Elpida Series wins 1st Place in
BEST LGBT Young Adult/New Adult SERIES!
&
Tharros ties 2nd Place for
BEST LGBT Young Adult/New Adult BOOK!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!
Showing posts with label Elpida Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elpida Series. Show all posts
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Friday, December 8, 2017
Elpida Takes 2nd Place in the 2017 Rainbow Awards for Best Gay Young Adult Fiction!
Elpída takes 2nd Place in the 2017 Rainbow Awards for Best Gay Young Adult Fiction! This award marks the sixth time one of my books has placed or won in the Rainbow Awards. The Elpída Series is an important series and I am profoundly humbled. I extend my deepest thanks to Elisa Rolle for all she does for us authors, and to the judges who work tirelessly to help her!
Elpída received four Honorable Mentions in the 2017 Rainbow Awards!
Elpída received four Honorable Mentions in the 2017 Rainbow Awards!
1) Hands down, this is one of the most powerful books I've ever read.
2) This book kept me captivated chapter after chapter. The boys, Jake and Michael's behavior was par with their age (all over the place), although sometimes I thought their behavior was more childish than it needed to be (again, age). The story is quite heart wrenching, reading what Thimi and Christy went through and knowing there are so many young ones out there going through the same. C. Kennedy has done an extensive research to get this book written with accuracy and I don't envy him, I know it would've been too difficult for me to have done the same and in the end, come out emotionally intact. I wish there was a fourth book for I didn't care much for how it ended; too open and I would've loved to see how/what punishment the evil families would've gotten. All in all, a very emotional story. Well done!
3) This is a well written book, and part of the series involving Christy, a sexual abuse survivor and victim of sex trafficking. The characters are well developed, complex, and realistic. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand what abuse does to a LGBT character and how survivors can still find hope and love.
4) I enjoyed this story and would have no trouble recommending it to others to read.
Michael and Christy attended prom, graduated high school, and Michael leads the USATF tryouts. With Oxford University on the horizon, his future looks bright, and he believes life has returned to normal after Christy’s rescue. He couldn’t be more wrong.
Christy has been free from a life of slavery for more than a year and has made remarkable progress due in no small part to the love he found with Michael. But the recent prosecution of a past abuser has shattered the life he so painstakingly built out of nothing but a mountain of horror. He now faces the daunting task of building a new life—yet again.
Twelve-year-old Thimi has been missing since Christy left Greece and, unbeknownst to everyone, has hidden out in a vacant mansion in Glyfada. Learning of Christy’s survival is the only thing that brings him out of hiding. People, open spaces, even the most common of sounds frighten him beyond reason. A mere ghost of a boy, Thimi arrives in the US with no knowledge of the outside world—the only constant in his life a purple marble.
Lost, shattered, and afraid, only hope gives them the strength and courage they need to begin anew.
Available now at Harmony Ink Press,
Friday, November 10, 2017
#FreeRead A Day in the Life of Christy Before Michael
Christy looked at the paper cup containing his medication. It sat in the same place on the breakfast tray every morning. He hated that he had to take medication and, as much as he valued food, he lost his appetite every time he saw the pills. They reminded him of before, of what they did to him. He hated them with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns. He hated the pills even more for reminding him of them. He spent every moment of his pathetic existence fighting not to think about them, not to remember them, not to let them assault his mind as they’d assaulted him—fighting the fear. The fear that one day at least one of them would come for him. To take him back. Back to... before. He struck out sending the tray crashing to the polished tongue-and-groove floor, the food landing with a soft splat. He squeezed his eyes closed, pressed the heels of his hands to his lids, and concentrated. Go away. Leave me alone, he silently begged his vivid memories.
When the memories slowly faded,... continue reading here.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Saturday, June 3, 2017
THREE chances to win! #Elpida #Tharros #Omorphi & a HOPE charm! Don't miss them!
VOTE FOR Slaying Isidore's Dragons for Book of the Month IN THE GOODREADS YA LGBT GROUP! You must be a member of the group to vote!
