With the release of The Fragmented Kingdom, I thought it would be fun to share with my readers some tidbits about The Forgotten King that…
Category: Writing
Out of the Groove
Blogging has been hard for me lately. I have so many thoughts and opinions, so many ideas and snippets of stories, but none of them…
Do I Have It in Me?
I’m reading a book by a twenty-something author who started her manuscript as a teen, worked on it for a few years, spent a couple…
The End of the Trilogy
I drafted the final scene of the final book of the Forgotten King trilogy today. It feels strange. Do you know that listless, bittersweet feeling…
I Control Time (a poem)
I control time. The hands of the clock surrender to my fingers. Forward and backward, inside-out and outside-in. The past is the future and the…
The Self-published Stigma
For a long time, I resisted the idea of self-publishing my books. In my mind, a self-published book was a book that wasn’t good enough—a…
The Story behind My Latest Project
A few months ago, I came across an article from 1973 by a man named Bruce B. Clark, titled “Creative Writing in the Church: A…
An Unusual Appetite Loss
I haven’t written in two months. I haven’t had the appetite for it. The thought of sitting at the computer and typing out words and…
The Research Rabbit Hole
I’ve always loved research—research and learning. I remember being assigned to write an essay about lions in the 1st grade. It was my first research…
Attending the Life, the Universe, and Everything Symposium
Last year, with the support of my husband, Brett, I decided to get more serious about the writing craft, which included attending writing conferences. In…