Official Launch Date!

I am pleased to announce that my debut novel 'Lovelza' is set to be released on September 15th, 2015. It will be fast and easy to download as a digital eBook on Amazon Kindle, and the price, regularly set at $2.99 CDN, will be on special for $0.99 CDN for a limited 7-day promotional discount beginning September 15th and ending on midnight September 22nd. So, follow along with me on this site or my Facebook page for further details on how to receive your copy during the special, and be among the first readers worldwide to enter the bizarre and horrifying mystery of Dr. Viscardi's haunted Venetian odyssey.

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Alessio Viscardi (Chapter 15: Cloak and Mask)—

            The sky is rapidly darkening towards pitch black against the brilliant two thirds of a moon. It’s the ninth night of Carnevale—my first night—and the streets of Venice are flooded with people. Tourists from all over the world use their cameras to light up the dusky old brick fondamente along the sides of the rios and canals. Mingled in with the diverse international audience in full regalia are medieval kings and queens, dogi and dogaressi, Charlemagnes and Cleopatras. Couples pose for the cameras in traditional porcelain volto masks sheened in gold leaf gilding, arrayed from head to toe in elaborate Chinese silk costumes. 
            This is Carnevale di Venezia, a serene annual season of theatrical revelry and masked liberty before the grand finale on the night preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent—two and a half weeks a demon, six weeks a saint. Carnevale is all about aesthetic beauty and civilized pretenses. It’s a dimension above most other places, as I’ve heard. Shrovetide in the UK and Ireland is all about pub-hopping yourself into absolute destitution. Switzerland’s Rabadan isn’t much better, just a little more enthusiastic about its cocaine subculture. And American Mardi Gras, of course, is the cheap knock-off sum of all world carnivals. In this city, prestigious balls are held in some of the oldest palazzi in Italy at almost a thousand euro an invitation.


The Face of 'Lovelza'


The new cover design for my soon-coming debut novel. 
Available 2015 in digital eBook format.



I invite you to follow along with me on Facebook at facebook.com/kielandfiction! And stay tuned for the release date; Lovelza will be downloadable on Amazon Kindle at a special super-low discount price for a limited time following its launch, so be sure to catch her before the promotion ends!

The main thrill of Lovelza is one of inner conflict, a transgression of morality that gets pushed far out of control. The mystery is not as crime-centric as it is an unveiling of classical antiquity and mythological secrets, that grand quest for spiritual truth in the form of mad science—a quest that quickly spirals into an occult nightmare. The intimacy of reading the protagonist's first-person narrative sets the ultra-personal feel of the story, aided by a diverse and offbeat company of supporting characters. Following the self-righteous ambitions of a young neurologist walking the lines between hero and villain, the plot is a crescendoing storm of twists and turns, and there's no better place to twist and turn than the narrow, dank, labyrinthine streets of modern Venice in the pandemonium of carnival season. It's a scene largely inspired by my own exploration of the historical architecture floating atop this ancient Italian lagoon, and I'm extremely excited to share it with you!

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Love, K