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
The stunning conclusion of the Elpída Series is out! Buy Elpida & get Tharros for #FREE through June 6th! Don't miss them!
The stunning conclusion of the Elpída Series, Elpída, is now available from Harmony Ink Press! If you purchase Elpída from Harmony Ink Press, you receive Thárros for FREE through June 6th!And don't forget to join the BUDDY READ in the GOODREADS YA LGBT BOOKS GROUP!
Hope sees the invisible,
feels the intangible,
and achieves the impossible.
~C. Kennedy, Paraphrased from Winston Churchill
~*~
Michael and Christy attended prom, graduated high school, and Michael leads the USATF tryouts. With Oxford University
Christy has been free from a life of slavery for more than a year and has made remarkable progress due in no small part to the love he found with Michael. But the recent prosecution of a past abuser has shattered the life he so painstakingly built out of nothing but a mountain of horror. He now faces the daunting task of building a new life—yet again.
Twelve-year-old Thimi has been missing since Christy left Greece and, unbeknownst to everyone, has hidden out in a vacant mansion in Glyfada. Learning of Christy’s survival is the only thing that brings him out of hiding. People, open spaces, even the most common of sounds frighten him beyond reason. A mere ghost of a boy, Thimi arrives in the US with no knowledge of the outside world—the only constant in his life a purple marble.
Lost, shattered, and afraid, only hope gives them the strength and courage they need to begin anew.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Thárros is On Sale for $1 Until Midnight EST Thursday May 25th! Elpída releases May 30th!
The stunning conclusion of the Elpída Series, Elpída, releases May 30th!
Why not read Thárros, Book 2 in the series, now?
On sale for $1 until midnight EST Thursday, May 25th from Harmony Ink Press!
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Timmy interviews Christy, Thimi, and Zero from Elpida!
Don’t forget to check back to see what Michael, Jake, Sophia, and the entire cast have to say next month, Saturday, June 17th!
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Stunning Conclusion of the Elpída Series is out! Buy Elpida and get Tharros for #FREE! Don't miss it!
The stunning conclusion of the Elpída Series, Elpída, is now available from Harmony Ink Press! If you purchase Elpída from Harmony Ink Press, you receive Thárros for FREE through June 6th!
And don't forget to join the BUDDY READ in the GOODREADS YA LGBT BOOKS GROUP!
Hope sees the invisible,
feels the intangible,
and achieves the impossible.
~C. Kennedy, Paraphrased from Winston Churchill
~*~
Michael and Christy attended prom, graduated high school, and Michael leads the USATF tryouts. With Oxford University
Christy has been free from a life of slavery for more than a year and has made remarkable progress due in no small part to the love he found with Michael. But the recent prosecution of a past abuser has shattered the life he so painstakingly built out of nothing but a mountain of horror. He now faces the daunting task of building a new life—yet again.
Twelve-year-old Thimi has been missing since Christy left Greece and, unbeknownst to everyone, has hidden out in a vacant mansion in Glyfada. Learning of Christy’s survival is the only thing that brings him out of hiding. People, open spaces, even the most common of sounds frighten him beyond reason. A mere ghost of a boy, Thimi arrives in the US with no knowledge of the outside world—the only constant in his life a purple marble.
Lost, shattered, and afraid, only hope gives them the strength and courage they need to begin anew.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Salon du Livre 2017! Win Surprise Gifts for the Elpida Series!
Salon du Livre is the book fair event of the literary scene in Paris at the Porte de Versailles. Stop by the Dreamspinner/Harmony Ink Press booth to pick up your special gift from the Elpida Series. And don't forget to stick around for the surprise gift bag!
Livre Paris est, depuis sa création, un événement incontournable de la scène littéraire qui, en 2017, se déroulera du 24 au 27 mars, porte de Versailles. Découvrez ce salon au travers de notre présentation mais aussi et surtout grâce aux photos et aux vidéos témoins de cet incroyable événement. Bonne visite !
Visitez le stand Dreamspinner / Harmony Ink Press pour récupérer votre cadeau spécial de la série Elpida. Et n'oubliez pas de rester pour le sac cadeau surprise !
