Everlasting: Free for the First Time Ever!

Good afternoon, fellow book lovers. 🙂

I have some exciting news to share today! While I have put Bridget’s Journey up for free on Kindle a couple of times over the years, I have never done so for Everlasting. But this weekend (Friday, August 10th-Monday, August 13th) Everlasting will be FREE to download on your Kindle or Kindle app for the FIRST time ever!

This YA fantasy is perfect for those who love the Lord of the Rings trilogy or The Princess Bride as those were my two main influences when I wrote this book. If you want to read the synopsis or even an excerpt from the Prologue, head on over to my Everlasting page and check it out!

Then, when you’re ready, click the link below and you’ll be ready for an adventure with a missing princess, a farm boy, dragons and fairies!

 

Feel free to share this blog post to anyone you think might enjoy this fantasy adventure!

 

 

Favorite Childhood Movies Tag

~ Here are the rules ~

1) Share 5 movies from your childhood.

2) Do a mini write-up about what made this movie special to you as a child. (optional)

3) Acknowledge the person who tagged you and link it back to their blog.

4) Tag 5 or more bloggers to take up the challenge if they choose.

Thank you, Rayleigh, at Accelerate the Jesus Movement, for tagging me!

Movies (especially Disney movies and musicals) played a big part in my childhood in many ways. I don’t think we realize how much our favorite childhood movies impact us until we grow up. And I don’t think we truly understand why we liked it so much until we watch it again as an adult. That said, I was really excited to be able to participate in this movie tag!

 

#5

I distinctly remember Mom and Dad giving this movie to us as an end-of-school-year present all those years ago. We used to watch it over and over again on road trips growing up and it has always been my favorite Pixar movie. Also, the recent release of The Incredibles 2 (a movie I literally waited 14 years for) kind of made my life a couple weeks ago. Just sayin’. Anyway, this is probably my favorite cartoon superhero movie ever, mainly because it demonstrates what’s it like to be a real family and have superpowers and how that would affect your everyday life–especially if you were supposed to hide it.

Honorable Mention

Many of you know that I entered a short story contest a few months ago hosted by the Rooglewood Press. The challenge was to write a retelling of Snow White in any genre we chose–but there was a maximum of 20,000 words. Most of you know how verbose I am as a writer, so I’m sure you can imagine how difficult it was for me to hold myself back and write a story at 20,000 words or less. It was easily one of the toughest things I’ve ever done as a writer.

But the result was The War Within–possibly one of the best stories I’ve told.

Onward and Upward

It’s that time of year again.

As 2017 comes to a close, I’m looking back on my New Year’s resolutions and patting myself on the back for the ones I reached…and crossing my fingers to do better next year with the ones I didn’t reach.

Here are my 2017 New Year’s resolutions I posted a year ago:

1. Read 40 books.
2. Finish writing one book (probably Endeavoring).
3. Edit Bridget Returns.
4. Edit and self-publish The Whistler Daughters.
5. Year after year, I want to become more like Christ–as Colossians 3:12-17 says so perfectly.

How did I do?

Thoughts After Writing a Short Story

A belated Merry Christmas and early Happy New Year’s to all of you! I hope your holiday break has been restful and encouraging.

As I prepare some New Year’s resolutions for 2018, I’ve been thinking back on this past fall semester and all that I accomplished. I finished my last four Lumerit courses for the year in 4 months–something I was beginning to doubt I’d be able to do in September. I also entered a short story contest.

In June of this year, a friend told me about a fairy tale retelling contest that was going on (something I might have briefly mentioned in a past blog post) and I couldn’t pass it up! Fairy tale retellings used to be one of my favorite genres and I read many of them growing up. This year’s fairy tale to retell was Snow White. We had 6 months to write and send our short story and I thought to myself, “why not?” I hadn’t entered a writing contest in years and since I was in a bit of a rut writing-wise, it might be good for me to try something new.