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Last Ashes: Chapter 1 Excerpt Now Available

Hi Everyone,

 

My book ‘Last Ashes’ is the second book in my series ‘The Fire of the Soul’. It will be available for purchase on the 29th of June, 2014. To get everyone as excited as I am for the release date I am posting the first chapter as a .PDF file here exclusively.

 

So go check out the new page I’ve made for the second book, download the document and have fun reading!

Monday Mania: Top 15 Favorite Shows

Hi everybody,

It’s Monday Mania time. Every week there’s a new episode to a favorite show. This past few weeks several of my favorite shows have aired their season finale and have gone on break until the new season is ready to air (i.e. Hannibal, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, The Big Bang Theory and Hart of Dixie). Other shows like Game of Thrones (which again has killed off a new fav. character – no spoilers for those yet to watch the episode) are still on air but insists on tearing out your hearts and watching you bleed. Therefore I’ve decided this week’s list will be my favorite shows regardless if their on break, airing or ended completely (R.I.P Heroes and Sylar). Here is the top 15!

15.  Hart of Dixie

14. The Big Bang Theory

13. Beauty and the Beast (2012/13)

12. The Walking Dead

11. True Blood

10. Once Upon a Time

9. Supernatural

8. Helix

7. Haven

6. Heroes

5. Grimm

4. Game of Thrones

3. Sherlock

2. American Horror Story (Season 2: Asylum)

1. Hannibal

It’s so hard to put my favorite shows into a list. There’s so many that I love watching so there are many that didn’t make the list (including Dracula, Misfits, The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, Revenge and so on). To give one a higher ranking over the other isn’t fair. They’re all just as brilliant as each other. Again, I’m loving Hannibal at the moment (Despite all the feels and it ripping out my heart to give to Hanni for dinner!). I’m curious as to who is reading this and who will respond. If you have a top 15 favorite tv shows (and if you feel the love for some of my feel free to leave them in the comments below.

Chrips,

Racquel

The Fire Within R&R’s

Hi everybody,

Just a quick note. My book ‘The Fire Within’ is currently being featured on the goodreads group ‘Shut up and Read’.

The first fifteen people to comment will relieve a free ebook copy. There’s already been a few comments so act quickly!

Just click on this link and leave a comment in the group. You won’t regret it!

Cheers,

Racquel

Monday Mania: Top 10 Villains

Hi everybody,

It’s Monday Mania time. This week I’ve been thinking about the villains in my books; in particular Christian and Novak from my series The Fire of the Soul. Below is my top 10 favorite villains. A lot of them are villains that I can’t help to love.

10. Scar

9. Dracula

8. Loki

7.  Dr. Oliver Thredson aka Bloody Face

6. Magneto

5. Khan

4. Moriarty

3. Sylar

2. Joker

1. Hannibal Lecter

 

It’s so hard to put my favorite villains into a list. To give one a higher ranking over the other isn’t fair. They’re all just as brilliant as each other. Did anyone notice I have two Zachary Quinton characters?! What about Mads Mikkelsen! I’m loving Hannibal (the tv show in particular). I’m curious as to who is reading this and who will respond. If you have a top 10 favorite villains feel free to leave them in the comments below.

Chrips,

Racquel

A-Z of me!

A – Age: Mid 20s
B – Best friend: Emma Rodriguez
C – Chore you hate: Washing up
D – Dessert you love: Creme Brulee
E – Essential start your day item: A cup of tea
F – Favorite author/ book: Too many to choose but one of my favourite author’s is Richelle Mead
G – Gold or Silver: Silver
H – Home country: Australia
I – Instruments you play: None but I do a bit of singing
J – Job title: Primary School Teacher (or at least I’m studying to become one!)
K – Kid(s): Not yet but hopefully one day
L – Living arrangements: In a small granny flat
M – Movie you watch the most: The Phantom of the Opera (any version but particullary the 25th Anniversary and the 1990′s version with Charles Dance)
N – Nicknames: Kell Bells
O – Overnight hospital stay other than birth: None
P – Pet Peeve: Not sure
Q- Quotes you like: “Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.” ― Joseph Addison
R – Right or left handed: Right
S – Siblings: Three little brothers (Aged 18, 14 & 10) and three sisters (Aged 21, 16 & 8).
T – Time you woke up today: 8:30 am
U – Unique thing about you: I like classic (foreign) films/music. One of my favourite classic/foreign film is “Panna a Netvor”. It’s a retelling of my favorite fairy-tale “Beauty and the Beast”
V – Vegetable you love: Carrots
W – Worst habit: I am messy!
X – X-rays you’ve had: A few on my left arm when I broke it.
Y – Yummy food you make: Shepard’s Pie
Z – Zodiac Sign: Pieces

Monday Mania!

