Category: excerpts

• Introducing Lockdown, my latest Rough Passages Tale

  Elena loves her family, hates homework, and likes all the same things her friends do. She’s a student, an athlete, and a dreamer, and she wants to do important things when she grows up. Most of all, she doesn’t want to grow up to be like her parents. They’re monsters. Lockdown is the latest of my Rough…

  K. M. Herkes

  October 3, 2015

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• I Cannot Resist a Sunday Share

  I had to read through Extraordinary & Powerhouse to create an audition excerpt for my ACX profile, and that made me want to share the fun.  Here’s an excerpt from Powerhouse that you won’t find under “Look Inside” on Amazon or anywhere else.   When Colonel Marcia Galloway got back from her inspection of the…

  K. M. Herkes

  August 16, 2015

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• Call For Help: A snippet from Joining in the Round

  It’s Sunday, I feel like doing a share. Here’s an excerpt from the second story of my Partners novella pairing. When Felicity reached the security office, the twins were working behind the counter. Dee Geary kept an eye on the flocks and the guests by remote camera while Cee sorted through package deliveries. Both men had…

  K. M. Herkes

  August 10, 2015

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• Knitting, Romance, & Dangerous Men

  This story comes with a bit of history. I’d reached an impasse while plotting my second novel because two of the supporting characters I wanted to carry forward from Controlled Descent needed more development. I’m not a fan of the usual tools–outlines, lists, personality profiles, and suchlike. Character design and plotting are discovery processes for…

  K. M. Herkes

  February 17, 2015

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