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Amber V. Nicole

Amber V. Nicole is an international and USA Today bestselling dark fantasy author whose fiction blends epic stakes, morally gray characters, and touches of horror. ((https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/author/amber-v-nicole/?utm_source=openai)) She is best known for the Gods & Monsters series, including The Book of Azrael and The Throne of Broken Gods, a BookTok cult favorite with English- and Spanish-language editions. ((https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/author/amber-v-nicole/?utm_source=openai))

Biography & Author's Journey

Amber V. Nicole’s publicly available author profile is concise, but the outlines of her development are clear. She is identified in publisher and reader bios as a U.S.-born dark fantasy writer whose work blends romance with horror elements and a strong attraction to morally gray characters. In interviews, she has said that the story that became Gods & Monsters had been with her since high school and before college, and that she originally expected to pursue veterinary medicine while writing on the side. She has also traced part of her creative formation to paranormal romance, especially the work of Jeaniene Frost, which helped convince her that she could build this kind of world herself. ((https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22127450.Amber_V_Nicole?utm_source=openai))

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I am having so much fun; I love interacting and being around readers
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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I’m just a girl
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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It is a sense of belonging
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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I know that I write fantasy and high fantasy, but I was a paranormal romance girly
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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It will still have all the fun banter, but be a little bit smaller world, no opening realms again
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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I always said it was going to be seven
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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It’s not fair to the characters or the story if I cut it short
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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This is what I am excited to do every day, it brings me joy
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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The original ideas were always her being morally grey, and him being super good, it was so fun to write because of the banter
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series
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I do, but I can’t tell you, it’s in book 5
-Interview with Amber V. Nicole: Author of the Gods and Monsters series

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