tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61832715458336989602024-03-06T00:21:23.381-07:00Monique MorganMonique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-37793643670510601682015-06-23T18:35:00.000-06:002015-06-23T18:35:21.607-06:00Alchemist is now live on Amazon!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Syreena was simply one of many. Her only responsibility to
the horde, where there is no room for emotion and where life is meant solely to
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<span style="font-size: large;">Born in the squalor of the far beneath, Syreena was singled
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three clans, powerful and unique, this is the journey of the
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Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-40282205439327743412014-05-29T09:17:00.003-06:002014-05-29T09:19:13.148-06:00What's going on? An update!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">I know that it has been a long time since I have done an update on the progress of the series. Editing has gone slower then I wanted, but now that summer is in full swing and the kids are done with school, it should be completed faster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I will let you in on a secret, (How I love them!). I have not just been editing Alchemist, but the Unnamed as well. I have been bouncing between the two, reading one and going right into the next. So after all those words, what I am really saying is, Alchemist and the Unnamed will be released back to back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So although I have kept you waiting, that wait will be well worth it:)</span></div>
Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-437313227299982002014-03-01T13:56:00.000-07:002014-03-01T13:59:59.660-07:00A Confession!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO I have a confession to make. I have not done any editing on Alchemist. Not a single bit:(</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not because I have been lazy, but because instead the unnnamed has been taking up all the time. I mentioned before that Zanas, or should I say Zanass, was impatiently waiting for her side to now me told. And as of today the unnamed is finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I just wrote that. Book 3 and Book 4 are now complete in the Alwahi Series. **phew** I tell you it has been a busy couple of months, and I am very excited for you all to see what it has created. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gave you a song a while back to give you a hint at Alchemist, I will do the same for the unnamed (I'm close to a name and will blog about it soon).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here we go, so longing, so filled with betrayal. Exactly what Book 4 will be.</span><br />
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Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-31497395139553693042014-02-15T07:27:00.000-07:002014-02-20T07:06:05.646-07:00Let me count the ways I love...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">If not this so happens to be Cesare Borgia from the show <i>The Borgias.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why him? Because he IS Adrrian. He is the forbidden fruit, the man that creeps into your dreams, until you can think of no other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have no idea what I am talking about? Shame on you. All three seasons of <i>The Borgias </i>are on netflix.</span></div>
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Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-67230968925854584352014-02-14T07:37:00.000-07:002014-02-14T11:31:06.199-07:00Happy Valentines Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hello all, sorry it has been a week or so since my last post. Took a break from writing for a minute. Considering I wrote 90,000 words in four weeks, and 40,000 of that in one week alone... yes a little time out was needed. But I will be tackling it again this weekend, and finish the last 20,000 words that I have left of the unnammed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any secrets that I want to tell you? How about that double rr name I talked about last time. Maybe a little hint at anticipated romance for Valentines Day???</span><br />
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Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-43666916340669811352014-02-02T15:11:00.000-07:002014-02-05T08:01:54.502-07:00Plans and Updates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This weekend was very eventful and I am sad to see it go. I decided that I would take a break from Alchemist, and start editing on Monday. From there, I'm looking at a 10 week schedule, give or take a few weeks, depending on how dedicated/lazy I get once the editing begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I may have taken a break from Alchemist, but I used the last two days to write, some pretty awesome stuff, on book 4 in the series (still not officially named) which returns the main character of Zanas. It has been so much fun writing from the Pursuer perspective again, such a comfortable homey feeling reminding me of the love that I have for the individual characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a character, but I didn't have a name for him, I planned out the entire story arc in detail on Friday, (6 pages of notes that promise for the longest book so far in the series), and "he" appeared in so many parts as just a ________. I thought about it for days, thinking of names and discarding them. And then I started talking about it to my husband and I realized I could not figure it out because he was not supposed to have the double ss of the Pursuers of the beneath, but a double rr of the Pursuers of the above. Ahhh and this added a whole new lovely piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever become so consumed by something that it haunted you every moment of the day? Alchemist has been that current obsession. So much so, that I have been waking up around 4am every morning so I can write before everyone else wakes up. And three weeks since I began to write it, it is finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes you read that right. FINISHED. My estimate for the release is summer of this year, but it is looking more like spring...shhhh. That's a secret for now. The release date will remain for summer officially.