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March 24, 2020
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Dear Paladins and readers,
Thank you so much for all your continuing support of me and my sons, especially during these bleak and hard times. But I believe that all of us will make it through this. So long as we stand together. I miss being able to attend events and hug my fans, and I look forward to a day in the future when we can do so again.
Until then, please keep your eyes pealed on my Facebook page where I will try and post new and free stories every two weeks for your reading pleasure while this crisis remains.
Please take care of yourselves and your loved ones. May whatever deity you worship keep you said and sound.
Love always,
August 5, 2019
A warm hug for all
My heart and prayers go out to all the families and loved ones who’ve recently been scarred by tragedy. I don’t understand cruelty or those who have to lash out at other people and harm those who are innocent. Those who hold hatred in their hearts when there’s so much more to life than that. I never have understood such cruelty. Why waste what we’ve been given with such negativity and destruction?
When we’re little kids and we sit down to dream, we’re all builders in our minds, who want to create such incredible marvels. It’s such a shame that some of us lose sight of that as we grow older. That instead of being doctors, presidents, astronauts and such that something inside turns dark and lashes out so needlessly to wound.
I know what it’s like to hurt and feel invisible. To lose what I love most in this world. To have a pain so deep and loud that you wonder how it is no one else can feel it because it’s so excruciating that surely it resonates to everyone around you and yet no one ever sees it or seems to care. That isolation that makes a soul feel so alone even in a crowd. But it doesn’t have to make someone lash out.
It can be channeled into something productive and constructive. Harnessed to help and not harm. But I also know how hard it is to hold on to that when the world keeps hammering at your soul, day after day, relentlessly, until you feel like you’re being drowned by the unrelenting agony that won’t let you breathe. By those who are determined to make you suffer because it seems that they enjoy your pain. That they live only for the sole reason to make you pay for something you haven’t done. Some imagined slight you didn’t intend or even know about.
Those are the days when we must stand strongest on our ground. When we have to remain at the parapet of sanity and remind ourselves who we really are and why we won’t become one of them.
I am Strength.
I am Power.
I am Good.
And the darkness won’t make me one of you. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. Love will always fill my heart. It fills it so deep and so full that there’s no room for anything else. I will not allow that darkness to make me hate. The only emotion I feel is pity that for those who will never understand the peace that comes with knowing that there is good in the world and in others. Knowing who I am and that I will not be dragged down, no matter what life throws at me.
I am a mighty willow with roots that run so deep that I won’t be toppled by any storm or dried up during any drought. I’m here to weather whatever this world throws at me. Forever graceful. Forever strong. Forever human.
Hugs & peace!
May 3, 2019
Long live McQueen!
I wanted to send out a very special “thank you” and hugs to all my fans and readers for your overwhelming love and support through this nightmare I’m living. I’ve always said that y’all are the best and you really have shown it to me during this dark time. Thank you so much!
Needless to say that when all of this is over, I won’t be a “Kenyon” anymore as I want nothing to do with the monster who has done so much harm to my children and me. Since the day he walked out the door, I have been begging and begging my lawyer to change my name, but the court won’t let me. They continue to torture me by insisting I keep the name of someone who has done untold abuse to me and mine, which I find abhorrent and inexcusable. I should have the right to get him out of my life.
That also means that we will sadly be changing “Menyon” as soon as I can, since that rhyme with a name that symbolizes cruelty and abuse is now also hurtful to me, even though it was my beautiful, wonderful fans who first dubbed themselves that as they thought it was a cute play on my ex’s surname.
But starting today, in lieu of what all of you have done for me in my darkest hours, and I can never thank you enough, I dub all of you “Sherrilyn’s Paladins” as that is what you all have become. My champions, heroes, and my heart through this horrific nightmare. In spite of their actions to hurt my children and me, and to drive you away, you have stood by me and for that I am eternally grateful, and you are helping me to rise up and defend against the evil that is trying to storm our gates and tear down all we have built together. Those who are trying to steal my worlds and characters from me when I had them before I ever met the monster and made the mistake of marrying him because he lied to me and said he loved me (he has since told my sons that he never loved me and only married me to use me to get back at his parents).
Some of you may have noticed that we have been removing Kenyon from everything such as the site and the social media outlets. The site has become QueenofAllShadows.com or MySherrilyn.com and #MySherrilyn #queenofallshadows #darkhunters Likewise, the logos have been changing as well.
Going forward, the fans will have their own new logo as well (especially since my logos, like my books, are what the ex is trying to claim ownership of when he never, ever had a hand in creating them and many were created while I was in college, but he destroyed my college portfolio so that I can no longer prove this), which is part of the new MySherrilyn logo–one that features my totem animal, a black swan—a design that is based on one I did create in college that I used to attach to my artwork I sold on t-shirts.
For those fans who haven’t heard and are asking about this and the banners, and the #IstandWithSherrilyn campaign that my beautiful fans started . . .
