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COVER REVEAL!

TRINE RISING & TRINE FALLACY both honored at 2021 Best Book Awards

Character Reveal: DESDE KELLIS PINAL

A first look at TRINE REVELATION, The Kinderra Saga: Book 3


TRINE REVELATION will be coming soon Summer 2022!

Character Reveal: DESDE KELLIS PINAL

TRINE RISING & TRINE FALLACY both honored at 2021 Best Book Awards

Character Reveal: DESDE KELLIS PINAL

All gratitude to my character "co-mother" @KimDingwall


DESDE KELLIS PINAL DESCRIPTION

*Seer Prime of Kin-Deren Province

*Wife of Defender Commander Kaarl Pinal

*Mother of young Aspected Mirana Kellis Pinal

*Amulet: Yellow topaz in gold setting


(From "Trine Rising"):

For long moments, he simply breathed her in, clinging to her as she held on to him. He laid his cheek on her breast and listened to her heartbeat. He was so inexpressibly grateful to hear and to feel her living presence again after so much death. He could not remember anything as fragrant as his wife’s skin. Nor anything as soft. Nor could he imagine anyone as beautiful as she. Hair like summer wheat shimmering in the sun, eyes like burnished wood. Her body gave life back to him after the Ken’nar had left only death in their wake.


His hand followed the sinuous curves of her body up from her hip to rest on her arm. … Why do I ever leave you? …


She brushed her lips on his head. … Because you are a fool … She entwined her long legs around his.


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She now rose from the bed and put on her robe, cinching it around her slender waist. She walked over to the window. Mirana’s high, rose-petal cheeks on porcelain skin, her rosebud mouth—adorable when she pouted, glorious when she smiled—those were all Desde’s. As were their daughter’s shoulders when she tightened them in fear. As his wife was doing now. Desde closed her mind from him.


DESIGN:

I used a combination of Photoshop filters and Kim's original drafts and art.


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TRINE RISING & TRINE FALLACY both honored at 2021 Best Book Awards

TRINE RISING & TRINE FALLACY both honored at 2021 Best Book Awards

TRINE RISING & TRINE FALLACY both honored at 2021 Best Book Awards

THE 18TH ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCE 2021 AWARD RECIPIENTS


LOS ANGELES – American Book Fest has announced the winners and finalists of The 2021 Best Book Awards on November 16, 2021. Over 400 winners and finalists were announced in over 90 categories. Awards were presented for titles published in 2019-2021.


"Having both TRINE RISING and TRINE FALLACY take honors in the Fiction/Fantasy category was a complete surprise," said author C.K. Donnelly. "These novels are the culmination of 20 years of story-crafting and world-building...and unsuccessfully quitting!"


Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest said this year’s contest yielded over 2,000 entries from mainstream and independent publishers, which were then narrowed down to over 400 winners and finalists.


American Book Fest is an online publication providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world online community.


American Book Fest has an active social media presence with over 133,000 current Facebook fans.


This is the fifth award for TRINE RISING and the first major honor for TRINE FALLACY.


http://americanbookfest.com/generalfiction/fantasyscifi.html

TRINE RISING wins 4th AWARD!

BOOK TRAILER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

TRINE RISING & TRINE FALLACY both honored at 2021 Best Book Awards

The Jenkins Group is proud to announce C.K. Donnelly has won a BRONZE MEDAL for "Trine Rising, The Kinderra Saga: Book 1” in the Young Adult Fiction -- Fantasy/Sci-Fi category in the 15th Annual, 2021 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. Launched in 2007, the awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to celebrate children’s books and life-long reading.
 

"Medalists were chosen from nearly 1,500 total entries that came from children's book authors, illustrators and publishers from all over the U.S. and from 22 other countries around the world," said the Jenkins Group.


This is the fourth award "Trine Rising" has received, including the 2021 Independent Press Association Award (Fantasy); 2021 IndieReader Discover Award (Young Adult); and the 2020 NYC Big Book Award (Epic Fantasy).


Donnelly can be reached for comment through Claire McKinney PR,   

908-955-7579 or claire@clairemckinneypr.com.
 

