This weeks Featured Author is Amy Sumida (Goodreads - Paranormal, Fantasy, Dystopia & Romance Readers, Writers & Reviewers)
Out of the Darkness is part of a series split. It can be read alone or together with Into the Void. It features a split cover which can be placed beside Into the Void to create a full picture.
About this author
Amy Sumida lives on an island in the Pacific Ocean where gods go to play. She sleeps in a fairy bed, high in the air, with two gravity-defying felines and upon waking, enjoys stabbing people with little needles, over and over, under the guise of making pretty pictures on their skin. She has no filter, making her honesty a little hard to take sometimes, but she has been fortunate enough to find friends who appreciate this... or at least tell her they do. She bellydances and paints pictures on her walls but is happiest with her nose stuck in a book, her mind in a different world than this one, filled with fantastical men who unfortunately don't exist in our mundane reality. Thank the gods for fantasy.
She enjoys serious, kick-ass heroines in her
literature. "Nothing is more attractive than a woman who goes up against
overwhelming supernatural odds with a sense of humor," she says. "Who
wouldn't want to be that woman? I want to be that woman. So that's who I
write about, the woman I want to be." Her main characters are strong,
witty women, who in the midst of trauma will crack a joke, or find the
nerve to sass a villain even when they know it's not in their best
interest. Add to that, strong male characters who aren't intimidated or
emasculated by the main heroine's strength and you have a dynamic
partnership. Amy's books aren't about women being more powerful than men
or subjugating men in any way, they're about women who can be strong
and yet allow their men to have their own strengths as well. More
importantly, her heroines have humility and weaknesses that make them
not only believable but easy to relate to.
She's also an artist and
you can find her paintings for sale on Etsy.com, her favorite subjects
are scenes inspired by Hawaii and her series of "Living Vodou Dolls".
She loves the beautifully unusual.
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