Book & Author Details:
Entertaining Angels by Monica Millard
Publication date: November 11th 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Publication date: November 11th 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Synopsis:
As a senior in high school, Samantha Heman’s too busy trying to avoid getting stomped by a moose at the bus stop and keeping her grades up until graduation to put much thought into angels or demons.
That all changes on the day she is kidnapped by notorious serial killer, Christopher Hainsely. It’s a day she finds herself confronted by both evil and good, because her savior appears in the form of an avenging angel come to strike the monster down with a single stroke of his flaming sword.
Though she’s trying to get on with her life, she cannot get the angel out of her head. It isn’t the burning wings, fiery eyes or the flaming sword that keeps her searching the internet for proof one way or another of his existence, though.
The feeling of warmth she experienced when she witnessed that sad smile just before he vanished in a wash of golden light, haunts her nights almost as often as the nightmares.
If angels exist, then demons must too, and they’re about to wage a war for her soul.
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Excerpt
It’s only seven-thirty, so I putz around on the internet
looking for new books that are out and then find myself outside the local
bookstore at ten, when they open.
I wander through the bookshelves looking for the books from
the list I made. I only find one, because it’s a small bookstore and many of
the new releases I like to read don’t make it into the store unless I special
order them. Normally I can kill an hour in a bookstore easy, but since I’ve
been all efficient like, making lists and such, I find I still have time.
I look around, feeling guilty, before I slip into the
spiritual section. I don’t really expect to find anything, but it’s become an
obsession. So I scan the titles looking for books about angels. I notice
someone has joined me in the aisle, but I don’t look up to acknowledge them.
Wasilla is one of those small, large towns and I’ve got a pretty famous face
lately. I shouldn’t be in this section, in public. I don’t need to add fuel to
the rumors.
“Looking for anything specific?” a deep voice asks.
I shake my head, probably a little too quickly, too long,
still not looking at the newcomer. “I’m just browsing,” I say. “Killing time.”
I turn, angling away from him as I run a finger over the spines of the books
and move further down the shelf.
It isn’t until I turn the corner that my curiosity gets the
best of me and I glance over my shoulder covertly. I see a flash of perfect,
snow white feathers skim the top edge of the bookcase as the would-be
assistance giver, an angel apparently, vanishes from the section. “Wait!” I
call out, far too loudly for a bookstore, or any store for that matter.
I chase after him and round the end of the bookcase in time
to just catch another quick glimpse of pure whiteness dipping around the wall
at the front of the store, towards the exit. I race to catch up and get a
bewildered look from the boy behind the counter.
I drop the book I am holding on a display table, so as not
to add shoplifting to my long list of reasons to hide my face in public, and
burst out of the store. I stumble left, in the direction I saw the wings exit.
There is a small maze of twists and turns that I follow, only catching sight of
the tips of feathers long enough to know I’m heading in the right direction.
I know I’m being led, but in my limited experience with
angels, I’ve come to trust them implicitly. Where ever I end up is probably
exactly where I need to be.
I turn another corner and find the hall dead ends. There is
no angel here, but at the end is a corkboard with a mess of flyers and
advertisements for events and classes. As I approach, a wind kicks up and I
spin around to find a door I passed, one leading to the outside, clicking shut.
I consider heading for it, but some sense inside tells me I
won’t find anything out there. No angel and not the message it wanted me to
find. I turn back to the bulletin board just as a single flyer amidst the chaos
of paper settles back against the board, its pull tag ends still fluttering in
the breeze that lifted it.
I step closer and see that it is an announcement for a
six-week self-defense course that has a new class starting in two weeks. I
pluck off one of the tags with the telephone number, dates and website printed
in tiny script and shove it in my pocket.
Author Interview questions:
Q. Where did the idea for Entertaining Angels come from?
A. I was working on another project, which is usually when
new ideas hit and demand attention. I was driving home from Anchorage and the
opening scene hit. I got home and wrote out the opening scene and my thoughts
about where it was going and saved it in my ideas folder. Not all of those go
anywhere, but this one wouldn’t leave me alone, so when I was finished with the
other project I started on Entertaining Angels.
