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Help us help you: Calling all writers and readers!

FOR WRITERS

How people wrote books before computers. I can’t even imagine.

Today I’d like to introduce you to Beverly Kendall, an author with a mission to understand the truth of what’s selling and what’s not for self-published authors. You hear about the BIG stories of those who sell millions, but what about the rest of us? I wrote recently about how we were able to quit our jobs and write full time last year, and how we made a very nice 6 figure income on royalties alone even though we aren’t necessarily household names (yet.) We’re not alone in this, but we need more feedback. If you’re an indie author, please take a moment to fill out this survey and help us shed light on the truth of the indie movement for authors!

Self-Published Authors, I would greatly appreciate your input on this survey, which I’m using to put together a post (article) on how self-published authors are faring in this new world of publishing. Please share with as many self-published authors as you can. Thx

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GJD32G7

FOR READERS

We want to know your habits as well, so as indie authors we can give you what you want. Please take a moment to fill out this anonymous reader survey! Thank you. 

Hi everyone,Below is a simple, quick and painless, completely anonymous survey about your reading habits. I would really appreciate your input. Thank you in advance for taking the time to do it.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V86DKW2

 

Beverley Kendall

http://beverleykendall.com

http://theseasonforromance.com

Bio

Beverley discovered her love of books while growing up in, the then, small city of Barrie, Ontario Canada. With her love of books and romance, she always wished that everyone would find their happily ever after. She’s a single mother with a young son and writes sexy historical, new adult and contemporary romances.

Beverley has lived on two continents, in three countries, two provinces, and four states. She stopped her nomadic existence and settled in the southeast. All things artistic feed her creative passion, but none more than writing. Readers can visit her at: beverleykendall.com.

We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

The WeeKKend Recap!

Another week has come and gone. And what a week it was! Let’s go over all the awesomeness the past week contained (and a few things that it didn’t) in today’s WeeKKend Recap!

Happy New Year!

If we have learned nothing else this year, and in the years leading up to this one, it is to take leaps of faith and live outrageously. Sometimes you’ll fall on your face. Sometimes you’ll fail at something you were so sure would be a huge success. Sometimes you’ll be scared and you’ll risk everything in the belief that you can, somehow, succeed. And sometimes…

Sometimes…

Sometimes you will land on your feet. Sometimes you will soar. Sometimes an idea you weren’t sure about will become the most successful thing you’ve ever done.

So take leaps of faith. Don’t be afraid to fail. To make mistakes. To epically land on your face. Because each failure brings you closer to success, but if you don’t take that first step, if you don’t risk everything to live outrageously, you’ll never know what you could have accomplished.

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Happy New Year. We welcome 2014 with open arms and outrageous faith in the impossible being entirely possible.

When the Heart Falls had quite a week!

Our critically-acclaimed, award-winning new adult contemporary romance, When the Heart Falls, had quite the week! It was free on Amazon from January 1 through January 5–in fact, if you hurry, you might still be able to get it–and it did AWESOMELY, ranking as high as #26 in all of Amazon Free!

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We love this book so much, and we were so happy to see it doing so well! It makes us excited for writing the sequel, When the Heart Loves! If you love contemporary romances by Nicholas Sparks or Bella Andre, you should definitely pick up your copy of When the Heart Falls!

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HOTTIEBOWL 2014 is here!

Why settle for a single showdown a week when you can have a WHOLE MONTH of daily showdowns? Who needs the Super Bowl when you can have the HOTTIEBOWL? Starting January 1, we’ve been pitting the hottest Hollywood has to offer in a quest to find the hottest of the them all!

So far, we’ve pitted Hugh Jackman vs. Luke Evans, Ian Somerhalder vs. Johnny Depp, The Rock vs. Chris Hemsworth, and Ryan Reynolds vs. Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Fan votes have moved Hugh Jackman, Johnny Depp, Chris Hemsworth, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers on to the next round! Have you cast your ballots yet? Click below to see all match-ups!

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32 hotties, 31 showdowns, one month of awesomeness!

Make sure you’ve liked our Facebook page to keep up with the daily showdowns and cast your vote!

Be our Fan of the Week!

