The Balance Keepers Series Book 0 Will she be able to find her new place in the family, overcome the shadow demon tormenting her, and help her kid brother defeat cancer before it’s too late? Focused on the recital she’s been dreaming about for a year, Evie is blindsided when the doctor says her brother
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“God take me home,” I breathed. “Take me quickly.” The words traveled no farther than my lips, but my heavenly Father heard me.
Everything in life promised my death would be slow, arduous, and painful especially since I was horrible at change. It took me forever to adjust to teaching after my last job as a musician. However, despite the slow growth in the field, I was at least successful. Then there was the battle with cancer. Yup, I fought the new normal after remission like an MMA champ. It took eight years before I began to trust the ground would hold me up and the invisible wouldn’t knock me back down. Even still, I had hope in my dying breath that the Father might wrap his hands around me and sweep me out of the painful mire I now languished in.
So, it’s been forever since I’ve updated, and well, my only excuse is this pandemic. We moved in December, and here’s the first stage of me setting up my NEW office. I still have boxes to go through, and I’m going to hang something on the walls, but for now, I’m super happy to have
This is our journey we are fighting through now. It is hard. It is not fun. But we will come out better as a country, as a people, as individuals because of this journey.
I was inspired to write at a very young age, not by a person, but by the release it gave me to set my emotions free on the white page. To watch line after line, fill up and my tension and anxieties held captive between the prison bars lining my pages.
When does a writer experience a sense of accomplishment? Is it after the book is finished? How about after it’s revised? Certainly not while it’s in the querying stages, those frightful trenches that threaten to bury us. Surely, we can count on feeling accomplished when a publisher agrees to publish it, but that opens a
Writer-In-Motion Week 4 – Final Version The fourth week of Writer-In-Motion is about tightening, editing, and sculpting until the word count is within the parameters set forth at the beginning of WIM. This is not my favorite round. It is awful to work so hard to put the words on the page, only to turn
Writer-In-Motion Week 3 – Critique Partner Round This is the third week of Writer-In-Motion, where authors implement the feedback their critique partners have provided. I love working with critique partners because there is literally no way to read your own work without understanding it. There’s no way to become disengaged from the emotional connection to
