Falling For Fallen Angels

So I originally began this blog as a way for family, friends, and fans to follow my writing progress for my first book, Fallen & Forgotten...that's a lot of F's! I plan on posting on that in a later post, but today wanted to talk about the concept of fallen angels in writing. I stumbled across the website of young adult author, Becca Fitzpatrick, and read about her fallen angel series. Wanting to learn more about her books, I went to Youtube hoping to find some information. I stumbled across polandbananasBOOKS' channel and found it to be pretty interesting. She is a young woman who does book reviews. I was at first annoyed by her hyperactivity and didn't think that I would get much out of the fifteen-minute video, but actually found myself amused by her fast paced talking and excitement.

I'm not sure what drew me to XTINEMAY, but she's totally someone who I would want to be friends with in real life. In fact, I would be really honored if she reviewed one of my books in the future. I had to agree with almost every point that she made about the first book in Fitzpatrick's fallen angel series, Hush Hush, and I haven't even read the book yet! I was glad when she brought up Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga. Both Fitzpatrick and Meyer are mormon women who attended Brigham Young University, so maybe that has something to do with their similar plots and characters. I'm not sure what is so intriguing about falling in love with mythological or supernatural creatures. My fallen angel story does not include love or having to pick between two ungodly sexy men. It focuses entirely on an angel's fall and not teenage romance. It gives me hope that there is a much more darker audience for my fallen angel novel.

I am considering reading the fallen angel stories in the market, just so I can know what to stay away from. Although Becca Fitzpatrick is a New York Times best selling author, I wouldn't want to write anything similar to what is already out there. It's funny, I hate reading, and rarely ever am in the mood to pick up a book. Most people say that it is good to read so that we can get inspired by ideas. I would actually only read so that I would know what NOT to write.

Below is a book trailer for Hush Hush. I've always been turned off by book trailers because they normally include pictures, text, and cheesy music. As someone who first went to film school, I would prefer real actors to bring the book trailer to life, like when dozens of famous people came together to build the live action trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Nevertheless, the trailers for Fitzpatrick's writing aren't all that bad, so take a look and let me know what you think!