Beyond Words

Thank you, Vanessa Grillone, for the award. As part of the rules for accepting this award, I am to list seven things about myself and then pass the award onto other bloggers. 1. I have a brown belt in Shotokan karate. 2. I am addicted completely and thoroughly to Tim Horton's iced cappuccinos. 3. I collect fine wines but don't drink wine. 4. I hate to write, but love having written. 5. I love Boston Terriers. 6. Stephen King is my hero. 7. My daughters are my best friends. I'm supposed to nominate a whole bunch of blogs to pass the award onto but I can only come up with a few. 1. Joy Campbell http://www.joylcampbell.com/ 2. The Grateful Undead http://thegratefulundead.blogspot.ca/ 3. Turning the Pages http://angelafristoe.wordpress.com/ 4. Books, Books, Books http://ulleseit.wordpress.com/ 5. Gotta have YA http://gottahaveya.blogspot.ca/ Check out Vanessa's wonderful blog at http://mypenmyvoice.com/author/mypenmyvoice/

Born in Northern Canada, Angela grew up in the Canadian prairies amid dreams of becoming the next Dian Fossey or a world famous flight attendant. Those, thank goodness, were never meant to be. Instead, she moved to Texas   and then eventually beautiful Colorado where she divides her time between writing and her other job, teaching. Tell us something about yourself and how you became a writer. Writing is something that I truly just started one random day. I'd never really considered it a possible career for myself. My sister was always the writer in our family. Once I started, though, I fell in love with it. Tell us about your novel and where readers can purchase a copy. Songbird is Young Adult novel about a seventeen-year-old girl struggling to put her past behind her. Dani Mays wants to move on with her life, to put the murder of her brother at the hands of their father and the disintegration of their dysfunctional family behind her. But her memories are a controlling ...