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The Plot Thickens | Angela Hunt

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Each Sunday “Inspired by Life…and Fiction” shares a Christian novelist’s newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration.

Angela Hunt is the best-selling author of The Tale of Three Trees, and The Note (a Hallmark Hall of Fame film), with over three million copies of her books sold worldwide. Eight of her novels have won Excellence in Media’s Angel Awards. Angie has also won four silver medals and a gold medal from ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award as well as a Christy Award. Romantic Times Book Club presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Several of her novels have been optioned for film. She and her husband make their home in Florida.

Angie says, “When Angel’s Trumpet (Brugmansia, top photo above) is in flower, it’s beautiful. When it’s not, it’s a knobby, scrawny, baldish looking thing. Kind of epitomizes the writer’s life: feast or famine.” Angela’s garden also includes one flower that exemplifies her professional brand, Expect the Unexpected. “A night-blooming cereus blooms only once,” Angie says, “and that in the middle of the night. I have two plants, but I missed the first plant’s bloom (the flowers always fade by sunrise) so the second night I sat outside on my back porch to snap this picture… The bud began to open around midnight, and was in full flower by three am. After that, I went to bed! My neighbors probably thought I was nuts, sitting outside, surrounded by flickering candles, with my notepad and my camera. But it was worth it!” Update: Angela’s night-blooming cereus performed again in October 2008 (bottom photo) this time thoughtfully opening long before midnight.


 Visit Angie’s website at http://angelaelwellhunt.com.

Angie’s office (and four-legged office companion)
in her Florida home.

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Deborah Raney

DEBORAH RANEY's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Forty books later, she's still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. Her novels have won RWA's RITA Award, the ACFW Carol Award, the National Readers Choice Award, and the HOLT Medallion. She is also a three-time Christy Award finalist. Deb is on faculty for several national writers’ conferences and served on the executive board of the 2,500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for 18 years before retiring in 2022. She is a recent transplant to Missouri, having moved with her husband, Ken Raney, from their native Kansas to be closer to kids and grandkids. They love road trips, e-biking, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.
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Comments

  1. Wow- what a cool flower. I knew the name of the plant because it is a heart herb but never saw one. Very beautiful and I love the analogy to the writer’s life. It just ain’t pretty- till it’s pretty. But when it IS—it is awesome. God makes the coolest stuff!

  2. Beautiful. Worth staying up for.
    I have a question. You mentioned the Night Blooming Cereus blooms only once. Is that once in the life of the plant or once a year? One way to avoid staying up all night is to try capturing it on a moving camera.
    Shirley

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