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Kelsey Sutton

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Kelsey Sutton is the award-winning author of Some Quiet Place, The Lonely Ones, and Smoke and Key. Her work has received a Kirkus Star, an IndieFab Award, an IPPY, and has been translated into multiple languages.

She lives in Minnesota, where she works in the tech industry by day. By night she writes in a cozy apartment overrun by books, with floor-to-ceiling windows, a rotating cast of bird feeders, and her sweet foster-fail dogs never far from her side.

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This question is from my 13 year old daughter, actually. She wants to know how do you feel when someone (like herself) gushes about Some Quiet Place being her favorite book EVER? Do you feel pressure to keep up the standard? :-)

Kelsey Sutton How do I feel? Awed, humbled, and infinitely grateful. Comments like this always make my day. I'm so, so glad she enjoyed SOME QUIET PLACE. I feel no …moreHow do I feel? Awed, humbled, and infinitely grateful. Comments like this always make my day. I'm so, so glad she enjoyed SOME QUIET PLACE. I feel no pressure, only an intense desire to make sure she loves the next book just as much! (less)

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I absolutely loved Some Quiet Place and I can't wait to read Where Silence Gathers! How did you come up with the idea of personified emotions? And are you working on any more YA novels, especially any ones set in the world of SQP?

Kelsey Sutton That is so wonderful to hear! Thank you, Georgeana. To answer your question, I came up with the idea for SOME QUIET PLACE one day when I’d typed somet…moreThat is so wonderful to hear! Thank you, Georgeana. To answer your question, I came up with the idea for SOME QUIET PLACE one day when I’d typed something totally cliché, like, “Fear rooted me in place.” I sat back, frowning, and wondered how I could make this utterly unique from other moments consumed by fear. Somehow, that fear became a tall, blonde, snarky creature that roams the earth and instills terror into every human being simply by touch. It became Fear, who is now one of my favorite characters.

As for what I'm working on, I'm always writing! My project is definitely young adult. I don't know if I'll ever write another book set in the world of personified emotions, but that door is never closed! It's just a matter of being inspired and finding the right story. (less)

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Average rating: 3.81 · 4,668 ratings · 975 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Some Quiet Place (The Other Plane, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 2,950 ratings — published 2013 — 10 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
	Smoke and Key 3.72 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2019	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
	Where Silence Gathers (The Other Plane, #2) 3.69 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 2014 — 7 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 Lonely Ones 3.98 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Gardenia 3.83 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2017 — 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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My First Indie Project

In June of 2015, my agent and I sold a novel on proposal.

It was a middle grade project. I’d submitted a synopsis and the first twenty pages, and at first, that was good enough for the publisher. Up until that point, the biggest challenge for me in my writing career had been turning in quality revisions and meeting deadlines. When this novel sold, I had no idea what was in store. Which was several Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 26, 2019 09:57 • Tags: indie, new-release, urban-fantasy

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“People are so complex. They want to hear the truth, but they want you to lie to them.”
― Kelsey Sutton, Some Quiet Place

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“I just wanted to go to...some quiet place. To forget. To be someone else.”
― Kelsey Sutton, Some Quiet Place

tags: forget

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“When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more...protecting themselves.”
― Kelsey Sutton, Some Quiet Place

tags: pretending

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“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

tags: heart, human-passion

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“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

tags: choice

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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

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“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

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“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him