I've been super excited for this tour to kick off ever since being asked to participate a few month's back and so glad that the day for my stop has finally arrived! For those of you unfamiliar with Molly's Legacy series, you'll want to check out her first installment in the series, Legacy, and then of course her latest release and the sequel, Poison! Both are fantastic and I'm confident you won't regret taking the time to dive into this series!
I'm so happy that Molly was able to stop by the blog for this tour's stop with an extra special guest post! Here's a little background before you get started...
About the author:
Her books include New York Times bestselling novels GRANDMASTER and THE FOREVER
KING, coauthored with Warren Murphy, and the nonfiction DRESSING THIN, also a NY Times
bestseller. She has won awards from the Mystery Writers of America (Best Novel of the Year),
the Romance Writers of America (Best Thriller), and the New York Public Library (Outstanding
Books for the Teen Age).
SEDUCTION, the third installment in the LEGACY series, is scheduled for release later this year through her publisher, Simon & Schuster.
Two eBooks, THE TEMPLE DOGS and THE FOREVER KING, are currently available through online retailers. A third, GRANDMASTER, will be available soon.
Molly has lectured extensively and has taught writing at the college level as well as at a women's prison (where she was NOT an inmate). She also writes a blog on writing technique which appears on her website, MollyCochran.com. She is also on Facebook at facebook.com/molly.cochran1 and Twitter at Twitter.com/mollycochranYA.
She lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Author Links:
Website: http://mollycochran.com/
Blog: http://mollycochran.com/blog/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mollycochranYA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/molly.cochran1
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/70854.Molly_Cochran
Blog: http://mollycochran.com/blog/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mollycochranYA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/molly.cochran1
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/70854.Molly_Cochran
And now for her guest post...
Keeping up the momentum of a series
Although I’ve written series books before (I began my career as a writer by ghostwriting several books in a men’s action/adventure series), I never thought of Legacy as the start of a series until I’d finished it. By that time I’d fallen in love with the witchpopulated town of Whitfield, Mass. and the characters who lived there, and wanted to write more about them.
I think that kind of love, that intense interest on the part of the author to keep exploring the characters and places she’s created, is the main thing that keeps a series going. I really love Katy and Peter and Hattie and Gram and the rest of the denizens of Whitfield. I want to know what happens after the end of the book. So there’s another book! And another!
Another quality that all good series ought to have is a balance between the known and the unknown. We want familiar characters, but we need to have them in unpredictable situations, too. So far there are two sequels to Legacy, Poison and the notyet published Seduction (if the publisher allows me to keep the title). In each book there is something—just a little something—left hanging that I pick up on in the next book. It’s nothing that new readers who haven’t read the previous book(s) will find confusing, but it’s a little reward for fans who have read the others.
I’d love to do a fourth Katy book. I’ve had an idea circulating in my head about a story based on the magical qualities of perfume. We’ll see.
**Thanks so much again Molly for stopping by and in case you want some more information on her latest release Poison...
Arthurian legend mixes with modern-day witchcraft in this haunting sequel to Legacy, which Publishers Weekly said “should please the legions of paranormal fans looking for a sophisticated supernatural thriller.” After the riveting—and romantic—events of Legacy, Katy has won Peter’s heart and is now claiming her place in the magical world. Though half the students at her boarding school come from witching lines, the use of magic is expressly forbidden at Ainsworth, so as to keep the witching world hidden from the blue-blooded preppies, aka Muffies, who also walk the halls.
But the Muffies have at least a notion of magic, because Katy catches them staging a made-up ritual—and to her astonishment, the girls collapse at Katy’s feet and fall into comas. When Katy is blamed, she becomes desperate to clear her name and finds herself battling all odds to harness her growing magical powers in order to save the Muffies and dispel the Darkness once more.
But the Muffies have at least a notion of magic, because Katy catches them staging a made-up ritual—and to her astonishment, the girls collapse at Katy’s feet and fall into comas. When Katy is blamed, she becomes desperate to clear her name and finds herself battling all odds to harness her growing magical powers in order to save the Muffies and dispel the Darkness once more.
**And now for an exciting giveaway**
This is a tour wide giveaway and one lucky winner will get a signed copy of both Legacy and Poison, plus outtakes from the photo shoot for Selection!!!!!! This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only and will end on July 6th so hurry up and click on the link below to enter for your chance to win!!!
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