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the obsession will not stop there, I can already tell. Zanas is demanding that now her side be told, cutting into my thoughts with <i>her</i> story while I was trying to wrap up Alchemist.</span><br />
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Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-422622681379722892014-01-27T11:06:00.000-07:002014-01-27T11:06:57.600-07:00The Alchemist Approaches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why has it gone so fast? I can honestly say that Syreena has turned into my favorite character of the Alwahi series. She has the strong noble character of Zanas, but she is also a wounded soul, something that I think will call to people far more than the other two characters in the series so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look at the cover! I mentioned before that the other one was just a tease. Well here she is in all her glory. Now <i>this</i> is Syreena. </span></div>
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world is torn apart, when her sister is kidnapped by the people of the beneath,
and she must follow her deep below the surface, into a magical world that she
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Where the fierce Pursuers of the beneath will ask her to give them everything,
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Monique Morgan was born in Westcovina, California. As an
airforce brat she traveled all over the world with her family, until finally
settling down in Utah. Monique lives with her husband and three children,
constantly hiking in the beautiful mountains that surround her home. To learn
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Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-57518976041774872332014-01-22T09:21:00.000-07:002014-01-27T16:39:48.671-07:00Secrets and Updates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This past week has been great. I am so happy to be back to writing, and there really is something about Syreena (Alchemist) that is very reminiscent of Zanas, but in a far darker way. Unlike Zanas, Syreena didn't grow up in a happy cherished life, no, Syreena grew up in the darkened shadows of the underground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What part does the Alchemist play in the overall story line, series wise that is? We have something brewing, something from the very beginning. Each clan plays a part, some on the side of "good" some on the side of "bad", although the lines between the two are always blurred in the Alwahi universe. We will have to wait and see what role the Alchemist clan will play in the bigger picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dreamer can now be purchased through <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/398606" target="_blank">Smashwords</a> for all e-reader formats. It will be a week or so before Smashwords moves them on to the traditional channels (B&N, Kobo, Sony, Apple etc). But you can buy every type of file directly through Smashwords without the wait. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cover is up, as you may have noticed, but its not quite finished yet. I need to change something, put for now it is a teaser of what is to come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you remember when I mentioned I might be creating a continuation to Pursuer? (</span><a href="http://moniquemorganbooks.blogspot.com/2014/01/maybe-just-maybe.html" target="_blank">Read Here</a><span style="font-size: large;">) Well that idea is now officially set in stone. I have also spent the last few days mapping out the entire story arch of all the books and what part each one will play. Zanas will continue in the fourth book of the Alwahi Series (Unnamed), with Asenya returning for the grand finale (Dark Queen), the fifth and final book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello all:) I thought I would just update on the progress of Dreamer. I finished the final run-through of Dreamer yesterday, however, since it was done so quickly I am running through it one more final time. This will in no way put the release of Dreamer back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am anticipating it being ready for release by the end of next week! Yup you read that right. I figured it would be done earlier than the end of January, but I thought I would give myself some extra working room. So, if all continues as planned, you should have Dreamer in your hands within 8 days... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just finished the re-read of Pursuer, which was beneficial in multiple ways. I found a tiny inconsistency between Pursuer and Dreamer, and I was also able to go through Pursuer again and clean up some pesky typos. So double score, Pursuer is uploaded to amazon in its cleaner form (once Amazon approves the changes), and Dreamer is one step closer to debut.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The time is just ticking away now.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh hey, and guess what!? Pursuer is currently listed as #2 in the free action adventure/ fantasy, and #191 in the overall free category!