Down the Rabbit Hole

 Happy Wednesday!  I know I mentioned this in my last blog post... but this past winter was a rough one. All of 2020 was rough, but winter felt never ending and draining. I came out of it feeling like I had lost a lot. I left behind so much in 2020. A Bible study group I was in for years. A ten year long best friendship. The house I spent all of my teens in. The church we were going to. I feel like God refined me completely and stripped everything away and is now building me back up. Slowly. Very, very slowly. I saw this TikTok the other day of this person being like "realizing you're in a new season with a new setting, new plot, supporting characters and character arc" and I felt that so much haha  It sounds very Christian and holy to say God is refining me... but turns out, it's actually not a lot of fun to go through. Is it worth it at the end when you see what God was doing all along? Absolutely. But in the moment... it just feels really hard. I can look back now ...

 Happy Wednesday!  For the past year (actually for the past two years or so) I've been subscribed to Grace Anne's Tuesday letters. Every Tuesday I get an encouraging letter from her sent to my email. All of last year, I read them religiously every Tuesday. They were super encouraging, inspiring and just overall uplifting. But somewhere around the end of last year and the start of this year... I sort of fell off them. I fell off Hannah Brencher's Monday Club letters too. I stopped being excited to get them in my inbox every Monday and Tuesday. But last night, I was feeling kind of down and discouraged and in desperate need of uplifting. So I searched Grace Anne's email in my email inbox and all the Tuesday Letters I had missed popped up. And the first one that caught my eye was one titled The Summer of Yes. The reason it caught my eye is because for the past week that phrase has been going through my head. I read somewhere that apparently we're naming our summer this...

 Happy Wednesday!  Taking a break from other topics to talk about my latest WIP that I'm really excited about! I know I still have Golden Touch and the entire Archive series to publish, but I've already invested myself into a new book series I'm working on haha I mentioned in the May wrap up that I was putting chapters of The Runaway on Wattpad... But last week I made the decision to take it down off Wattpad and put the first five episodes up on the new Kindle Vella platform instead. Ever since they announced Kindle Vella, I've been really excited about it and wanting to try it. I actually wrote The Runaway with Kindle Vella in mind.  If you don't know, Kindle Vella is a new platform being launched by Amazon. Us authors get early entry so we can put up content for when it's released to readers. It's a platform for serialized writing and you'll be able to access episodes of a story through buying a certain amount of coins and then using those coins to red...

 Happy Thursday!  The ebook of Golden Touch is up for pre-order now! I had wanted to do pre-orders for the paperbacks, but I haven't quite figured that one out yet haha Maybe I'll be able to do it for Emerald Phantom, but for now, if you want the ebook delivered right to your device the day Golden Touch comes out, you can click the link down below and get it now!  A little about Golden Touch:  Amaya Wilson already thought her family was struggling to make ends meet when she comes home one night to find her father has lost his job. Hopelessness starts to settle in until her younger brother, Tyler, remembers a map and a story their grandfather used to tell them. A story of their ancestor who found and hid a Golden Gift up in the mountains.  Out of desperation to help their family get back on their feet, they head into the mountains with the newfound map guiding them, hoping to find the treasure he hid. What they find instead is not a pile of gold, but Darren, a bo...

 Happy Wednesday!  I sat down and wrote two paragraphs of a sort of update post because I didn't really know what else to write and as I did, I felt led to write about this instead. Over the past few months I feel like God has shown me something really amazing. I didn't ask for it... or at least I don't remember if I did. By the end of last year I had a lot of doubts about God and the Bible and just everything. My head was so messed up about it all. How I got there is another story for another time that I would like to tell one day, but just am not ready to yet. I just remember so many times where I questioned God and I questioned the Bible and I doubted whether I was saved or not and just so many things. I had never experienced anything like that in my life. Ultimately, all that led to answers to all of my questions and deepened my faith and brought me closer to God in an amazing way.  But you know what? God saw my doubts and He has shown me over the past five months tha...