Featuring Author Kelly Kenyon

About Kelly Kenyon

Hi, I’m Kelly. I am originally from the Pacific Northwest. I’m a life coach and author. When I’m not writing I love to travel anywhere, but especially around the U.S. with Reyna my blind wiener dog and travel companion.

I recently partnered up with my friend Kirtideva Peruman (and a third private partner) in a fledgling publishing company, Eboundbooks.com. I have loved to read my entire life and after reading thousands of books I have to say the author that inspired me the most was Richard Bach. His work has had such a huge impact on my life starting in my teens. One, Bridge Across Forever, Illusions and the Ferret Chronicles are my favorites. I also love stories like Pay It Forward.

I think fiction can and should do more than entertain and these are some books that did that for me.

It is my deepest desire that my stories impact readers in the same way the aforementioned stories impacted me. My goal always is to write about a diverse range of characters and challenge the reader’s views of what is possible, through quality stories that are uplifting and entertaining.

As a writer, what would you choose as your mascot/avatar/spirit animal?

I would love to give you a cool solitary creature as a spirit animal or some sort of peaceful warrior superhero avatar, but since I have a mascot, I’ll give her the credit she is due. She is my constant companion, including a ton of travel, my blind mini wiener dog Reyna.

I have always loved her and truthfully, she used to be a real pain in the butt. I had two Rottweilers over the course of twenty years and neither one ever killed or injured anything. One of them even saved an injured squirrel from another dog. Not Reyna, she was a murdering mayhem monster. She would even hurl her eight pounds against the chain link fence to try to get at the coyotes that passed by. All guts, no sense, a real pain in the butt!

She went blind in August of 2019 at the beginning of a month-long road trip. Which if you don’t know, is the most perfect example of what not to do with a blind dog let alone a newly blind dog when neither the dog nor her seeing-eye person have had time to adapt. It was a challenging, but fun trip, and by the end, it was me and not home that became her safe place. She travels with me all the time (or did pre-Covid).

Reyna was on fourteen flights and spent more than one hundred and fifty nights in hotels (thanks La Quinta) and Airbnb places in 2019 and early 2020.

That never would have been possible if she hadn’t gone blind. She is still as stubborn as ever, but now that she is blind, she isn’t yapping her head off and trying to kill anything that moves. That makes me happy and also makes it possible for her to be in hotels, airports, and on planes. In going blind her world got bigger, much bigger. She’s been to I think twenty-two states so far and we’re nowhere close to finished with our adventures. I love how what some perceived as a tragedy was a real gift.

For me it’s been a blessing too. I get to have the comfort of a loving presence when I travel. It’s forced me to be more present in the moment so that I see the obstacles in front of her early enough to tell her how to avoid them. It’s improved my self-care; she is always willing to remind me when it’s time to eat. Finally, it forces me to step away from the screen and step outside in the sun or the rain or even the snow for at least a few minutes throughout the day and that is always a good thing.

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About the Book

A Simple Job A Simple Job Series Book 1 by Kelly Kenyon
Genre: Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A Simple Job is a story about a family man struggling to get back on his feet financially after COVID 19. After stumbling across a secret society that may be able to help, he has to decide to continue to struggle or take a leap of faith.

Eli Asher is in hot water. He’s not sure which one is adding up faster, the lies he’s told his wife or the past due notices they are getting. He needs a job, a good job with benefits so he can take care of his family.

He thinks he has one, but loses it to a member of some secret society that he wants no part of, until his hot water starts to boil and he has no choice but to take a leap of faith. That leap takes him away from his family and on a cross country adventure where he does a series of simple jobs, working with some incredible people. He learns more about what really matters every step of the way adding depth and breadth to his understanding of himself and the world, transforming his very life.

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