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January 2, 2021
2021 Freebie
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Knights Time team!
That's right, we've made it through to the much-anticipated 2021....
(and we'll hold dear the memory of those that did not). It was a very tough year, for the ENTIRE world, for all ages, all species, and so on. And yet, we have to celebrate the small wins...
That being said, I want to share the news that one of my 2020 anthology pieces is available on Prolific Works!
Simmering Deception was my Jack-and-the-Beanstalk fairy tale re-telling, and is featured in Volume 2 of the Sistas Fairytales books. But if you visit my landing page on Prolific Works, you can get a copy of Simmering Deception (provided with its own cover).
SIMMERING DECEPTION
A retired Giant-Hunter.
A magical statue.
A deal with the Fae Court thugs.
tairah, the magical statue responsible for Jack’s abilities. But after a bad trade, Jack is forced back into the violent world of hunting giant fae.
And something… rather someone… has put him right in the crosshairs of danger: an intriguingly beautiful woman who seems to be in the exact same trouble as him.
Ta-ta, Kish
December 30, 2020
Cursed word count!
72, 652 words!
Cursed was just sent to my beta reader
at a whopping
word count of 72, 652 !
The second book in the Immortal Blood YA dark fantasy saga.
Young Adult Thriller/ Paranormal Romance
Bri should have known that her life couldn’t be simple. Between burying her best friend and getting closer to the bad boy who showed up at the gravesite, her life has taken a serious left turn. The dark creature who hounded Arielle to her death has now developed a dangerous fixation with Bri. Bad boy Korey is the only person that she can talk to, but Bri can’t figure out if he’s on her side or if he’s part of the darkness. Not to mention that Bri’s clock is ticking down as she races to find a lost immortal in a town riddled with secrets, even as her body begins to succumb to the effects of the curse.
The deeper Bri probes into Arielle’s sudden death, the more she uncovers the buried sins of a secret society. Since she doesn’t know who to trust, she has to start tracing the old steps of the missing immortal, in hopes of finding new answers. But as she gets closer to the truth, she has to wonder if anyone in her circle is at all what they seem.
December 21, 2020
The boys??? (borrowed from the Rise of the Elites blog)
HEY!
(I'm borrowing this post from my section on the Rise of the Elites website...we're gearing up and winding down those manuscripts, heading toward editing, and racing toward those 2021 release dates! I wrote a little post over there about my beginning stages of writing, and then threw in a FREE excerpt on top of it. ENJOY!)
The boys???
One of the weirdest things about my journey as an author has definitely been my choice of gender perspective. When I first began writing (meaning my first full-length book project, NOT anything written in high school or before), I was in college. I started writing a novel called Second Chance about young man who ended up being dragged to another world. Over the next few years, as I undertook my personal writing projects, I would discover that my initial instincts were to craft male main characters. Strange….
Why was that?
(I never figured out why…..certainly wasn’t what I read in my growing up years, since I read an equal number of female MC and male MC books.)
I’ve even gone as far as to draft a novel with the main character as male, and then completely RE-WRITE the novel with the MC as a female. (Am I nuts????)
So again, why is that? Again, I still don’t know why my brain does that HOWEVER, I will say that I initially considered making Dix (Rise of the Elites Book 6) a male character. I decided against that early on and made Dix my awesome female MC, but brought in my equally awesome male secondary character Remiel. (Remiel is the old Elite’s brother.)
Now given my love of male main characters, let’s hope that I can give the readers an awesome version of Remiel. Check out this excerpt with Remiel and Dix below:
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EXCERPT:
Without a word, Remiel rose from his seat and approached my throne. His tall frame made me the slightest bit unnerved. All of the Irin were tall by nature, but for some reason, Remiel and his brothers stood taller than the rest of us, easily past seven-feet tall. Anael, rest his soul, had stood at a solid eight-feet.
"Approach," he commanded, his tone leaving no room for argument. Quickly, I closed the distance between me and Remiel.
