Please tell my readers a little bit about your book.
Her Wicked Angel is the sixth book in my popular Her Angel paranormal romance series. It’s about Asmodeus, the wicked King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man. He’s an angel born for destruction and evil, but beneath his cold and often cruel exterior there is a glimmer of good, a seed that he hides from his master and the three realms (Heaven, Hell and the Mortal realms) because in his world, good is a weakness.
When he is sent to the mortal world to retrieve a female for the Devil and sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, a woman who challenges him at every turn and seems to have a mystical power over him, that sliver of good begins to grow and he realizes that he can’t let his master have her… because he wants her for himself.
Liora is a witch and has always known that angels existed, but she never thought she would meet Asmodeus. The glowering dark angel warrior with his black wings and golden eyes makes her burn hotter than Hell itself and she can’t resist the fierce attraction that blazes between them. He’s dangerous and deadly… and he might just be her only hope for survival.
Describe the genre of this particular title, and is the only genre you write in?
Her Wicked Angel is a paranormal romance. I have written other genres in the past, and still dabble in science-fiction romance, but paranormal romance is my passion. I’ve penned over 35 paranormal romance stories since 2006. I love being able to create expansive and detailed worlds filled with incredible creatures with amazing abilities. It’s a playground that I never tire of and a genre I don’t think I will ever stop writing… I still have ideas for another 30+ stories!
What is your writing routine like?
It always depends on what I have to do at the time. I’m lucky enough to have a fantastic new assistant who is helping me with some aspects of marketing and promoting my stories and new releases, and that has freed up more time that I can use to write. I am a full time author and have been since 2011, when I began selling enough copies of my ebooks to give up my day job and pursue writing as my career.
I work from around 8am until 7pm most days, and try to take a couple of days out of each week for myself, but sometimes it doesn’t work that way, especially when there’s a new release on the horizon or deadlines I have to meet. Some weeks I can spend every day working on marketing and other admin, such as answering emails and scheduling promotion and other things. Because I’m an indie author, I have to do almost everything myself, so it’s a constant juggling act, especially since I design my own covers, create my own graphics for advertising, and format my own books too!
When I am in a normal week, I will generally dedicate a large portion of the day to writing or editing, leaving only a few hours to spend on marketing work or admin. If I’m writing a first draft, I always aim to write around 7000-10000 words in a single session. I can normally manage that in around 4-6 hours of writing. It just depends on what other things I have on my schedule really.
In terms of how I go about writing, I’m a plotter. I just completed an outline plan for my next book I’ll be writing and it has come out at 24000 words. I tend to write scenes down as they come to me and then compile them into an outline, which is why they can get big. Once I have the outline done and all my character profiles written or updated if they’re existing characters in a series, then I’ll begin writing. I always focus on one project at a time, so I’ll never write one book while editing something else, or write two books at the same time. I think that just gets confusing.
I’ll write the first draft straight through without pausing to read over it or edit anything. After that, I let it sit for a while and then I’ll send it off to my betas while I work on something else. I’ll then come back to it when my betas have read it and edit the book. Normally, I do two edits on my books and several rounds of proofreading before they’re released.
Having achieved your goal to be a published author, what is the most rewarding thing?
I love being able to speak with readers. It’s great communicating with them and interacting, and I’ve made a lot of friends on my social networks. There are amazing people amongst my readers and I really love being able to speak with them all and hear their opinions on my books, or on movies we’ve seen or books we’ve all read. It’s like a big community and it’s wonderful.
Please share three fun facts about you that most people don’t know.
This is always difficult. I get asked it a lot and I have to think about things to try to come up with something new. How about…
1)I’m an archery fanatic.
2)I’ve travelled to Japan five times and want to go back for more.
3)I’m British… seriously, readers are often surprised when I mention that.
What’s next for you?
I’m about to begin writing the second book in a new series. The first will come out in December this year. After that, I’ll be working on the next Her Angel book and the next Vampires Realm book, and the first book in another new series. It’s all go and it never stops.