Congratulations to Heather Stanley, this week’s Karpov Kinrade Fan of the Week!

We’re saying thanks to our fans! With giftcards and eternal fame! Wanna get in on the action and potentially win a $5 Amazon giftcard? All you gotta do is participate and be a fan on our Facebook fan page. Comment on, like, and share ANY of the posts on the page–every comment, like, and share will automatically enter you to win a $5 Amazon giftcard and be our Fan of the Week. It’s our way of saying THANKS for being AWESOME! We announce a new Fan of the Week every Sunday evening.

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Come on and join the fun!

This week’s favorite KK product

Love this sweatshirt with the Princes of Hell logo!

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This–and all sorts of awesome KK Minion, Seduced Saga, and Naughty Live Longer gear–is available at our KK CafePress store. We’ll be switching over to Zazzle in the near future, so stay tuned for that new link.

What you missed on the blog…

Our New Year’s Wish For You: Live Outrageously

Phew, what a week! Here’s to another awesome week coming up–make it a great one!
We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

Our New Year’s Wish For You: Live Outrageously

[image error]If we have learned nothing else this year, and in the years leading up to this one, it is to take leaps of faith and live outrageously. Sometimes you’ll fall on your face. Sometimes you’ll fail at something you were so sure would be a huge success. Sometimes you’ll be scared and you’ll risk everything in the belief that you can, somehow, succeed. And sometimes…

Sometimes…

Sometimes you will land on your feet. Sometimes you will soar. Sometimes an idea you weren’t sure about will become the most successful thing you’ve ever done.

So take leaps of faith. Don’t be afraid to fail. To make mistakes. To epically land on your face. Because each failure brings you closer to success, but if you don’t take that first step, if you don’t risk everything to live outrageously, you’ll never know what you could have accomplished. 

Happy New Year. We welcome 2014 with open arms and outrageous faith in the impossible being entirely possible.

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We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

The WeeKKend Recap!

Another week has come and gone. And what a week it was! Let’s go over all the awesomeness the past week contained (and a few things that it didn’t) in today’s WeeKKend Recap!

Merry Christmas!

We celebrated Christmas a few days after the official date when our family came to visit, and we had a blast. We hope you had a wonderful holiday, if you celebrate it!

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HOTTIEBOWL 2014 is coming!

Why settle for a single showdown a week when you can have a WHOLE MONTH of daily showdowns? Who needs the Super Bowl when you can have the HOTTIEBOWL? Starting January 1, we’ll be pitting the hottest Hollywood hotties against each other in an epic showdown to crown the hottest of them all. You can check out the list of our inaugural HOTTIEBOWL contestants right here. 32 hotties, 31 showdowns, one month of awesomeness!

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Make sure you’ve liked our Facebook page to keep up with the daily showdowns and cast your vote!

Be our Fan of the Week!

Congratulations to Becky Fyfe, this week’s Karpov Kinrade Fan of the Week!

We’re saying thanks to our fans! With giftcards and eternal fame! Wanna get in on the action and potentially win a $5 Amazon giftcard? All you gotta do is participate and be a fan on our Facebook fan page. Comment on, like, and share ANY of the posts on the page–every comment, like, and share will automatically enter you to win a $5 Amazon giftcard and be our Fan of the Week. It’s our way of saying THANKS for being AWESOME! We announce a new Fan of the Week every Sunday evening.

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Come on and join the fun!

This week’s favorite KK product

Tote your grub and show your Minion pride! This lunchbag is perfect for both.

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This–and all sorts of awesome KK Minion, Seduced Saga, and Naughty Live Longer gear–is available at our KK CafePress store. We’ll be switching over to Zazzle in the near future, so stay tuned for that new link.

What you missed on the blog…

A Holiday Greeting and a KK Christmas Love Story as told by Christmas Trees

Phew, what a week! Here’s to another awesome week coming up–make it a great one!
We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

A Holiday Greeting and a KK Christmas Love Story as told by Christmas Trees

Whatever you call this time of year, however you celebrate, we at the Karpov Kinrade home wish you the very happiest of days. May your time this week be filled with love, joy and happiness, however that manifests for you.

