Angelia Almos

Chapter One Her hand shading her eyes, Princess Cassia watched the bird glide over the outer walls of Castle Karah. A small shiver went down her spine when she saw it was a Royalty, a special messenger eagle used only to convey urgent messages. He swooped over her and across the stable yard to land on his perch. The Royalty squawked and ruffled his feathers. He snapped and bit the young page who tried to take the message from him. Cassia shook her head at the boy as he backed away from the Royalty clutching his hand. The eagle would only release the letter to someone of high rank. She wondered briefly what the eagle could be carrying, but got distracted when her horse jumped underneath her. She focused on the young stallion as he bobbed his head. “Good boy,” Cassia said in a soft voice, soothing him until he settled down. Her brothers raced their horses around her, spinning and weaving the buckets and poles positioned throughout the corral. She’d set up the obstacle course for th...

Spectors is an adult space opera about a space pirate who almost loses everything she cares about when she’s blackmailed into running a dangerous mission for the military.  Space pirate, Captain Kristy Ryan, is blackmailed by the Military Space Alliance into running a dangerous mission with her crew to discover what is infiltrating the planets in the Border Zone. Crucial information is withheld by the MSA and the alien tries to take over her ship. When her pilot and lover is possessed by the alien presence, Kristy risks everything to save him by taking her ship into the heart of the aliens’ stronghold. Spectors by Angelia Almos is coming mid-December.

The Wild Rose Press is offering a 30% discount on Black Friday. Enter the code e8f302ffef at checkout on November 25 to get 30% off your entire order. If you haven't gotten The Beast's Redemption yet, here's your chance to get it for only $2.63 (normally, $3.75). The Beast's Redemption by Angie Derek Cursed shape shifter, Alexander Léandre, is resigned to his fate, but that doesn’t stop him from hunting down the descendants of the sorceress who bewitched him in hopes of obtaining a cure. Belle Beaumont is used to men never looking past her curvy figure and pretty face. She dutifully agrees to befriend Alexander in order to protect her father’s herbal company. A single touch changes all. Passions flare. When Belle discovers what Alexander is truly after and why, will she accept him for what he is? And will her love and family knowledge be enough to break a hundred-year-old curse? Excerpt: The secret smile affected him much more than the p...

Whitelighter is a steamy contemporary paranormal novella about a young witch whose special powers make her a target of any vampire who catches sight of her. Lily Conner is a witch with an unusual side affect to her powers – she glows like a neon white light to all supernatural creatures. A vampire who kills her will absorb her light gaining the ability to use magic . Two years ago her family was killed when a pack of vampires followed her home. She barely escaped with her toddler sister in tow. Now she lives on the run with her four-year-old sister and a vampire bodyguard. Reyes Vega lost his whitelighter sister to vampires several years ago. When he meets Lily and her sister, he knows he can’t let another whitelighter fall victim to the vampires and sets out to protect her from the same fate as his sister. Together they go on the run to visit his whitelighter mother for help. But they might be running to danger instead of away from it.  Whitelighter by Angie Derek is coming...

I love adaptations and retellings. There's something about the challenge of taking something classic and making it your own. My first attempt was The Beast's Redemption my Beauty and the Beast story. I'm currently toying with the idea of another retelling and was thinking about how to pay homage to the original. This got me to thinking about what elements I included from the original fairy tale and other adaptations in The Beast's Redemption .  If you haven't read The Beast's Redemption beware the spoilers below. I wanted to talk about the elements I included from the original fairy tale as well as other adaptations. Names My heroine is named Belle - the original name of Beauty (and the Disney version). Her surname and the hero's name are also French. My little nod to the fairy tale's origin. Rose I wanted the rose as a symbol in the story. It makes three appearances. 1) As a single red rose Alexander gives to Belle. 2) The rose emblem on the a...

Content Warning on the Post. I wish there was a way to set an adult content warning on individual posts instead of the entire blog. Anyone know a way? Back to the content warning. I'm going to discuss the steamy/sexy side of my Angie Derek pen name. So if you're under 18 please skip this post. A steamy Angie Derek title. Okay, on to the actual post. My first paranormal novella The Beast's Redemption came out in September. Since then I've gotten some excellent feedback - can we say how much a writer loves hearing a reader enjoyed their book. But I've also gotten feedback which was luke warm - writers don't love that quite as much. But the luke warm feedback also makes me laugh because it had to do with the level of sex in the book. Some of you might already know I wrote The Beast's Redemption as a Beauty and the Beast adaption for a publisher's submission call. I loved writing the book and taking the challenge up - the challenge being to write...

When I first start writing and learning, cough, craft. I hated writing. Seriously. I can remember hating the act of writing, but loving the stories. The characters lived in my head and wanted their stories told. I used to say I hated the act of writing, but loved having written. I realized recently I hadn't thought or said that phrase in a very long time. Why I wondered? What had changed? The change, I believe, is I became more comfortable with my skill level. Not that I'm not still learning. I fully realize I will never stop learning and improving. But I'm comfortable with my level of craft and know I can improve in particular areas when I set my mind to it. Now the act of writing (or revising) is no longer torturous. I love writing. I love revising. Are there parts I don't like? Of course, but it's different with different books. Perhaps, a particular scene is just nagging at me and I can't seem to get it right. That's frustrating and doesn't ...

Something I should have factored in, but completely failed to consider with my bubble experiment was withdrawal. I am going through social media withdrawal big time. I go to my blogger feed - no new blogs. Go to Twitter - only five new tweets since the last time I checked. Facebook - I can actually find people in the feeds - wow. What it amounts to is I now have way more time to work , but I don't want to (insert whine). How can I feel like I'm doing something when I'm procrastinating and no one is talking? LOL I know this is what I wanted. Less noise. More time to focus on my own stuff. But, shoot, I should have factored in the withdrawal period. I'm being good, well mostly good, I did add back a few people to twitter, though promptly removed two when they filled up my tweet stream. But I have not reloaded my blog feed. It's not that I really read those blogs, but I spent time scrolling through the feed to find what I did want to read. Now it's right in ...

Southern Belle and Me. A reader recently pointed out that I tend to include the names of my pets in my books. Obviously a reader who knows me personally to make the observation, but it made me think. Do I? Horse Charmer - Kali isn't a name of a pet, but she was inspired by my horse Kristy. I also had a pony named Cassie as a kid which is pretty close to Cassia. There also was in a previous draft long ago a character named Bear - we had a horse named Bear when I was a kid. Bear might reappear in a sequel. The Beast's Redemption - Belle is actually the original name of Beauty in Beauty and the Beast so I didn't consciously choose to name her after a pet, but I can't deny that I did have a horse named Southern Belle (picture on the left).  Spectors (upcoming space opera) - Yeah, my heroine is named after my horse Kristy and it was on purpose. :-) Whitelighter (upcoming steamy paranormal) - Nope, not a single name, but it did original have a horse in it before I...