Celebrating the Unique and Meaningful April Holidays April is an exciting month with many meaningful special days. Whether you're raising...

My first YA novel was Freerunner. It was a tough story to write. I wanted to cover the issue of molestation, but in a way that would be...

I had the awesome opportunity to spend some time with the Freerunner cover model and her family in North Carolina last week. It was an...

Freerunner won second place in the YA catagory of the Selah Awards Wednesday night at the Blue Ridge Christian Writer's Conference. It...

The cover models for both books are amazing young women, but have very different stories, backgrounds and families. Today I'll talk about...

As I mentioned in my last post, almost every review mentioned that Freerunner was a hard book to read. Thankfully overall the book seemed...

#teenbooks #teenfiction #hopeandhealing #blogtour #issuebasedfiction Freerunner is on Day 10 of a blog tour. It has been both hard and...

My book teen fiction book Freerunner is, obviously, set against the backdrop of freerunning. I'm not sure when I first thought of writing...

Larissa, the cover model for Freerunner, shows off her Freerunner wristbands.

In doing my final edits, some of my main character's words/thoughts stood out to me more than others. Here are four of my favorite...

In the past I've written preteen/young teen devotional or interactive non fiction books. But I've realized that sometimes a story is the...

A few years ago I felt a real need to write books for teens who will not pick up a typical Christian book. I wanted to reach the teens...