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Writing
Asmodeus from Her Wicked Angel
Thank you, Becky, for having me here today at
Underworld Love Addiction as part of my Her Wicked Angel Virtual Book Tour!
First, here’s a little about me. I’m a
paranormal romance author and I’ve been writing since 2005, and went indie in
2006. I love to write big worlds, populated by vampires, shifters, demons, fae
and angels, and I have several series. This tour is about the Her Angel series,
where passionate angels fight to protect the women they love in a deadly war
between Heaven and Hell.
Today, I’m going to talk a little about
writing Asmodeus, the hero of the newest release in the Her Angel series, Her
Wicked Angel.
Writing Asmodeus
was always going to be difficult but after releasing Her Demonic Angel, the
fifth book in the series, I asked readers who they would love to see as a hero,
and he came top of the poll. It was a fantastic result as I had always intended
to write his story next. The trouble is, he’s also mostly evil and in Her
Demonic Angel was one of the bad guys, and was best known for a moment when he
was busy torturing one of the other characters in the book and then fighting
another and generally being what he is—evil. Not exactly hero material, right?
Asmodeus is the
clone of one of the previous heroes in the series, Apollyon, but he’s a clone
with a difference. Apollyon and the Devil are locked in a constant cycle where
they must fight each other every so many centuries and the outcome of that
fight affects the world. If Apollyon wins, Heaven prevails and the Devil is
trapped in the Bottomless Pit in Hell until their next battle. If Apollyon
loses, the Devil can escape Hell and wreak havoc upon Earth. The first time
Apollyon lost, the Devil tortured him to the brink of insanity, unleashing all
that was dark in him and driving out all that was good. He used the blood of
this evil side of Apollyon to create Asmodeus, and Asmodeus has spent millennia
in Hell working for the Devil as his right hand man.
Turning Asmodeus
into a hero was not going to be an easy task but I was willing to take on the
challenge because I knew something about him that readers did not.
He might be
99.9% evil, but there is 0.01% good in him, and it’s that fragment of good that
his heroine, Liora, sees in him. She grows determined to make him admit it
exists and show him that he can be the man he wants to be, and doesn’t have to
be the one everyone expects him to be, and that good can be a strength rather
than a weakness.
It was difficult
to strike a balance between the good and the evil in Asmodeus, and also his
innocence and experience. I didn’t want to portray him as totally evil as he
had appeared in the previous book. I wanted to show readers that while the
scales were tipped towards evil, there was still some good in him, but it was
buried deep. It took Liora to prod and poke at that seed of good to make it
begin to grow, and begin to give him more balance in his character.
I really loved
exploring this complicated and contradictory hero. He has been around for
thousands of years, but all of those years were passed in Hell, working for the
Devil. He knows of the mortal world, but has no experience of it. It was fun tossing
him into that brash, noisy, colourful world and giving him a heroine who is
bold and stubborn, and powerful in her own right. There was something
satisfying about throwing this powerful, dark male off balance and watching him
fight the current as he struggles to learn how to behave in that world,
experiences new things, and discovers that there is more good in him than he
had originally thought. He went through so many emotions in the story, feeling
each one keenly, and coming to know new ones such as fear and love. It was
wonderful to watch him grow and come to fight for Liora, and to eventually
realise that he had fallen in love with the wicked little witch.
Asmodeus might
not be a contender for hero of the year at the end of the book, but he’s on his
way to finding balance between the evil and the good in him, and he’s stealing
hearts along the way.
I hope you
enjoyed this insight into writing Asmodeus, the hero of Her Wicked Angel.
Be
sure to follow this fantastic tour to learn more about the passionate heroes
and sassy heroines! You can also find yourself with a chance to WIN a $50 or $25 Amazon Gift Certificate if you follow the tour. More
details, including how to enter and a full list of stops, are available at the Her
Wicked Angel Virtual Book Tour page: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-wicked-angel-book-tour.php
Read
more about Her Wicked Angel below, and visit my site for links to all the retailers
and a 6 chapter excerpt:
Her Wicked Angel (Her Angel Romance Series
Book 6)
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 toParis
Caught up in a tempest of danger and soul-searing passion, can they survive against the odds and seize their forever after?
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
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
Books in the Her
Angel romance series:
FREE EBOOK: Want to get a free taste of this series? You can download the first book, Her Dark Angel, for free at selected ebook stores (and two other free paranormal romance ebooks too). Find all the links at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/paranormal-romance-ebook-offers.php
If you want to know more about Felicity,
or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:
Website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk
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