《Kairos》Preface
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Howdy! My name is Leigh Heasley. Kairos—originally titled The Kairos Temporal Matchmaking Service—is my first novel.
It is an immensely silly idea that came to me all at once near the end of 2016. Shortly thereafter, I wrote the first two chapters and shared them with my closest friends. While their response was overwhelmingly positive (they're pretty great friends), I fell into a cycle of self-doubt and constant editing and rewriting. It took me nearly three months to write these first two chapters, and then I stopped writing all together.
In March of 2017, I decided to try out Wattpad. I thought that if I released my rough draft to the public, where someone else could read them, and maybe even get invested in the story, I would hold myself accountable and not radically change the story around on them, breaking the editing cycle. It worked! Since then, I have written well over 100k words for Kairos and finished it September 9, 2017.
It also won a 2017 Watty. That was pretty rad. Thanks, Wattpad!
Since November 23, 2017 there's been interest in Kairos from multiple publishers. On June 1, 2018, I finished the second draft of Kairos and sent it out for submission. It's a 97,000-word sci-fi action/romance and is told entirely from Ada's POV as she navigates the confusing world of dating with the extra complication of gangsters, crime, and temporal paradoxes. You know, some light beach reaching. After two years, this new never-before-read version is now available on Wattpad as part of the Paid Stories program because I honestly couldn't sit on it anymore and wanted to share it with people.
If you are unable to support Kairos via the Paid program right now, that's okay! Hopefully you will be able to check it out when it becomes a television series. As of February 28, 2018, it was optioned for television for eOne Entertainment. In March of 2020, we found a scriptwriter and have moved to the next stage: Pitching to networks. Stay tuned!
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So, I guess what I'm trying to say is: If you've got an idea, even if it's really silly—go for it, my dudes. You never know where it could take you.
I hope you enjoy it! If you like Kairos, could you vote on its chapters or share it with a friend? Or, you can leave me a comment! I love comments. We can be friends.
Thanks for reading!
Leigh
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The Deal
COVER MADE BY Lakshminambiar --------------------Blair Sherwin, twenty-five-year-old from Los Angeles works for a cosmetic's company. She comes from a wealthy family, is spoiled, and gets what she wants. What she wants is to own and run her own company and when the cosmetic company goes up for sale she decided to buy it. The problem is the present owner is a devoted family man and will only sell to someone who is married and in a loving relationship. Blair is willing to do whatever it takes to get her hands on the company, even if it means getting married. She comes up with a plan to find someone who will agree to be a temporary husband. She has the perfect man in mind, someone she knew from high school, Austin Cooke. He used to follow her around like a puppy dog, knowing he had a crush on her she could get him to do anything back then and suspected she still could. Back then he was one of those nerds, a straight A student and not much to look at. He was her best shot so she looked him up. Blair was in for a big surprise when she tracked him down, he had changed and she was going to find herself in deep water, her smarts and beauty will prove to be no match for Austin.
8 192The Wrong Twin
"It was a mistake..." She said about to walk out but I caught her waist in my arms"Indeed a very bad mistake" I said devilish smile and concured her lips with mine,I felt her hand pound on my chest but later stopped and smiled when she started to respond***It was a mistake...indeed it was a very bad mistake...Sleeping with the wrong twin
8 269ISEKAI: I was reincarnated as the poorest King in the world.
"If I had the power to change the world? Would I really do the right thing?" I thought my life was over when those bastards shot me, all my effort was in vain, my studies, my ideals.... Reduced to dust under the smell of lead. And yet here I was again, in the body of a child and with a crown on my head. Ah, I see... I was reincarnated as a king in a different world, but even here things are no different. Corruption destroys the system and innocent people suffer the abuses of power. Nothing has changed and if I don't do something about it, nothing will change.... (English version of my novel, ISEKAI: Reencarné como el Rey más pobre del mundo), the original novel was posted in wattpad in spanish. I'm the author and the owner of the rights. Original version in spanish: https://www.wattpad.com/story/268890988-isekai-reencarn%C3%A9-como-el-rey-m%C3%A1s-pobre-del-mundo
8 157The Orsini Bride
Italian playboy billionaire Marco Orsini has a dilemma. With the ultimatum to either marry or get disinherited, he must now find himself a wife before his grandfather's birthday--and he entrusts his fate on one woman to find him the perfect bride. ********** Twenty-nine-year-old Francesa Marcolini never expected that the day will come when the handsome yet hateful playboy billionaire Marco Orisini would barge into her office and announce that he needs a wife. Despite being a teacher of etiquette and personality development, Francesa had no intention of becoming the matchmaker for this arrogant Italian no matter how determined he is for her help. But to Francesca's horror, she finds herself on that very job!Cover design by Holly Thurston
8 140Autistic Marcy Wu Oneshots!
Cause I can. And autistic Marcy makes me happy!! Trigger/Content warnings will be at the beginning of each chapter (If needed)!Tons of fluff/angst and variants of Sashannarcy.You can offer ideas/requests, but no promises I'll do them!! I gotta be really inspired by it to get the motivation[Cover by Sour Beefio on Twitter]
8 164Who Are You?
One accident causes Stevie's life to change completely. 1997-...
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