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K.L. Byles

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It isn’t overstating to say that K. L. Byles has been fighting from the beginning for the chance to write. Long before she was a published author, she came very close to not being at all.

She was born two months preterm, in the early 1960s, at a time when her chance of surviving was about thirty percent. She had to fight for her first breath even as those around her expected her to die. Her Irish birth mother, who wasn’t going to keep her anyway, gave K. L. Byles the first of the three names she would have just within her first six months. This was done likely because those attending expected they would need to administer last rites.

K. L. survived and was placed in a foster home for six months. Then she was adopted and grew up in Richmond, It isn’t overstating to say that K. L. Byles has been fighting from the beginning for the chance to write. Long before she was a published author, she came very close to not being at all.

She was born two months preterm, in the early 1960s, at a time when her chance of surviving was about thirty percent. She had to fight for her first breath even as those around her expected her to die. Her Irish birth mother, who wasn’t going to keep her anyway, gave K. L. Byles the first of the three names she would have just within her first six months. This was done likely because those attending expected they would need to administer last rites.

K. L. survived and was placed in a foster home for six months. Then she was adopted and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. It was there that, at the age of eight, the main character in her Crow series of novels sprang from a dream, and where she first began writing about him when she was thirteen. Though K. L. Byles survived nearly dying as an infant, that would not be the last time she would be close to never having the chance to write her life’s work.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, of the roughly nine-million passenger car accidents each year only 2.1% involve a rollover, however, rollovers account for 35% of the deaths. K. L. Byles survived one rollover accident at highway speed. She sustained a concussion and required two-hundred stitches and thirty staples due to a lacerated scalp. Several years later she survived a second rollover accident that occurred in nearly the same location as the first, again suffering a concussion. Surviving one rollover is lucky, surviving a second is nothing short of miraculous. There is a spiritual element to the story in the Crow series. She believes God created her to tell it and has kept her alive to see all the novels someday written and published.

K.L. Byles resides in scenic rural Bedford County, Virginia. When she isn’t babysitting her grandson, she continues to write and is looking forward to expanding her company, Barrel Proof Press, LLC to help publish the work of other struggling authors so they, too, can see their stories take flight as has her first novel, Rising Crow.
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Aug 09, 2017 10:14PM

Donna wrote: "K.L.,
Thank you for becoming a friend on Good Reads. I have been an avid reader for a very, very, very long time and all my books are my friends and I will never part with one of them.
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Donna,
You are so welcome! I hope you will check out my novel Rising Crow. It's only .99 on Kindle. I'm always glad to know a book lover.

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Aug 09, 2017 07:18PM

K.L.,
Thank you for becoming a friend on Good Reads. I have been an avid reader for a very, very, very long time and all my books are my friends and I will never part with one of them.
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