Down the Rabbit Hole

 Happy Wednesday!  How did your March go? March went by slowly for me, which I'm Okay with because it actually turned out being a pretty good month. I'm so glad to get to end March on a good note. The beginning of the year started out a little shaky, but all is going better now. Also, Desert Flower is out in the world now!! I'm so thankful for everyone who shared about it and helped celebrate its release. It means so much to me!  March Writing:   Writing this month went so well! I rewrote/revised my secret WIP (at the moment I'm calling it IWWP), so now the book is much more story shaped and makes more sense than the first draft did. IWWP is another novel set in the Triadic Kingdoms and is the first in a duology! I don't know when it will be published (I have to publish Project Xion first), but I love this story so much and I think a lot of others will too.  I did a bunch of edits on Project Xion and sent it off to my alpha reader this month too! I'm not sure wh...

 Happy Tuesday!  Today is Desert Flower's release day! I can hardly believe it. I wrote this book last year after almost all of 2021 being full of half finished projects and lots of burnout. After working hard all year to try and write more and being so frustrated and worried I may never write another good thing again, Desert Flower was a happy surprise and has opened up a new world of stories for me. Thanks to Desert Flower, I know have many stories for the future set in the Triadic Kingdoms. I have Project Xion and my new IWWP WIP and a few other standalone novels set in the same world that are just ideas for right now.  More than any of my other books, this one holds the most of my heart and a lot of my story. For years, I've wanted to write a story like Desert Flower, about the themes that are in the book... but I could never find the right words. It was never the right time. I'm not sure why or how it became the right time last year... but the idea struck me and here...

 Happy Wednesday!  I wrote this back in January and then never posted it... I've been in a weird place with this blog lately. For the past two years I feel like I've been super consistent and really excited about posting on here and then that just sort of fell away. I haven't felt inspired to write on here in a long while, mostly because I feel like I have nothing important to say or share. And when I do feel like I have something to say, I just haven't been able to bring myself to write out the words. I end up second guessing and doubting myself and think it's just not worth writing down. So, if I'm not on here as much as I used to be that's why. I'm figuring it out and plan to pray more about it than I have been because I love this blog and I love what I was doing with this blog. But for now, here's something I wrote back in January and ended up talking myself out of sharing.  I recently saw a post from one of my favorite Christian Instagrammers ab...

 Happy Wednesday!  Today is my birthday, so of course I have to do a post all about twenty-three and turning twenty-four. Honestly, I struggled a little with the thought of turning twenty-four. It feels too close to twenty-five and twenty-five just doesn't feel real. Turning twenty-four doesn't feel real either. Does this mean I'm in my mid-twenties? Because I'm not ready to be in my mid-twenties. I don't have enough of life figured out to be twenty-four haha  But just because we don't want to turn a certain age doesn't mean its not going to happen, so here we are and here I am at twenty-four. I've said this before on here, but birthdays to me feel like stepping into a new year. Turning a new age is our own personal new year days. We get a whole year of growing and changing ahead of us when we turn a new age.  I wrote this back in December when I was feeling way more contemplative and had been thinking a lot about the coming year and my birthday:  23 was...

 Happy Friday!  I'm showing off the cover for Desert Flower today! Desert Flower is the YA fantasy I've been working on for the past few months and it now has a cover, blurb and release date!! This book means so much to me and I can't wait to share it with everyone.  So... here it is!  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Not to play favorites, but I think this is my favorite cover out of all of my books. I just love it so much and my mom completely outdid herself creating such a gorgeous cover for Desert Flower!  Here's what the book is all about:  All Rayla’s life, she’s always thought she was normal. She had a plan for her life. Grow up, get married, and start a family of her own. Step into her place in society just like every other girl in her small oasis village. But after it’s revealed in her coming of age ceremony that she is unable to have children, and therefore, unable to continue her family line, Rayla believes she’s been cursed by the gods. She r...

 Happy Wednesday!  Over the past week I've been following along with what's been happening in Ukraine, as I'm sure many of us have and I found myself thinking about a phrase that's been thrown around a lot in the past two years: I'm really tired of living through major historical events.  As I was getting ready for bed one night last week, I couldn't stop thinking about that phrase and ended up writing a bit of a rant in the Notes app of my phone and I figured why not throw it up here. What has happened in the past two years has been exhausting. Its been hard and its been a lot. A "pandemic", our government overreaching and grabbing at whatever power they can by using said pandemic, injustices in many forms. There have been riots and divisiveness and government overreach. There have been broken friendships and broken families because of what's happened. And now here we are fighting over the right to decide what we do or do not put into our own bodi...