Guest Blog and Giveaway with Kayden Mcleod
Dear Reader,
Thank you, Fang-Tastic, for having me here today.
Tomorrow is the big day, The Foxworth Coven, Book One, Death of Innocence releases! I have been anxiously awaiting this for a long time now.
Death of Innocence was the first book I'd ever finished, though not the first book I'd written—nor the first book I'd written in the Foxworth Coven Series.
What is now Kindred Fate, the third installment in the Foxworth Coven Series, coming out with Silver Publishing in November of this year, was the first book I had ever penned. It was started over ten years ago, sitting at 140K when I had finished my first draft. I was a teenager, reading VC Andrews, RL Stine and Christopher Pike.
My style back then reflected my age. The plot was complicated, too much so, yet told in an adolescent manner. And the story deserved, needed more. And while it read like YA, even with the situations were definitely adult, I was leery of writing the level of sex I had put into the book. I watched this book grow as I ploughed through it, changed details and characters, entire storylines. And yet, I still wasn't happy with it.
In my mind, I'd known the back-story of the Foxworth Coven. And it wouldn't leave my muse alone. To start in the twenty-first century left too much untold—and the story of the ghosts of the Foxworth's past left to speculation. So following my muse's insistence, I went back a century, to British Columbia, 1904, when the Foxworth Leader, Canya was still human. Gregory, the Heir to the Foxworth Coven, was fighting his obligations, determined to be his own man, and not the vampire his parents, Anastasia and Henry had groomed him to become. But life never really works out the way someone intends it to. Outside forces, fate and tragedy intervene. Canya and Gregory were no different.
After finishing Death of Innocence, I was even more perplexed. Now it felt like something else was missing. It took me a long time after that to figure out, Arcadia, Gregory and Canya's step-son, had a story of his own. And then Natural Urges, Book two was born. This one is coming this August from Silver Publishing.
The last two installments of the Foxworth Coven Series, coming out this winter are called Crimson Shadows and Blood Deeds, which is one book broken into two, respectively. Both will be coming late 2011, and early 2012.
The Foxworth Coven is not the biggest, most feared Coven without just cause. They know heartache, loss and pain—but they also thrive with love, loyalty and friendships with the most powerful entities their world knows. Their knowledge of magic put most vampires to shame, and they use it.
Thank you so much for hanging out with me today! Leave a comment for your chance to win an e-book copy of Demonic Pandemonium, the third book in the Cornwall Coven Series!
Happy Reading…
Kayden McLeod
To buy Death of Innocence CLICK HERE
To watch Death of Innocence's book trailer CLICK HERE
To see Death of Innocence's Graphic Art CLICK HERE
And coming this summer, from Silver Publishing, book two of the Foxworth Coven Series, Natural Urges
More Information CLICK HERE
To watch Natural Urges' book trailer CLICK HERE
Today Kayden is gving away two e-book copies of Demonic Pandemonium
Pandora is a half-demon, alone in the world and good as abandoned, with a mother who barely tolerates her and a father who is unable to be with her nearly often enough for her tastes. She keeps to herself and tries not to associate with others often, lest they discover her secret--until she meets Kevlar Cornwall. The two collide in ignorance of one another, but the sexual attraction is indisputable and cannot be ignored, growing more profound with every passing moment. It blinds them to the lurking danger hiding just around the corner, out to end both their lives and everyone either of them have ever known or loved.
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