About Me
I began writing stories when I was eight years old, at least according to the oldest written story I have in a beat up old notebook. My interest comes from my mom who also loves to write. She wrote a lot when I was little. Her decision to home school me also played a huge part in my writing. I don't believe I would have had the time or energy to write as much as I did growing up if not for that, and I'm sure I wouldn't be where I am now with two books printed and available to the world and two more coming out later this year.
My first stories were one page chapters that were each their own miniature stories about the same character. My biggest inspirations then were the Babysitter's Club Little Sister series and The Pony Pals series. All the stories I wrote between the ages of eight and thirteen were about girls and horses since that was all I thought about. The very first story I can actually say I finished was my own version of one of my favorite Pony Pal books.
My love for writing Christian fiction started with The Pirate Daughter's Promise which I began writing in 2003 when I was fifteen. Since then I've had so many amazing experiences while writing. Through writing I feel I can partly imagine the joy and satisfaction the Lord felt when He first created earth. To read specifically about the writing journey and experiences of each of my books, click on My Books.
My decision to be an independent author is a pretty recent one, but I think it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. For a few months I had begun to lose hope of ever publishing my second book, Every Tear, because most traditional companies no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts, and I couldn’t afford to self-publish again with Pleasant Word. For a while I was looking into a newer traditional Christian publishing company that was accepting manuscripts, and I really thought that was where God wanted me to go, but it turned out that He had much different plans.
In all the research and marketing I had been doing since The Pirate Daughter’s Promise came out, I ran across a book that the author had printed with Createspace. Because they are just a printer, the author is considered the publisher. At first I had no intention of ever looking into something like that, but God just kept drawing me back to that website and after very much thought and prayer, I came to realize several things. One, trying to become successful like Lori Wick and other great Christian authors, wasn’t my highest priority. My priority is to write for God and to spread His Word and love as much as I can through my writing. In making the decision to be an independent author, I feel like I am giving more control to God because self-published books are not widely respected and don't seem as likely to succeed so it will make it just that much more exciting and satisfying to see what He will do with them. My books will go wherever and become whatever He plans regardless of how I get them out to the world and that gives me great satisfaction.
My first stories were one page chapters that were each their own miniature stories about the same character. My biggest inspirations then were the Babysitter's Club Little Sister series and The Pony Pals series. All the stories I wrote between the ages of eight and thirteen were about girls and horses since that was all I thought about. The very first story I can actually say I finished was my own version of one of my favorite Pony Pal books.
My love for writing Christian fiction started with The Pirate Daughter's Promise which I began writing in 2003 when I was fifteen. Since then I've had so many amazing experiences while writing. Through writing I feel I can partly imagine the joy and satisfaction the Lord felt when He first created earth. To read specifically about the writing journey and experiences of each of my books, click on My Books.
My decision to be an independent author is a pretty recent one, but I think it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. For a few months I had begun to lose hope of ever publishing my second book, Every Tear, because most traditional companies no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts, and I couldn’t afford to self-publish again with Pleasant Word. For a while I was looking into a newer traditional Christian publishing company that was accepting manuscripts, and I really thought that was where God wanted me to go, but it turned out that He had much different plans.
In all the research and marketing I had been doing since The Pirate Daughter’s Promise came out, I ran across a book that the author had printed with Createspace. Because they are just a printer, the author is considered the publisher. At first I had no intention of ever looking into something like that, but God just kept drawing me back to that website and after very much thought and prayer, I came to realize several things. One, trying to become successful like Lori Wick and other great Christian authors, wasn’t my highest priority. My priority is to write for God and to spread His Word and love as much as I can through my writing. In making the decision to be an independent author, I feel like I am giving more control to God because self-published books are not widely respected and don't seem as likely to succeed so it will make it just that much more exciting and satisfying to see what He will do with them. My books will go wherever and become whatever He plans regardless of how I get them out to the world and that gives me great satisfaction.
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