Synopsis:
Mischief abounds at the Ainsworth School, and evil is lurking. What’s more, Katy has won Peter’s heart and is now claiming her place in the magical world. Though half the students at her boarding school come from witching lines, the use of magic is expressly forbidden at Ainsworth, so as to keep the witching world hidden from the blue-blooded preppies, aka Muffies, who also walk the halls.
But the Muffies have at least a notion of magic, because Katy catches them staging a made-up ritual—and then fall seriously ill. When Katy is blamed, she becomes desperate to clear her name and finds herself battling all odds to harness her growing magical powers in order to save the Muffies and dispel the Darkness once more.
POISON (Legacy, #2) By: Molly Cochran
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Release Date:
December 4th, 2012
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547250-poison
We Asked Molly:
Where did you get the idea for your characters from?
I love witches. I’ve
studied them, fantasized about them, cried over them, and felt outraged over
their horrible treatment back in the Middle Ages. I admire their insistence on
remembering the Old Ways (Wicca itself is known as “The Old Religion”) and
their acceptance of the supernatural. Mostly, I deeply respect a tradition in
which women are the preeminent teachers, philosophers, and spiritual leaders,
and are not considered to be inferior to men in any way.
So I wanted to write
about witches, minus the stigma of evil that’s been carried over ever since
women (and men) were burned at the stake for being uppity. I personally like
uppity witches, so I invested the characters in Legacy and Poison and the
next book in the series, Seduction, with
special powers. Some are healers, some are astral travelers. Some can read
minds. Some have more than five senses. My main character Katy is a telekinetic,
meaning she can move objects with her mind. In the realm of paranormal
abilities, telekinesis is a pretty humble talent, but it’s useful if Katy needs
to physically defend herself, which happens pretty often. You can’t fight a
flying table.
For those of you who
are writers, here’s my advice about where to get your ideas: Write about what
you love. Whatever interests you, whatever subject causes you to want to find
out more about it, that’s where you’re going to get the spark for your story.
As for characters… well, as Gustav Flaubert, the French author of Madame Bovary, said more than a hundred
years ago, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi”.
What he meant was that all the characters a novelist dreams up are really
versions of herself. Which, if you ask me, makes the process even more fun.
About Molly Cochran:
Molly Cochran, author of the teen paranormal romances LEGACY and
POISON, has written 26 published novels and four nonfiction books under her own
name and various pseudonyms. Her books include New York Times bestselling
novels GRANDMASTER and THE FOREVER KING, coauthored with Warren Murphy, and the
nonfiction DRESSING THIN, also a NY Times bestseller. She has won awards from
the Mystery Writers of America (Best Novel of the Year), the Romance Writers of
America (Best Thriller), and the New York Public Library (Outstanding Books for
the Teen Age).
SEDUCTION, the third installment in the LEGACY series, is scheduled
for release later this year through her publisher, Simon & Schuster.
Two eBooks, THE TEMPLE DOGS and THE FOREVER KING, are currently
available through online retailers. A third, GRANDMASTER, will be available
soon.
Molly has lectured extensively and has taught writing at the college
level as well as at a women's prison (where she was NOT an inmate). She also
writes a blog on writing technique which appears on her website,
MollyCochran.com. She is also on Facebook at facebook.com/molly.cochran1 and
Twitter at Twitter.com/mollycochranYA.
She lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Author Links:
Website: http://mollycochran.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mollycochranYA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/molly.cochran1
Purchase Links:
Giveaway!!! (SO AWESOME)
This is a TOUR WIDE giveaway.
There will be ONE winner – SIGNED copies of Legacy AND
Poison + Outtakes from the photo shoot for Selection!
Giveaway is open: US Mailing Addresses only.
Ends: July 6th, 2013 (12:00am EST
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