Friday, March 17, 2017
#CoverReveal! Elpida, the 3rd and Final Book in the Elpida Series, is now available for pre-order!
It’s with great pleasure that I bring you the cover for Elpída, the third and final book in the Elpída series, coming to you from Harmony Ink Press on May 30th, 2017.
As most of you know, this series is special to me and I am deeply thankful to Harmony Ink Press for publishing it. It’s an important trilogy, intended to give courage and hope to survivors of abuse. Here is the author’s note contained in the back of the book.
As with the first two books in this series, Ómorphi and Thárros, this novel was written to give victims of abuse hope. By supporting this series, and buying and reading these books, you are supporting those youth who struggle daily to learn to live again. Thank you for reading this series.
Now available for pre-order at Harmony Ink Press!
Michael and Christy attended prom, graduated high school, and Michael leads the USATF tryouts. With Oxford University on the horizon, his future looks bright, and he believes life has returned to normal after Christy’s rescue. He couldn’t be more wrong.
Christy has been free from a life of slavery for more than a year and has made remarkable progress due in no small part to the love he found with Michael. But the recent prosecution of a past abuser has shattered the life he so painstakingly built out of nothing but a mountain of horror. He now faces the daunting task of building a new life—yet again.
Twelve-year-old Thimi has been missing since Christy left Greece and, unbeknownst to everyone, has hidden out in a vacant mansion in Glyfada. Learning of Christy’s survival is the only thing that brings him out of hiding. People, open spaces, even the most common of sounds frighten him beyond reason. A mere ghost of a boy, Thimi arrives in the US with no knowledge of the outside world—the only constant in his life a purple marble.
Lost, shattered, and afraid, only hope gives them the strength and courage they need to begin anew.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
See What French Reviewers Are Saying About Ómorphi!
« Il y a ces livres, si rares, si précieux
qui bousculent votre vie, bouleversent votre esprit et restent gravés dans
votre coeur... "Omorphi" est de ces livres. » —Eryna
« J'ai été tellement touché que j'avais
envie de les prendre dans mes bras, les réconforter...Les personnages
secondaires sont tous aussi importants, car malgré la gravité de la situation,
ils apportent une belle touche d'humour! Cody Kennedy est un auteur à suivre. »
—Livie
« Ce livre c'est le genre d'histoire qui
vous fait passer par tout un panel d'émotion et qui vous est impossible à
arrêter en cours de lecture. Vous en voulez toujours plus, et même arrivé à la
fin, vous ne voulez pas quitter les personnages. C'est le genre d'histoire qui
résonne en vous, qui s'infiltre dans votre tête, et vous remue de l'intérieur.
» —Ely
« Il y a bien longtemps que je n'avais pas
lu un livre si poignant, si dur qu'il me fallait arrêter de lire pour supporter
et assimiler l'horreur indicible de ce que l'Homme peut faire subir à un autre
être humain ! Ce roman est une ode à a vie et à l'espoir bien que regorgeant de
tout ce qui se fait de pire. J'en ressors bouleversée et grandit car j'ai eu la
chance d'avoir des parents comme Michael qui ont su faire de moi une personne
tolérante, ouverte et sans préjugés. » —Marionle6tron
« ENORME coup de coeur pour ce livre de
plus de 550 pages (tout de même) mais qui se lit avec une extrême facilité tant
j'ai été happée, "aspirée" par cette histoire qui m'a prise aux
tripes...Ce sujet qu'est la maltraitance, abus....n'est pas un sujet facile à
aborder et pourtant C. Kennedy l'a fait avec extrêmement de pudeur et de
retenue, même si certains passages sont poignants. » —Caliméro
« L'histoire est émouvante, mais l'auteur a
fait en sorte que ce ne le soit pas en continue. On a donc des moments bien
bouleversants, avec l'histoire de Christy, mais également des moments de
franche rigolade avec le duo Michael et Jake, les inséparables. Il y a aussi
des moments de doute, d'angoisse, de joie, d'apprentissage de la vie.... » —de Nanaho
Saturday, September 17, 2016
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