At his side, he held a glowing sword and I recognized it as one of the seven heavenly blades rumored to have been forged by the first Angel's hands.
With the barest touch, Remiel tapped the base of my throat and then slowly slid the sword down along my skin. The sword slid down easily, passing evenly through the material of my armored halter, and only came to rest at my bellybutton.
Even as lightly as he drew the blade down, a trail of sparks were tossed in the air behind it.
"From chest to sternum," I mouthed, knowing the old chant.
But the sparks left behind had been more than just show; as soon as the metal touched my bellybutton, the little flickers combusted into large bursts of flame around me, creating a fiery ring in the air.
A thin line of blood followed the long scrape down my body, and I looked down at myself in surprise, realizing that for the first time in my adult years, I was feeling pain. Angels didn't experience minor pain, of course, but we knew what it was from our formative years in training.
Fellowship of the Last Fallen
Rise of the Elites
Book 6
Fellowship of the Last Fallen
Coming April 2021
November 5, 2020
SNEAK PEEK : CURSED INTRO
Take a peek inside Immortal Blood BOOK 2 (Cursed):
It was a good day for a kidnapping.
That was the only thought on Bri Brewley’s mind until pointed words broke through the turbulent thoughts in her head.
“It’s six-thirty on a Sunday morning. Are you sure you don’t need to call home and explain why you’re chasing a key to the Other Realm?”
Bri just stared over the glossy menu at Korey Parsons, who was seated across the table from her. The sounds of the small diner around them buzzed, as people came in for breakfast, some just leaving work, others on the early shift.
Korey was slouched easily along the booth seat, his body relaxed. To all outward appearances, he was an average guy. But to her, he was anything but average. The magnetic aura that always seemed to cling to him was in full effect, from the lean muscles under his white T-shirt to his hypnotic brown eyes.
As usual, Bri swallowed her attraction to him and instead focused on what he’d said.
“Huh?” she asked, giving him her most innocent face. Korey gave her a knowing look, clearly not fooled by her act.
His question hung between them, because yes, of course, she needed to call and let her aunt know why she hadn’t come home the night before. But unfortunately, she didn’t have a great reason to explain why, especially since saying ‘demon dogs had been on the lawn’ probably wouldn’t be believed.
At all.
Neither would explaining about the mysterious ‘Other Realm’.
“So,” his serious eyes bore into her as he pushed his napkin to the far side of the table, “what’s the plan for when we get there?”
Her eyes followed the eerie warning for a second longer, and then she turned back to meet Korey’s eyes. She knew she was wrong for getting him mixed up in this, but it was too late to back out now.
Without hesitation, she said, “I’m going to kidnap Ms. Vanthe.” She let it sink in and then continued, “And take her to Rikgso.”
Surprise was evident on Korey’s face as his brows lifted slowly. “Oh yeah?”
An elderly couple ambled past their table and Bri leaned in, dropping her voice. “Yeah. I mean, isn’t that my only solution for all of this? Rikgso wants an immortal, and we suspect that Vanthe is one, so that’s obviously who he wants.”
She didn’t blame him for looking surprised. Four months ago, she would have had the same reaction. But since then, she had lost a best friend, been branded, and attacked, all courtesy of a very salty, psychotic demon. Rikgso.
And Rikgso wasn’t finished with her yet. Apparently her life was on the line if she didn’t find an immortal, of all things, for him.
‘Like as if they have immortals just hanging out in stores.’ Bri stifled a frustrated sigh.
SNEAK PEEK : FURY BORN INTRO
Take a peek inside Demon Alicha BOOK 2 (Fury Born):
The creature sitting calmly across from her bed was the first thing she saw as she opened her eyes.
Alicha Anthony froze in place, the last remnants of a deep sleep slipping away. Waking up to a demon watching over you was never a good sign. And even worse, she recognized the demon casually seated in her bedroom.
