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Frostfire  is finally here!!! Some people have found copies of Frostfire in bookstores, but today is the first official day that Frostfire  is released into the wild ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audio form. Here's a just few places where you can order your copy: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes



For those of you that haven't heard of Frostfire , here's the description:




The first book in the new trilogy the Kanin Chronicles is set in the world of the Trylle. Hidden deep in the heart of a snow-covered wilderness lies the secret kingdom of the Kanin—a magical realm as beautiful as it is treacherous... Bryn Aven is an outcast among the Kanin, the most powerful of the troll tribes. Set apart by her heritage and her past, Bryn is a tracker who’s determined to become a respected part of her world. She has just one goal: become a member of the elite guard to protect the royalty. She’s not going to let anything stand in her way, not even a forbidden romance with her commander, Ridley Dresden. But all her plans for the future are put on hold when Konstantin—a fallen hero who she once loved—appears to be up to something dangerous...




Also, fun fact: the second book of the Kanin Chronicles - Ice Kissed - will be in May 2015 and the final book in the trilogy - Crystal Kingdom - will be out August 2015, so there's hardly any wait time at all between books.



If you've already finished Frostfire , or you just want to find out more about the world of the Trylle and the Kanin, here's some other fun things you can check out:



Read about the characters of Frostfire at Wattpad

Check out the inspiration board for Frostfire at Pinterest

Listen to the soundtrack for Frostfire

Watch the pronunciation guide and intro video for Frostfire

Find out more tribes and other troll facts at World of Amanda Hocking



For the post few weeks, I've been posting teaser quotes from Frostfire , and I thought since today's the pub day, I would finish the post with a few of my favorites ;)

The first introduction I gave to Bryn Aven back in December 2014 before Frostfire came out was a teaser quote from her, when she said, "Remember my name, because I'm going to be the one who kills you." Throughout  Frostfire , Bryn managed to avoid getting too much blood on her hands, but as you'll see in  Ice Kissed , things are about to take a much darker turn for her...

If you haven’t preorderd Ice Kissed yet and you’d like to, here are some ways you can do it:

I have a new cover to share with you, and all kinds of info about it, and I'm so excited, so let's just get to it:

Here's the official description:

Welcome to Gideon Davorin’s Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act…

Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night.

When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they need if they set up camp in Caudry, Louisiana, Mara meets local-boy Gabe…and a normal life has never been more appealing.

But before long, performers begin disappearing and bodes are found mauled by an invisible beast. Mara realizes that there’s a sinister presence lurking in the town with its sights set on getting rid of the sideshow freeks. In order to unravel the truth before the attacker kills everyone Mara holds dear, she has seven days to take control of a power she didn’t know she was capable of―one that could change her future forever.


Preorder Freeks from Amazon
Preorder Freeks from Barnes & Noble
Preorder Freeks from Indiebound
Preorder Freeks from iBooks

Bullet points:
-Freeks is a stand-alone novel, meaning it starts and finishes in a single book with no sequels or prequels or anything.
-Freeks will be out January 3, 2017 in hardcover and ebook.
-It's young adult paranormal romance set in the 1980s
-I pitched it as Pretty in Pink meets The Lost Boys but with absolutely no vampires
-The soundtrack for Freeks (which is the playlist I created to listen to while writing the book) is my absolute favorite of all time. I'll post another blog about it in the future going more in depth, but for now, you can check it out: here . The idea for the book was actually solidified while listening to "Hush" by the Limousines.
-The hit Netflix series Stranger Things is definitely inspired by many, many of the same things that inspired me to write Freeks (although the two stories are vastly different). So if you like Stranger Things, you may enjoy Freeks

For those of you who want  more background on Freeks, it is totally my baby. I started writing it several years ago, actually, before I wrote the Kanin Chronicles. It was after the Watersong series had started coming out, and that series didn't do as well as I'd hoped, and I'd been obsessing over the whole publishing industry and so focused on the business side of writing I'd really lost sight of actually enjoying the process.

So I sat back and I said to myself, "What do you want to write about? Who cares if people read it or it's good or anything? What interests you?" So that's how Freeks started, with me writing a book just for myself filled with things I love, which is how the book ended up set in 1987. The number one inspiration for the book (aside from Pretty in Pink and The Lost Boys) were old pulpy horror novels I used to get at rummage sales when I was a kid, along with V. C. Andrews and Stephen King (to name a few).

I ended up stepping back from Freeks for awhile to work on the Kanin Chronicles, but when I went back to it, I loved it just as much as I had before. To this date, it's my favorite thing I've ever ever written (and I think it will be for a long time to come). It was a whole lot of fun, and I really found writing a stand alone to be very freeing - I didn't have to worry about holding back or what to put in or save for the next book. It's all there.

The title for Freeks is deliberately misspelled. In the book, an act of vandalism against Mara and her family comes in the form of the word of "freeks" being spray painted on their home, and that's where the title came from. (It's also a subtle nod to Pet Semetary.)

So, anyway, I couldn't be more excited for Freeks to spring forth into the world. I genuinely really and truly love this book, and I think many of you will, too.