BOOK BLURB
Her Wicked Angel
Felicity Heaton
The King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man, Asmodeus is a dark angel born of evil and created for destruction. When his master orders him to venture into the mortal world and retrieve a female for him, he seizes the chance to leave Hell for the first time, uncaring of what the Devil has planned for her… until he sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he has ever seen—a female who awakens new feelings within his black heart, unleashing passion so intense that it controls him and desire he cannot resist.
He will not let his wretched master have her. She will belong to him.
Liora is a witch with a bad reputation and an obsession with fighting demons. A mission gone wrong sees her sent to Paris to cool off, but when a dark and deadly warrior with a gaze of golden fire lands in her life, she ends up burning hotter than Hell for the wicked angel. Nothing will stand between her and the immense, forbidding male. Not her cousin. Not Asmodeus’s sworn enemy and twin, Apollyon. And certainly not the Devil.
Caught up in a tempest of danger and soul-searing passion, can they survive against the odds and seize their forever after?
Her Wicked Angel is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and many other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Wicked%20Angel
Her Wicked Angel – Excerpt
Liora paid for
her purchases and made her way back to the alley. Asmodeus was sitting on the
step of one of the buildings lining the narrow street, his wings carefully
placed so the longest black feathers curled around his ankles. He looked pale,
his skin almost milk-white against his wild black hair and thick dark lashes.
He lifted his head and gazed at her as she hobbled towards him, his golden eyes
warming and then burning like fire as they took her in. Heat chased in the wake
of his eyes, setting her body aflame and stirring a different sort of hunger.
She wanted to
drop her things beside him, settle herself astride his lithe muscular thighs,
and run her fingers through his hair, raking the satiny black strands back from
his sculpted face. She would force him to tip it back and look up at her, and
the action would cause his lips to part. She would swoop on them then, feeling
their firmness beneath hers, waiting for him to hit that point where he found
the courage to take the lead and showed her a hint of the passion he held
locked beneath his incredible exterior.
His gaze dropped
to the bag she carried, reminding her that he had to eat before she could do
anything with him or he was liable to pass out. She sat on the step below him,
took the white box of pastries out of the carrier bag and carefully untied the
ribbon. She pushed the lid up to reveal the neat rows of sweet treats and her
mouth watered.
Asmodeus stared.
“What are those?”
He looked curious. That was good. Maybe he would eat some for her.
“Pastries.” She
plucked a strawberry mille-feuille out of the box and offered it to him.
He took it from
her and peered at it, turning it this way and that and getting cream and icing
all over his hand.
“It’s my
favourite.” She picked up the other one she had bought and bit into it. The
layers of fine crisp puff pastry, custard-cream and strawberries were delicious
and she moaned and took another bite, unable to resist the tempting allure of
the sweet heavenly confection.
When she risked a
glance at Asmodeus, his pastry was gone and he was licking his fingers. She
moaned for a different reason, her head filling with thoughts about what he
could do with that tongue and some cream, and he looked at her.
There was a spot
of cream at the left corner of his mouth and she couldn’t resist. She reached
up, swiped it off and sucked her finger clean. His gaze darkened and zeroed in
on her lips. Her heart fluttered in response, shivery heat washing through her
and making her want to keep sucking her finger and giving him wicked ideas.
Food first. Fun
later.
She finished her
pastry and offered him the box.
He took a small
rectangular slice of chocolate gateaux and devoured it in two bites before
taking a pain au chocolat, and then a wedge of tarte au citron. He pulled a face
on eating that one, his nose wrinkling up.
“Not into the
citrus fruits?” she said and he shook his head. She pulled the bottle of orange
juice from her bag and smiled apologetically. “You might not like this then.”
He took it anyway
and inspected the plastic bottle. Rather than taking the bottle from him and
twisting the cap off, something that would probably make him feel foolish
again, she took her own bottle from the bag and opened it intentionally slowly.
Asmodeus mimicked
her, acting like a pro and snapping the cap off his bottle. He drank half the
contents in one go and then frowned at the bottle.
