After that, things started to mesh and the long drive back to Austin gave me plenty of uninterrupted time to expand on my ideas.

Childrens Teen and Young Adult Self-Help. 1 Book 1 Shadow Hills Anastasia Hopcus From 4.99 Popular Categories. See future books in the series listed in order as they release. While there, I got a real sense of my main character, Phe, and her background. The Shadow Hills book series by Anastasia Hopcus begins with Shadow Hills. It was around this time that I took a road trip to visit some friends in LA. This led to research and more questions, and I began to see the story develop. I wondered how this might have come about and what other effects such abilities might have on a person. That’s when I really started brainstorming. Then I saw a 60 Minutes segment on a gifted savant, and I realized that I wanted the powers to be anchored in reality, with a concentration on enhanced mental abilities. So I was headed in that direction, but I wasn’t sure about exactly where I was going. My love for paranormal elements seemed like a great way to shake things up, but I thought it was important to start a new mythology instead of reworking one that was already in place, such as vampires. Anastasia Hopcus, quote from Shadow Hills Copy text The real reason I couldn’t tear my gaze away, the thing that turned my muscles to ice even as my skin burned, was the one and only thought running through my mind: That’s him. She lives in Austin, Texas and when she isn't writing, she's watching old horror movies and playing D&D with her husband and friends.or chasing her furry, four-legged children after they've decided to eat something decidedly inedible. I was interested in writing a YA novel set in a boarding school, but I wanted something different from most boarding school stories. Anastasia is the author of the YA novel Shadow Hills. : window.attachEvent & window.1) How did the idea for Shadow Hills first come to fruition? Hoping to make sense of her sister's sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills, MA - a school which her sister mysteriously mentioned in her last diary. Var a = document.createElement('script') ĭocument.getElementsByTagName('body').appendChild(a) After her sister Athenas tragic death, its obvious that grief-stricken Persephone 'Phe' Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. After her sister Athena's tragic death, it's obvious that grief-stricken Persephone 'Phe' Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles.

Window._AudioEyeSiteHash = '74c18ede93ed58c6af2bd162bb878221' Anastasia Hopcus, quote from Shadow Hills Copy text You can't leave, Zach,' Corinne said through gritted teeth.

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Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus