From the Wilds of Texas...

Hi there.  Teagan here.

I thought I'd share a little with you from my home.  This was on the side of my house the other day.

Isn't that crazy?
It was only a rat snake, but hey!  That thing was like three feet long!  Scared the ba-jesus out of me!
I also had a few bunnies doing what bunnies do best in the front yard, along with a mama turtle laying her eggs right next to my driveway.  As I'm so new to this social media thing and haven't quite got the hang of it yet, I didn't think to take pics of those.  I'm working on it, but it's gonna take some time.

I also wanted to mention a couple of people I met at DFWcon this past month.  Below is a pic of two incredible writers who were involved in hosting the conference.  Arianne "Tex" Thompson (on the right) is an incredibly talented author and mentor.  She is the author of Children of the Drought - an internationally-published epic fantasy Western series from Solaris.

Melissa Lenhardt writes mystery, historical fiction and women's fiction.  Her debut mystery, Stillwater, was a finalist for the 2014 Whidbey Writers' MFA Alumni Emerging Writers Contest and her debut historical fiction novel, Sawbones, was published in March 2016.

These two are both members of the DFW Writers' Workshop and are some of the most knowledgeable and helpful individuals a writer could ever hope to find.

To any and all writers out there, I would definitely recommend going to next year's DFWcon.  The amount and quality of information you can receive there will be invaluable to your writing career.

That's all for now.  I will have more pics later.

Hope you're all having a great weekend and that you're writing and dreaming up new stories to share with the rest of us.  As for me, I'm writing (#amwriting), of course.  I'll be heading off to the Agents & Editors Conference in Austin toward the end of June, but I have to get my current book back from the Editor's office beforehand.  I'm anxiously awaiting word from her, which really translates into I'm going crazy here waiting for her feedback!

In the meantime, I'll keep blogging here and I'll see you on Twitter!

Thanks,

Teagan