“It is not as bad
as the sweet thing.” He set the bottle down beside him on the stone step and
took the other slice of chocolate gateaux, and then paused when her gaze
lovingly followed it towards him. “Would you like some?”
She had bought
the pastries, so she deserved at least a portion of the gateaux. It was her
second favourite item.
Asmodeus held it
out to her and rather than taking it, she leaned over and bit into it, her gaze
on his the whole time. His golden irises darkened again, his pupils expanding
to relay his desire. They only darkened further when she licked her lips.
“Delicious,” she
whispered and he growled, his gaze boring into her mouth, robbing her of her
breath and making her silently beg him to kiss her.
He hesitated and
she cursed him when he sat back, taking the remains of the gateaux slice with
him. He devoured it and set the paper case back in the box.
Liora stuffed her
face with a piece of tarte tatin. It wasn’t as sweet as kissing Asmodeus would
have been and it didn’t satisfy her in the slightest.
“I enjoy these
pastries,” Asmodeus said and licked his lips clean, enticing her into kissing
him if he wouldn’t kiss her.
He finished his
orange juice, leaned back and sighed. He was looking better already, his skin
no longer a sickly hue and his strength returning. She could feel his power
rising again, coming back to the level it usually rested at when he was around
her.
“Are you feeling
better?” She screwed up the paper her tarte tatin had been on and tossed it
back into the box.
He should be
feeling sick after eating that many pastries but, then again, she had seen
Apollyon devour an entire chocolate cake in one sitting without it giving him
an upset stomach.
He frowned. “My
head still hurts.”
“It’ll pass.” Had
he never had a headache before either? What else was new to him?
He lowered his
eyes to the road and stared at it, his gaze turning distant and cold again. He
stayed like it for so long that the worry that had faded on hearing he was
feeling better began to return.
“Are you still
unwell?” she said.
He blinked and
his attention snapped to her, a flicker of surprise in his golden eyes, as if
he had lost track of the world and was shocked to see her sitting beside him.
He sighed,
pinched the bridge of his nose and closed his eyes. “I am being compelled to
return.”
The Devil was
ordering him to return to Hell. Liora’s worry returned, worse than ever. If he
went back to Hell, would the Devil punish him for killing the angel and lying
to him about her?
What if he didn’t
go back?
“Will the Devil
send another bad angel after you if you don’t go to him?” she said and his eyes
opened and slid across to her.
“I am a bad angel…
the baddest.”
Liora blushed at
that, wicked scenarios running through her mind. He quirked his right eyebrow
at her reaction and she could understand why it had confused him. He had meant
to place distance between them, warning her away from him, and she had the
terrible feeling she knew why.
He stood, brushed
the crumbs off the strips of armour around his hips and stepped down onto the
pavement.
“Return to
Serenity and stay with them. You will be safe there. I must go.”
The ground bucked
and cracked, a glowing fiery fault line stretching thirty feet across the road
in front of her. The jagged line widened and lava dripped down into the dark
crevasse, hissing as it disappeared from view.
A gateway to
Hell.
“Wait.” Liora
shot to her feet and reached out to him.
Asmodeus looked
over his shoulder at her and then dropped into the darkness.
His wings caught
her arm as he spread them and she tipped forwards, flailed her arms in a
desperate attempt to right herself, and shrieked as she fell over the edge and
plummeted into the abyss.
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If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, Felicity Heaton’s best selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series she writes as F E Heaton or any of her stand alone vampire romance books she writes as Felicity Heaton. Or if you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try Felicity Heaton’s new Vampire Erotic Theatre series.
In 2011, five of her six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of her releases received five star reviews from numerous websites.
If you want to know more about Felicity, or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Felicity Heaton
writes passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton.
In her books she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action,
intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from
dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful
angels and hot demons!
If you're a fan
of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena
Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, Felicity Heaton’s best selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series she writes as F E Heaton or any of her stand alone vampire romance books she writes as Felicity Heaton. Or if you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try Felicity Heaton’s new Vampire Erotic Theatre series.
In 2011, five of her six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of her releases received five star reviews from numerous websites.
If you want to know more about Felicity, or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:
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