KAYLEN'S
RISING
by Yves
Robichaud
Published:
January 9th 2015
by Water's
Edge Publishing
BLURB:
Kaylen has been in the dark for
fourteen years – in every sense. His people are hunted, so they must struggle
to survive within underground caves. His community despises his family,
taunting him constantly. His parents keep him housebound, forbidding him from
wielding sword or wand.
When he is finally allowed to attend school, the harsh truth
reveals he has much to learn – including a unique magical ability. Kaylen can
summon and control skeletons!
With surface-dwellers threatening war, he will need every friend
he can make, and to stay true to himself if he is to survive what is to come.
Excerpt:
Chapter 21: A magician and a snowball
The magician continued to laugh—louder now—as he turned again
towards the large chunk of ice hurtling towards him. "What?" He
snarled defiantly at the party. "Already run out of your best tricks, and
reduced to throwing snowballs at me? And here I thought you were getting
interesting..."
He started waving his wand in a small circle, slowly at first
and then increasing in speed and size. As he did this, a green fire emanated
from his wand and grew until it matched the shape and form of the incoming ice
ball perfectly. "Oh, no!" he cried mockingly. "Here I am with
nothing but a little match to fight your big, bad snowball! However shall I
defend myself?"
As the ice ball began its downwards arc toward the human, he
started to twirl his staff, which began to glow with an electric purple
shimmer. Oraweth grimaced when she saw the purple glow, because she knew it meant
he was going to cast one of his more powerful attack spells: a magical bolt
that could slice through individual shields and had required all three elves to
focus on a combined shield with the help of the skeletons to block it. But this
combined shield took a lot of energy to create, and they were not certain they
had the strength left at this point to make one that was strong enough to
protect them.
AUTHOR Bio:
Yves Robichaud is originally from the small Acadian community of
Grand-Barachois, New Brunswick, Canada. He has studied Business Administration
and Information Technology, currently works for the federal government, and is
the proud father of one son: Jeremy. Inspired by a love of fantastical, magical
tales, Kaylen's Rising is Yves' first attempt to share this literary passion
with his son and the rest of the world.
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2 comments:
Thank you for posting about Kaylen's Rising. Your readers may also want to know that the kindle version of the book is available for free download this week on Amazon.
Yves
Such a fun cover. Did you have a lot of input?
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