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Welcome to The Wormhole and my day on the tour.
It is my pleasure to feature Amy Lignor and book two in the Angel Chronicles series, Gilded Wings.
Amy Lignor began her career at Grey House Publishing in northwest Connecticut where she was the Editor-in-Chief of numerous educational and business directories.Now she is a published author of several works of fiction. The Billy the Kid historical The Heart of a Legend; the thriller, Mind Made; and the adventure novel, Tallent & Lowery 13.
She is also the owner of The Write Companion, a company that offers help and support to writers through a full range of editorial services from proofreading and copyediting to ghostwriting and research. As the daughter of a research librarian, she is also an active book reviewer.
Currently, she lives with her daughter, mother and a rambunctious German Shepherd named Reuben, in the beautiful state of New Mexico.
Amy has stopped in with a guest post.
Technology is Not the Only Form of Inspiration
Ever since Mark Zuckerberg
appeared and turned the world upside down with Facebook, the younger generation
was seen by some as only the age of Youtube, Facebook, cell phones,
iPods and video games. But what people don’t seem to understand is that in the
last decade+, they have become the largest group of readers in the world.
The young adult genre became
huge. It literally exploded with the world of J.K. Rowling and continued with
another author who brought kids (and adults) on board with the vampire and
werewolf community. Not only that, but young adults have become the biggest
bloggers and reviewers, therefore they have the ability to ‘talk’ to their
friends and create a huge ’buzz’ about a specific title. They are the ‘Social
Media Masters,’ if you will.
There are a great many things
in this life to be thankful for; there are blessings, good people, faith and
hope that still exist in this day and age. Unfortunately, there’s a darker side
that’s also come on strong. From unemployment to poverty to politics to war to
bullying - you name it, it’s in the headlines. So a restoration of hope is a
truly wonderful thing, and it’s being led by some amazing fiction.
Lately, the ‘fanged ones’
have gotten a great deal of competition from the ‘winged ones.’ There are a majority of angels that are of
the ‘fallen’ variety who are trying their absolute best to redeem themselves.
There are also love stories being heralded as “Romeo and Juliet,” and more of
these characters are showing up on the big and small screen every month.
The idea for my book really
stemmed from wanting to do a YA series based on ‘new’ angels; a fresh team that
had yet to come down the pike. Matthew and Emily are a partnership - an
angel/warrior team that still believes in all the good that their teachers have
taught them, but have also gotten mixed-up in the human world where they’ve
experienced every emotion possible.
I originally wondered whether
or not a ‘fresh’ team that’s been surrounded by ‘good’ could even make it ‘down
here’ among the seriously dark and sometimes dangerous world where humans
dwell. Worse, I wondered if they’d even want to? Told from a different
perspective, I tried to bring back inspiration with this duo. They certainly still
have the adventure, suspense, heartache, etc. that others have experienced, but
their biggest challenge is trying to keep their faith in each other.
This time around, in Gilded
Wings, they face a completely new set of problems that offer tragedy and,
most of all, a twist to a beloved character because of the greed, pride,
prejudice, and wealth that made up the Gilded Age. From Houdini to Carnegie -
Rockefeller to walking down Fifth Avenue while just a few small blocks away was
a world of poverty - Emily and Matthew see it all, live it all, and find
themselves needing each other more than ever before.
I love the fact that books
are a source of inspiration for young adults - and I hope that no matter what
Apple or Microsoft come up with in the next few years the written word stays
strong!
Until Next Time, Everybody.
Amy
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Here are book links:
Gilded Wings Twitter hashtag:
#GildedWingsGilded Wings Goodreads page:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15725493-the-angel-chronicles-book-2Until Next Time Goodreads page:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13319888-until-next-timeThe Angel Chronicles web site:
http://www.the-angel-chronicles.com
The Angel Chronicles Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Angel-Chronicles/168932393209654
Amy Lignor's Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/alignor
Amy Lignor's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/HelloWritersAmy
Amy Lignor's Website:
http://www.thewritecompanion.com/
Amy Lignor's Blog:
http://hellowriters.wordpress.com/
Amy Lignor's GoodReads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5222068
Tribute Books website:
http://www.tribute-books.com
Tribute Books Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Archbald-PA/Tribute-Books/171628704176
Tribute Books Twitter:
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