I am pleased to announced that I have signed with literary agent Nicole Payne of Golden Wheat Literary! She will be representing my YA contemporary novel, currently titled ASHES. This novel has been a long labor of love. The first scene was written in 2010, but I didn’t start seriously working on it until Fall …
This year, I didn’t choose a word for the year like I have in the past. Looking back, I’m having trouble finding one word to describe the year. In some ways, it was hard. In other ways, it was great. There were moments when I felt successful and confident, and moments when I felt lost and …
Number 5: The Sparrow/Children of God duology by Mary Doria Russell – These books were re-reads for me this year, but like the first time read them (at least 10 years ago), I was deeply moved. These books ask the question: Can we believe in a loving God in the midst of suffering?” This, of …
I’ve written several times about a series of poems I have written about penguins. Four of the Penguin Poems have emerged into the world! You can read “Falling in Love,” “Long Love,” and “Death Love Song” at Atrocity Exhibition Mag. You can read “Our Antarctica” at Broad! Magazine. It’s on page 24. I also published …
I always wanted to be the type of writer Madeleine L’Engle was. who was a Christian and was also a writer, but spurned the label “Christian writer.” In an interview, she called herself “a writer who is struggling to be a Christian.” Those words, perhaps, best encapsulate my current moment as a writer. After a few years of …
