Showing posts with label Kayden Mcleod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kayden Mcleod. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Guest Blog and Giveaway with Kayden Mcleod

Thank you, Fang-Tastic, for having me here today.

The Foxworth Coven, Book One, Death of Innocence has been released by Solstice Publishing! 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 I am still in the process of finishing up, 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. The story deserved and needed more. And while it read like YA, even with the situations that were definitely adult, I was leery of writing the level of sex I had put into the book, making for an awkward read. I watched this book grow as I ploughed through it, changing details and characters—the entire storyline time and again. And yet, I still wasn’t happy with it.

In my mind, I’d known the back-story of the Foxworth Coven. The past wouldn’t leave my muse alone. To start in the twenty-first century left too much untold—and the story of the ghosts in the history left too much 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 Coven, fought his obligations to his people. He was 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 in everyone’s time at one point or another. 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 out with Solstice Publishing in the next few weeks.

The last two installments of the Foxworth Coven Series, Crimson Shadows and Blood Deeds, is one book broken into two. The story was too big, with several characters who’s babbled to me, needing to have their say in the series set similar to a journal.

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 these benefits to the best of their ability.

You can purchase the first book in the Foxworth Coven from All Romance, BookStrand and Amazon.com. Or directly from Solstice Publishing.

Fictionwise and print will be coming soon.


I’m also throwing a special contest for The Foxworth Coven’s release! Wiccan Wear Jewelry has designed a magnificent piece inspired by Canya Foxworth from Death of Innocence, called “Vampire Kisses—Foxworth Coven.”

Rules for this contest and how to enter, including photography of the piece can be found on her website: http://www.wiccanwearjewelry.com/contest.html

Thank you so much for hanging out with me today! Leave a comment about the series, vampires, the Foxworth Necklace contest or any questions you may have for your chance to win a signed print copy of Demonic Pandemonium, the third book in the Cornwall Coven Series.



Thank you so much for hanging out with me today!

Happy Reading…

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Guest Blog and Giveaway with Kayden Mcleod



Thank you Roxanne and Fang-Tastic Books for having me here today! I hope everyone’s day is going well.

With the recent releases of the last two books in the Cornwall Coven Trilogy, Carnal Magnetism and Demonic Pandemonium, the Vancouver vampires are unsure what to think with having their story being told. The leads from Carnal Magnetism, Ryder and Catalym Cornwall, along with Kevlar Brandenburg and Pandora Cypress from Demonic Pandemonium, sit in the fetish club, named the RedLine.

Ryder and Kevlar bring over the filled beer glasses to their reserved table. They sit down, while Catalym’s finger strokes the bindings of Carnal Magnetism. Pandora mirrors her action with a different volume, her own story, Demonic Pandemonium. She opens the cover with trembling hands, and begins to read the first few paragraphs of her story.

Pandora: There are many types of people in this world. And I have no idea what type I would be classified under. I walk through life always unsure of my next move and how it would affect others. Because everything I did rippled outward and I long ago realized, I had to limit my association with the “outside world,” relying on no one but myself. I couldn’t depend on my family, friends or enemies for guidance of any sort; forever alone and doomed to always be. Such was the case with my kind—though I wouldn’t know, since I didn’t associate with them either. What am I? A demon.

Kevlar: *Places his hand on hers* These words bother you, but your life has changed a lot since then. Have you come to regret your decision to have your final days as what you once were transcribed?

Pandora: *Smirks, and then shakes her head* Not really. I just have to adapt. I’ve spent my entire life shrouded in secrecy, without the privilege of telling anyone about me or where I come from. However, even with this, *She picks up the book* there is one thing that humanity does well. They will stay steadfastly unconvinced of anything they don’t immediately comprehend.
Catalym: That is very true. I also get how hard it is for you to acclimatize to these changes in our lives. I’ve been locked away in a closet of a room for so many years that sometimes it’s hard to remember what real freedom feels like. It’s why our newfound family and friends are so important, because they set us free.

Ryder: And you both know we’re with you through thick and thin. You are a part of us now.

Catalym: *Smiles, leaning in and gently kisses Ryder* You’ve proven that tenfold and more. I am just glad that it’s all finally over. Pandora, Sara and my problems won’t be back, and I can’t barely describe how good that feels. *She glances down and touches the cover of Carnal Magnetism again* And now, we have a record of it. But I do have to wonder what people will think of these books.

