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April 23, 2014
AN OCEAN ATWEEN US Cover Update
Andy just sent me a work-in-progress draft of the cover. It's really coming together. I love the ship, but we've decided Will's face is a bit too wide and maybe he needs to be a tad more handsome. I'm loving the hair, though. He's still working on the rigging ropes, water, and sky. The more I look at it, the more I like it.
What do you think?
What do you think?
AN OCEAN ATWEEN US Cover Update!
Andy just sent me a work-in-progress draft of the cover. It's really coming together. I love the ship, but we've decided Will's face is a bit too wide and maybe he needs to be a tad more handsome. I'm loving the hair, though. He's still working on the rigging ropes, water, and sky. The more I look at it, the more I like it.
What do you think?
What do you think?
April 19, 2014
AN OCEAN ATWEEN US
I've got some exciting news for my devoted readers who've waited and waited and waited for a new book from me. The wait is just about over!!
Last fall, after some deep soul-searching, I left my agent, and now I'm managing my work myself. I finished my revision of SLIPPED and am happy to report it is under consideration with an editor I'm dying to work with.
After even more soul-searching, I decided to indie publish my historical coming-of-age love story, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US.
It will be available,...
Last fall, after some deep soul-searching, I left my agent, and now I'm managing my work myself. I finished my revision of SLIPPED and am happy to report it is under consideration with an editor I'm dying to work with.
After even more soul-searching, I decided to indie publish my historical coming-of-age love story, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US.
It will be available,...
AN OCEAN ATWEEN US
I've got some exciting news for my devoted readers who've waited and waited and waited for a new book from me. The wait is just about over!!
Last fall, after some deep soul-searching, I left my agent, and now I'm managing my work myself. I finished my revision of SLIPPED and am happy to report it is under consideration with an editor I'm dying to work with.
After even more soul-searching, I decided to indie publish my historical coming-of-age love story, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US.
It will be available, literally, any day!!! I hired my son's company, iqSoup, to design the cover, and their illustrator is working on an original painting for it right now.
Here's the rough sketch to give you an idea of what we're planning. I can't wait to see this come to life.
I've been working on the back cover text. So, imagine the painting above with a handsome brooding hero staring out at you. You pick up the book and read:
Will Glover, a proud Scots coal mining lad, is forced to leave Lucie, the lass he loves, behind when his father commits the family to a mining venture in the New World. Despite the ocean that will separate them, he vows to return for her. Angry with his father and broken-hearted, he resents the dangers he must face and nurtures the loneliness in his soul. One devastating letter, brings all his plans crashing to the ground. Will he spend the rest of his life cankered with bitterness or learn to forgive and love again?
SING ME TO SLEEP and TAKEN BY STORM readers will recognize the luminous, heart-wrenching, coming-of-age love story they’ve come to expect from award-winning, critically acclaimed author, Angela Morrison, set in a very different time and place. After decades of research and rewriting, Morrison brings you a story inspired by her own heritage and what she terms her “masterpiece.”
AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is the first book in Morrison’s WE, GLOVER'S series, a family saga told in intense, coming-of-age journeys, from one generation to the next.
You want to read more, right?
Last fall, after some deep soul-searching, I left my agent, and now I'm managing my work myself. I finished my revision of SLIPPED and am happy to report it is under consideration with an editor I'm dying to work with.
After even more soul-searching, I decided to indie publish my historical coming-of-age love story, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US.
It will be available, literally, any day!!! I hired my son's company, iqSoup, to design the cover, and their illustrator is working on an original painting for it right now.
Here's the rough sketch to give you an idea of what we're planning. I can't wait to see this come to life.
I've been working on the back cover text. So, imagine the painting above with a handsome brooding hero staring out at you. You pick up the book and read:
Will Glover, a proud Scots coal mining lad, is forced to leave Lucie, the lass he loves, behind when his father commits the family to a mining venture in the New World. Despite the ocean that will separate them, he vows to return for her. Angry with his father and broken-hearted, he resents the dangers he must face and nurtures the loneliness in his soul. One devastating letter, brings all his plans crashing to the ground. Will he spend the rest of his life cankered with bitterness or learn to forgive and love again?
SING ME TO SLEEP and TAKEN BY STORM readers will recognize the luminous, heart-wrenching, coming-of-age love story they’ve come to expect from award-winning, critically acclaimed author, Angela Morrison, set in a very different time and place. After decades of research and rewriting, Morrison brings you a story inspired by her own heritage and what she terms her “masterpiece.”
AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is the first book in Morrison’s WE, GLOVER'S series, a family saga told in intense, coming-of-age journeys, from one generation to the next.
You want to read more, right?
December 23, 2013
I'm Back with Good News!
I've been off-line so I could concentrate on writing new books for you to enjoy, but I've returned to bring you back an old favorite, SING ME TO SLEEP's new Kindle version is now live in Kindle bookstores around the world! Merry Christmas!!
