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Kelly J. Applegate

Goodreads Author

Born

in New Brunswick, NJ, The United States

April 14, 1972

Website

https://kellyjapplegate.com

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Influences

Joyce Carol Oates
David Foster Wallace
Augusten Burroughs
Jeanette Wint ...more

Member Since

November 2019

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/kellyjapplegatenichols

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Kelly J. Applegate has been writing since she was tall enough to hit the keys on a manual typewriter.

When she isn't working on her own projects, Kelly is also a contract author, poet, writer, and website copywriter and aesthetics consultant. She has written web copy, blog posts, essays, academic journal entries, and more. Her poem, "Religion" won the Illiad Press Grand Prize Literary Award in the winter of 2003. She published three novellas with JMS Books, LLC, and recently self-republished the last of those, "Waiting for Liz" through Amazon KDP under the psuedonym Angela Kelly. The
S & S Bar and Grill is Kelly's first nonfiction
self-published novel. Her current WIP is titled Songbird, and she hopes to have it under agent review in 2025/20 ...more

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Average rating: 3.22 · 18 ratings · 6 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Unavailable by Angela Kelly (Goodreads Author), Angela C. Kelly, Kelly J. Applegate (Goodreads Author) 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for Liz by Angela C. Kelly, Kelly J. Applegate (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The S & S Bar and Grill by Kelly Applegate-Nichols, Kelly J. Applegate (Goodreads Author), Lynn Sprout really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I never change. I just become more myself.
~Joyce Carol Oates”
― Kelly J. Applegate-Nichols

tags: creative-nonfiction, literary-fiction, poetry

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Kelly’s Quotes

“True friends—those that want nothing for you but peace, harmony, and joy—sometimes more than you want it for yourself—will rise to the surface. Those are the ones to listen to and commune with. You will know their voice because it’s authentic as well, and it speaks with no ulterior motives or projections. It may not tell you pretty things, but it will always speak in love.”
― Akosua Dardaine Edwards, What Did I Learn Today? Lessons on the Journey to Unconditional Self-Love

tags: authenticity, true-friends, what-did-i-learn-today

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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Words are the seeds the soul casts into the sky; when the time comes, they fall back and blossom into one’s destiny.”
― Emir Demirkiran, The Season of Words: 1.1-1.2

tags: destiny, growth, inspiration, life, poetic, reflection, soul, spirituality, wisdom, words

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“All of those decades spent here, all of the sleepless nights searching for any kind of meaning to my existence—it was so that I could find you.”
― Bree Grenwich, Duskbound

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“Remember, light is always born from the darkest place.”
― Emir Demirkiran, Melisa & Arel ; You in the Mirror: A Journey Between the Lines