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Gaia
(The Wings of War #2)
Release Date: 7/26/2015
As the Demons grow bolder and the walls between the planes of existence weaken, Ember is forced to develop her powers as quickly as possible, and she seeks out a powerful earth Watcher to continue her supernatural lessons. Her glimpse of the future demands she fight the dark forces spreading across the earth.
But her new mentor has his own agenda, making her question everyone and everything she ever trusted.
When Ember is thrust into the world of the Watchers, she learns of their plans—ones that defy the scripture and make them enemies of the Celestial Host. Ridding the world of evil gets complicated when it becomes impossible to take sides.
As Ember struggles with morality, she soon discovers that there’s something more frightening than anything she’s faced before.
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Guest Post
Best Writing Advice
When I offer advice to aspiring writer, I always mention the
three Ps: Persistence, Passion and Patience.
First, let’s talk about persistence. I had thirty rejections
before I was offered agent representation from Christiana Hogrebe of the Jane
Rotrosen Agency in New York.
If I’d given up after the first few rejections came rolling in, I wouldn’t be a
full time author at this time. The reason I succeeded is that I took the
suggestions from the agents rejecting me and continued revising Temptation
until it was the best it could be. Writers must be willing to take advice (and
criticism), hone their skills and keep improving their work. If you’re persistent,
you will succeed eventually.
Passion sounds like an easy one, but really, it’s not. The
level of passion I’m talking about is being an absolute believer in your story.
If you don’t love your book, no one else will. Your passion will keep you going,
even during the dark days of rejection and someday, it will pay off.
It’s hard for most people to be patient, especially me. I
want things to happen yesterday and I hate waiting. But this is an industry of
waiting—waiting for an agent, waiting for a publisher, waiting to sell books,
waiting to make a little bit of money selling books. If you’re like me and have
little patience, you will have to teach yourself to be patient. I did. And my
patience finally paid off with multiple offers for the Temptation series and
ultimately a three book publishing deal with Harlequin Teen.
Being a writer isn’t an easy job and it’s definitely not
glamorous. There’s a lot of hard work involved that doesn’t end when you get
published. As a matter of fact, it really just begins at that point. But if you
have the three Ps you can make it too. And a lot of luck doesn’t hurt either ;)
Thank you for being a part of Gaia’s blog tour! I love to
connect with readers on my Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram or at
www.karenannhopkins.com. Please be on the lookout for the release of SECRETS IN
THE GRAVE, the third installment in my mystery series, Serenity’s Plain
Secrets, in early September! Thanks for reading!
Karen Ann Hopkins
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About Embers:
There are descendants of angels walking among us. Ember is one of them. And she may be the only hope mankind has as the rapture approaches and evil rises.
Embers is an epic paranormal adventure about an eighteen year old girl who discovers that she's immune to fire and any other injury when she’s in a horrific car crash that kills her parents. Following a violent episode with her aunt's boyfriend, Ember flees Ohio to live with an old relative in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Ember's exuberance at escaping a bad home life soon turns to trepidation when she finds out that she's a Watcher, a descendant of angels. While Ember learns about her heritage and the powers that go along with it, she strikes up friendships with two young men who live in a frightening walled compound in the forest. Inexplicitly drawn to one of the men in particular, an impossible romance develops. But it is cut short when Ember discovers that her new friends are fighting on the opposite side of a war—one that’s been raging between two factions of Watchers for thousands of years. When the compound’s inhabitants threaten the townspeople, Ember takes action, sealing her fate in the ancient battle of good versus evil—and the grayness in between. Ember is up to the challenge, until she realizes that she isn’t only fighting for the lives of the locals and the souls of her new friends. She also might be one of the few champions who will make a stand for all of mankind as the rapture approaches and the end of days begin.
Embers is a dark and gritty YA novel that’s the first book in the series, The Wings of War.
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About Karen Ann Hopkins:
Karen Ann Hopkins resides in northern Kentucky with her family on a farm that boasts a menagerie of horses, goats, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and cats. Karen's main job is home schooling the kids, but she finds time to give riding lessons, coach a youth equestrian drill team, and of course, write. She was inspired to create her first book, Temptation, by the Amish community she lived in. The experiential knowledge she gained through her interactions with her neighbors drove her to create the story of the star-crossed lovers, Rose and Noah.
Karen grew up about a mile from Lake Ontario in Upstate New York. She was bitten by the horse bug at the age of five, and after diligently taking riding lessons for several years, was rewarded with her first horse when she turned eleven. The feisty horse's name was Lady, a Quarter Horse-Thoroughbred cross, who became Karen's steadfast companion. Through the years, the constant force in her life was horses. Eventually, she found her place as a riding instructor herself. Before accepting her fate in the barnyard, she worked a short stint as a paralegal, traveled abroad, and guided tourists on horseback riding tours in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
Karen is currently working on her Amish mystery series, Serenity's Plain Secrets, along with the YA paranormal/fantasy series, The Wings of War. Karen is also excited to announce the Temptation series has been optioned for TV by Pilgrim Studios and is available on Audible. More books in the Temptation series are in the works.
GIVEAWAY:
One lucky winner will receive a $50 gift card (Amazon, B&N, iTunes), as well as a complete set of Karen’s YA books, including Embers, Gaia, Temptation, Belonging, Forever, and Rachel’s Deception!
Please enter via the Rafflecopter form. Giveaway is open internationally.
5 comments:
This sounds like an awesome series and the covers are beautiful. I'm looking forward to reading both books - thanks for sharing :)
I'm really looking forward to reading this series. Gorgeous covers!
Hi, Victoria & Sarah! Thanks for your interest in the Wings of War series. Hope you read Embers and Gaia. Tempest, the third book will be out by February 2016 (:
I have not read embers yet! I think both bbooks sound GREAT! I added them to my tbr list!!!! Ps- I love the covers ;)
So excited to read it!
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