We’ve been so blessed this year and it’s our Christmas wish that all of you will find the kind of love and happiness we have.

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And for more holiday love, here is a little something we put together that chronicles the KK love story, as told by Christmas trees. Enjoy!

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We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

The WeeKKend Recap!

Another week has come and gone. And what a week it was! Let’s go over all the awesomeness the past week contained (and a few things that it didn’t) in today’s WeeKKend Recap!

The Prince of Darkness is coming!

The first installment in the 7-book Princes of Hell series is coming in February! Prince of Darkness, starring everyone’s favorite demon, Blake (of Seduced Saga fame) will drop on February 9, 2014!

While Prince of Darkness is more epic/urban fantasy than our other books (which is actually our first literary love), it’s also got all the heat and romance you’d expect in a KK novel!

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Make sure you’re a fan on our Facebook page to keep up with all Prince of Darkness news, fun stuff, and giveaways!

Win a book a day with The 10 Days of KK!

We’re giving away an e-book a day through December 24 as we celebrate the 10 Days of KK! There’s still two days left, so make sure you drop by our Facebook page and enter!

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All books are family-friendly, and will be available to the winners in their choice of e-book format.

Our SHOWDOWN! kept on being vamptastic

The ultimate vampire showdown took place this past week! Buffy’s Angel versus JRM as Dracula. Want to know how it panned out? Click right here.

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We have a new SHOWDOWN! every week on Monday (or Tuesday, if we have a big announcement on Monday), so swing by our Facebook page and cast your vote!

Be our Fan of the Week!

Congratulations to Glendalys Hernandez, this week’s Karpov Kinrade Fan of the Week!

We’re saying thanks to our fans! With giftcards and eternal fame! Wanna get in on the action and potentially win a $5 Amazon giftcard? All you gotta do is participate and be a fan on our Facebook fan page! Comment on, like, and share ANY of the posts on the page–every comment, like, and share will automatically enter you to win a $5 Amazon giftcard and be our Fan of the Week! It’s our way of saying THANKS for being AWESOME! We announce a new Fan of the Week every Sunday evening.

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Come on and join the fun!

This week’s favorite KK product

Get the latest Prince of Darkness gear! Sport the Dragoncliff Academy (the place where it all takes place) logo with pride! (Isn’t it EPIC?!)

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This–and all sorts of awesome KK Minion, Seduced Saga, and Naughty Live Longer gear–is available at our KK CafePress store!

What you missed on the blog…

Nothing! We’re hard at work on Prince of Darkness and hanging out with our family as we prepare for Christmas–so nothing on the blog. Have a fabulous, happy, excellent, very merry Christmas, everyone!

Phew! What a week! Here’s to another awesome week coming up–make it a great one!
We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

The WeeKKend Recap!

Another week has come and gone. And what a week it was! Let’s go over all the awesomeness the past week contained (and a few things that it didn’t) in today’s WeeKKend Recap!

Three free books!

[image error]Christmas is just nine days away–have you gifted yourself yet? We’ve got three free books, perfect to feed your Kindle and stuff your stocking!

Forever Home: A true short story about second chances & forever friendships! If you are a dog lover, or an advocate for rescue dogs, or just love a feel-good story of second chances and forever friendships, now is your chance to read FOREVER HOME for FREE! Get this short story based on a true story on Amazon.


Only Forever: Inspired by a true love story, Only Forever will have even the coldest skeptic believing in happily ever afters. This short story is a contemporary romance inspired by the true story of how the author’s parents met and fell in love. There is no explicit sexual content in this story. It is suitable for anyone who still believes in love and happily ever afters, or anyone who would like to believe again. Get this short story based on a true story on Amazon.
Seduced by Innocence: The first book in our bestselling Seduced Saga! It is a New Adult romance/paranormal romance/urban fantasy recommended for 17+ due to explicit sexual content. It is part of Seduced: Rose’s Story and is NOT a standalone book. It contains a cliffhanger ending. Get Seduced by Innocence on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and iBooks.

Win a book a day with The 10 Days of KK!

We’re giving away an e-book a day through December 24 as we celebrate the 10 Days of KK!

