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Kayleigh Patchett

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in The United Kingdom

February 07, 1989

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Romance, Horror, Gay and Lesbian

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Ever since I was tiny (I'm not tall now but I was smaller once) I've been enraptured by romance and horror. I grew up watching Disney movies and my favourites have always been 'The little mermaid' and 'Beauty and the beast'. The way the relationships develop in these stories were what really sparked my love of romance. I've always been an avid reader whether it be a goosebumps book or 'blood and chocolate' when I was younger and James Herbert, Christine Feehan or Gena Showalter now I'm older. It was my enjoyment of reading that made me want to write my own stories and develop my own characters and situations.

I wrote my first full novella when I was eleven, from the very first chapter I was hooked on writing. I found I coul About the author

Ever since I was tiny (I'm not tall now but I was smaller once) I've been enraptured by romance and horror. I grew up watching Disney movies and my favourites have always been 'The little mermaid' and 'Beauty and the beast'. The way the relationships develop in these stories were what really sparked my love of romance. I've always been an avid reader whether it be a goosebumps book or 'blood and chocolate' when I was younger and James Herbert, Christine Feehan or Gena Showalter now I'm older. It was my enjoyment of reading that made me want to write my own stories and develop my own characters and situations.

I wrote my first full novella when I was eleven, from the very first chapter I was hooked on writing. I found I could truly be me when I was writing or planning a story or poem and as someone with dealing with mental health issues, it allowed me to explore things I never thought I would get to experience.
Horror has fascinated me since I accidently caught a bit of a scary film when I was about six. My biggest problem with horror is the fact that I don’t get scared… I’ve been known to accidently snigger at something ‘horrifying’ at the cinema and I’ve yet to find a book or film that puts the fear into me. I’ll keep looking until I do and I know I’ll thoroughly enjoy every minute of the search. Still, even though very little (beside everyday life) scares me, I have a deep love and respect for horror and I love writing and drawing it.

It took me a lot longer to learn how to edit than it did to write and I don’t mind admitting that it wasn’t until about 2016 that I felt I could do it well enough to think about properly publishing. I have three novels already written and I’m immensely proud of the stories and the characters I’ve managed to create in them. For the few years it took me to write and edit them, I lived with them in my mind, they drove me to get better mentally and they helped me to grow as a person. Despite Himself was the first novel, followed by Kandy and Kisses and then Run Away With Me. I put my heart and soul into the trilogy and I loved every single millisecond. They aren’t everyone’s cup of tea; they’re all based around gay romance, something that I felt I wanted to explore and share. I’m fascinated by and am totally in love with love; whatever shapes, sizes, sexes, preferences or whatever package it comes in. I think it should be celebrated and shared, and the main six characters that feature in these books really shone and came into their own. It was a joy to work with them and I would love to revisit them in the future, either with a novella or more in the series.
This book though, is zombie romance. (Not the icky kind). Zombies Don’t Knock has been a story that built over the years I was writing my first trilogy and the week I finally finished ‘Run Away With me’, I dived into zombie books and films, completely submerging myself in the world of zombies and horror so I could write the best book I possible. I loved the idea of merging horror and romance and erotica. I squished the names together (horrormance and horrorerotica) and I really like how they sound.
Zombies have been done many times and I wanted mine to be different. I researched and thought about it and spent a lot of time deliberating, finally putting my own twist on them. The characters developed naturally along the way and I became enamoured, even with two that were meant to die earlier in the story. I couldn’t let them go; I just can’t end their lives when they’d become important not only to the other characters but to me as well. They even got a dog along the way which was completely unplanned! :} I’m a bit of a pushover but as long as the characters mostly behave and don’t muck up the plot, I let them have a certain amount of freedom.

I’m always happy to answer questions and I would love to see fan art and writing! Please send me things!
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Average rating: 4.02 · 217 ratings · 45 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Despite Himself (Despite Himself #1) 3.70 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zombies Don’t Knock 4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kandy and Kisses (Despite Himself, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zombies Don't Knock 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Run Away With Me (Despite Himself #3) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Through Death's Door by Natalie Rix (Goodreads Author), Lozzi Counsell (Goodreads Author), Marcus Turner (Goodreads Author) 4.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alone In The Cold by Kayleigh Patchett (Goodreads Author), Dee Dickens (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art Prompts: For All Ages it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Writing the first chapter

The first chapter of the first book of a new series, one of the things I find hardest to get right. It's taken me a week now to write it and I'm still not quite satisfied.
There's so much to cram into one chapter, so much information, introductions without being obviously introducing and so many descriptions.

I haven't started my previous books in this way but this one is different, this one is the Read more of this blog post »

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