Hi everybody,

This is my first post ever, so I’m hopeful that things will go well. I’ve decided that every Monday here on out will be known as Monday Mania! Monday Mania will be a day where I give you guys a list of my top 10 favorite things in a category. So for today, my first Monday Mania, the list is Male Actor’s or otherwise known as Man-Candy. Man-Candy is what we women call the irresistible man. He has to be drool worthy and he has to rank high (an 8, 9, or 10) on the attraction-meter. Today i’ll be giving you my top ten, from lowest to highest.

P.S. This isn’t a complete list of all women’s taste. Just mine in particular.

10. Benedict Cumberbatch

9. Josh Hutcherson

8. Robert Downey Jr.

7. Hugh Jackman

6. Ian Somerhalder

5. Chris Hemsworth

4. Heath Ledger

3. Colin O’Donoghue

2. Alexander Skarsgard

1. Zachery Quinton

This isn’t a complete list and I feel as if many of my favorite actors didn’t make the top ten including; Gerard Butler, Tom Hiddleston, Peter Dinklage and Jude Law. I have so many favorite actors, which simply make me drool every time I see them on the big screen that writing a top 50 wouldn’t begin to cover them all! I just have to note that Alexander and Zachery had a close tie but it’s clear who won in the end! Now I’m curious as to who is reading this and who will respond. If you have a top 10 favorite male actors feel free to leave them in the comments below.

Chrips,

Racquel

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my new Author Website.

I know the place looks really empty right now but “Racquel Kechagias – Official Author Website” has just been launched!

I hope that this site will be informative for you on all of my current works and future projects.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blood Moon

The moon howls,
Yearning to devour me,
Into an animal I have no control over.

The full moon’s presence,
Boils my blood,
Changes my bones,
And my mind,
Into a savage beast.

I have no control,
This cannot be the real me,
I want to wake from this nightmare,
To be set free,
But then it begins again,
No one can ever change this animal I have become.

Hungered for blood,
I prowl the night,
Hungry to understand,
Yet no way to learn,
I won’t be able to escape this hell.

The Dawn begins,
Another day in a false reality,
No one sees,
No one hears,
A reality were the beast can be tamed,
But no one will ever tame the beast,
For as the sun sets,
And children rest their heads,
It will rise again,
Howling its submission to the moon,
The beast is on the prowl tonight.

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(c) 2013. All copyrights belong to Racquel Kechagias.

Blood Told (Poem

Through my veins it trickles,
Slowly like the ticking of a clock,
It whispers secrets without using words,
And I’m left to figure out what they have told.

In the depths of my mind,
Secrets unravel their wings,
Floating in heights unseen.
They lie their way to my soul,
And I’m left dying in their hold.

No release,
No hope,
My soul abandon
And left un-whole.

My blood pounding now,
Like the drums of war,
It screams for release from its hold.

Slowly,
Steadily,
I let the blood fall,
Out of my wrists and out of my soul.

Times flying,
I’m slowly dying,
When will this end?
Their lies made truth over time,
And I don’t know what’s real and what’s pretend.

Slowly,
Steadily,
I breathe my last,
They never took their hold off of me,
And I’m now like them.

Decades go by,
And I’m stuck between heaven and hell,
Whispering secrets without using words,
Unraveling secrets with my wings,
Lying my way to their souls,
And then slowly taking control.

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(c) 2013. All copyrights belong to Racquel Kechagias.

My Romeo (Poem)

His lips near my ear,
Makes me twitch,
Not from excitement,
But from fear,
Because he whispers,
My death,
And he lets me see,
How he plans to murder me.

For once his lips whispered,
Words of love and passion,
But now his lips whisper,
Only his hatred for me.

Condemned,
I am,
Losing control,
As he slowly kills me,
He takes my life upon his lips,
A tale that he would only know,
Is my love for this wicked Romeo.

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(c) 2013. All copyrights belong to Racquel Kechagias.