Welcome!
Do you like to read books that:
are relevant, relatable and inspiring?
sweep you up in adventure, quests, and journeys?
- feature stories and insight that apply to both your personal and professional life?
Do you like to read books that:
are relevant, relatable and inspiring?
sweep you up in adventure, quests, and journeys?
feature stories and insight that apply to both your personal and professional life?
Then you’re in the right place.
Hi, I’m Karen Kelloway.
I’m an Author and Career Strategist. One of the great joys in my life is writing both fiction and non-fiction books that take readers on an exciting, rewarding, universally relevant hero’s journey. Writing different genres keeps my career evergreen for me.
When I’m writing non-fiction, like my career advice blogs or NAIL IT! A Strategic Roadmap to Career Advancement, it’s like I’m writing a documentary. It’s factual, a step-by-step process.
When I’m writing fiction, like Keepers of the Pact, it’s like I’m writing a script for a movie. I’m in the flow, it’s visual. I’m downloading and listening for the stories my characters want to tell.
Writing Gordon the (Business) Gnome was both a linear and lyrical experience. Gordon draws on my 20+ years as a Career Strategist, while providing an entertaining, fiction tale of a business gnome and his career hero’s journey.
This site is about my writing projects and work as an author. If you’d like to learn more about my coaching programs, I invite you to visit the Career Story Project website. Here you’ll discover tools, techniques, and parables to help build a powerful career story.
Karen's Writing
Clarity. Confidence. Courage. These themes run through my heart, my life, and all of my work. Readers will find them woven through each story in unique and clever ways. From magical middle grade fantasy, to a conscientious gnome navigating his career path, to a workbook that helps roadmap career advancement, my readers and characters who find themselves at a crossroads can discover insights about themselves—and abilities they never knew possible—in the pages of these books and the chapters of our lives.
Gordon the Gnome
A business /career book for adults offering a fun futuristic world where elephants, humans, foxes and gnomes are all trying to work together.
(IN PROGRESS)
“Unique, Charming, Inspiring”
– Jack Canfield, America’s #1 Success Coach
NAIL IT! A Strategic Roadmap to Career Advancement
“An essential read for upwardly-mobile professionals.”
– Dawn Chafe, Executive Editor,
Atlantic Business Magazine
Keepers of the Pact
(Nimbus Publishing, 2023)
“A fun and rollicking page-turner.”
– Dorothy Lee, co-creator World Read Aloud Day
(On the Approved List of Resources for Nova Scotia schools!)
Raphael’s Riddle
“Kelloway’s writing crackles with a magical energy.”
– Sheree Fitch, award-winning children’s author
Helena’s Scribe
(Sequel to Raphael’s Riddle – Manuscript Complete)
My Story
One of the reasons I love writing both fiction and non-fiction is because it’s the best of both worlds. It’s left and right brain, linear and lyrical, head and heart. I often get asked where I get my inspiration. One way is walking in nature. Taking in the forest’s sights and sounds calls in the muse. Thoughts start flowing so fast my fingers can’t keep up. It is my congruent, creative outlet. I hope my work inspires you to find and share yours.
I am also the Founder and CEO of Career Story Project Inc. You can find my advisory work, public speaking, and team development workshops at www.careerstoryproject.com
