DEMIS (A Clash With Lightning)

About the Author

My name is Kayla Poiroux. I love to write about fantasy romance and adventure. I have always loved greek mythology and knew I wanted to base my first book off of it. Of course, there is a sequel of Demis that will be in the works, so I hope you all look forward to that. 

I started writing at a very young age. I remember sitting in class in the fifth grade, and instead of listening to the teacher, I was scribbling down short stories for my friends to read. A lot of the time I put them in as main characters. I convinced them to write these short stories with me. One of my fondest memories is writing those silly stories down and getting to read what my friends wrote. 

When I reached the sixth grade, that was the first time I ever had someone recognize that I was half decent at writing. My teacher held a contest for who could create the best epic myth. The winner would get to drink a soda in class. This was a big deal because my reading teacher in the sixth grade was strongly against eating and drinking in her class. I decided I wanted to win, not necessarily for the soda (even though that was a plus), but simply because I wanted to have the best. I can't remember the details of the story, but I remember it being about a chipmunk and cellphones. What I do remember is rewriting it twenty times before I was satisfied with my final product. I ended up winning the contest, and my teacher gave me a can of diet Dr. Pepper to drink. I hated diet drinks, but I drank it anyway because it was my prize. 

I got extremely into writing fanfictions and werewolf books when I got into middle school. I even had a few get a couple thousand reads on wattpad. I have since privated them because they were clearly written by a twelve year old, and it actually brings me great pain to try and read them. 

My eighth grade year, I wrote a short story about the holocaust for another writing contest. I titled it "I am not an Animal." Again, I don't remember a ton about the story, but I remember the main character was a jewish girl that was tired of being treated like livestock. My story didn't place, but I did win an award for honorable mention. So, I was proud of myself nonetheless. 

When I got into high school, I attempted to start many different book ideas, but nothing quite stuck. I scraped the books after a couple of chapters. Always getting stuck when I had to write down time. Demis is the book that really made an impact on me. The story has actually come a long way from how I originally planned it to go. At first, I wanted all the characters to meet by coincidence in a coffee shop, but that idea didn't make it to the final cut. 

Now here we are, and I am officially publishing my first book. Thank you for reading. It honestly does mean the world to me. I hope you'll want to continue and follow me on this journey to become a strong and powerful author. 

If you are interested in connecting with me, looking at art for the story, or updates on the sequel or other works, you can follow me on tiktok which is @ kaylaannlol or you can follow me on twitter @kaylaannloll. (Tiktok has one L and twitter has 2)