Kiki Leach's World of MC's

I've recently updated the cover of Miss Independent! I liked the last cover okay, but since I used real people for the covers of books 2 - 4, only "cartoonized", I wanted to have that same look for book 1 as well to give the series a more cohesive look. The paperback version will be updated shortly! I like this version a lot better because it reflects more of Vanessa's tone in this book. A little somber, a little bitter, a little angry. That's this book in a nutshell when it comes to her character. She's got a lot of, excuse my language, shit to work through in this book as well as the others, but this one shows the beginning of her journey. I can't wait to post the cover of book 5 to show just how far she's come since that very first page! I hope you all are enjoying Truth & Consequences ! That book took *a lot* out of me while writing it, despite it being a lot of fun to finish. If you liked what you read, reviews are always welcome! ...

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I wasn't going to post this, but I have to get it out someplace: Nicole Sanger is throwing off my entire storyline for her in Book 2. This is not fun, but what happens when a character starts dictating parts of their story as opposed to you dictating it for them. I feel like I have to relearn her as a character in order for this to make sense in my head. Not just as a writer, but as a reader too. The same thing happened with Maurice, who began as a side character with no real involvement;  except I was a fan of that outcome . This one? I'm not so sure about. However, it does seem to help Nikki grow throughout the story. I'm just not so sure yet if I'm a fan of how she's growing. But that's a personal problem, not so much an editorial/writer problem. We shall see how it goes.

Here is a list of music I listened to while penning Miss Independent . I've read many authors can listen to music while writing, while some need total silence. I'm a mixture of both. Depending on the scene, sometimes I need to hear certain beats to keep the momentum going. Other times, if I hear more than just the hum of my laptop, I'm completely thrown off and tossed out of a scene and its dynamic entirely. The first song on the list is pretty obvious as it is in fact the reason I originally named the novel as I did. There's a little story behind how Miss Independent originally came about, including an almost unhealthy obsession with all things Beverly Hills 90210 (the original class, of course) and why it took me 10 years to finally put the story on paper. That'll come at a later time, most likely after I've finished book 2. Anywho. My list of music for this book is very eclectic. Some songs are flat out explicit, so if you choose to, listen at your own ...

I thought this was pretty cool! ( Wish I could fix the formatting, but it looks a mess when I try. Apologies !) I know the numbers can fluctuate just from doing my own searching for various books in various genre's, so who knows how long it will remain. But at the time of the screen shot, Miss Independent  was sitting at #85 under "African American Women's Fiction" on the Amazon UK Best Sellers list. Not sure how many sales I've generated thus far, but just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to anyone who has read it, recommended it, bought it and even those who returned it after realizing it wasn't for you. At least you tried it and maybe passed it on to a friend. LOL. I am in the middle of completing the second book in the series. I have the title, the story, the beginning/middle/end, which is good because it is also helping me to flesh out Book 3. I am currently filling in the blanks for the second installment and am having a blast in doing so! There is still ...

I have continued to be completely MIA, and I apologize about that, sincerely! My laptop crashed sometime in mid-September and I was only now able to get another one. I had to use my phone to communicate via not only phone calls, but emails as well. That only worked well for so long. In the meantime, I'll be transferring manuscripts and notes from the old laptop to the new one. There are still two more planned books in the Royal Chronicles of Denmark series, but I'm going to need all of my ducks in a row before I can continue on with it in the way it was always intended. I need to get back inside their heads and kind of relearn the characters, which is always fun, but also challenging. As I'm getting all of that together, I have also been working on a new story that is SO different from the Royal Chronicles series! It really is a fresh setting with a modern day time period. I'm so excited about it! These characters have been running around inside my head for the la...

Well, HELLO! from the great beyond! Almost. My, my! March is almost over, April is in 4 days and I’ve been a very, very, busy woman since this new year started! Real life work is getting a bit hectic as many of my coworkers are moving on and I haven’t had time to blog for the life of me! Let alone tweet from my Royal Chronicles account! FWIW, I do tweet quite often on my general account @RealKDPFan4Eva. And when I say general, I mean it is general . I will tweet anything from books to authors I love to soap operas, (to soap writers), to Real Housewives, to and most importantly, Scandal. I also toss out a few random tweets here and there when the mood strikes. So follow me there if you choose! I literally answer everyone who sends me a tweet, good or bad :-). All that said, I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things around here really, really, soon!!! Now that that randomness is out of the way, onto more important subject matters and the real reason I’ve risen from t...