Dear Friend, Welcome back to the final episode of book tropes! Today, we will be looking at Christian tropes in my books! While most likely self-explanatory, there may be a few you didn’t realize were actually present in my books, so, I’ll defer to the picture below so that you get a good idea of…
Dear Friend, Welcome back to another episode of tropes! Celtic tropes this time! If you haven’t already surmised from persuing my website and reading about my books, I love all things Celtic from the landscapes to the jewelry to the common symbols that represent this rich (though oft pagan) culture. To assuage your fears, I…
Dear Storyteller, This week’s Bonus Tip is all about breaking down the lie about Imposter Syndrome. Particularly Imposter Syndrome for the Writer. I wanted to touch on this topic because…well…because I hear it a LOT in the writer community. Insert an aside: this Bonus Tip has taken me much longer than anticipated to share with…
Dear Friend, Romance Tropes in ISEF (ISEF is short for In the Shadow of Emerald Fire) is something I wanted to include secondary to the fact that a novel just isn’t a novel without some romance woven in. Do you agree? What’s my definition of good romance? While I’m not a gushy, swoony type of…
Dear Friend, I thought it might be fun to include a post on the General Fantasy Tropes you may find in my clean, YA, medieval Christian fantasy series, In the Shadow of Emerald Fire, or ISEF, for short. Prefacing our conversation by saying that book tropes were nowhere within my scope of thinking when I…
Dear Friend, Is Book 1 an allegory? You might be surprised to know that I’ve already touched upon this subject once before and answered it to the best of my ability at the time, but I believe it bears repeating. (You can find my old version here, if you’re interested in reading that one, too)….
Dear Friend, Another Book 3 Update at your fingertips! How long you have waited for this current Book 3 Update, and I’m happy to finally be punching my fingerpads against the keys to bring you this exciting news! It’s quick. It’s sweet. It’s here! What’s the news? By the grace of God, He answered my…
Dear Friend, Book 3 Update is here! Finally! It has been a long, long while since I’ve given any update regarding my progress on Book 3…well…maybe that’s mainly because I don’t have much to share with you! Haha. In truth, that is a bit of it, and yet, you know me, I always have something…
Dear Reader and kindred spirit, It’s been awhile since I shared with you a Book 3 update! I hadn’t intended on there being such a wide gap between my last post and this one. So I’ll try to get you up to speed on what’s been happening! Please note: I literally just found this a…
Dear Friend, What do you think of this Character Art for Finockt? I’ve wanted for a very, very long time to have some sort of character art for my books, and now, with a little help from Canva, I was able to generate a fairly lifelike image of Finockt! But what do you think? Do…