Amos Cassidy's Blog, page 36
July 21, 2014
NEW RELEASE!
HELLO! :-)
Check out our brand new novella ‘The Emporium’ :-)
Available now on Amazon Kindle from AMAZON US and AMAZON UK.
Finally free of her abusive ex, Kara is enjoying a Greek vacation when she stumbles across The Emporium. It is a place full of visual delights, a place that is more than it seems, and a place where Kara will experience pleasures she had thought impossible. For when the mysterious Kincaid gets his hands on her supple flesh, her heart will never be the same.
The respite is over too soon and Kara returns home to England, to normality, until The Emporium appears in her home town and Kincaid is determined to finish what he started.
It seems that Kara has brought The Emporium with her. Little does she realise that she has brought something else also, a haunted being that only she can free from its eternal torment.
Kara’s life just went from mundane to magical…
*A novella of approximately 18K words*
July 16, 2014
NEW RELEASE!!!!
Scarlett lives with fear and disappointment – fear of what her step father wants from her, and disappointment in her mother for failing to see it. Her life is lonely and filled with darkness, her only sanctuary is the forest behind her small cottage. It is here that she finally steps off the path and encounters Red.
Red is larger than life, solid and real and enticing. He is a man of little words, preferring action to speech and she is instantly drawn to him.
In a small shack in a clearing in the forest Scarlett will find a new home, a passion unlike any other and a secret that will change her world forever.
Scarlett will never be the same again.
July 11, 2014
Crimson Series Box Set!
The Crimson Series Box Set is available now on Amazon Kindle until Monday, at a bargain price! Grab your copy today!
July 8, 2014
THE TESTING by JOELLE CHARBONNEAU
Blurb:
DO YOU POSSESS A...
THE TESTING by JOELLE CHARBONNEAU
Blurb:
DO YOU POSSESS A WINNING COMBINATION OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICAL SKLLS AND RAW INTELLIGENCE? DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO LEAD OTHERS? ARE YOU WILLING TO CRUSH THOSE WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY? Every year, the United Commonwealth invites top graduates from each colony to participate in The Testing. Successful candidates will go on to the University and help the government work to rebuild our war-stricken world. This process is not optional. Disclaimer: The United Commonwealth is not responsible for candidates’ psychological or physical heath during The Testing.
My Review.
To be honest I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up this book. I mean nearly every dystopian tale gets compared to the Hunger Games these days. Don’t get me wrong I loved the Hunger Games but I don’t want to read different versions of the same story and I was a little apprehensive at first with this one but decided, based on all the glowing reviews, that I’d give it a try. I loved the cover too-all shiny and silver. It caught my eye and looks great on my book shelf – Ahem yep I am a cover junkie. Anyway I was soon sucked into Cia’s world and Joelle Charbonneau does a fantastic job of creating that world. There were enough hooks and action to keep me flipping pages until the end. I loved Cia’s strength and her determination. I enjoyed her narrative and felt like I was totally in her head. The only thing that fell a little flat for me was the romance. I just didn’t really feel the connection but then I think it was probably because there was so much other stuff going on to keep me entertained. Despite the romance not giving me tingles I felt this book was a great start to a fab series and have already ordered book two – Independent Study. Can’t wait to get stuck in.
A wonderful * * * * from me!
July 4, 2014
The Future of the Crimson Series
Hello :-)
After much soul-searching, we have decided that, as it stands, the proposed plot for Crimson Frost (#4) does not justify a novel right now. It just will not work. We’re sorry, please forgive us :-( We love you all! It would just mean that we’d have to introduce a brand new arc, more novels in the series, which we cannot do right now. As a standalone, it would just fail as it would all be crammed in one, with no room to breathe.
There are lots of other stories queued up in our heads, waiting to be told, and with stuff happening in our personal lives – Amos with his uni degree and Cassidy with babies and her busy life – more Crimson just isn’t going to happen right now with other novels waiting not so patiently to be written, the characters yelling at us! We don’t want to just bang something out. It has to be EPIC! For now, we have come to a climax of sorts when it comes to Crimson. Yet the door is left wide open and it doesn’t mean we won’t continue the series in the future.
Thank you so much for reading the series! :-) We really appreciate it :-) And thank you for putting up with our procrastination.
Love and hugs,
Amos Cassidy
June 20, 2014
Dreams and Shards Box Set!
June 3, 2014
LAST CHANCE TO GRAB THE CRIMSON BOX SET!
May 30, 2014
The Birth of Crimson…
When we first published Crimson Midnight, Cassidy wrote a piece about how it was born. It is still so strange, looking back on how it began before it became the book it is today. So, sit back, relax, and have a read of how the Crimson World was born :-)
Cassidy:
There is a story behind every book’s creation. It begins as a stray thought, a germ of an idea or a vivid dream. It catches hold of the mind and consumes your thoughts until ignoring it is impossible and writing it down the only way to exorcise it from your mind. Okay, maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but you get the gist, right? Crimson Midnight sprang from a vivid dream that I, Cassidy, had. I couldn’t shake the dream, my subconscious mind was building a story. In the end I sat down and began my research. Originally I even had a name for the book; Covenant. Things were going great until I came up against a stumbling block. My plot had a huge hole in it and try as I might I couldn’t figure a way to fill it. I decided to put the idea aside and come back to it at a later date.
It was a year later that I dug out my notes for Covenant. Amos and I had decided to write together and I was eager to share the seed of my idea in the hope that two minds would be better than one. Amos did not disappoint.
A very excited brainstorming session later, Covenant had morphed into Crimson Midnight. New characters emerged, a more streamlined plot presented itself and, as if by magic, we had the plot lines for a series.
Seems pretty simple, right? Well it proved to be harder than that. We wrote the first draft of the book as a YA novel but upon finishing it decided we weren’t happy with the YA spin, so what did we do? We decided to rewrite it!
The plan was to allocate and rewrite the chapters, what more could there be to it? The answer is, a lot! We found that the story did not want to stick to a plan, the story had its own ideas on how it should be told and as we began to write, the characters took over. We wrote in a daze, our fingers guided by a phantom force across the keyboard. It was frightening and exhilarating and it meant a lot more meetings to discuss the changes that were occurring to our carefully planned novel.
The conclusion? Just go with it.
A novel doesn’t write itself but in this case it felt that it did. Maybe the problems we had faced were due to the genre we had originally picked, maybe we were over-planning. Whatever the reason, going with the gut and letting the story take over worked. And a year later we had the finished product.
The last three years have been a steep learning curve for us and we are still learning, but as long as the Ether is open to us we will continue to create.
May 27, 2014
May 13, 2014
CRIMSON SERIES BOX SET!
