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Upcoming Promotion!

I wanted to let you all in on a big promotion I'm running July 16th-20th. To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Michael and Leesie's first words on my page, I'm having a big contest and offering the new Taken by Storm Kindle ebook for only $ 0.99! And for that week only Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer will be free on the Kindle.

I'd love to have your help! Those of you who have your own blogs, comment below or drop me an email if you'd like to be involved. You guys love Michael and Leesie...

Where Would he Go?

I'm excited. My new website is live . . . I think. I'm getting mixed messages. But this link seems to work, http://www.angela-morrison.com/index.html. Please take it for a test ride and let me know what you think!

Thanks for your patience. Back to "Storm's Story," from my original website.

Where Would he Go?
April 17, 2008


Writing a novel starts out like creating an intricate tiled mosaic. I mull and think, much like an artisan would play with different colors and sizes of stone and glass. P...

NEW STORM COVER REVEAL!!!

YES!!!!! We're releasing an all new Taken by Storm ebook. And here's the brand new cover. This is Storm's third cover. I love this one. It feels much more like Michael and Leesie to me. What do you think?



So, why a new ebook? I get to have my talented son, Rob, design a new cover, for one. Plus, the old Taken by Storm ebook is unreadable unless you download it to a big computer screen. (Picture me with a cartoon red face and steam blasting out of my ears.) Not good. Penguin still controls that...

Michael's First Words

I've got some exciting news that I'm bursting to tell you. Tune in tomorrow for the big reveal.

For now, enjoy how Michael transformed from questions in my brain to words on the page. He surprised me!

Vermont College and Answers
from "Storm's Story" on www.angela-morrison.com
Monday, April 14, 2008

In July of 2002, I started to discover the answers to the questions that kept swirling in my brain.

The summer before, I’d gone to SCBWI’s LA conference. I came away impressed that I needed to prof...

How Michael came to inhabit my brain

One of the miracles of creating fiction is characters. None have haunted me quite like Michael. Here's how he came to inhabit my brain.


Hurricane on the Horizon
from "Storm's Story" on angela-morrison.com
Thurs., April 10, 2008

A few years ago my husband and I were diving off Cozumel, Mexico. We had sunshine at first, but halfway through the trip the weather turned nasty. Dark skies. Rain. We still dove. Nothing much stops a boatful of determined divers.

This is me and my hubby on that trip.
We hea...

Books by Mormons about Mormons for Readers Who Aren't Mormons

Most of the Mormon authors who've become household names in the national marketplace, like Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl), and the queen in the realm of Mormon authors, Stephanie Meyers (Twilight)--to name a very, very few of the many amazing Mormon authors out there--write speculative fiction, fantasy and sic-fi. Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) writes historical. They don't write books that feature Mormon ch...

Michael and Leesie's 10th Anniversary

I'm feeling nostalgic today. I have to archive all the material on my website and put together an all new site. I've used Apple's me.com and before that mac.com to host my website and with the advent of the free iCloud they've stopped hosting, so my old site is history! Aaaaaaah!

I'm keeping my same domain so you'll still be able to find me at www.angela-morrison.com. And I'm transferring and updating the content. I think the new site will be great, but my old site has so much material on it....

And the Breaking Beautiful Winners are . . . !!!

I've finally drawn the winners for the Breaking Beautiful contest. Thanks for your patience. It's worth the wait--believe me. You'll love Jen's book. Thanks so much for entering and helping me spread the word about it. She's hard at work writing a second book that will come out fall 2013. I've got a June 1st deadline on my work in progress--that's why I'm so late with the contest results.

Okay, drum roll . . . .

The winners are:

Grand Prize - Breaking Beautiful goes to Jessica Asato!!

The Breakin...

Breaking Beautiful Contest!

Jennifer Shaw Wolf's debut YA novel, BREAKING BEAUTIFUL, releases next week! (Check out her gorgeous website!) Her trailer came out today! I'm so excited I'm running a contest to celebrate.

Jen is my sister-in-law. We love her to bits because she married our little brother (who took all the beautiful photos on her website and the photo Walker used for the cover)! I'm doubly thrilled because Jen's the first writer I mentored who landed an agent (actually, she had five agents fighting over...

Rock the Drop--Phoenix!

Tomorrow is Rock the Drop--Phoenix. I'm excited to be a part of it. I'll be talking about how I use brainstorming in my writing and leading a mass brainstorming session to create a fantastic new YA novel right there on the spot.

The event is free and features writing workshops from me, of course, and the always amazing Janette Rallison, a new and exciting YA author, Amy Dominy, Sandy Greene, Rhonda McCormack, the hilarious Angela Fox and her son, Zach, (also a writer), as well as our wonderful...