attended as a reader because, well, because by the time I registered that’s all that was left. I won a basket of historical books, which I don’t really read, but I [...]

I hear so many writers talk of their desire to move the reader to tears with emotional words, conjuring up long forgotten memories of pain or longing, unrequited love and forbidden desire. The tools we use are descriptive images of sunsets, aromas of home baked breads, and the sounds of foghorns in the distance, among [...]

It’s Free-4-All-Friday! It’s also Day-After-My-Book-Release Friday. So I have a Day-After-My-Book-Release emotional hangover, which might include fits of laughter, incoherent babbling, and an uncontrollable eye twitch followed by crying jags. I spent my book release day at work. Yuk! But virtually I was at the blog of Vivi Andrews popping corks, sipping imaginary bubbly, and [...]