‘Katse, Tevit’s lieutenant.’ Her mind raced. Whatever reason Tevit had sent his second-in -command to her bedroom couldn’t be good. Given the fact that she had recently escaped a ten-year stint in the service of Tevit, the Demon Lord of Envy, and youngest of the seven Hell princes, she had right to be concerned. Her hated job had included torturing innocent people into giving up their souls. A recent turn of events had freed her from Tevit’s hold. The only problem was, her old boss hadn’t exactly been updated on her new position.
Now, here was Katse, clearly sent by Tevit.
The warm bedsheets around her body had felt comforting before. Now, they just felt stifling and restrictive. Alicha fidgeted. Wanting to sit up so that she wasn’t as vulnerable, she really wished that she hadn’t stripped down to her underwear before going to sleep.
Katse seemed to read her mind. “Don’t bother,” he said drily, “there’s nothing a human has that I haven’t seen already.”
Since Katse was a half-chaos, half-incubus demon, and given his reputation, she didn’t doubt him. Back in the Hell Realm, his incubus side had made him very popular with the female residents. Rightfully so, since he had a lean body, sexy chin-stubble, and an internal intoxicating power. But equally as much, his chaos side had made him a violent, psychotic addition to Tevit’s stable, one that thrived on torture.
Read the rest of the INTRO on kishknight.com HERE
October 25, 2020
Demon Alicha
What's the story behind Demon Alicha and her problems???
It wasn’t Alicha’s fault that her life was on borrowed time, since her mother had saved her life as a child by turning to one of the Dark Princes. Escaping that life was Alicha’s plan until her master sends her out on a Dream-Walk that lands her dead-center in the middle of an immortal show-down. Sucks for her that her becoming a demon-in-training was part of the deal. Even worse, her new lover just turned out to be a well-connected demon-hunter...
Quick Trailer on YouTube:
October 4, 2020
September 30, 2020
What’s next for the Demon Alicha story?
What’s next for the Demon Alicha story?
I know that at least some people have read Fury Rising and are waiting for the follow-up book Fury Born. In case you missed the announcement, Fury Born will be released by November 2020.
So, what comes next for Alicha and her sudden team of ‘former-rivals-turned-partners’? We’re now finished with the immediate threat of the Fury Megaera (or so we’re hoping), and we’ve uncovered an underground plot by Demon Prince Tevit. But where does this leave Alicha? Her world has been turned upside-down….bringing in a host of new problems. Just to point out, even though she’s liberated herself from Tevit, now she has gotten caught by Zepar, who is just as bad.
In Fury Born, Alicha awakens to find that a bounty has been placed on her head by the Hunters, and the IRTC (International Realm Treaty Council) has issued yet another warrant for her arrest. The only way for her to escape being detained by the Council is to discover the reason behind the Fury Tisiphone’s murder and provide the proof to the Council.
Problems exist with that because every inhabitant of the Hell Realm, whether in or out, is on high-alert after the death of the great Fury. Not to mention the fact that while Marco and Alicha took their cautious relationship to another level in Fury Rising, Alicha is finding it near impossible for them to be together in Fury Born. As she rises in rank in the demon world, Marco is also gaining more power in the world of the demon hunters. Each day brings her closer to him actually finding out what she is…. Sean is also becoming an unexpected obstacle as well, as he continues to express his interest in winning Alicha’s affections. With Sean’s fortitude and connections in the demon world, he might actually be a better match for her than Marco…..but readers, do we really want that???
There will be a third and final book to follow (at least, that’s how I’m planning it right now).
I appreciate you readers so much. Being a reader myself, I know the excitement that a fun story can bring. At the moment, though, all of my reading is on hold, while I sweep four writing projects off of my desk and push them into the publishing world.
Back soon with more about upcoming projects! Again, thank you so much for allowing me to write for you.
Ta-ta,
Kish (and the upcoming novel, Fury Born)