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I'm gearing up towards reading Pursuer sometime this weekend. And I started to dwell in the world of the Pursuer in my mind, thoughts melding themselves together. I have read more than one review stating that they wished Dreamer was about the Pursuers and Zanas, did I mention Dressdon? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although the Pursuers do have a part in Dreamer, a major part to be frank, the story was always meant to be Asenya's, just as Pursuer was always meant to be Zanas's story. I have also seen reviews wondering why there was little interaction between the two sisters in Pursuer. That is because they each have their OWN story to tell. Just as Alchemist will be from a third point of view, and where finally we will find out why the girl's were brought to the world of Alwahi. And where we discover the Alchemist's were the only clan that truly had the answers to begin with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But this method of the larger story has given me a unique opportunity. Until the fourth book, when all three main characters will share the story (I anticipate this book to be quite large, lol), the characters only have their stories told during their book. Each book in the series will bring us forward in time, until we are back with all three in the fourth book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My point, that I seem to be taking a long time to get to, is that we will not "really" see Zanas again until the fourth book, when once again the story will be told from her point of view. So there will be a time gap...mmmmhmmm... and I could certainly fill that gap with a second Pursuer book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This would be a spin off, so to speak, and would not need to be read in the main story arc (Pursuer, Dreamer, Alchemist, Unamed 4). It would be for the lovers of the Pursuer clan that just want to know what happened from Zanas's point of view, from the end of the first book until the beginning of the fourth book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If this book was to become reality, it would be released the same time as Alchemist or soon after.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last few days have been filled with Dreamer. Reading, editing, writing and most of all DREAMING. It is exciting to be so close to finally putting the next part of the Alwahi series forward, and most of all tell Asenya's side. I think I love her more every time I read her story, she evolves in some way, one chapter tweaked, one deleted all together and more still added...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm am also excited to start on Alchemist, because honestly that is the best part, writing. I have the skeleton of Alchemist sitting in my filing cabinet just waiting to become whole. The entire first chapter has been written in my head since the beginning of Dreamer. A whole new chapter awaits...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But back to Dreamer... I want to do a read-through of Pursuer to check for inconsistencies, and then one final run through of Dreamer. My goal is the end of January, and honestly with the new fire that has been driving me day and night, I see no reason that it wont happen.</span><br />
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<br />Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-22425344469273637102013-07-26T17:07:00.000-06:002013-07-26T17:24:46.103-06:00Hello Again:)<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">It has been a very long time. I know. Dreamer has not been released, and I apologize to everyone waiting impatiently to for it to officially come out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dreamer has been very close for a while now. Just halfway through on the final edit. But something bothered me. It wasn't as long as I wanted, something felt like it was missing. So I put it aside. Life became extremely busy, and other things took priority. I home school my children, and approaching AP exams and ending of the school year was everything on my radar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then came summer:) No school for the kids, and FINALLY a break. So I kept at the break longer than I should have, but I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason. It came to me in the bath (weird I know, but it did), it just hit me, like this is what was missing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought one more chapter and I will have what I want. Well, three chapters later and about six thousand words in about 24 hours. Yes I am ready to finally proclaim that I am working on Dreamer again. And it will be done soon. When? An exact date? I have found that I am bad with that, so my answer, "when it is ready". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But don't worry the wait shouldn't be much longer, and I promise it will be worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So apparently in my hiatus, my web domain expired, and someone purchased moniquemorgan.com that now wants to sell it back to me for $495. Wonderful. But besides the fact, I refuse to pay for it. I will be going back to the original domain moniquemorganbooks.blogspot.com. </span>Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-48725345175844888562013-04-05T04:00:00.000-06:002013-04-05T04:00:00.555-06:00Forsaken by Kristen Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In TIMESPELL, the brash and impulsive Julia must team up with her sweet and straight-laced best friend, Angie, and the malicious and power-hungry Kaitlyn in order to keep the witch-like powers of her inheritance. But these powers come at a cost. The girls are bound to serve the Fates, and their first mission sends them back in time to Marie Antoinette’s Paris and eventually, into the chaos and war of the French Revolution. Publication date: April 1st 2013</span></div>
