AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is now live on Kindle!!!

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is now live on Kindle. We're still tweaking the cover for the print version,  but I'm so excited to share this novel with you I'm offering the ebook at a bargain "pre-release" price of $1.99.

So, if you want to be one of the first to read and review it, you can download it now. Enjoy!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JX52CF4

KINDLE DEALS ON ALL MY BOOKS--ACT FAST!

This weekend I'm up in Utah at the LDStormaker Conference, and I'm running Kindle deals and free promos for the participants and all of YOU!! Please, please, please share them with your friends. The promos run from today to April 26th at midnight. ACT FAST!

SING ME TO SLEEP is FREE!!! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HG6YI8Q This is the first time ever I've been able to offer SING for free. If you love it and don't have it here's your chance!

TAKEN BY STORM is discounted to $.99. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008H5MVZW

UNBROKEN CONNECTION is FREE! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Z0CUHI

CAYMAN SUMMER is FREE!! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052MFSGW

Remember, you don't need a Kindle. You can download the Kindle app on your smart phone, tablet, or any computer.

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?

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?

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!

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--from Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terebithia and Kate Dicamillo's Because of Winn Dixie and my Arizona author friend Amy Dominy's debut novel, OyMG--that all have characters who pray. Maybe someday I will write that post and share quotes from those prayers, and my worries that we are replacing spirituality with magic, but not today.

The testimony of twenty first graders in Newtown, CT, speaks far louder that I ever could. As the entire nation, "prayed to God for strength" and "prayed to God for peace," we learned what the young girl in North Carolina learned from her grandfathers. God is there. He is real. He hears and answers prayers. And sends strength, peace, love and comfort. He soothes broken hearts and teaches us how to bind each others wounds.

I've felt His power in times of loss in my own life. In Leesie's words, "Happiness . . . filled me up. Tangible--like you could pour it from a pitcher." Like Leesie, I was "overcome" with the power of God's love. Prayer unlocks it. All you need to do is ask.

I don't know why a troubled young man shot those beautiful children in a sleepy Connecticut town, but I do know that now they are wrapped in God's loving arms--and he won't let them go until their parents are ready to join them forever.

All my love and prayers for you, my wonderful friends and readers, this season of celebration and goodwill,

Angela

Free Ebooks and English Teachers!

Starting at midnight tonight, Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer  are free on Kindle for 3 days!! 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 Digi With it," where I'll be telling them all about my amazing readers and what we did together over on my Cayman Summer blog.  

English teachers are my heroes, past and present, so I'm offering the free promo for them, and also to thank you! Thanks for all your patience, love and support.

Next stop, Vegas!