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All books are family-friendly, and will be available to the winners in their choice of e-book format. The giveaway is taking place on our Facebook page, so come on by and enter!

Our SHOWDOWN! kept on being vamptastic

More vampires! Buffy vs. Vampire Diaries went down this week:

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We have a new SHOWDOWN! every week on Monday (or Tuesday, if we have a big announcement on Monday), so swing by our Facebook page and cast your vote! We’re continuing our vampire theme this week, too!

Be our Fan of the Week!

Congratulations to Julie Fischer, this week’s Karpov Kinrade Fan of the Week!

We’re saying thanks to our fans! With giftcards and eternal fame! Wanna get in on the action and potentially win a $5 Amazon giftcard? All you gotta do is participate and be a fan on our Facebook fan page! Comment on, like, and share ANY of the posts on the page–every comment, like, and share will automatically enter you to win a $5 Amazon giftcard and be our Fan of the Week! It’s our way of saying THANKS for being AWESOME! We announce a new Fan of the Week every Sunday evening.

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Come on and join the fun!

This week’s favorite KK product

Don’t know what to get the adorable baby in your life for Christmas? We’ve got just the thing!

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This–and all sorts of awesome minion, Seduced Saga, and Naughty Live Longer gear–is available at our KK CafePress store!

What you missed on the blog…

From Rags to Riches: An Indie Author Success Story - “As a woman who went from being a single mother of three living on welfare after leaving an abusive marriage, to a now happily married woman who made a comfortable 6-figure income this year in book royalties alone, I feel pretty darn rich.”

Phew! What a week! Here’s to another awesome week coming up–make it a great one!
We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

From Rags to Riches: An Indie Author Success Story

How people wrote books before computers. I can’t even imagine.

Okay, maybe ‘riches’ is stretching it, but I guess it depends on how you define wealth. As a woman who went from being a single mother of three living on welfare after leaving an abusive marriage, to a now happily married woman who made a comfortable 6-figure income this year in book royalties alone, I feel pretty darn rich.

When my husband/writing partner (the Karpov to my Kinrade) and I met on Twitter in 2010, I had just barely regained my footing after an abusive marriage that left me financially devastated and physically and emotionally wounded.

Back in the summer of 2008 I had finished my first book and took it, along with all of my hopes and dreams, to the Maui Writers Conference, where I pitched it to a handful of interested agents. But the moment I came home, my life fell apart, as did my dreams.

I lost my house, and ended my abusive marriage, which left me broke with three very young girls to raise while battling health issues related to undiagnosed food allergies. And of course, recovering from an abusive marriage takes its toll as well.

It took me a long time to pick up the proverbial pen and write again. For two years I labored in survival mode, trying desperately to regain my sense of self and care for my daughters. Hopelessness waited on the edges of my life looking for a foothold, often finding one.

But I didn’t give up. With the help of welfare, friends and family, I weathered the worst of my recovery and held on to the small glowing fragment of my dreams, never letting the light of that hope go out entirely.

Even at my most desperate, living with my children in a camper trailer in my parent’s backyard, I persevered in my dreams. (And I will always be grateful that they opened their lives to the four of us despite their own small space and hardships.)

When an opportunity opened up to work in a real estate office as a ghostwriter and editor, I jumped on it. It paid enough for us to get an apartment in Huntington Beach and get off welfare and food stamps for good. But I still wasn’t living my dreams. Not really. Ghostwriting real estate was a far cry from publishing fiction.

It was around that time that I met my writing partner who soon became the love of my life and husband. He inspired me to write fiction again, and to never give up on what I loved the most.

That road from there to where we are now wasn’t easy. In just over two years I (and we) published 17 books and several short stories. We learned how to format and design covers and market. We worked multiple jobs and wrote full time while scraping by with almost nothing for a year.

Until this year.

Last year our income from writing was part time at best. It helped cover some expenses, but we only got paid quarterly from the small press we’d published our first ten books with and it certainly wasn’t a livable income for five.

When we published the first of the Seduced Saga in late January this year, our income skyrocketed from a few hundred a month to almost $10,000 in February. Since then, we’ve self-published Seduced: Rose’s Story as three books and a trilogy version, as well as two sequels in a new serial of Seduced by Lies. And our income has consistently been anywhere from $8,000 to $15,000 a month all year, in large part due to that self-published series.