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Monique Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12151711739985222903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6183271545833698960.post-33606627704875892022013-02-08T04:00:00.001-07:002013-02-08T04:00:13.254-07:00Mother Issues by Anne Nicholas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monsters have mothers too. I can’t resist playing with some of the Nature vs Nuture aspects of say a dragon born in a magical world. His up-bringing could be similar to ours, but I somehow doubt play dates and pre-school would be available for them. LOL</span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would a dragon mother caudle her child or rear it to fight for himself? I think that’s more of a personality trait then a thing of race. </span></span></b><br />
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rainforest house, and learned to believe in everyday magic. She was me, and I
fell in love, with the house, with the islands, and with the people I met
there. If fiction is life without the boring parts, then it is no surprise that
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more than just the house, islands, and people themselves that set the story of
Katie & Annalise in motion in Saving Grace. It was a particular night at
that particular house in the USVI, a night that proved my island-born husband
right when he told little-ole-doubting me, “Pamela, you’ve got a jumbie in your
house.” A jumbie as in a voodoo spirit? “Yeah, right.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Texas, and Eric was the last one of us left on-island. He had held an advertised
liquidation sale that day. He ended the sale with $18,000 in his pocket, and a
lot of the wrong kind of attention. Eric went to our house, Estate Annaly, to
spend his last night there, all by himself except for the money. Cash is
attractive anywhere, and especially in socioeconomically disadvantaged
communities where there are few realistic consequences for law breaking, like
St. Croix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was up in a remote part of the rainforest on St. Croix. There were no
streetlights, the house had no phones, and the police were a half hour away, if
you could get hold of them by cell phone, and if they chose to come at all when
called. In addition, the house was only partially completed. In fact, we didn’t
have locks on most of the ground floor windows, and a 10-year old child could
break in. And had. More than once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of that force I couldn’t explain but that Eric called our jumbie. Plus, we had
a flare gun, a machete, and an aluminum baseball bat. We were practically an
army unto ourselves. Well, maybe not quite. But we were as ready as we could be
for intruders on an island where I was early-on warned that, as a Continental,
I should get an unmarked gun, and, if my home was invaded, shoot to kill and
dump the body offshore. Horrifying, right? But in the eyes of local justice, a
Continental was rarely justified in home- or self-defense. Seriously. I opted
against the gun, but I never forgot the warning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up outside the house. No visitor is a good visitor at that hour, and Eric heard
multiple male visitor’s voices. Eric sprinted to the top floor of the house
with the money and his “weapons” and barricaded himself into a bedroom. Then he
called me in the States on a really bad cell phone connection. He felt sure the
men would not only get in, but that he was at their mercy. He wanted to hear my
voice, just in case. The call dropped almost as soon as we’d said hello to each
other, and I hung up with no idea of what was happening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whipped up and the house shook. Eric heard the dogs barking and growling at the
visitors, but the men advanced anyway. They banged on the doors and shouted.
They pounded on the small panes of the windows. They howled with rage and money
lust, but they couldn’t get in the wailing house. Finally, they left. Despite
all odds, Eric was safe. Shaken, but safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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back on our time at Annaly through new eyes, wide open and grateful eyes. And I
started writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Katie & Annalise series. I hope you enjoy the books, the island, and
especially the big rainforest jumbie house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pamela Fagan
Hutchins writes award-winning mysterious women’s fiction and relationship humor
books, and holds nothing back. She is
known for “having it all” which really means she has a little too much of
everything, but loves it: writer, mediocre endurance athlete (triathlon,
marathons), wife, mom of an ADHD & Asperger’s son, five kids/step-kids,
business owner, recovering employment attorney and human resources executive,
investigator, consultant, and musician.
Pamela lives with her husband Eric and two high school-aged kids, plus
200 pounds of pets in Houston. Their hearts are still in St. Croix, USVI, along
with those of their three oldest offspring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jumbie house and a Texas attorney who is as much a danger to herself as the
island bad guys, then dive headfirst with Katie Connell into </span><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Grace-Pamela-Fagan-Hutchins/dp/0988234807/ref=tmm_pap_title_0" target="_blank"><i>Saving Grace</i></a></span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span></div>
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professional humiliation, a broken heart, and her Bloody Mary-habit when she
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