Blog tour: Malice by Amity Hope with guest post and giveaway

By Laurie T - November 18, 2014

Malice (Malice Trilogy #1) by Amity Hope
Young Adult Romance/Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
eBook, 269 pages

Samara Cavanaugh has grown up in a world filled with magic users. She’s used to bizarre and peculiar. But when a stranger checks in at The Bella Luna, the bed and breakfast her family owns, the strange occurrences in Granite Falls escalate.

Many people are leery of Levi, their new guest. He claims to be in town doing research but Samara’s friends aren’t so sure that his claim is as innocuous as it appears to be. When two of her classmates disappear, her friends seem convinced Levi had a hand in it.

Those closest to her have been keeping secrets from her. Those secrets put everyone close to her in danger.

Suddenly, her unrequited crush on her best friend, Tristan becomes the least of her troubles.

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World Building: The Positives and Negatives of creating my own magic filled world

The positive side of creating my own magic filled world definitely outweighs the negative side. One of my favorite things about writing paranormal romance is that you have the opportunity to create the world that your characters live in. As an author, this can be a lot of fun. To date, most of the books I’ve published are contemporary romances. I have several books planned for the future and the majority of them are paranormal romances. I like to research mythology and lore for a good starting point to expand from. Writing a paranormal romance provides more flexibility than writing contemporary romance. An author can really stretch the limits of their imagination. I think it gives the author more of an opportunity to pull the reader in when they can create a new, compelling world.

The negative side is trying to stay in the parameters of keeping it believable, while still creating the world that you want to create. As with all other aspects of writing, it is impossible to please everyone. What one reader will love, another with loathe. It can be challenging to press the limits of your readers’ imaginations while staying within the confines of what they consider to be believable and acceptable.

About the Author:

Amity lives in beautiful northern Minnesota with her two sons, two cats and their Rottweiler. She has a degree in elementary education andunnamed workedunnamed in that field for ten years before deciding to self-publish. Her first self-published novel, Twisted, was listed by Amazon as a Top 100 Kids & Teens Kindle Book of 2012. If she’s not writing, or spending time with her boys, she’s most likely reading.

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