Guest Post: Emma Michaels, author of Owlet

The Owlet Painting

I have always been an avid fan of art, and at some point in my life, that love of viewing art drove me to start creating it. While writing has always been a very natural state of being for me I was not a very good artist at first. Sadly, my attempts at drawing would make friends laugh and family members wide-eyed with worry that they might have to compliment such a catastrophe. Luckily, I guess my art pulled a bit of an ugly duckling. In my sixth grade year I went from laughable attempts to meager beginnings and by seventh grade I was able to get into AP art. 

Then by eighth grade I was doing well enough that when I switched schools my new teacher gave me free reign over my own instruction and let me use her back room during class and any of the supplies I might need. While that sadly only lasted a year it made a huge difference in my life and now I work as a cover artist for numerous publishing companies and love to draw and paint in my free time. My art can sometimes be tied to my writing because when I get a moment of inspiration, if I am doing something that means I can’t write at that time or if it is just too vague to be put into the story yet, I draw the emotions and let my mind wander for a while until I get back on track.

This painting was only partially finished because I ended up realizing what scene I was creating and writing it, leaving the painting to dry. While I never finished it I never had the heart to get rid of it. I know I could finish it now but I don’t want to change that moment of inspiration, I have come to love its half completed state. The image is from Iris’ very first dream of flying to the island, even though she doesn’t remember it yet, it was the only dream with a very different beginning. 

Owlet Summary
Somewhere between falling and flying… there is a girl.

Iris has a secret. She lost her memory eight years ago and never told a living soul. After an asthma attack one night she finds out that her dreams of a strange house on a snowy island may be a memory resurfacing but the more she learns about the past the more she realizes the life she has been living is a lie. As the façade her father has built starts to crumble around her she will have to decide which means more to her; the truth or her life.



Excerpt:


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“No! Iris, please!” Falcon stared at her with pain in his eyes as she began backing away from him, her face covered in horror as she looked back and forth between him and Diana. Only, unlike Diana, Falcon had let his guard down and stood perfectly still as though willing her not to leave.

“Please, Iris, listen to me. I promised I wouldn’t lie to you. I was sent to kill you but I didn’t! I couldn’t! Your parents took me in and—”

Iris couldn’t hear anything anymore, only her own footsteps pounding against the ground as she ran. She jumped over the objects in her path so she wouldn’t trip and stumble, allowing either of the people who she now felt were nothing more than strangers to stop her escape. She knew her lungs wouldn’t be able to hold out for long. She just wanted to get somewhere they couldn’t find her, or to the dock, hoping that she might be able to call the ferry and ask them to take her away from here.

It is all too much. It is just all too much, she thought to the voice inside of her but she couldn’t hear a response. It was hauntingly silent.

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eBook
ISBN: 9780985792213
ISBN: 9781476473338
Pages: 170
Release: October 13, 2012

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Emma Michaels is the author of the ‘A Sense of Truth’ and ‘Society of Feathers’ series. Her goal with her latest YA novel 'Owlet' is to give others what she did not have growing up; a strong female protagonist with asthma.  While her previous aspiration was to be a lady knight she realized that not being able to run more than a few feet might become a hindrance so turned to writing instead. Her day jobs include being a cover artist, marketing consultant and silk screen designer.

As the founder of The Writers Voice blog (http://OurBooksOurVoice.Blogspot.com) she loves to connect authors and readers. As a book blogger turned author, she was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, until she moved at eighteen to Washington State. Suddenly, the world was a new place filled with tall green trees that reached further for the sky with every moment, making her want to do the same. Ever since, she has tried to make her life something new and different from what it was before, pursuing her future career, setting high goals and reaching for them. With the support of her fiancé, Chihuahua, and her amazing blog followers and fellow bloggers, she wants to prove to the world that anything is possible and help inspire fellow literary lovers to reach for their dreams.

 

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