Kevlar: The same thing they always think. That it’s a farfetched tale, written by someone to entertain people. Not even the author of the series fully understands what really happened. She had been granted the privilege to know and write about us for some time, but after the hellish attack on Vancouver, the Council revoked her knowledge, rethinking it to be much too dangerous. Now, she only writes, assuming it’s her imagination.

Ryder: *Finger glides along the rim of his beer glass* Then why allow her to write it at all?

Catalym: Aunt Corrine requested it. She hopes that if the humans do find out about us one day, for real, they will come to understand we are not the unfeeling monsters the myths portray us as.

Pandora: I am not sure how I feel about being thought of as a figment of someone’s imagination.
Ryder: *Laughs bitterly* Trust me, babe, you get used to it. This is the life we lead, protectors of the world no one remembers, no matter how much we work to see them safe. *Checks his watch and sighs* Speaking of work, we better get started on the errands Max wants us to do before the RedLine opens.

Kevlar: *Rolls his eyes* That’s all Max and Corrine want us for; slave labour.

Pandora: *Stares at him drolly* Better than some fates…trust me.

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Find out more about the Cornwalls’ lives, with the chance to win a copy of The Cornwall Coven, Book One, Deadly Fetishes and my latest Jericho Coven short story release, Masquerade.
I will be selecting a winner or two later today! To enter leave a comment on this post with your email address.

Good luck…

Happy Reading,

Kayden McLeod

To Buy Book One, Deadly Fetishes:

To Buy Book Two, Carnal Magnetism and Book Three, Demonic Pandemonium:
http://silverpublishing.info/index/typefilter/book_authors/book_authors_id/51




Thursday, October 21, 2010

From Under the Veil: Guest Blog and Giveaway with Kayden Mcleod



Thank you so much, Fang-Tastic Books, for having me here today!

Halloween is just around the corner, and with it, traditions both new and old come into play. Kids go trick-or-treating and there are parties galore. Creatures crawl out from under their hiding places—escaping the veil that we, humanity create with our costumes and tendencies to explain away the unbelievable even more than we usually do.

We don’t trust our senses, and something otherworldly could walk right in front of us—smelling different, looking obscure—and we do nothing more than nod at them, moving on to whatever activity catches our attention next.

My Halloween erotic romance, Masquerade encompasses that. Abigail takes what’s in front of her at face-value, when it’s anything but. She thinks Cyrus Jericho is just an everyday vampire, and her friend Dina is just another werewolf. But are they?

Join Abigail on a misleading adventure filled with vampires, werewolves and zombies on All Hallows Eve, where she learns that many things she has come to believe about her home are all shrouded in a masquerade—what lies behind the façade isn’t always what it seems…

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Title: Masquerade
Author: Kayden McLeod
Author Website: http://www.kaydenmcleod.com/
Publication Date: October 30th 2010
Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance (Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies)
Publisher: Silver Publishing
Publisher Website: http://silverpublishing.info/
Heat-Rating: Three Flames, Boiling

What lies behind the façade isn’t always what it seems

Abigail claimed the land of North Vancouver as her own, sharing it only with a clan of vampires, the Jericho Coven, who accepted the werewolf into their territory without qualm. Within their numbers is one, Cyrus Jericho; a suave, brooding vampire who isn’t quite as he appeared. He declares Abigail for his own the moment they meet, despite the fact that another werewolf pack is in British Columbia looking to claim Abigail into their midst, no matter what they must do to see that goal complete.

For an Excerpt for Masquerade CLICK HERE, coming Halloween 2010, from Silver Publishing


I will be giving away an e-copy of Jezebel’s Article to one person who leaves a comment.

Jezebel’s Article is the first appearance of The Jericho Coven, who emerges in this Silver Halloween Treat.


Happy Halloween…
~Kayden McLeod



More Books Coming soon from Kayden McLeod

The Cornwall Coven, Book Two, Carnal Magnetism, coming January 8th 2011, from Silver Publishing

For more information CLICK HERE

The Cornwall Coven, Book Three, Demonic Pandemonium, coming January 29th 2011, from Silver Publishing
For more information CLICK HERE

Anthology: Just Another Paranormal Christmas, A Cornwall Christmas, coming November, 27th 2010, from Mojocastle Press
For more information CLICK HERE

The free erotica series; Sara’s Story is now completed in blog format and e-book edition.
For more information CLICK HERE
 
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