{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"BBAB 220: Kelly Light's Top Tips to Getting Traditionally Published","description":"Brain Burps About Books Podcast #220\r\nKelly Light’s Top Tips to Getting Traditionally Published\r\nAn Interview with Kelly Light: How She Got Five Offers Before Ever Getting an Agent\r\nAnnouncements\r\n\r\nWant to hear about my Author Platform course when it comes out? Join here!\r\nJust for listeners of the podcast! Get a $25 discount and a free success guide from Pubslush HERE.\r\n\r\nContributors\r\n\r\nJulie Hedlund bring us a gratitude segment.\r\n\r\nThis Week's Guest is author-illustrator Kelly Light!\r\nThis week’s guest is Kelly Light. Author Illustrator, Kelly Light was born in 1970 off exit 149 of the Garden State Parkway. She grew up down the shore surrounded by giant roadside dinosaurs, cotton candy colors and skee ball sounds. Schooled on Saturday morning cartoons and Sunday Funny pages, she picked up a pencil and started drawing and never stopped.\r\nKelly and I talk about \r\n\r\nThe day Kelly got so many calls from editors she stopped answering the phone.\r\nHow she got five offers before she ever got an agent.\r\nHow Kelly got published.\r\nWhat BEA was like for her being treated like a debutante.\r\nWho is “the Willy Wonka of books?”\r\nKelly’s top tips to getting and being traditionally published.\r\n","author_name":"Brain Burps About Books","author_url":"http:\/\/katiedavis.com\/podcast\/","html":"