Dear Friend, You are cordially invited by myself and Finockt to the Great Homeschool Convention (GHC) 2026! I am SO excited that it’s this time of year again! It’s always a privilege to attend this amazing event and to meet so many of you in person! I hope that will be the case again this…
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 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, Christmas is well on its way, and to help celebrate the Christmas season, I have a Christmas Sale in place! Best Savings? Starting this week, 12/1, until Sunday, 12/7, check out my website store for the most savings you can find on Book 1-The Lost King’s Daughter and Book 2-The Heir! Or save…
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, Have you been anxiously awaiting the Great Homeschool Convention Follow-up for 2025?! Well, I have! Because so many incredible things happened! Most notably, that Finockt received so many high compliments for the nature of her quest! She is more than elated to have so many kindred spirits invested in her journey and eagerly…
Dear Friend, The Great Homeschool Convention 2025 is less than 2 days away! Oh, my! I can’t believe how quickly it sneaked up on me! I am so incredibly late posting this, but I did want to give a shout out really quickly that the Great Homeschool Convention (GHC) is coming and so am I!…
Dear Friend, Teach Them Diligently 2025 finds itself in Dayton, Ohio! Welcome to the Midwest! Home of the kind and the generous and the ones who say “watch for deer” (an apparent euphemism for “I love you”) when any loved one walks out the door to drive home. That’s just our nature, and we’re pretty…
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…