{"id":2,"date":"2026-06-07T03:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:01:57","slug":"fullbio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/fullbio\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>My name is Justin Holcombe. I write dark romantasy as K.W. Beckett and science fiction as Kayden Beckett. I live in Sumter, South Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I have been writing since I was sixteen. The first real story I worked on was about a boy whose girlfriend died in a tornado \u2014 his grief, his slow way back, and the girl who showed him how to love again. I didn&#8217;t finish it. I didn&#8217;t finish most of what I started. For twenty-four years I kept having ideas faster than I could complete them, and the pile of unfinished things grew and I kept writing anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>At forty, I finished Bloodright. It is the first story I saw all the way through to the last page.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I am albino and legally blind. I have limited use of my left arm following a stroke at birth. I wrote every word of this book on a computer in Sumter, South Carolina, the same way I have been writing since I was a teenager \u2014 one sentence at a time, for as long as I could see the screen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I have been shaped by writers who take their characters seriously. James S.A. Corey and The Expanse showed me what science fiction could do when it trusted its readers. I have tried to bring that same trust to everything I write, regardless of genre.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I live with my <\/em>girlfriend Mariah<em> and our dog Vergil, who was named after a Devil May Cry character and has fully lived up to it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I intend to keep going.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Justin Holcombe. I write dark romantasy as K.W. Beckett and science fiction as Kayden Beckett. I live in Sumter, South Carolina. I have been writing since I was sixteen. The first real story I worked on was about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaydenbeckett.sch.onl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}