HERE IT IS, FRIENDS! The moment you’ve all been waiting for.

After 22 years in nonfiction, I’m now doing what I love best: writing portal fantasy for geeky 14-year-old me (eep!!). Get ready for ONCE A QUEEN, the first in a YA series, coming summer of 2023 from WaterBrook & Multnomah, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Books #2 and #3 will follow annually thereafter…and who knows after that?

There are so many people to thank for this career shift: My agent, editor, supportive colleagues, friends, church, and family…thank you for encouraging me, challenging me, praying, watching my kids, and sending me to writing conferences and retreats, even when it wasn’t clear whether this fiction dream would ever pay off.

But above all, to my husband Tom Arthur, who never let me give up.

So, everyone, I’m now back to full-time work and writing like a crazy person for the foreseeable future, so thanks for your patience if I don’t respond to messages right away! If you’d like to keep up with my fiction news, be sure to sign up for my occasional newsletters (quarterly, at most) at this link.

See you on the other side of Book #1!