Now a little more about these fantastic stories!!!
Will the trials of strained communication, disappointment, heartache, and altered plans strengthen Sarah’s God-given novelist dreams? Will this imperfect yet dutiful daughter find a way to craft the perfect Thanksgiving dinner?
All Josie has left of her old life is her husband Frank; even her little son wasn’t able to enter witness protection with them. As she struggles to find something meaningful to do as a homebound disabled woman, she’s distraught when her second novel is plagued by unexpected crippling writer’s block. Her deadline looms and her agent threatens to end her career for good if she can’t fulfill her contract. Worse yet, Frank has to go on an extended work trip just before Thanksgiving, leaving a stranger to come into her home to help her do the cleaning, driving, and other tasks she can no longer do herself. Will Josie be able to get past her fear of rejection and open up to letting Tabitha befriend her? Will the shakeup of her home life ruin or mend her broken story?
In this loose reimagining of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, explore 1936 Québec and the conflicting questions of young adulthood.
Already behind on her deadlines, and afraid her upper-class London audience will soon grow bored with her, Effie needs to finish her next novel by the end of November. With that kind of pressure, how could anyone write? When her new brother-in-law suggests she retreats to his estate with his prickly wife, Effie agrees. Perhaps writing in the misty, rainy countryside will be just the thing to spark her creativity and bring forth a novel this November.
Amidst writing workshops and lessons on healing through storytelling, Rowena is confronted with her unresolved pain. As tensions rise with fellow creatives, can Rowena face her inner turmoil and the God she ran from, or will the conflict force her to run further from the God she knew?
A bestselling romance author struggling with social anxiety, she’s been diagnosed with terminal leukemia just two weeks shy of her twenty-sixth birthday. Or what she assumes to be her birthday. Her only hope of ever tracing her lost family hinges on a single locket left in the box where her adopted parents found her while on a trip to Yorkshire, England. As her fate ticks down, she sets out on a journey back to her birthplace to unearth her lost history, where the answers—or the lack of them—may haunt her for the rest of her life.
At thirty years old, she feels like her life is going nowhere. Six months ago, she broke out of an emotionally abusive relationship, but not in time to save her dreams or her once deep friendship with God. With her family’s help and insistence, she follows through on just one longtime desire—going to Scotland to stay with a family friend for three weeks in late autumn. Can two special people, the mystical landscape, and a famous painting draw her back to a life she thought she’d never return to?
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I feel like I was a storyteller from a very young age. I was crafting (rather elaborate) stories with my toys as a child hiding in a pillow fort behind my Daddy's armchair. So over the years, I may have grown and changed, but my love for storytelling never changed. If anything it only grew deeper and stronger.
My experience as a writer was deeply a part of expressing my emotions as a teenager, and helped me in my young adult years too. However, I may have dreamed for many years that I wanted to be a published author some day. Self doubt told me that dream would never happen. In 2017, I self-published a devotional on a small scale. It was never available for purchase online, but only from me and some local shops. I felt very proud of my achievement, no matter how small, but I did get 100+ books out. Fast forward to the time of this post and I have a very exciting announcement! I have signed a contract with Wild Blue Wonder Press (Link to their website here) for taking part in their wonderful anthology releasing this November 2024 titled Novelists in November. I feel super excited and blessed to have this opportunity to tell a short story of mine with such other talented ladies and that we can all shine light for God. So that's it for my first blog post, I hope to check in again soon! |