AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: ANGELA STEVENS
Angela Stevens is the author of the contemporary adult romance books, The Cocktail Series. She also writes YA/ New Adult Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal and has a Children's Classic Style Fantasy book (8-12y.o).
Angela is British born but moved to the United States a decade ago. Always a keen traveler, she has enjoyed spending time living outside of her native country. She is an ex-teacher and the mother of two children. When empty nest syndrome threatened, Angela turned to writing novels to fill her growing free time. As her hobby grew she found storytelling began to fill her waking hours.
Her debut novel, Lemon Drops and Love grew out of her voracious appetite for reading. After one particularly momentous year, where she consumed over one hundred paper backs, Angela Stevens decided to attempt her own. The story is set in her local town and the setting for her love story was partly inspired by her passion for ice hockey. "I discovered ice hockey when I first moved to America. We went first to see an Anaheim Ducks game when I was visiting L.A. We all loved it so much when we came home we went to watch our local team. Now I'm a rabid Washington Capitals fan, and can often be found 'rocking the red' at the Verizon center supporting the Washington Capitals."
In Angela's stories, you will always find a hero to fall in love with and a heroine who will be worthy of his love. Her characters are three dimensional and down to earth. She writes with a strong voice and in a gritty style weaving tension and suspense throughout her narrative. Her characters come to life and whisk you away, whether into a romantic or fantasy setting. Whichever you chose, be prepared to laugh out loud, cry and fall in love.
Angela began her writing career on wattpad.com and she highly recommends it for anyone beginning writing or for someone wanting to get their stories out there. Part writing site and part social media, the website has been the driving force in getting her work published.
Angela is an eclectic reader, but romance is always her fall back genre. She will try pretty much anything but generally avoids reading science fiction and crime thrillers. Some of her all-time favorite books are The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, anything written by Kristen Ashley or J.A. Huss, Eva Luna by Isobel Allende, and J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood.
When it comes to her own work, Angela has a hard time deciding which is her favorite. Let’s face it, it is like asking her to choose her favorite child. So, if she had her arm forced behind her back, she’d probably opt for Dark N Stormy, because the character development of Finn was about as perfect as she has ever done. Though, perhaps she might change her mind and say An Unbreakable Will, because she just loved the group of hunky warriors who made their appearance in that book and sparked off a whole new series of their own. But if you ask her next year, she is probably going to say Rebekka’s Child. A whole new genre and style, this book has given her sleepless nights for almost two years and as long as she finishes editing, it will be the book she is most proud of.
Social Media
https://www.angelastevens.net
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorAngelaStevens
Or follow Angela on Twitter. @Angelastevens13
Published Works
The Cocktail Series (Steamy Contemporary Romance)
Lemon Drops And Love published 2014
Ice Cold Mint Juleps published 2015
Dark N Stormy published 2016
Learning To Love Southern Comfort published 2017
Finding Comfort In Champagne published 2017
Champagne Moments (companion Novella and prequel) published 2015
The Vargr Clan Trilogy (Contemporary Fantasy)
The Wolf You Feed published 2014
Hold On published 2015
An Unbreakable Will published 2015
The Splits In My Skin published 2016
The Black Walker Warrior Novels
Blood Or Destiny published 2016
Standalones
Mariquita (written by Angela Stevens and Illustrated by Matthew Moir, Children’s book) published 2015
Coming In 2018
Blood Brothers: A Black Walker Warrior Novel publishing January 9th 2018
Rebekka’s Child (standalone) Magical realism- (set in1876 Iceland)
Ambushed (working title): A Black Walker Warrior Collection of Short Stories
Also book 1 in a new Romance collection, coming soon…
I have had many conversations with Angela. She is a lot of fun to talk to and absolutely adores writing. She is actually one of the authors that helped take me out of my comfort zone with reading. I hardly ever would read romances of this form and then I read the first book in The Cocktail Series and I was hooked. She exhibits a true mastery of her craft. I geniunely look forward to reading more.
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One taste leaves them wanting more…
