April is a big month of anniversaries for me—particularly this week. A year ago today, I published “The Lake of Living Water.” Tomorrow marks the six-year anniversary of my very first publication, The Weavers’ Blessing. There are several festivities happening this week! I recorded a Q&A video today about “The Lake of Living Water.” Tomorrow, …
Hi all! There isn’t going to be a featured author post this month, because I’m working on getting the Recommended Books section of this website off the ground and soon there will be MANY books featured there :) We’ll return to regular practice with that in February. In the meantime, here are my plans for …
As mentioned previously, April was a busy month for me. Part of that included a trip to Japan. This trip was my: second time out of the country second time off the continent first time flying alone first time to Asia first time in a place where I couldn’t communicate well with others It was …
April is shaping up to be an exciting month! I have three exciting pieces of news, two writing related, one personal. First Piece of News: The Weavers’ Blessing Update I previously announced the upcoming fifth birthday of The Weavers’ Blessing. In that announcement, I said its pretty new look would be coming to you on April 10th, its actual …
We’ve come a long way together, my dear readers, and we’ve got a longer way yet to go. It will come as no surprise to you that I, an historian, love to look back. I’ve been looking back over the past six-ish years since the founding of this blog recently, and I’m reminded of the …
Hey guys! It’s been a long time since I posted. I decided to take some time to focus on querying literary agents for one of my novels, and I also was studying for the CSET (aka a very difficult test which one must pass in order to become a teacher). With all of this going …
Find previous chapters here. “It isn’t working, Maxwell!” Louise greeted her husband in the dining hall. She swept past the too-thin servants and the great roast turkey cooling on a garnished silver platter to join the king at the head of the table. “The bounty hunters aren’t finding him.” Max shoved a turkey leg into his mouth …
Find previous chapters here. ______________________________________ Trevor the sage did not often receive visitors to his cottage near the border of Clachan and Poldar. When knocking on his door besieged his peaceful reading, he muttered to his old grey dog, “I wonder who that is?” The dog raised an eyelid, blinked, and fell back asleep. …
Find previous chapters here. ______________________________________ Will fought. He fought the branches of the tree that wrapped around him like vines. He fought with everything he had. And he cursed the foolishness of the girl for dragging him to Clachan and his eminent death. If only he could reach the dagger the king of Ferngold …