Just when I thought nothing could get more ludicrous or cruel than my husband’s attorneys, Sean Aiello and Connie Chadwick, claiming he wanted an amicable divorce after the ex’s initial divorce filing that accused me of witchcraft no less, and of me trying to harm myself (so he drove 14 hours away, and abandoned me during the lawsuit he got me into and left me alone with our Autistic son who, had I been suicidal, would have been the one to find my body?), along with other equally absurd accusations, he and his team decided to enact their latest bought of cruelty to publicly shame and humiliate me with my fans, after he and his attorneys colluded to have me arrested for standing up for my children and not apologizing to a liar the judge had refused to even look at the perjury charges we attempted to present to him, and the people who have abused my children and me for years. And please keep in mind that during this hearing where they had me locked up in front of my Autistic children who had no way home and had no idea how to help me and who are still traumatized by it, his so-called “family law” attorneys who had committed verifiable perjury against me and had been let off those charges because the judge didn’t want to harm “their” reputations, accused me of bribing the USA Today newspaper #usatoday to take out “Hit Pieces” on my ex. I believe that they are the better fiction writers since that’s their best defense for all his unconscionable actions against his children that they can come up—that my truth must be fiction, as no fiction writer can ever differentiate between their fiction and reality.
But I don’t want to dwell on their cruelty. Just as I don’t want to dwell on that monster. I would much, much rather be writing my books where monsters get what they deserve and the good guys always win. Where justice actually works the way it’s supposed to. If only they’d leave me and my boys alone so that we can begin to heal and go forward.
Bless all of you for your kind words and for being there for me. I can’t tell you how much you mean to me and my boys. Thank you SO much!
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Sherrilyn McQueen
December 14, 2018
Best SF and Fantasy 2018 title: STYGIAN!
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Stygian / Sherrilyn Kenyon (US)
Exit Strategy / Martha Wells (US & CA)
The Consuming Fire / John Scalzi (US & CA)
Vengeful / V.E. Schwab (US)
The Merry Spinster / Mallory Ortberg (US)
September 7, 2018
STYGIAN is tearing up the lists! Thank you, Menyons!
And to answer the question everyone’s been asking, the next book (after Valynda’s May release) is Xander next September in Queen of All Shadows. Those Menyons who’ve been with me since the beginning will remember Xander as one of my oldest DH. I was a few chapters into his book when Wren came along in 2004 and booted him over. Finally, we get to hear his tale :)
BIG hugs to all of you!!
August 3, 2018
Best SF and Fantasy August 2018 title: STYGIAN!
http://www.unboundworlds.com/2018/07/best-sci-fi-fantasy-books-august-2018/
July 8, 2018
Me in the news!
A huge thank you to my awesome PR team, Ellie and John for all their hard work! While I was in Boston and Salem, they lined up at lot of fun interviews for me and also a few here at home in Nashville! For those who are interested, make sure to check them out! My fave has to be that I finally made it to Salem, MA without anything “odd” happening and that I got to research and scout out things for my next Silent Swans novel that will be set in that area. Can’t wait to unleash more details about Swans of a Feather. In the meantime:
Boston Globe:
Paranormal Author Sherrilyn Kenyon Finally Makes It To Salem
https://tinyurl.com/ybrymh6v
The Tennessean!
Author Grew Up Amid Poverty by Brad Schmit
https://tinyurl.com/ydanv5kd and you can read more about my past under the RWA speech I gave 6/30/11 https://sherrilynkenyon.com/keynotes/
The Take with Sue O’Connell
https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/One-on-One-With-Author-Sherrilyn-Kenyon_NECN-486993401.html
May 12, 2018
Deadmen Walking #2 Bestseller in Fantasy!
A massive THANK YOU to fans!! The paperback reissue of Deadmen Walking landed in at #2 on the PW bestseller list this week! You guys rock!
And don’t forget that we have a tiny handful of May Menyon boxes left with autographed copies of Deadmen Walking and Death Doesn’t Bargain! For those who haven’t heard, each one is filled with all manner of goodies from my series. They’re limited in quantity and once a box is gone, it’s gone. So grab yours while supplies last. We also have Bane ones that include the Bane Bear! So make sure to claim yours today! ApollymisGarden.com
May 1, 2018
Death Doesn’t Bargain, Fantasy Book of the Month
Thank you Unbound Worlds for naming Death Doesn’t Bargain one of the best SF/F books for May! I’m so honored! 7 days and counting to release! http://www.unboundworlds.com/2018/04/best-sci-fi-fantasy-books-may-2018/
April 15, 2018
Menyon Boxes have landed!
The Menyon boxes have landed with quite a splash! Already we’ve sold out of a number of them and have more headed in. For those who haven’t heard, each one is filled with all manner of goodies from my series. They’re limited in quantity and once a box is gone, it’s gone. So grab yours while supplies last. We have Bane ones coming up to celebrate the upcoming May release of Death Doesn’t Bargain, and these will include the Bane Bear! So make sure to claim yours today! ApollymisGarden.com
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