Kaycee King

Dangling High is getting a nice little re-release into Kindle Unlimited on August 14th, and I've got some open ARC sign-ups for it now.

I wrote this novel very quickly in response to the election and my fear/fury over the outcome. I imagined what the future might be like with the U.S. going so intensely toward fascism, and I figured it'd be a total economic/social/technological collapse that results in a world much like the 1800s.

Having recently taken a couple of college courses on Native American Horror and African American Westerns, I thought the Western genre would be a perfect one to use to offer up my critiques.

This book is highly political - it's progressive and liberal, and it defies the expectations of a typical Western while also delivering on the aspects of it that feel necessary. There are train robberies, small town shootouts, clear cut bad guys, and morally gray good ones. Oh, and did I mention, it's also an MM romance with a bisexual outlaw reluctantly falling for a bisexual Shoshone-Bannock sheriff after accidentally landing himself in his custody.

The main cast of my rockstar, best friends to lovers, bi awakening mm romance novel, The Things We Couldn't Say

Hopped on a little art trend. It was done with a single person, but I felt like it fit the characters from my next novel, Holden and Zach, perfectly.

They are a couple of separated husbands who continue to be emotionally tied long after Holden served Zachary with divorce papers for cheating.

Their love is painful and deteriorates over the course of twenty long years, but when they come together to work on a mutual project, they start working on things in ways they never did before, and it gives them both a little hope that maybe, just maybe, they can build something better from the ashes.

I want to acknowledge how tired I am, and most of it is because Meta banned my ad account just as I was starting to see success as an author. The ban was swift, permanent, and implemented with no means of meaningful appeal or explanation of what content policy I supposedly violated. So far as I can tell, I was banned for the audacity of being queer.

It has always been a tough landscape to be an indie author, and I've been pushing for over six years now. When I launched The Things We Didn't Know series, it resonated. People liked it, were interested in it, and I was, for the first time ever, earning more money on the novels than I was spending on the ads.

And then the ban happened.

And now? Now, an account that I've poured my heart and soul into building and growing for more than two years is back to no visibility, no success, no hope.

So, yeah. I'm tired. I'm tired because I have to start from scratch, and I think this is a great place to do it, but also? For how long will this platform allow my LGBTQ+ stories to openly exist?

It seems we are steadily on the path toward fascist censorship, which makes me believe even more that my stories, which are unabashedly against the conservative politics that harm my community, need to be put out into the world.

The timing is bad. The world around me is bad. The monopolies these massive corporations have when they legally shouldn't is reprehensible.

And yet... we persist.

I'm tired. I'm exhausted.

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Woooohooo!!! I am so excited to give this book the launch it never got to have 🤠

The Things We Couldn't Say is a high angst, best friends to lovers, bi-awakening contemporary MM romance with lots and lots of feels.

You can grab an ebook for 99 cents, purchase a paperback, or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited here.

The tropes you will find my contemporary MM romance series, The Things We Didn't Know.

These are the kinds of stories that will break your heart and put it back together again <3

From the fourth book in my series, If You Left All the Pictures on the Wall. It is a story about finding love after an unthinkable, tragic loss in unexpected places.

In it, you will find:

Enemies to lovers

Second chance romance

Age gap

Hook ups first, feelings later

Hurt/comfort

You grab yourself a copy on Amazon today, or read it for free in Kindle Unlimited here!

Here's my monthly newsletter update for June! The Things We Didn't Know series had such a strong release! I am honored and oh so very grateful <3

On another note, if you are following me on Instagram, I have been randomly banned from running ads, with no explanation or ability to get any help from Meta, so I’ve made a second account to share bookish things: @kayceekingbooks, and I'm trying to be more active here. Without access to ads, I’m going to have to start posting about my novels more regularly. Don’t worry – I will find ways to keep it entertaining, but hopefully I can find some community here :)

Thank you, everyone. Your support & kindness have been overwhelming, and I’ve cried more than once over how surprisingly successful this book launch has been!

Before I close this out, if you would like to pick up a copy of Nicky Silber’s Electric Boy, you can select the link to your preferred retailer here. Happy release day, Nicky! I hope it is an amazing, successful one for you!!!