Uncategorized

Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #25

Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 4/10 at noon Mountain with Stop #1 at… Continue reading Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #25

Uncategorized

Favorite (first time) Reads of 2024

It's the end of another year, which means it's time for another reading wrap-up! And now... on to my favorites! Admittedly, If you follow me on social media or are signed up to my newsletter, you would have heard me gush about all of these already but here they are again. Sorry not sorry at all… Continue reading Favorite (first time) Reads of 2024

Uncategorized

What I Wish People Knew about Having a Chronic Disease

While I’ve written characters with mental illnesses before (Alina and Evangeline specifically), Lady Rose in Hold Her Close is the first I’ve written with a chronic or physical illness. She has what would these days be known as endometriosis, though it was very much an unknown back in the middle ages. Would it have caused… Continue reading What I Wish People Knew about Having a Chronic Disease

Uncategorized

My Daughter, I see you

Like my previous books, Hold Her Close starts with a psalm. Unlike my previous books, I’m finding it really hard to share this one. Mostly because I’m not there yet, and sharing something like this when so often I fall short in my own life feels so hypocritical. I mean, Christian authors are supposed to… Continue reading My Daughter, I see you

Uncategorized

The Story Behind the Story

Twenty years ago, I went on my first short term mission trip to an orphanage in Thailand. Ten years ago, I wrote a novel based on it. This week, 15 May 2024, that story is being published. Talk about a journey! But this story goes back further than that—to when I was just a kid,… Continue reading The Story Behind the Story

Uncategorized

Young Adult Book Recs

I love reading the Young Adult genre. Sure, it’s aimed at people younger than me but so many of them are written in such a way that people of all ages can enjoy them. They’re stories of characters who are just coming out from under the umbrella of their parents and learning not only who… Continue reading Young Adult Book Recs

Uncategorized

Top 10 (First-Time) Reads of 2023

I have to admit, it's kind of fun to go through the books I've read each year (thank you Goodreads!) and share my favorites. I haven't done it for a couple of years but read so many that I absolutely LOVED this year that I just had to share. If you follow me on social… Continue reading Top 10 (First-Time) Reads of 2023

Uncategorized

Learning to Celebrate

Whether you’re an author who's traditionally published, indie published, not yet published, or not even thinking about publishing for a very long time, there’s one thing we authors all have in common: a never-ending to-do list. It doesn’t seem to matter how many things we cross off it, there’s always more. More to write, more… Continue reading Learning to Celebrate