Q. Tell us something about yourself that has nothing to do
with writing.
A. I have a youtube problem. I’m completely addicted. I
might click on a link for some cute cat video that someone posted on Facebook
or Twitter, but then it ends and there are all those horrible suggestions for
other videos I might like in little boxes all over the screen and I’m weak. I
can’t help clicking on them. I can spend hours watching upcoming movie or TV
series trailers, or that guy in Australia who vacuums up the spiders that
invade his house, speedart videos, or my latest terrible discovery; the
luckiest people in the world videos. Did I mention street performers? See. It’s
a problem. I need to stay away from those insidious links.
Q. How do you deal with writer’s block?
A. I tend to get writer’s block in the middle and towards
the end of a book, right before it ends, but that last part might actually be
less writer’s block and more procrastination because I’m not ready for it to
end. I hate endings and leavings, even if they are good. To break through
writer’s block, exercise with work out music in my headphones often helps or
the best cure for me is physically writing in a notebook rather than typing on
the computer.
Q. Who is your favorite character in Entertaining Angels?
A. I love so many of them especially the angels, but if I
had to choose one it would be Terem. He is fierce and untouchable, which is
something that always draws me in, but it’s his reasons for being the way his
is that make me love him.
I do of course love the main character, Sam, and I’m also
terribly fond of Dr. Anchine and Kevin.
Q. Terem is a unique name. How did you come up with it?
A. I love names. I have a document on my phone and a more
extensive one on my computer where I add any new name I find that I like, but
for Terem, his name was a happy accident. It was a typo while I was at work and
when I said it aloud it was instant love. I stopped what I was doing and added
the name to my list on my phone, recognizing it immediately as his name.
Q. Are you a dog or cat person?
A. Both. I have two dogs and one semi-evil cat. The cat
believes he rules the house and everyone else in the house, including the dogs,
often fall prey to this same misconception. I think I might have a stronger
will than the cat and he has finally begun to recognize this and make a few
concessions. (It’s only take 3 years.)
Q. Is there one type of music you listen to when you are
writing?
A. I’m all over the map. For Entertaining Angels there is a
lot more classical/movie score type music than would usually feature in a
book’s playlist, but the playlist has a lot of Piano Guys, some Florence and
the Machine, Lorde, Bryson Andres, She Wants Revenge, scores from movie and
game soundtracks and Stephen J. Anderson to name a few.
Q. Have you ever experienced anything paranormal like your
characters?
A. Watching the Northern Lights feels pretty otherworldly,
but science has explained that magical phenomenon. I was pretty sure my
grandparents’ house was haunted when I was growing up, but no angels. At least
not that I’m aware of.
Q. Where can people find you and your books online?
A. They can find me on my blog http://www.analaskangirl.blogspot.com,
I’m also on Twitter: @MonicaEmme
and Facebook:
www.facebook.com/MonicaMillardAuthor
and my books can be found at Barnes & Noble Amazon Kobo iBook Smashwords.
and my books can be found at Barnes & Noble Amazon Kobo iBook Smashwords.
Monica Millard was born and raised in Alaska. She doesn’t own a dog sled team, but has worked in a place where there are buildings with caged exterior doors to keep employees from being eaten by polar bears.
Monica’s favorite quote is, “People do not see the world as it is, they see it as they are.” She is not sure who said it but it is a quote that has always stuck with her. She loves to read because it allows her to see the world through someone else’s perspective and experience something she would otherwise never be able to. Sharing that same experience with others through her own writing is a possibility that makes her excited to get out of bed in the morning.
She lives in Wasilla, Alaska with all her critters, some four legged and others that stand on two. She writes Science fiction, fantasy, and Paranormal for young adults.
Monica’s favorite quote is, “People do not see the world as it is, they see it as they are.” She is not sure who said it but it is a quote that has always stuck with her. She loves to read because it allows her to see the world through someone else’s perspective and experience something she would otherwise never be able to. Sharing that same experience with others through her own writing is a possibility that makes her excited to get out of bed in the morning.
She lives in Wasilla, Alaska with all her critters, some four legged and others that stand on two. She writes Science fiction, fantasy, and Paranormal for young adults.
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