For me, this is a success story. I’m not a household name. (Yet.) I’m not making millions in royalties. (Yet.) And I haven’t hit the NYT Best Seller list. (Yet!) But I’m doing what I love, with the man I love, while comfortably supporting our daughters who are able to attend a private school, eat well, and have a nice, safe home with their own bedrooms.

When I think back to the days of the four of us squeezing into a tiny camping trailer, sleeping in the nooks and crannies, our books and few personal items shoved into the non-functioning stove and cupboards, to all that we have now, I am humbled and inspired to keep on this path.

And I’ve learned a lot about this business of writing and publishing along the way.

It takes a LOT of work to become an ‘overnight success.’ We went from almost nothing to so very much, practically overnight. We lucked upon a series that struck the right niche readership and created something of a
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cult following of Seduced fans. I don’t know how or why, but I’m very grateful. But I’d written ten other wonderful books before striking gold, and we burned the candle at both ends, never giving up when sales didn’t come and we still had to do other jobs to make ends meet and feed our children. We never rested, worked hard and sacrificed a lot to keep going. We pushed ourselves to study the industry and learn everything we could about not just the craft of writing, but of marketing, design, formatting and publishing.
Most people aren’t going to hit it big with one book! Just like it took a lot of work to create this level of success, it also took a lot of books. Almost no one (traditionally published or indie), makes it big, or even comfortably mid-list with just one book. You have to keep writing.
What works for one author won’t work for another. We learned early on that we had to be inventive and innovative. We had to create our own marketing ideas and jump on ‘new’ marketing opportunities while they were still untested and relatively unknown. Once something is BIG in marketing, it’s no longer as effective (usually), or easy to get into. We had to take risks.

This is also true of WHAT you write. While indie authors who are fast at writing have the advantage of catching the wave of something popular earlier, you still have to offer something unique. Don’t be the next Amanda Hocking or John Locke or whomever. Be the first of YOU. We believe one of the reasons our Seduced Saga is so popular is that it’s unique. It offers readers of paranormal romance and urban fantasy something they can’t get anywhere else.
We learned that having creative and marketing control of our work made a big difference. Even with a small press, we don’t have the marketing and creative control we need to make those books as successful as Seduced is. Now, part of that could be genre, but a lot of it is the fact that we can take risks, change our plans and try new things with our work. We can’t do that with books we don’t own the rights to. That’s not to say we wouldn’t love to create a mutually beneficial partnership with a bigger publisher, particularly in the print book arena, but we are quite happy with the success our indie books have experienced.
It’s not a competition. We’re not in competition with other indie or traditionally published writers. There are more readers than writers (and most writers are readers, too.) With the advent of the digital age and ebooks, we’re no longer competing for limited shelf space. It’s important to remember that any success one author has is good for us all. The more great books people read, the more they will want to read, and that is exciting for everyone in the industry!

We’re telling our story now in hopes that it inspires others. It would have been so easy to give up when things seemed hopeless. Or give up when certain books refused to sell, regardless of how great I thought they were. But I didn’t give up and I didn’t give in to the hopelessness, and if I can go from living in a tiny camper trailer with three kids while living on food stamps, to making over $120,000 in book royalties, then anything is possible.

We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

3 #Free Books for Christmas!

Get your reading fix–for free! It is our Christmas gift from us to you, our loyal fans and wonderful readers. We have three great books available for free right now–all you have to do is click!

Forever Home

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Girl meets dog. Girl loses dog. Girl gets dog back.

It’s that kind of love story.

When 14-year-old Cory Smith loses her best furry friend to a stroke three days before Christmas, she doesn’t think she’ll ever recover.

Until she sets eyes on the sad rescue dog about to be put down.

Will fate be on their side as she works to save the dog who stole her heart? Or will her New Year fall to another broken heart?

A true short story about second chances & forever friendships!

If you are a dog lover, or an advocate for rescue dogs, or just love a feel-good story of second chances and forever friendships, now is your chance to read FOREVER HOME for FREE!

