Ever Get That Feeling?

What's this blog about? Whatever the hell I want it to be about, I guess.

My name is Kit Benson, I live in Rhode Island. Yes, that's a state. No, I don't mean Long Island. Yes, it's part of America (I've really been asked all of these questions). If you know what Rhode Island it, congratulations you watch Family Guy!

Either that, or you actually know geography.

I'll try to keep this as entertaining as possible. It should be funny, witty, and interesting, and if it isn't the kidnapped comedians in my basement don't get food for a month.

Kidding (or am I?).

Do you ever get that feeling that someone is reading something you wrote at 11:30 at night? Did I make this blog for no reason?

I didn't, actually. I created this blog to keep people updated on my account at TBC (Thousandbookchallenge.com), and the stories contained therein. And to keep myself from getting rusty when I can't get around writers block. I'm determined to write on this every day, posting ideas, funny quotes, anecdotes, rants, or whatever crosses my mind. Do I care if you read it? Not particularly. I'll be happy if you do, of course, but happier if you jump on over to TBC. Since it's almost twelve in the morning I'll get this over with, expect a funnier, wittier, more anecdotal post tomorrow. Contained below are short summaries of my stories. And yes, I know Ghost of You has a character with my name. She isn't self-derivative, I promise, I just liked the name on her.

The Adelara Trilogy

Book One - The Blackstone Knights:

A thousand years ago, the fate of the kingdom of Adelara was forever changed when a dying man used the last of his magic to bind together the royal family and their most loyal bodyguards. But now Adelara falters. King Roginald murdered his brother to take his throne and now teaches his niece and nephew his own ways; the Adelaran people take their cue from their king and turn on one another; and the magic of the land ebbs day by day. The only hope of the kingdom lies in its true heir, Prince Rian, and his young bodyguard Anissa Carter. If only they hadn't vanished fifteen years ago...

Book Two - To Fight Fire

Book Three - The Mage Storm

City of the Gods

A few cities stand tall amid the ruins of Earth's modern age. Technology and superstition grew together, until with the ending of a great cycle in the Christian year 2012, every creature of myth or legend sprang to life. Mankind now lives (or human beings now live) in a world where Apollo can drop by for dinner, brownies are more likely to be found in the garden than the kitchen, and swords forged of iron are the only defenses against trolls and their kin.

Cairyn Nox grew up alone and fought her way into a coveted position as a government Seeker: a highly-trained tracker whose only job is to hunt down mythological creatures and destroy them, making Earth safe for humans again. And she's very good at her job...on paper. In reality, she believes that humans and mythological creatures could learn to share the world. It's getting them to try that's the hard part.

But Cairyn holds a secret that not even she knows about, and on the night before her twenty-third birthday, her life spirals out of control. She must battle evil gods, vanquish demons, fend off lecherous deities at bars, and deal with the not-always-helpful assitance of Loki, the flame-haired, handsome god of mischief. This is gonna be one wild ride...

The Ghost of You (tentative title)

Sean Bishop has never had the most normal of lives. His dad is a ghost hunter, his mom is a self-proclaimed psychic, and he doesn't believe in anything he can't see. Then one night, when his dad drags him along on yet another ghost hunt, he sees darkness take a tangible form...a half-visible girl chases it away, and before vanishing murmurs into his ear, "You owe me one".

Three years later, the ghost Kit needs her favor repaid.

There are restless spirits among the dead who plan to steal the bodies of the living by possession. Kit hopes to stop it, and Sean is her only link to the sunlit world. Battling angry spirits with a friendly ghost companion isn't what Sean expected to do in his senior year of high school, but it needs to be done. He and Kit come out of each battle better friends than before, best friends, in fact, but frienship seems to be turning to something else. Slowly but surely, Sean is falling in love. But that's impossible. Almost as impossible as ghosts.


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