Today, we have a guest post from K.M. Jenkins, a speculative fiction author. She's also having a sale on her book, Darkest Delights, so make sure not to miss it!
Get the book: https://books2read.com/darkestdelights
-Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how
you became an author?
-Hi everyone. My name is Katie Jenkins-Merical but I write under the name K.M. Jenkins.
I recently got married to Ben Merical after being together for almost 9 years in October.
We started dating after meeting online back in December 2015. A lot of our relationship
happened backwards. The first was moving in together, then having twin boys named
Zeek and Zayne. Our journey had its difficulties but the time to get married never
seemed to come. Until now, we have been married almost a month and I would have to
say nothing is different.
When Ben and I first met, we both had our hands in the publishing industry. He worked
on comic books that he sold at shows. While I did graphic design for authors I met
online and tried my hand at writing myself. It got put on hold for both of us when working
to make a living took root. Then add the fact we had kids on the way to take care of.
After two years, I needed an outlet that would feed my mind before I went crazy with the
kids. I got back into writing in 2018. The start was my epic fantasy short stories in my
Tales of Ferrês series. Then I worked on longer works along with short novelettes.
Ben and I tried our hand as a couple to write our own take on a horror story together. It
went pretty smoothly, and we enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I have a limited writing schedule,
so we write together when we can. If we aren’t doing things to further our career we are
spending time with our boys that are seven years old right now.
Here's an excerpt from the book. Enjoy!
"Gracie, you okay?"
Rob waited until I looked him in the eye. My breathing calmed down, and I could
start thinking straight. He looked worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I thought I saw something at the window. So I ran out here to catch it. But I guess I was only seeing things."
Rob looked at the trees and frowned.
"I've been standing here for about five minutes knocking and saw nothing run into
the forest."
"Yeah, but you were walking around the house. This was toward the back of the
house."
Rob chuckled and cocked his head. Then he looked over at the trees.
"We could always go in and look around," he said, arching his eyebrow.
Rob looked at me with a dare written on his face. My hands started sweating just thinking about those beady eyes staring at me. And the noise obviously was the same creature from yesterday. But what is it? And what does it want?
My curiosity won out. I turned toward the treeline and motioned for Rob to follow. It
didn't take too much persuasion to get him to come along. He had a spark in his eye,
making it clear he thought this was some kind of adventure. Little did we know this was
the first step to living in a nightmare.
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