Down the Rabbit Hole

 Happy Wednesday!  I can't believe October is almost over! This month feels like it flew by, though I am excited for Halloween to be coming up so quickly. I'm so excited for the pirate costume I made! Honestly though, I wish October hadn't gone by so fast and I could have enjoyed it a little more.  October Writing:  So, something surprising came up. I ended up writing the first draft of a new book this month! :o The idea came to me at the very end of September and I started writing it September 30th. I had originally planned for it to be a novella but then I wrote... and kept writing and didn't stop writing until I hit 67,000 words and typed out The End on my first ever standalone. This book came out of nowhere. I had planned to give myself a drafting break in October since Nanowrimo is coming up. I wanted to recharge my creative batteries to be ready and yet here I am, having written an entire first draft of a new book right before Nanowrimo. Right now, I don't rea...

 Happy Friday!  Today is the Emerald Phantom cover reveal!! This cover was so hard to put together, but in the end it was worth all the wait and stress because it turned out gorgeously! If you don't know, Emerald Phantom is book two in my five book Archive Series and is the sequel to Golden Touch. It will be out January 6, 2022 and is up for pre-order now. :b  And now without further ado, here is the gorgeous cover!!  * * * * * * * * * * Isn't it so amazing?? It matches the Golden Touch cover so perfectly while also being it's own thing. What I love most about this cover is all the details. The little hands in the emerald (that you will understand if you read it haha), the Aztec type triangles in the corners and then the tiny little triangles behind the emerald. It just is so incredible and I can't wait to hold it in my hands and put it side by side with Golden Touch!  Here's the blurb (be warned that it does have spoilers for book one in it!):  Two weeks a...

 Happy Wednesday!  Last Saturday I finished reading through the entire Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi! It took me a long to do, almost two years I think, but I have officially reached the New Testament. In my 21 years of life, I had never read the entire Bible all the way through and in the summer of 2019 I was inspired by Nate Buzz and all of his posts on his Instagram about the importance of being in the Word to try and read the whole Bible. I didn't want to put a time constraint on myself, like having to read the Bible in a year. I wanted to take my time and go slow. I realized during my reading of the Old Testament that I have my whole life to know Jesus and the Word better. As a follower of Christ, my main pursuit in life is and should be to become more like Jesus and know Him better every day. That gave me comfort as I took the reading of the Bible slowly knowing that God willing I would have my whole life to dig deeper into the Word. Reading from front to back co...

Happy Wednesday! I was honestly going to skip this week because I didn't really have anything to say... I go through these ups and downs with this blog. These high seasons where the well is full and low seasons where there's a drought and I feel like I have nothing to say. But that's not true. Even when we're in a slow season, there are still words to be written even if they seem inconsequential or not enough for a whole blog post. Really, I just didn't want to miss a week. It bothers me when I don't put a blog post up every week even if I have good reason for it haha October is here and I couldn't be happier. The weather didn't really get the memo, though. The last few days have been in the high seventies and creeping up toward the eighties sneakily as if it doesn't think anyone will notice. Well, I have. I have noticed and I am not amused. Warm Falls always annoy me. By September I'm done wearing shorts and t-shirts and flip flops. I'm done...

 Happy Wednesday!  I know I probably say this a lot on here but September really does feel like it sped by for me. I don't know where the month went at all haha But hey, at least we're this much closer to October and it's Fall season! Maybe that's what it is... I was looking forward to the first day of Fall so much that the month flew by until I got to September 22nd haha  Writing:   September was a weird writing month... again. I feel like all summer - all year really - I've bounced from one WIP to the next without any real follow through. I wrote the first draft of a sci-fi Mulan retelling that I put away. I wrote the first draft of a different sci-fi story called The Runaway (I was real into sci-fi this year haha) that I put away for now too. I wrote a sequel to The Runaway that didn't go anywhere. Then earlier this month I wrote a historical fantasy novella that... didn't go anywhere again. I decided to put that one away for now too. It's been hard b...

Happy Friday!  I didn't get to share this flash fic on Wednesday, but to celebrate the first day of Fall I wrote a fun story about Amaya and Darren celebrating their first Halloween! This short story is kind of an AU situation. It's not really set at any particular time in the series, but incorporates all the characters from The Archive Series in a fun way. :) I had the best time writing this. It just makes me so happy, so here it is! Enjoy the adorableness that is Darren and Amaya! 😍  “Do I really have to wear this?” Darren asked from behind the closed door of the bathroom. Amaya stifled a grin and nodded. “Yes! You have to! We have to match,” she insisted. She heard an exasperated sigh come from the door and this time she couldn’t hold back a full-blown grin. He was going to look so adorable. They both would. He had no idea how long Amaya had been waiting to get a boyfriend so she could do a couple’s outfit. Amaya took a step back and grimaced when the back of her full-leng...

 Happy Wednesday and first day of Fall! (and happy birthday to my mom who's birthday is today!)  How was your summer? What are some things you want to remember about this summer?  Last summer I remember our move. I remember going house shopping and driving back and forth from our old house to our new house with my mom on warm Summer days. It was a stressful time (moving is always stressful) but I remember enjoying the drives back and forth. Just hopping in the car in the evening with a few boxes of stuff and driving ten minutes across town to our new house to spend some time there for a bit before heading back to the old house.  This summer was very different. When I was thinking back on my summer for this post, trying to decide what defined this summer for me... the two weirdest things came to mind. Tiktok and Fringe. Those were the two first things that came to mind when thinking back on this summer. Summer 2021 was one of Tiktok, Fringe, healing and unfinished wri...