For NaNoWriMo this year, I've been working on Devouring, book three of the Obsidian Embers Trilogy. Here's a tiny excerpt, the last thing I wrote today. She shook her head and narrowed her eyes, focusing her mind again on her friend lying motionless and unconscious in their tent. “You nearly killed my friend.” “Did I?” He widened his eyes and tilted his head. “I’m slipping. I meant to fully kill him.”

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I'm excited to say I've got quite a lot going on for the last half of year. Things in my personal life are coming into order, and that means I'm feeling happier and have more energy to work on my writing. I've just submitted a witch story to an upcoming anthology, and I'm just about to sit down to work on a demon story for another. After that, I'll be writing a fantasy story for an upcoming anthology with the theme "Magic on Tap" from Star's End Press which involves brews of all sort where I'll go back to Millicent, my female assassin who appeared in Kingmaker. After that, I'll be trying my hand at sci-fi for another Star's End Press anthology. Finally, my novel is slated to come out in November! Keep tuned, lovely people, I'm really getting on a roll now!

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It's #MusicMonday, something I've been neglecting due to a chaotic personal life, but we're back to it! Today I bring you Sleeping Sickness by City and Colour. This reminds me of Nico, a character you won't even meet until the second book in my series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic0zXROe408

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I was tagged to play the Influential Author game, so I'm going to post 15 authors who have influenced me. Several of these will likely not be a surprise. 1. Joe Abercrombie 2. Brent Weeks 3. R.A. Salvatore 4. Madeleine L'Engle 5. Terry Brooks 6. Augusten Burroughs 7. Neil Gaiman 8. John Connolly 9. C.S. Lewis 10. J.R.R. Tolkien 11. .... And I ran out of authors to list. Those are the authors that have influenced my decision to write, how I go about the process, influenced me to embrace the style and tone I want to write in, and I don't have any more of them. There have been books over time I've read and loved but that I can't remember the name of or the author, and those were influential too, but I can't list them if I can't remember them. ;)

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Allow me a moment to flail around in excitement. I got my concept sketches back from my cover artist for Kindling! :D Publication moving right along. #amwriting #publishing #gettingthere #excited #fantasy

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I must be weird. I always fall in love with side characters who don't have much of a role in the story. Shadow Hound and Bones in my current short story are good examples. I love Talbot and Quiz from Waxing, I love Puzzle from Kith nor Kin...none of them have much to do in their own stories, but I love them. Makes me want to write about them. I shall never be done writing. :P

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I was was tagged in an author questionnaire by Angie Grigaliunas so I'll fill it out for you. :) Let’s play 20 questions – author edition! Answer the 20 questions below and let your readers into your world! 1.) What is your author name? -- Angel Blackwood 2.) What is the first book you ever published? -- The first thing I had published was "Of Oceans and Oblivion" in an anthology called The Road Taken Anyway. My full-length novel won't be out until early November. 3.) What is your publiversary (the day you released your first book)? -- Umm...Spring 2014. 4.) What is your favorite book you’ve written thus far? -- Kindling and the ones that go with it. But my favorite short story is Of Oceans and Oblivion. 5.) What book took you the longest to write? -- Kindling 6.) How long did it take you? -- About a year altogether. 7.) What kind of music do you listen to while you write (if any)? -- A weird mix of rock, metal, folk metal/rock, musicals, steampunk, and other things. 8.) Who is you favorite character from any of your books? -- I love Verin way more than I should love a villain. 9.) What are you currently working on? -- Waxing (book 2 after Kindling), and I'm working on two short stories. 10.) Do you have anything you snack on while you write? -- Not really. 11.) What is your favorite quote or line from one of your books? -- I actually don't have one. I love a lot of what I write, but I haven't picked out a favorite line really. Zahir says at one point "A warrior knows when to fight and when to run." I like that. 12.) Are you a self-published or traditionally published author? -- Both Indie and Traditional. 13.) What is your writing inspiration? -- I get inspiration mostly from music, but otherwise, it's just me. 14.) What genre do you write? -- Fantasy, mostly, but I dabble in other genres too. 15.) Do you have any writing rituals? -- Not at all. 16.) Do you have a specific place you write or time? -- No. I write whenever I can. 17.) Do you have any advice for inspiring writers? -- When it gets hard and feels like the story stops and the words won't come, when you feel rejected and dejected, just keep writing. The words come back, the story will keep going, someone needs you to finish your story. Your story will be the most important story in someone's life. 18.) What are your writing goals? -- Get my books to people, have people love them, make some money (hopefully enough to partially live on at least), and maybe make it big. 19.) What authors inspire you and your writing? -- Joe Abercrombie, R.A. Salvatore, and Brent Weeks. 20.) What will you release next and when (if you know)? -- "Forest of Bones" in August, "Children's Dreams and Other Dead Things" this fall, a demon story after that, and Kindling in November.

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