Today, I’m turning the blog over to my friend, the fabulous Leanna Renee Hieber! Leanna is the author of Strangely Beautiful series and one of the co-founders of Lady Jane’s Salon, New York City’s wonderful monthly romance reading series. Speaking of Lady Jane’s…if you’re going to be in town at the end of June for RWA Nationals, please join us on Monday, June 27th, for a special RWA Lady Jane’s! Leanna and I will be reading along with Eloisa James, Carrie Lofty & Dianna Love! The reading starts at 7pm at Madame X at 94 W. Houston. I recommend getting there early because I’m betting it will be packed!
Welcome, Leanna!
I’m so thrilled to be back here with one of my favourite authors, thanks so much for allowing me to be here! I am so excited for Eleven, Miss Sarah, I can hardly stand it.
I’m just coming off the release of the most recent installment in my Strangely Beautiful series, The Perilous Prophecy of Guard and Goddess, where we see the back-story of absolutely everything that comes to pass in The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker and – but don’t worry, it’s not full only of things we know or inside jokes, I reveal all sorts of things that the characters themselves couldn’t have expected. Even the divine ones. All in my ghostly, Gothic Victorian Fantasy style with tons of longing, passion and ghost-busting. Don’t worry if you haven’t started the series yet, you could start with this one and move into books 1 and 2. (As I’ve been told it makes existing fans of the series want to re-read books 1 and 2 anyway!)
From the cover:
The Goddess: In the beginning, there were lovers: a winged deity of power and light, and a queen of grace and beauty. Phoenix was murdered, his beloved stolen away to the Whisper-world. But their passion inspired the Muses. Through great sacrifice, it could live again.
The Guard: There are always six, mortal hosts for the divine. Battling spirits through the ages, they defy Darkness, Lord of the Dead. In 1867, a shadow rises. The tide turns against them, and all hope falls on a child of prophecy, an eerie, snow-white girl yet to be born. But her path must be cleared. A Great War is coming, and song, wind and stars whisper that the eighteen-year-old Beatrice Smith must give everything to prepare.
So here are my eleven prequel Musts. This is not Leanna’s ‘how to write a prequel’ – but instead, these are eleven random things this Strangely Beautiful prequel absolutely had to have.
11. More ghosts in more cities! Beyond London! We begin this novel in Cairo, Egypt, in 1867. Ghost-busting at the Pyramids!
10. An insider’s view: What it’s like to be chosen for The Grand Work of The Guard and possessed by Phoenix Fire and The Muses. It isn’t always pretty but it sure as hell is one fantastical ride.
9. All kinds of juicy little fun tidbits are planted here that play out and weave into the rest of my books. Like finding Easter eggs!
8. First kisses!
7. Divinity smac