So where've I been? Well, last Christmas--just a few days after my last post--instead of relaxing and enjoying our grandkids who'd flown in from the East coast, our daughter who'd just got engaged, and our son and his wife who'd just moved close to us, we bought a new house and sold our old one. It all happened in a matter of days. I'm still trying to catch up.
Then, as planned, after our daughter's wedding and our youngest graduated (as the salutatorian for his high school, yes I'm a proud mamma), we packed our bags for Switzerland. For the past six months, we've been traveling back and forth between Arizona and Switzerland.
Moving is not good for writing--even worse for blogging. I did manage to get back to revising my time-travel post-nuclear winter rogue assassin meets Jane Austen heroine in medieval Europe novel, SLIPPED. With the help of my critique bud who swapped manuscripts with me all fall, I got a full draft completed. I'm at the polishing stage. I'll give you a taste of it soon. I promise. I think you'll love it.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
So where've I been? Well, last Christmas--just a few days after my last post--instead of relaxing and enjoying our grandkids who'd flown in from the East coast, our daughter who'd just got engaged, and our son and his wife who'd just moved close to us, we bought a new house and sold our old one. It all happened in a matter of days. I'm still trying to catch up.
Then, as planned, after our daughter's wedding and our youngest graduated (as the salutatorian for his high school, yes I'm a proud mamma), we packed our bags for Switzerland. For the past six months, we've been traveling back and forth between Arizona and Switzerland.
Moving is not good for writing--even worse for blogging. I did manage to get back to revising my time-travel post-nuclear winter rogue assassin meets Jane Austen heroine in medieval Europe novel, SLIPPED. With the help of my critique bud who swapped manuscripts with me all fall, I got a full draft completed. I'm at the polishing stage. I'll give you a taste of it soon. I promise. I think you'll love it.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
I'm Back!
I've been off-line so I could concentrate on writing new books for you to enjoy, but I've returned to bring you back an old favorite, SING ME TO SLEEP's new Kindle version is now live in Kindle bookstores around the world! Merry Christmas!!
So where've I been? Well, last Christmas--just a few days after my last post--instead of relaxing and enjoying our grandkids who'd flown in from the East coast, our daughter who'd just got engaged, and our son and his wife who'd just moved close to us, we b...
So where've I been? Well, last Christmas--just a few days after my last post--instead of relaxing and enjoying our grandkids who'd flown in from the East coast, our daughter who'd just got engaged, and our son and his wife who'd just moved close to us, we b...
December 24, 2012
Christmas Giveaway!
This Christmas I'm hosting a giveaway where everyone wins! I'm offering all three ebooks in the TAKEN BY STORM saga FREE!!
If you haven't read all three books yet or know friends who would enjoy Michael and Leesie's love story, here's your chance to get or share them free.
This is the first free promotion I've run for TAKEN BY STORM's new ebook. To get your free copy, go to Storm on Smashwords, click buy, and enter coupon code BC82K at checkout to download a free copy. The code is good unt...
If you haven't read all three books yet or know friends who would enjoy Michael and Leesie's love story, here's your chance to get or share them free.
This is the first free promotion I've run for TAKEN BY STORM's new ebook. To get your free copy, go to Storm on Smashwords, click buy, and enter coupon code BC82K at checkout to download a free copy. The code is good unt...
December 18, 2012
Prayers for the Season
On December 6th, Bill O'Reilly reported that a six-year-old girl in North Carolina wrote a poem for Veteran's Day about her grandfathers who both served in Vietnam. In the poem, she wrote, "They prayed to God for peace. They prayed to God for strength." Someone complained, and the Superintendent of McDowell County Schools decided this child couldn't write about her grandfathers turning to God in times of trouble--at least not at school.
I prepared to write a post about all the books I love--fr...
I prepared to write a post about all the books I love--fr...
November 15, 2012
Free Ebooks and English Teachers
Starting at midnight tonight, Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer on Kindle!! I'm flying up to Las Vegas for the National Council of English Teachers (NCTE) annual conference. I'm excited to spend three days sharing with and learning from the nation's English teachers.
I'm presenting "An Author's Toolkit: Techniques from the Pros," with two friends from Vermont College. I'm so excited to see them again. I'm also part of a roundtable discussion on digital storytelling, "Getting Dig...
I'm presenting "An Author's Toolkit: Techniques from the Pros," with two friends from Vermont College. I'm so excited to see them again. I'm also part of a roundtable discussion on digital storytelling, "Getting Dig...
October 15, 2012
Free "Plot Challenged" Webinar
My free 2-hour webinar, "Plot Challenged," is Wednesday, October 17th, 7 PM EST. Follow this link to register http://www.writingforchildrenlive.com/Angela_Morrison.html
If you have a hard drive full of great ideas and a few opening chapters, this webinar is for you. I'll go over four plotting strategies that I use and editors expect.
The webinar is available online, so writers can join us from anywhere in the world. If you can't make the live broadcast, no worries. Registrants h...
