Rose O'Brien

Paranormal and Urban Fantasy Romance Author

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Inside the Flame Release Date and Pre-Order

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I’m so excited to announce that Inside the Fire, the pulse-pounding second installment of the Elemental Mages series, will be released June 20!

The pre-order link went live this morning and you can order your copy here.

I started writing this book in August 2015. It’s been a long road to get it ready for publication and I hope you like spending time in this world as much as I did!

Here is the blurb:

Jen Jiang is busted. No stranger to death, she can see and speak to the recently deceased, which makes being an embedded journalist in war zones even more dangerous than usual. Doing a small favor for a newly dead woman exposes her secret to a death cult, determined to use her powers for their own twisted ends.

The last thing she needs is a fire mage with a hero complex intent on rescuing her.

Theron is shocked when he realizes Jen is a seer. She could be the key advantage in the battle against an impending demon invasion. With the death cult in close pursuit, he’ll do anything to keep her safe. Even if that means rescuing her against her will.

As Theron drags her on a dangerous journey from Baghdad to Damascus to try and reach a portal to safety, she tries to find a way out. Letting anyone, even a considerate, sexy man, control her life is out of the question. She’s seen too much to believe anyone is going to look out for her. But as they fight to survive in the world’s most dangerous place, sparks fly, and barriers fall. Cooperation turns to lust, but with an interdimensional battle looming, survival may come at the expense of her heart.

Huge thanks to Mayflower Studio for the gorgeous cover!

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Cover Reveal for Book 2!

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I’m so excited to share the cover for Inside the Flame, the second book in the Elemental Mages series.

This book features Theron, Alayna’s brother, as the hero. He’s a fire mage who keeps his own desires on a pretty short leash. When he runs across a war reporter with an unusual ability in the middle of Baghdad, he’ll find himself losing that iron control.

Jen is reporter/photographer with a painful past. She’s lost herself in a war zone to try to outrun her personal demons. But when actual demons from another dimension realize she has a power they need, she’ll need the Theron’s help, even if she wants to strangle him half the time.

I hope you guys enjoy Jen and Theron’s story. I’m aiming for a March release date, if I can get all the edits done in time. Pre-order links to follow, so stay tuned!

Big thanks to Amala Benny with mayflowerstudio.com for all her hard work on this cover. Seriously, if need a book cover or design work, email Amala. She’s amazing to work with.

Peace, love and happy hunting, Mage fans!

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How much of myself is in my writing?

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How much of myself is in my writing?
I get asked this occasionally. The answer: some.
Every character I write has some little piece of me. Alayna, the heroine from “Air of Darkenss,” has a lot of my younger self in her. She makes many of her choices based on instinct. She has a hard time thinking outside her preconceived notions. She’s far too trusting.
For Jen, the heroine from “Inside the Fire,” I gave her some some experiences that were similar to painful episodes of my own (but hers were turned up to 11). In some ways, Jen is what I could have become, emotionally speaking, if I didn’t have friends and family around to support me through a difficult time.
Other characters have very small pieces of me. For example, Alex, the hero in “Air of Darkness,” suffers from panic attacks. So do I. I know exactly how they feel. When it came time to write them into the book, I think I did a good job of capturing how it feels for the reader.
As for the plots of the books, I write paranormal and urban fantasy. All that comes from a very active imagination. Other bits come from a lot of research. A lot comes from my favorite folklore texts. I swear, I’ve never summoned La Llorona on the banks of Lady Bird Lake in real life.
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Cover Reveal!

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The cover for my debut novel, Air of Darkness, is here! The book doesn’t come out until Oct. 16, although it is available for pre-order on Amazon and Kobo.

Here it is:

The cover was designed by Amala Benny of Mayflowerstudio.com. She was absolutely amazing to work with and if you need a book cover, either premade or custom, drop her a line.

I love seeing my vision of the heroine, Alayna Blackwell, come to life in this cover!

 

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My earliest memory

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Photo by Laura Fuhrman
I think about memory a lot. I work with neurologists and I write about science a lot for my day job. Did you know memory is very malleable thing? Studies show that just the act of recalling a memory can change the memory. The original memory can become associated with whatever you were thinking or experiencing or feeling at the time you recalled it.
So, my earliest memory, as far as I can tell is from when I was about three years old. I remember rolling down the stairs at my aunt’s house in Corpus Christi.  I was rolling sideways, thumping down stair at a time.
It was a fun, silly thing. A happy memory.
In another very early memory, I can remember my grandfather, my mother’s father. I was maybe two or three. I was messing with the buttons on his shirt and he smacked my hand. It was very soft, just a gentle chastisement to get me to leave it alone. It’s my only memory of him.
I have a young daughter. She’s three now. I often wonder what her first real memory will be. It might have already happened. It might be about to happen. When we have a really fun day together, I wonder, “Will this be her earliest memory?”
When I get frustrated and shout or I have to scold her or put her timeout or take something sharp away and she cries, I wonder, “Will this be her earliest memory?”
It’s something I can’t really control. All I can do is try to make the happy memories outnumber the not-so-happy memories and hope the good ones stick.
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My favorite thing I’ve written and why

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I love my first book. It’s my baby. It’s funny and romantic and the characters have been with me a long time.
I thought up the basic premise for “Air of Darkness” and the Elemental Mages series back in college. That was about 15 years ago. I didn’t actively write the thing until about five years ago and finished it three years ago.
It’s been through a lot of revisions since then. It’s a very different book than the one I started with. And that’s a good thing. It’s a much better, deeper book than what I started out with, as good as I thought it was at the time.

Photo by Michael Mouritz

I think the thing I love most about “Air of Darkness” is the heroine. A lot of people ask me if there’s any of me in Alayna. Not really. Alayna is aspirational. I would like to react like she does. I would like to be able to carry the burdens she does with the kind of toughness she displays. I’m not as strong or as fearless as Alayna is, but I wish I was.
At the same time, I’m glad I don’t have to deal with her problems.
But….
I also love my second book. Don’t ask me which one I love more. That’s like asking me to pick between my children. I love them both for different reasons.
I wrote “Inside the Fire,” the second book in the Elemental Mages series, in the wake of some pretty hefty trauma and it was very cathartic. I handed a lot of my own pain and experience to the heroine in that book. Then, I gave her a heap more. And I feel like it’s good and it’s real and it’s raw. Jen handles what happens to her in a very different way than I did and it was so interesting to write her story.
It was incredibly freeing to be able to write that way. There are also a lot of really fun characters in that book. Theron will always be a hero close to my heart.
“Air of Darkness” is slated for release this fall.
“Inside the Fire” will be released in early 2019.
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