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Look what Windowpane Memoirs is Launching!

Michelle over at Windowpane Memoirs is starting a fun feature on her site, "The Divine Secrets of the YA Sisterhood!" Michelle has been a huge supporter of Michael and Leesie--since the beginning of their journey. She was the one who started the "Don't Break the Connection" blog campaign that convinced me to release UNBROKEN CONNECTION independently and then share Michael and Leesie's final journey on this blog. She continues to come up with fun, exciting ways for the YA blogerinas to meet, c...

SLIPPED--A taste for you!

I made my deadline with SLIPPED last week. YAY! And to celebrate, I'm posting a big, fat chunk of it for you to enjoy. Here are my newly revised opening three chapters. This will give you a good sense of the Meg, my heroine, and where I'm going with the book. My only regret is you don't meet, Jag, my post-nuclear winter time-slipping assassin hero, until Chapter Four. My preview readers tell me he's my hottest hero yet. Maybe I'll give you a snippet of him later. He's worth a post of his own....

Pictures of Windy Bay--where Michael and Leesie begin and end

Yes! I'm finally back with those Windy Bay pictures I promised. The only pictures we have of our lake front property there were taken when we were pretty young. Oh, my. Get ready. You'll have to add your imagination to modernize these shots and put Michael and Leesie in them. I'll point out ME when I'm in the picture. I hope my brothers and sisters forgive me for posting these darling pictures of them when they were much, much younger. We're all parents and grandparents now.

This is my last p...

M+L 4VER M&Ms in the mail!

Apologies, apologies. I disappeared this week, but I had a good reason--look what finally came? YAY!!!

I spent the rest of the week sending them out into the world. All the book prizes finally went out, too. They should land on your doorstep soon.
I didn't want to order the M&Ms until we were back from our vacation in July. I had nightmares of the shipment sitting on my doorstep melting into a puddle in the 107 F Phoenix summer sun. Then I had nightmares of sending them out in their pretty...

Romance Workshop Tonight!

I'd like to invite all of you in the Valley of the Sun to a Free Romance Writing Workshop tonight at Barnes and Noble Shea on Tuesday August 16th, 2011 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM. The address is 10500 N. 90th St. in Scottsdale, located on the SW corner of Shea Blvd. and the 101 Freeway. Presenters include; Fantasy romance author Lisa Finder of Black Sand, YA romance author Angela Morrison (THAT'S ME!) of Sing Me to Sleep and the three books in the Taken By Storm Saga; award winning Regency Romanc...

EPILOGUE PHOTOS--SPOILER ALERT

I'd like to invite any of you who are close enough to Scottsdale to drop by the Barnes and Noble at Shea and Hwy 101 Tuesday night, August 16th, 6:30-8:30 p.m. I'm on a panel about writing romance with the amazing Janette Rallison and Lisa Finder. I'd love to see some of you there. For GPSers, the store's address is 10500 N. 90th St. Scottdale. We're going to chat about our books, read the most romantic scenes, and then answer questions. Feel free to bring daughters and students--anyone you k...

PICTURES OF CAYMAN BRAC

Look what I found! With a little help from Google, I found images of Cayman Brac. We visited the Brac before we had digital cameras, so I borrowed a few shots from generous sites around the web. This gives you a feel for the end of the book. Tomorrow I'll share photos re the epilogue.



This is typical Cayman Brac.






The island is made of coral.



This reminds of the resort where we stayed. 






Awesome wreck diving!



Here's the airstrip. We flew there on a tiny plane. The ride back to Grand...

Back from SCBWI-LA

Sorry to disappear on you last week. I flew over to LA to attend the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators big annual conference. I'll be speaking at Arizona's yearly gathering on October 1st. This year we celebrated SCBWI's 40th Anniversary. Wow, they pulled out all the stops. In three days, I got to listen to Bruce Colville, who spoke about how our work is like throwing a stone into a pond and the ripples move out and change people's lives in unexpected ways, Jerry Pinkney, Li...

AND THE WINNERS ARE . . . !!!

Drum roll, please. . . . I'm thrilled the announce the winners of the M+L FOREVER CONTEST!!! Cheering, jumping up and down, dancing on the table!!!

Nyra, Margaret Larsen, and Bonnie Harris won the three book sets of the TAKEN BY STORM saga. Congrats, girls. Please email me your mailing addresses.


Nichole Giles won the signed, first edition hardcover copy of TAKEN BY STORM! 

PrimaryMary, Kristy, Mary Walling, Tiffany Drew, and Susan Jensen won paperback copies of TAKEN BY STORM!
Yel of Itzel...

FINAL CAYMAN FAVORITES and FINAL DAY TO ENTER M+L FOREVER

Hurry, hurry. Today is the last day to enter the M+L FOREVER CONTEST!!! And if you like my FB author page, you get an extra entry.

And I'm sharing with you a few final Grand Cayman favorite places. I hope I can find some photos of Cayman Brac where Michael and Leesie go in the end, and I might be able to get some photos scanned of sites from the epilogue, so stay tuned.

I'm announcing the contest winners, Wednesday, August 3rd and I SHOULD have a big new surprise for all of you Michael and Lees...