K.L. Byles

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K.L. Byles

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in Norfolk, VA, The United States
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Conrad, Dickens, Hugo

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December 2015


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,
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K.L. Byles I would go to Middle-earth to travel with the Tolkien characters. If I went into my own book world, my main character, Jim Morgan, would probably lose…moreI would go to Middle-earth to travel with the Tolkien characters. If I went into my own book world, my main character, Jim Morgan, would probably lose patience with me and that could be hazardous to my health. (less)
K.L. Byles The circumstances of my birth.
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Rising Crow ("Crow" series)

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K.L. Byles 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.
Donna"


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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Donna 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.
Donna


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