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The inspiration for Deadly Conflicts and a small look behind Lilly Rose -7/27/2018

amynshowers

As I had stated in my introduction post I enjoy strong female lead characters.  Females who are not just going to stand around waiting for a man to come and rescue them but who are willing to rescue themselves.  Now if you have only read the sample of my book given by Kindle and by Barnes and Noble then you are missing out on the true spirit that is Lilly Rose Clements Trents.

Now I am going to keep this as spoiler free as I can.  I do have a Patreon page where I may just make a post about this topic and give spoilers that will just wet your appetite to find out more by picking up the book and reading about everything for yourself.  I will talk more about that page in another post back to the background and reason I wrote Deadly Conflicts.

When I started writing this story I knew that Lilly would have to have several different conflicts ranging from dangerous to just your everyday issues.  I loved shows like La Femme Nikita(the original TV series in the 1990’s not the horrid remake, my opinion I just didn’t like it) Buffy and several other shows and books and movies starring women who were strong, independent and not afraid to do things their way not the way it is ‘supposed’ to be done.

I wanted Lilly to be a woman whom could protect herself but be a woman at the same time.  She does start off in the book as a young child, I plan to do a separate post about why I did this topic later, but the next thing you know she is a full-grown adult in the same chapter running a crew that are escaping this agency they work together in agency.  Now in both of these sets ups, she is helped out by other people.  As a child, she is helped out by Armond the agent who comes along whom finds her mother about to sell her off to a drug dealer for a fix.  The second time she is working together in a group with 3 other people but also has people on the outside helping them out as well getting them out.  But she is clearly in charge when she is an adult making sure this team is ready to leave and getting them out of the building safe and sound.

We start up a week later as she walks the streets ‘free for the first time in 10 years when she comes across a young woman being beaten by a man who is twice the size of Lilly.  After a few choice words towards Lilly, she had no qualms about beating him up and sending him on his way.  After attending to the girl and making sure that she was ok she finds herself with something she wasn’t expecting.  Things happen, and a new life drops in her lap like an early birthday present.  This pretty much brings us to the end of the sample piece there is a small bit of extra part that I will save for another post.

The synopsis of the book talks about Lilly’s love for two men.  One of whom is Armond the man whom saved her as a child and condemned her at the same time to a life in the agency where she ends up hating it.  Then there is Ben a computer genius who loves her in a way that she has never had before because all she had ever known really was that world.  Because in one form or another she has been kept spirited away by the agency to keep her hidden away until she was old enough to become an agent and work for them.  But this I will go into in greater detail again in another blog.

For both men, she shows her womanly side in a different way.  For Ben she shows she is in love with him in how she interacts with him later in the book, with him it is like they are like two teenagers despite both being in their late 20’s. They very much are sweethearts and Ben always makes sure never to do anything to hurt Lilly in any way.

But with Armond, it was different from his role in her life with him started as something different, as a mentor once she accepted him as such.  Then he was a protector and guardian.  But Armond from the first moment he saw Lilly again as an adult he was in love with her and knew he wanted to be with her and would do anything to make that so.  But he knew he had to be cunning in how he went about going after the girl.

So that is the general story for Lilly in a nutshell. I shall dive into the love triangle.  later.  But for now, I hope I have peaked your interest, and if so.  You can find my book on Amazon just click on the link for my book’s website to find the buy it now buttons and get the book to find out more about Lilly Rose and this love triangle she got herself into.

Me. My life, inspirations and what started me in writing. Part 2 – 7/22/2018

amynshowers

-See didn’t make you wait long now did I?

A month or so after the competition was over my second book was written as our school and my class played host to an author whom came to the school after the contest to teach the students about writing books.  We even had a professional artist come in to help create cover art for our stories.  Again, I was praised by not only the author about my unique story and cover art I had created.

Take note at this time the first book I wrote was a children’s book with no chapters.  However, the second book did have chapters in it and I did keep it once I got a computer I actually converted it on to a word document.  But it is now a far cry from the original story it once was.

Not long after I turned 13 my mother and I moved out of the City of Chicago because my mother wanted to get out of the city and in to the suburbs where she thought it would be safer to live.  So, we moved into a Berwyn bungalow, in which parts of the house actually inspired parts of the house for my second book that I am currently in the process of completing and hope to have out by the end of this year if things go well.  I still attended my final year of Elementary school in Chicago due to it being my final year of school even if I lived out of the city due to CPS manates for last year students that as long as they could make to school on time they could commuite from outside of the district the school was located.  My mother also had several years earlier started working for a doctor as a secretary then became his medical biller and coder, which was how she was able to move us from the city and is something I am proud to have seen her do.  While she did this she continued to work as a waitress as well holding two jobs for a number of years into my teens when she finally devoted herself fully to being a medical biller and coder, a carrer I later in life would persue myself.

Once I got to high school I was allowed to read more mature book’s, within reason as I was still under 18, and write more, even getting my first computer as before all my stories were hand written or typed on a type writer.  I even had a favorite English teacher from my first semester of Freshman year become my writing mentor after she saw my passion for reading and writing stories.  She encouraged and even became my editor on many of my stories and despite my not being her student would look forward to our afternoon sessions together if she didn’t have a student in for detention.  She was a great encouragement to creative writing even having an assignment where we wrote skits based upon Greek mythology.  Which if my parter, whom did no work, had shown up to do her part and hadn’t needed my neighbors grandson to play the part of a female I wouldn’t have lost my concentration and died laughing when he spoke his lines I would have gotten a perfect score but hey come on you try not laughing at a guy trying to do a females voice.  The whole class broke into a laugh and we were doing Arachne and Athena, so not a comedy.

It was during this time that I was also introduced to another form of writing Japanese comic books or Manga, however they were at the time altered for western audiences.  But I gobbled them up.  I was a regular customer at the local J. B. Dolton store that at a certain time of day the sales people didn’t even have to look up when the door rang as they always knew it was me and called out ‘Hello Amy the new book just came in and is at the register’ as they knew what I was looking for.

My high school years went by the same way all the time.  Once I got to college though is where I found that I really had a knack for entertaining people with my writing when I started writing in role play groups.  This is where I really harnessed, honed and created my style that is all my own.  I became famous for using twists and turns in my stories that people wouldn’t see coming.  At one point I was dubbed ‘The Plot Twist Queen’ for my ability to throw an unexpected plot twist at my partner that would have them going ‘what the where did that come from’ in a good way to make them think.

In 2005 I became the first person in my family to finish college and obtain a degree to my families delight in Computer Information Systems, which I didn’t pursue any further as I had joined my mother in doing medical billing and coding in high school and was happy doing that and still do so today as my main source of income.

So that brings us to here and now.  Unfortunately, over the years I have changed computers, meaning I have lost files several times meaning I have lost a lot of stories, at present I have over 100 stories in some form of completion from just started to almost complete.  But I have finally obtained a dream I have always had.  I finally became a published author with the publication of my first book Deadly Conflicts.  Which is avaliable on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and many local book stores online websites.  Check out my link on my main page to my books website to find out more about where you can buy this book.  I will also be posting blogs about how I came up with the story and other things that I didn’t get to cover in the book so look out for those as well.  I hope you enjoyed hearing my story of how I became the author I am today.

Until next time Keep Reading.

 

Be bold and different this weekend – 7/20/2018

amynshowers

Don’t be like everyone else, break out and become who you were meant to be.  Maybe Lily can help you discover who that is.  Why not find out if she can help you?  Just pick up my book and see if she is available to help.

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