It was after the Watersong series had started coming out, and that series didn’t do as well as I’d hoped, and I’d been obsessing over the whole publishing industry and so focused on the business side of writing I’d really lost sight of actually enjoying the process.

I started writing it several years ago, actually, before I wrote the Kanin Chronicles. So if you like Stranger Things, you may enjoy Freeksįor those of you who want more background on Freeks, it is totally my baby. –The hit Netflix series Stranger Things is definitely inspired by many, many of the same things that inspired me to write Freeks (although the two stories are vastly different). I’ll post another blog about it in the future going more in depth, but for now, you can check it out: here. The idea for the book was actually solidified while listening to “Hush” by the Limousines. –The soundtrack for Freeks (which is the playlist I created to listen to while writing the book) is my absolute favorite of all time. –I pitched it as Pretty in Pink meets The Lost Boys but with absolutely no vampires –It’s young adult paranormal romance set in the 1980s – Freeks will be out Januin hardcover and ebook. – Freeks is a stand-alone novel, meaning it starts and finishes in a single book with no sequels or prequels or anything. In order to unravel the truth before the attacker kills everyone Mara holds dear, she has seven days to take control of a power she didn’t know she was capable of―one that could change her future forever.

Mara realizes that there’s a sinister presence lurking in the town with its sights set on getting rid of the sideshow freeks. When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they need if they set up camp in Caudry, Louisiana, Mara meets local-boy Gabe…and a normal life has never been more appealing.īut before long, performers begin disappearing and bodes are found mauled by an invisible beast.

Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night. Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Welcome to Gideon Davorin’s Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act… I have a new cover to share with you, and all kinds of info about it, and I’m so excited, so let’s just get to it:

Freeks by amanda hocking