Amy Kuivalainen's Blog - Posts Tagged "romance"
Free Books on Insta Freebie
Hello Everyone
I just want to drop a quick line to let you know that I have two Instafreebie promotions running over Christmas!
Cry of the Firebird
A firebird hatches in the far corners of Russia, where gods still walk and magic slumbers, sparking a supernatural war that will tear the worlds apart.
Inspired by Finnish and Russian Mythology, 'Cry of the Firebird' is a noir paranormal series that brings to life the bloody fairy tales of the North in a new modern setting.
Born on the crossroads between worlds, Anya's magic is buried under grief until one fateful night it causes a firebird to hatch on her farm. Through a twist of dark magic it is sharing its body with Yvan, an ancient prince from legend.
With Yvan's dark magician brother Vasilli and other powerful enemies closing in around them, Anya has no choice but to sober up, follow Yvan into Skazki, the land of monsters and magic.
Find it here: https://www.instafreebie.com/free/Q9gh6
The Eagle Key
In the spirit of "The Princess Bride," "Stardust" and "Howl's Moving Castle" comes a story of adventure, redemption, magic and the ever perilous True Love.
After a hasty wish on the Evening Star, pensioner Martha Brown finds a key with the power to open the heart of all that it touches. When the Eagle Key opens a door to Faerie Martha is spurred to action. Fuelled by her anger at growing old without any adventures at all, Martha packs her bags and heads into Faerie determined to find one.
Saved from a carnivorous rose bush by Greyfeather, a wanted criminal, blatant flirt and scoundrel, Martha agrees to give him the use of the Eagle Key in exchange for helping her navigate her way through the pitfalls of Faerie.
Find it here:
https://www.instafreebie.com/free/zT28x
I just want to drop a quick line to let you know that I have two Instafreebie promotions running over Christmas!
Cry of the Firebird
A firebird hatches in the far corners of Russia, where gods still walk and magic slumbers, sparking a supernatural war that will tear the worlds apart.
Inspired by Finnish and Russian Mythology, 'Cry of the Firebird' is a noir paranormal series that brings to life the bloody fairy tales of the North in a new modern setting.
Born on the crossroads between worlds, Anya's magic is buried under grief until one fateful night it causes a firebird to hatch on her farm. Through a twist of dark magic it is sharing its body with Yvan, an ancient prince from legend.
With Yvan's dark magician brother Vasilli and other powerful enemies closing in around them, Anya has no choice but to sober up, follow Yvan into Skazki, the land of monsters and magic.
Find it here: https://www.instafreebie.com/free/Q9gh6
The Eagle Key
In the spirit of "The Princess Bride," "Stardust" and "Howl's Moving Castle" comes a story of adventure, redemption, magic and the ever perilous True Love.
After a hasty wish on the Evening Star, pensioner Martha Brown finds a key with the power to open the heart of all that it touches. When the Eagle Key opens a door to Faerie Martha is spurred to action. Fuelled by her anger at growing old without any adventures at all, Martha packs her bags and heads into Faerie determined to find one.
Saved from a carnivorous rose bush by Greyfeather, a wanted criminal, blatant flirt and scoundrel, Martha agrees to give him the use of the Eagle Key in exchange for helping her navigate her way through the pitfalls of Faerie.
Find it here:
https://www.instafreebie.com/free/zT28x
EXCLUSIVE ARC GIVEAWAY
Wylt -Book One of The Blood Lake Chronicles is on an Exclusive ARC promotional Giveaway on Instafreebie!
A sexy gothic romance inspired by a new vampire origin story, tangled with the myth and magic of the Fae.
Rosa Wylt's life plans are disrupted when she is summoned back to Gwaed Lyn, an ancient estate in the Lake District. Struggling with childhood memories overshadowed by the wealthy Vane Family, Rosa is determined to learn of the ties that have kept the Wylt's bound to their benefactors for centuries. Rosa finds more than her own family's history when she uncovers the passionate, doomed love affair of a Vane ancestor... an ancestor that bears an uncanny resemblance to Balthasar, the only Vane that she cannot help being drawn to.
Nothing in the estate is as it seems and Rosa realizes it is called The Blood Lake for a reason...
Click here to claim your free copy now!
https://www.instafreebie.com/free/vEjWe
A sexy gothic romance inspired by a new vampire origin story, tangled with the myth and magic of the Fae.
