TOUR: A Spark of White Fire by Sandanna Mangu / magical reads

A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna

Release Date: September 11, 2018

Summary: In a universe of capricious gods, dark moons, and kingdoms built on the backs of spaceships, a cursed queen sends her infant daughter away, a jealous uncle steals the throne of Kali from his nephew, and an exiled prince vows to take his crown back.

Raised alone and far away from her home on Kali, Esmae longs to return to her family. When the King of Wychstar offers to gift the unbeatable, sentient warship Titania to a warrior that can win his competition, she sees her way home: she’ll enter the competition, reveal her true identity to the world, and help her famous brother win back the crown of Kali.

It’s a great plan. Until it falls apart.

Inspired by the Mahabharata and other ancient Indian stories, A Spark of White Fire is a lush, sweeping space opera about family, curses, and the endless battle be-tween jealousy and love.

I'm so happy to be a part of this blog tour! If you've read my review, you know I absolutely adored A Spark of White Fire; if you haven't, here's the link. Today I'm sharing a guest post from the author herself Sangu Mandanna. Don't forget to check out the giveaway below and the rest of the tour!

Music plays an enormous, incredibly important part in my writing process. Sometimes I work best when it’s quiet, but that’s usually when I need to sit back and solve a problem, figure out a plot hurdle, edit a tricky chapter. When I’m drafting, though, I almost always have music on. Music can help me shut out the real world, it can help me get inside a character’s skin, and it can put my mind in a place where I can create the right mood or feeling for a scene.

A Spark of White Fire was no exception. I had a lot of different kinds of music on when I wrote this book, often with no consideration for who the artist was (well, I did try not to listen to anyone who seems to be a horrible person!) or what the specific song was actually supposed to be about, and so the end result is an illogical mess of a playlist that captures my musical experience of drafting this story.

Lorde – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Imagine Dragons – Demons
Bear’s Den – Magdalene
Naughty Boy – No One’s Here to Sleep
Five Finger Death Punch – Far From Home
Bastille – Things We Lost in the Fire
Blaqk Audio – The Love Letter
Blaqk Audio – Wake Up, Open the Door, and Escape to the Sea
Iglu & Hartly – Violent and Young
Andrew Belle – In My Veins
Globus – Europa
Ellie Goulding – My Blood
Audiomachine – Lachrimae
Audiomachine – House of Cards
Globus – Orchard of Mines
Mikky Ekko – Who Are You Really?
The Killers – Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
Breaking Benjamin – So Cold
Ella Henderson – Ghost

About the Author: Sangu Mandanna was four years old when an elephant chased her down a forest road and she decided to write her first story about it. Seventeen years and many, many manuscripts later, she signed her first book deal. The Lost Girl, a YA sci fi novel about death and love, is available now. Sangu now lives in Norwich, a city in the east of England, with her husband and kids.

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Giveaway:

1 hardcover copy of A Spark of White Fire
open internationally!
open from September 24 - October 8

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