Fall in Texas

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Outside My Kitchen Window
 In north Texas, fall lasts about two days. Sometimes we get lucky and you can watch the transformation for a little longer. But honestly, most of the time if you blink, you might miss the leaves changing colors before they’re blown or washed away by the next rain storm.  I love to sit at my kitchen table for breakfast as the sturdy red oak next door changes. It’s the last one on the block, hanging onto its leaves until Thanksgiving. We’ve volunteered several times to rake the leaves for my neighbor…lots of fun when the kids are over to enjoy it. 

I lost a friend this past week. When a death occurs, it makes you appreciate your life and evaluate where you are (at least for me). Sometimes life is just a blink of an eye. Don’t let it pass you by.

The leaves next door

Was your last committment more about a sudden change or a realization you had growing on you for a while? 

~~Angi 

CONTESTS: Don’t forget to check my website for the Hill Country Holdup  debut contests. Lots of prizes if you get registered.

THUNDER THURSDAY

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Thunderhead in Farmers Branch
It's Like Lightening

If you look closely in the center of the cloud, it’s not a scratch…it’s lightening. My little camera did two things my husband said it couldn’t. It caught a great picture of the thunderhead gathering to the northeast of us at twilight AND it caught lightening flashing through the cloud.

A simple reminder that the people around us may doubt, may think what we’re trying to achieve is impossible, or shouldn’t happen…  but “THEY” aren’t always right.

You must give away a little of yourself–take a small risk–before you can achieve even little things.

~~Angi

HILL COUNTRY HOLDUP DEBUT CONTESTS:   Remember you can leave a comment on any of my guest blogs this week (9-13 through 9-19) and send me a picture of you HOLDING UP the cover for HCH. Lots of prizes.

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Ecstatic, Delighted, Euphoric

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My husband and I made the trip to our local Barnes & Noble store Sunday. And there it was…my first Harlequin Intrigue. It wasn’t all alone on the shelf, but surrounded by great names–many of them friends that I’ve made over the past ten years. But the feeling…is it indescribable?  

Dr. Jane Palmer, from Hill Country Holdup (my September release), knows a lot of words. And if she doesn’t have the exact word, she’ll go through the thesaurus until she finds the perfect word. Following her example…

Seeing my book for the first time was thrilling, exciting, breath-taking, awe-inspiring, awesome, rousing, exhilarating, stimulating, gripping AND motivating, inspiring, moving, rousing, grand, splendid, tremendous AND more than all of that to the tenth power.

WOO HOO !

~~Angi

These pictures were actually taken 9-14 by one of my CPs, Kym Roberts. Thanks to Kym for holding my hand as I visited area stores, dropping off bookmarks and meeting Community Representatives.

DON’T FORGET to leave 5 comments on 5 blogs I’m touring this week to be entered in a drawing. AND send me your picture holding the cover of HILL COUNTRY HOLDUP –you’ll be entered in another drawing for more terrific prizes.

CHALLENGE: You can’t say congratulations (to me)… and you can’t use the words above do describe what it WILL feel like OR did feel like to see your book for the first time.

Bluebonnets in Texas

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The state flower of Texas appears along most of the roads and highways throughout the Hill Country. It’s one of the main reasons to just take a drive through the countryside and enjoy the day. All types of wildflowers are actually seeded…and if the rain is plentiful (like in 2010), then the Bluebonnets are absolutely out of this world.  Today is the official launch day of my first Harlequin Intrigue, Hill Country Holdup, and there’s not one mention of a Bluebonnet in the book. LOL But, yes, it does take place in the Hill Country of Texas.  

The picture today was taken this past spring near Austin by my youngest daughter. Even on a cloudy day a field of wildflowers just begs for its picture to be taken. And shared. 

 And here we come to the point of my brand new blog… A Picture A Day… will be sharing pictures and how they inspire. Some of my guests will be authors, some pre-published, and some days it will just be me. I hope you’ll share how you’re inspired: either by the photo I offer or your own.  

Welcome…

~~Angi 

CONTESTS FOR ANGI MORGAN: Visit my website for a list of blogs (where I’m hopping) and a list of contests for this week and month.

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Line Edits ~~ In The Mail

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The line edits for .38 Caliber Cover-Up are in the mail to my editor.

WOO HOO !

One week after submitting the book, the line edits arrived, three days later they are returned.  It feels good to have that phase complete. Now for a weekend in San Antonio with Tim. Hiring the house sitter for  Pepper and I’m out of here tomorrow!

~~Angi