Rosa Wylt's life plans are disrupted when she is summoned back to Gwaed Lyn, an ancient estate in the Lake District. Struggling with childhood memories overshadowed by the wealthy Vane Family, Rosa is determined to learn of the ties that have kept the Wylt's bound to their benefactors for centuries. Rosa finds more than her own family's history when she uncovers the passionate, doomed love affair of a Vane ancestor... an ancestor that bears an uncanny resemblance to Balthasar, the only Vane that she cannot help being drawn to.
Nothing in the estate is as it seems and Rosa realizes it is called The Blood Lake for a reason...
Click here to claim your free copy now!
https://www.instafreebie.com/free/vEjWe
Eastern Gods for Kindle Scribe
Hey Everyone,
Apologies from being away from the blog for so many weeks. My life has been super crazy wrapping up projects and job hunting BUT exciting news!
Eastern Gods , book one of new YA Fantasy series Western Wars, is up on a Kindle Scout campaign for your view and vote! I'm crazy excited about this one. It would be really good for fans who enjoyed Sarah J Maas' Throne of Glass series or MTV's Shannara Chronicles.
This series is the first lot of books I wrote as a teenager. I finished the whopping, originally titled, Eastern Gods and Western Wars when I was about nineteen. It landed at 180k words. I believed in the story, I wanted it out there, and so it has been through a massive reworking and editing for the passed year. Its now split into two books, Eastern Gods and The Golden Queen and I can't wait for you to read them.
I love this series. It helped me survive a really dark period in my life and taught me so much about storytelling, craft and helped create a safe place in my mind where I could hang out. I was reading a lot of fantasy as a teen; loads of Lord of the Rings, Stephen Lawhead and Ian Irvine's View from the Mirror Quartet (please check it out - its so freaking great) and it is these writers and stories that shaped my passion for writing epic fantasy.
This series is a big one, twisted up with family, war, love, faith and magic. It's a hero quest and a coming of age and the secrets that you discover about your family as you grow older. It's about sacrifice and blood and forgiveness at it's most brutal.
Please check it out here, there is a huge sample on the site for you to read too so bonus!
Eastern Gods
Description
Enter a world of forgotten magic, kings, gods and the woman who will dare to defy them.
Prince Haldirian’s safe world is shattered when he captures a spy from the silent and forgotten Eastlands. There is only one scholar of the East who could stop the fear of war spreading, Aláenor of Silandáe.
The first female heir in history, highly intelligent and carrying a warrior swagger Aláenor isn’t what Haldirian has learned to expect from royal princesses.
The eastern spy Hilkiah reveals that he was sent by Mordecai, Emperor of the East and powerful dark magician residing in the city of Rotech. The West has turned their back on magic for centuries and fearing that war is imminent, a spying party is sent back to the East to discover the truth.
Mordecai is burning for payback on the western king who destroyed his life. He needs Aláenor to fulfill his revenge, and he will have her…even if he has to kill the man she loves and destroy her soul to do it.
May Update
Hey Everyone,
Do you guys have months that are always out of control no matter how well you plan them? Every year it seems to my May. I had it all perfectly planned then it exploded and I'm running about like a head with its chicken cut off.
First things first...KINGDOM is DONE. Well, the first draft is anyway. Hurray! I'm currently reading through it, making lots of notes where I seem to have forgotten to write needed scenes and adding in descriptions that I left behind. Every book I write is different and KINGDOM has had its own set of challenges including an ending that wouldn't stop changing. Its on track to still be released at some point this year but I'm not committing to any date until I have a draft I'm happy with.
Speaking of releases, Eastern Gods will be out on the 30th of May. I'm not doing heaps of promo around it because it is a re-launch but the date is set, pre-order pages are up. The Golden Queen (book 2) is getting its final proofread completed and I should have a pre-order page up for it shortly. Ideally I'd like to release them both on the 30th but I'll see how I'm tracking. Before I forget...the paperback is not being released for another little while but I'll keep you updated on it. In their first draft format, these books were written before The Firebird Fairytales series (10+ years ago). This is why the discerning reader will pick up references to a particular magical wood mentioned in Rise of the Firebird that are the same trees in Eastern Gods.