BOOK REVIEW: Kirkus Reviews

BOOK TRAILER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

BOOK TRAILER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

"Donnelly's high-stakes sequel grapples with the complexities of lingering love and the ethics of war. ... A mature and deftly plotted fantasy sequel by a shrewd author."   — Kirkus Reviews


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BOOK TRAILER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

BOOK TRAILER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

BOOK TRAILER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

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TEASER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

TEASER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

TEASER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2 Ebook available NOW from Amazon!

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Donnelly Wins 3rd Award for 'Trine Rising'

TEASER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

TEASER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

C.K. Donnelly wins the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Award for 'Young Adult' Genre!

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WINNER 2021 IPA Award for Fantasy

TEASER: TRINE FALLACY, The Kinderra Saga: Book 2

WINNER 2021 IPA Award for Fantasy

"Trine Rising, The Kinderra Saga: Book 1" has just been named the 2021 Independent Press Award WINNER for Fantasy!

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Praise for The Kinderra Saga

TRINE FALLACY: Book 2 — Booklife by Publisher's Weekly—EDITOR'S PICK

TRINE FALLACY: Book 2 — Booklife by Publisher's Weekly—EDITOR'S PICK

TRINE FALLACY: Book 2 — Booklife by Publisher's Weekly—EDITOR'S PICK

Donnelly’s  immersive  second volume in  the Kinderra  Saga follows  16- year-old  Mirana  Pinal’s  journey  to protect her  world  of  Kinderra  from destruction. Mirana is a Trine—“One who  possess all three powers of the Aspects”—and must save her people by finding her ancestor’s watch watchtower, built  to defend Kinderra  before it  falls into  the Dark Trine’s hands,  while  also  learning  about her  own  powers from  the legendary Light Trine, Tetric Garis. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Teague Beltran, Mirana’s childhood  friend  and love,  seeks  the  Dark Trine  to avenge his  parents’ deaths,  using  his  skills  as an herbsman to fight  against  the Dark Trine’s followers, the Ken’nar. But all is not as it seems, and Mirana struggles to learn who she can trust in her battle for survival.


Young adult readers will be drawn to Mirana as she fights to find her place in “war, the endless cycle  of hate” threatening her  people. Her journey to understand and believe in the source of her own power is painful at times,

yet often moving,  and she  rebels against  trusting  herself,  as in  her  own  words—“using  the Power from Without  isn’t  a selfless giving  of one’s  life  force  from  within  the Aspects,  it  is  taking.”  Also compelling  is Teague’s  conviction  that “my  anger and grief  are all I  have left”  as well  as his  desperation  to be  able  to physically fight his enemies.


Donnelly includes  a glossary of relevant terminology  that,  while  helpful,  can also  overwhelm,  as it  charts suffixes  and  linguistic  matters.  However,  that  dedication  to  invented  languages,  and  the  maps  and appendices, invite readers to delve  as deeper into Kinderra as they care to; fantasy fans especially will be pleased with the convincing world  that Donnelly has taken such  pains to build. Naturally, this vivid voyage into  a well-established  realm  and its  ongoing  battle  between Light  and Dark builds  to cliffhanger—  and exemplifies its genre.


Takeaway: Young adult and fantasy readers will relish this world  of magic and war, with characters facing grief and self-doubt. Great for fans of: Cinda Williams Chima’s The Warrior Heir, Megan Bannen’s Soulswift.


Production grades

Cover: A

Design and typography: A-

Illustrations: A-

Editing: A

Marketing copy: A

TRINE RISING: Book 1 — Readers’ Favorite — 5-Star Review

TRINE FALLACY: Book 2 — Booklife by Publisher's Weekly—EDITOR'S PICK

TRINE FALLACY: Book 2 — Booklife by Publisher's Weekly—EDITOR'S PICK

Wow, Trine Rising was full of twists and turns that I was not expecting. Mirana is a very unique character. While you think she is your archetypal young adult fiction heroine, she is just the opposite. She is not someone who thinks she isn’t special. She knows she is special and knows for a fact that she can be dangerous to people. Author C.K. Donnelly did a great job of building Mirana’s development. Mirana is no wallflower, but she grows and learns to be more comfortable in her skin as the story progresses. The mystery behind the Dark Trine and the Ken’nar attack was introduced strategically to have maximum impact on readers. I could tell that the author planned out this whole story to make it believable, entertaining, and nail-bitingly good.


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