My prayers have changed. From, don’t let anything bad happen, or make the bad things stop happening, I’ve started saying,

“Redeem this so, even if I’m never going to be glad this happened, I at least maybe wouldn’t trade what I could have had for what I end up with.”

I don’t like lunchtime. In fact, a writer-mom friend of mine recently posted a question about lunch and I replied with how much I HATE...

Every so often, someone will share one of those baking fails with me. You know, the expectation of some beautiful, ombre, unicorn...

Sometimes, it's hard to admit that there's a struggle. Even with the staggering statistics on anxiety and depression, there is still a...

An announcement, a story, and some well-learned lessons on making connections. It's SO GOOD to finally get to tell you that I've signed...

For the last several months, I’ve been eager to share when the new hardcover copies of my debut novel will be available for online...

I didn’t discover (and often forget to return to) inviting God into my writing space until a period of struggle, toil, and despair. This...

I was honored to share a guest post on Tabitha Caplinger's blog. It's a little bit about my book, DARCARA, and about why I write. Check...

I got an email asking a question that I’ve seen floating around for quite some time. How dark is too dark for Christian fiction? And I...

Promoting a book is weird. What a foreign concept to tell people, “Hey, I wrote a thing, and I think it’s good, and you should spend...

Group projects were never my thing. I’m not sure too many people excelled in or enjoyed them. Like the good control freak I was, I...

Back when I was a library-dwelling adolescent imagining myself as an author, I pictured cozy cups of tea amid the furious clacking of a...

Anyone who even remotely believes in a higher power and has ever attempted to publish a book can well explain to you the book they could...

Sometimes, creating is hard. And sometimes it feels like it used to be easy, back when I could let loose the twisted underbelly of my...

I have so far shared my journey of going from dyslexic and dismissed student to having a passion for reading and writing and earning my...

I’ve been on the fence about posting this awkward stage of my writing pursuits. We left off last time, just before my senior year of high...

How I became a writer, part I I can finally tell this story. Maybe I should have told it sooner, but I’m still a bit too much of a...