Kristen Kehoe

Thursday, 09.01.16, I released Nala and Malcolm from Dropping In, the third book in The Vert Series. As usual, release day is full of ups and downs. It's terrifying to release new characters into the fictional world, and hope that they mean as much to readers as they do the me, the writer. Even more terrifying is releasing characters that have been built up the way Nala and Malcolm have. Writing these characters was both brilliant and difficult--heart shattering at times, eve

Many people use the regular calendar for their yearly time frame. I use the teacher calendar. And today marks the beginning of a new year. And a new me. Pause--this is not a resolution, it's an actual thing, so stop rolling your eyes. This year, I have gone part time, teaching every other day in order to stay home, finish my last few classes in my current Master's program, and write more. My goal is to be a better writer, mommy, wife, and person because I'm not doing it all a

Once upon a time, there was a sassy twenty-two-year old girl. Crazy hair, blue eyes, and a mouth passed down from the Irish sailors in her lineage, she was an acquired taste. Her BA still dewy in its newborn state, she set out on a voyage in her 1995 4 cylinder Toyota Tacoma to a magical place called the desert. A near five hundred miles later, she arrived wearing a sports bra, running shorts, and ice packs she’d stolen from the cooler in the passenger seat, for her vessel ha