Get this short story based on a true story on Amazon.

Only Forever

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Her life fell apart after her ex-husband came out of the closet and admitted to being gay, leaving her to raise two young children alone.

His life was stagnant, engaged to a woman he didn’t love as he wondered what tomorrow would bring.

When fate intervenes to show them their destiny, the biggest surprise is fate’s chosen catalyst: A pair of bellbottoms.

Inspired by a true love story, Only Forever will have even the coldest skeptic believing in happily ever afters.

This short story is a contemporary romance inspired by the true story of how the author’s parents met and fell in love. There is no explicit sexual content in this story. It is suitable for anyone who still believes in love and happily ever afters, or anyone who would like to believe again.

Get this short story based on a true story on Amazon.

Seduced By Innocence
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Deadly secrets.
A love that will stand against it all.

All my life I’ve been told that I will kill my first love. That the dark power I harbor within myself will destroy him.

Just like it’s destroyed others.

Witches take an oath to do no harm, but I broke that oath even as a child, and so I hide within the invisible walls of my strange coven, keeping everyone at a distance.

Until I meet Derek.

His magnetism draws me in even as I know I should run. But I can’t run, because I need him to teach me how to defend myself and others, so I don’t fall victim to the shifters out to terrorize my coven.

He can’t know my secret, and I can’t give in to the other need that’s growing between us, the one that heats me from within whenever we’re together.

But flesh is weaker than intention, and neither of us can fight the fates. If only we’d known the truth before taking that first bite of forbidden fruit.

Now it’s too late.

Seduced by Innocence is a New Adult romance/paranormal romance/urban fantasy recommended for 17+ due to explicit sexual content. It is part of Seduced: Rose’s Story and is NOT a standalone book. It contains a cliffhanger ending.

Get Seduced by Innocence on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and iBooks.

Merry Christmas!
We hope you enjoy these gifts!
We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!

The WeeKKly Recap!

Another week has come and gone. And what a week it was! Let’s go over all the awesomeness the past week contained (and a few things that it didn’t)–because there are some VERY EXCITING THINGS TO TELL!

Seduced: Rose’s Story had an AMAZING week!

Our bestselling paranormal romance had itself a great, truly bestselling week! Check it out:

That’s right! That’s us sitting at #65 in all of Amazon! We also hit #2 in the entire fantasy genre–right between Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin (who could ask  for better company?), hit #3 in the entire paranormal romance genre, and spent 3 days in the top 100 on Amazon and top 50 in Barnes & Noble. 

It was an absolutely amazing, exciting, wonderful few days! We can only hope that we do it again–SOON!

Our SHOWDOWN! kept on being vamptastic

Vampire vs. vampire! This past week’s SHOWDOWN pitted two classic vamp hotties.

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We have a new SHOWDOWN! every week on Monday (or Tuesday, if we have a big announcement on Monday), so swing by our Facebook page and cast your vote! We’re continuing our vampire theme this week, too!

Be our Fan of the Week!

Congratulations to Stephanie Beasley, last week’s Karpov Kinrade Fan of the Week!

We’re saying thanks to our fans! With giftcards and eternal fame! Wanna get in on the action and potentially win a $5 Amazon giftcard? All you gotta do is participate and be a fan on our Facebook fan page! Comment on, like, and share ANY of the posts on the page–every comment, like, and share will automatically enter you to win a $5 Amazon giftcard and be our Fan of the Week! It’s our way of saying THANKS for being AWESOME! We announce a new Fan of the Week every Sunday evening.

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Come on and join the fun!

This week’s favorite KK product

In honor of the UH-mayzing week the Seduced Saga had, this week’s fave KK product features a fan-favorite quote from the books!

This–and and all sorts of awesome minion, Seduced Saga, and Naughty Live Longer gear–is available at our KK CafePress store!

Phew! What a week! Here’s to another awesome week coming up–make it a great one!
We hope you enjoyed this blog post. Want more from Karpov Kinrade? Check out our Amazon page here. New to our work? Get Seduced by Innocence FREE everywhere ebooks are sold, and find out why the Seduced Saga is a bestselling fan favorite!