We're celebrating Angelia Almos' Second Anniversary of the release of
I'm honored to be a part of her book tour!
A gifted princess. A special horse. A quest for the truth.
Today, Angelia has been so kind to guest blog, right here on A Room To Write!
Listen to what she says about writing from the heart...
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When people ask me why I write young
adult fantasy, my answer is almost always, “I write the books I
would have loved as a pre-teen and teen.”
I was your classic horse crazy girl who
also happened to be a book crazy girl. As such, I read a lot and one
of my favorite things to read were horse books. It didn’t take me
long to get through all of the well-known horsey authors and start to
stalk the shelves looking for any book cover with a horse or unicorn
on it.
One of my all time favorite “horsey”
books as a teen was the series The Secret of the Unicorn Queen.
It might not have had many horses in it, but it had magical horses –
unicorns. It had just a smidge of romance, lots of adventure and
mystery, and pretty unicorns with distinct personalities. I re-read
those books for years before I finally wore my copies out. I also
adored Thoroughbred series, The Saddle Club series, and
Walter Farley books. Finding horsey contemporary fiction was fairly
easy, but finding horsey fantasy fiction was a lot harder which is
probably why I love to write it so much.
It’s been a lot of fun writing the
books I would have loved as a teen. Horse Charmer was my first
foray into horsey fantasy. The initial idea came to me as a teenager
and when I decided to seriously tackle novel writing in my twenties
this was one of the books I chose. That initial image of the teen
girl riding a horse without a bridle or saddle through a rolling
hills meadow of tall grass would not leave me alone. I had to know
where she was coming from and where she was going. And most
importantly, why.
I based the main horse in Horse
Charmer after a horse very close to my heart who was my primary
horse through most of my teenage years. Kali behaved how I felt
Kristy would have acted in all of the scenes in Horse Charmer.
I continue to put horses I’ve known and loved in all of my horsey
fantasy stories and probably always will.
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Thanks so much, Angelia! Here's wishing you much success with what you love to do!
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Angelia's love of horses began early on when she talked her parents into horseback riding lessons at the age of five. She's always had horses in her life in one way or another since then. She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, two kids, two dogs, two cats, and one pony (thinking she should get another one so the number is two).
Angelia writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her articles have appeared in Horse Illustrated, Young Rider Magazine, Blaze Magazine, and many more. Her nonfiction book, Horse Schools, is also now an extensive website, http://www.horseschoolsonline.com.
Adventure and romance figure prominently in her fiction whether she's exploring space or fantasy.
Visit Angelia's blog for the list of stops on the tour and don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway for your chance to win a $20 Amazon or B and N gift card.
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