Sarah Pennington's Blog

Dreams and Dragons was my first blog, started when I was just setting out into the strange landscape of the 2010s internet (a rather different place than today's internet, one must agree). It was a good thing — a chance to reach out to others across the globe, to share my stories, art, and thoughts and build an audience for the books I would publish some years later.

However, even good things must end, and I have moved on to other lands. Dreams and Dragons will remain online, but going forward, I...

Hello, friends! We finally close the books (literally) on 2024 with my End-of-Year Book Celebration, in which I round up notable reads of the last six months and see how I did on my reading goals. One last time, if you want the short-and-sweet best-of rundown, you can hop over to Light and Shadows to get that list — but if you want a more in-depth look, stay here and keep reading.

As a reminder, since this post wraps up 2024 for me, this will be my final official post on Dreams and Dragons. After...

Hello, all! Yes, we are doing two posts in one week, but I didn't want to drag out 2024 wrapup too long. So, next week will have my reading roundups for 2024, and this week, let's take a look at December's Doings!

Writing!

Writing in December did not go as planned, by which I mean that it hardly went at all. The first half of the month, all my energy was consumed by my grad school class; the second half of the month, all my energy was consumed by work and Christmas.I did get a little writing do...

 

Hello, everyone! 2024 has officially ended, and 2025 is here. As always, that means it's time to look back at the past year and at my 2024 goals to see what I've done (and what I didn't quite manage to do), and it's also time to look ahead at the new year and think about what I might want to accomplish in 2025. 2024 wasn't a perfect year, but it was a sight better than 2023, and it included a lot of good things — excellent stories, lessons learned, time spent with friends and family, and a few ...

Hi all! My brain has been mostly drowned in Christmas preparations (and the bit that's staying afloat is clinging to my and my friend's writing projects for dear life), but winter is here, or will be tomorrow, and that means it's time for a new season of reads.

 

Winter 2024–2025 Reads

1. Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (December 6). In other years, this might've been my most-anticipated read of the season, and I quite possibly would've already read it (or would be ravenously watching the l...

Hello, everyone! We are officially in the Christmas season, and 2024 is nearly gone. November and December are always my busy months, and this year looks like it'll be no exception — this past month certainly wasn't. So without further ado, let's dive into November's Doings!

Writing!

I've mostly been working on more prep for Project Kingfisher this month: developing characters, building the world, and writing backstory snippets to explore character dynamics. This is a different approach than I ...

 

Hello, all! Happy day-after-Thanksgiving!

As per the usual, I'm here to let you know that all of my books are on sale in ebook form for just $0.99 as part of the Black Friday Book Sale! This sale runs from Black Friday (today, November 24) through Cyber Monday. In it, you'll find literally hundreds of clean and Christian indie reads from authors like Kendra E. Ardnek, Sarah Beran, H.L. Burke, Savannah Jezowski, H.S.J. Williams, myself, and many others. The sale includes free and $0.99 ebooks, as...

Hello, friends! It's time for another Taleweaver's Desk update; as always, this is the part of the blog in which I check in with an overview of what projects I'm working on (and not working on) and what might be coming soon — starting with the most active projects on my desktop.

On the Taleweaver's Desk Issue 14: November 2024On the Desktop

These are the projects you might find open on my laptop or desk if you took a peek at it during a normal day. They're currently in progress and at the top ...

Hello, friends! Today is release day for the final Secrets of Ormdale novel, Valley of Dragons. I was once again able to get an ARC of this book, and let me tell you, this is such a good conclusion to the series. I may or may not have stayed up until after one in the morning the night I finished it because I got so invested in the story, and that's something I haven't done in a long time. So, obviously, I have to share my thoughts!

Thoughts on Valley of Dragons
The story came full-circle in the be...

The whole business started with hymns — or, more accurately, without them. When you work at one church and attend another Sunday mornings, inevitably, you start to draw comparisons between the two, and in my case, those comparisons mostly took the form of frustration with the lack of hymns at the church I attend. I knew that the worship, like everything else, was meant to cater to a contemporary crowd, but surely we could fit "Be Thou My Vision" or "A Mighty Fortress" in somewhere? Eventually, m...