Its taken me forever to get to a point that I'm comfortable sharing them but I feel like its time. It's a BIG world with lots of characters and potential for more stories in the future. It wraps up neatly but I've purposely left space for more books because it's such a fun world to play in. It is aimed at a young adult/ new adult audience but I've had lots of adult beta readers enjoy the series so check it out if you like adventurous, epic fantasy with a fun bit of romance thrown in.
I've tentatively started writing book 2 of SECRET PROJECT which hopefully won't need to remain a secret much longer. I'm trying to clear my editing plate before I really sink my teeth into it because this particular series always takes longer to write due to the research involved. Expect announcements in this space soon. Trust me, as soon as I get the green light I seriously won't be able to stop talking about it.
Stuff I'm Reading:
If you follow my social media you would've seen that I'm FINALLY catching up on my Sarah J Maas TBR pile.
I love both of her series and I've been about four books behind for a while now. I've smashed out the Court of Thorns and Roses series and now about to start the last two Throne of Glass. I've said it before but I really wish these books were around when I was a teenager. I got so sick of only reading fantasy books with male protagonists that I decided to write my own series...and The Western Wars series was born. I can't wait to get stuck into Throne of Glass...Aelin is my fave!
My obsession with L.H.Cosway is continuing this month as I get stuck into this beauty. I'm not a huge contemporary romance fan but I seriously love her books. Not only are they hot (so hot) they are HILARIOUS and all of the characters seem like people you could hang out with that have relatable problems. I'm a sucker for a man with a stringed instrument so I'm enjoying the hell out this one.
Thats all from me for the moment, but I'll put up another update if I get any newsworthy news.
Ames xo
Do you guys have months that are always out of control no matter how well you plan them? Every year it seems to my May. I had it all perfectly planned then it exploded and I'm running about like a head with its chicken cut off.
First things first...KINGDOM is DONE. Well, the first draft is anyway. Hurray! I'm currently reading through it, making lots of notes where I seem to have forgotten to write needed scenes and adding in descriptions that I left behind. Every book I write is different and KINGDOM has had its own set of challenges including an ending that wouldn't stop changing. Its on track to still be released at some point this year but I'm not committing to any date until I have a draft I'm happy with.
Speaking of releases, Eastern Gods will be out on the 30th of May. I'm not doing heaps of promo around it because it is a re-launch but the date is set, pre-order pages are up. The Golden Queen (book 2) is getting its final proofread completed and I should have a pre-order page up for it shortly. Ideally I'd like to release them both on the 30th but I'll see how I'm tracking. Before I forget...the paperback is not being released for another little while but I'll keep you updated on it. In their first draft format, these books were written before The Firebird Fairytales series (10+ years ago). This is why the discerning reader will pick up references to a particular magical wood mentioned in Rise of the Firebird that are the same trees in Eastern Gods.
Its taken me forever to get to a point that I'm comfortable sharing them but I feel like its time. It's a BIG world with lots of characters and potential for more stories in the future. It wraps up neatly but I've purposely left space for more books because it's such a fun world to play in. It is aimed at a young adult/ new adult audience but I've had lots of adult beta readers enjoy the series so check it out if you like adventurous, epic fantasy with a fun bit of romance thrown in.I've tentatively started writing book 2 of SECRET PROJECT which hopefully won't need to remain a secret much longer. I'm trying to clear my editing plate before I really sink my teeth into it because this particular series always takes longer to write due to the research involved. Expect announcements in this space soon. Trust me, as soon as I get the green light I seriously won't be able to stop talking about it.
Stuff I'm Reading:
If you follow my social media you would've seen that I'm FINALLY catching up on my Sarah J Maas TBR pile.
I love both of her series and I've been about four books behind for a while now. I've smashed out the Court of Thorns and Roses series and now about to start the last two Throne of Glass. I've said it before but I really wish these books were around when I was a teenager. I got so sick of only reading fantasy books with male protagonists that I decided to write my own series...and The Western Wars series was born. I can't wait to get stuck into Throne of Glass...Aelin is my fave!
My obsession with L.H.Cosway is continuing this month as I get stuck into this beauty. I'm not a huge contemporary romance fan but I seriously love her books. Not only are they hot (so hot) they are HILARIOUS and all of the characters seem like people you could hang out with that have relatable problems. I'm a sucker for a man with a stringed instrument so I'm enjoying the hell out this one.
Thats all from me for the moment, but I'll put up another update if I get any newsworthy news.
Ames xo
