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  • A Look at 2023

    A Look at 2023

    2023 was a busy year. It was hard to believe month to month that yet another month in the new year had passed and even when New Year’s Eve came around on Sunday, it felt like anything but the end of the year and time for a new year to begin. I made contact with…

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  • A spot in Federal Benefits Made Simple Newsletter

    A spot in Federal Benefits Made Simple Newsletter

    My dad is a retired Federal officer and worked with Ann Vanderslice through his retirement process as retirement from the government can be a tricky thing to navigate. He was telling her about my books a few months ago and she reached out and I was able to talk with someone on her team who…

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  • Introduction to Beauty Revealed Video

    Introduction to Beauty Revealed Video

    Beauty Revealed: A Fall Equinox Chronicle is releasing in the New Year!! Beauty Revealed is the 4th book in The Solstice Chronicles, a faith-based fairytale series that weaves elements of the Gospel and Scripture into the fabric of a fairytale world. There are lots of hard moments in this book, but there are also lots…

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  • Fill Your Heart with Praise

    Fill Your Heart with Praise

    The beauty of this scene is the way the act of worship turns their hearts from the hold the darkness has over them back to the one who created them and gave them gifts to enhance his kingdom and the beautiful lives and freedoms they had been given. During this season of Thanksgiving, may this…

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  • Will o’ the wisps: The path of our desire

    Will o’ the wisps: The path of our desire

    Another flash of blue appeared behind the woman but vanished before Julianna could make anything out. The woman stepped aside and gestured for Julianna to come towards her. Julianna took a few cautious steps towards the woman and stopped when she saw the slightest flicker of what appeared to be a floating blue flame. “They…

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  • The Manor House

    The Manor House

    Beauty Redeemed is all about redemption and the battle between dark and light within all of the characters and those who struggle with it in the real world. The Spring realm is the realm of light but it has its own brushes with darkness. We find out in the story that Julianna’s mother, who presents…

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  • A Distorted Reflection- The Mage’s realm vs The Dark realm

    A Distorted Reflection- The Mage’s realm vs The Dark realm

    I loved the show, “Once Upon a Time”. Given my love of fairytales, this probably isn’t surprising since it’s a show about fairytale characters being cursed to live in the real world. I mean, how much cooler can you get? I loved the deeper story lines and how they put their own twists on the…

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  • Redemption

    Redemption

    The name of my second book, Beauty Redeemed, shows a little bit of what this story is about: Redemption. Redemption is defined as a “buying back” of someone or something that was previously sold. It is often associated with things that were indebted to someone and unable to buy themselves out of that debt which…

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