Lilli Mcclung

“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“This statement of the jurors’ sense of justice may be the most succinct and forthright declaration of white privilege and racial paternalism I have ever heard.”
― George Critchlow, The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

“I won’t lie, it scares the dickens out of me to be outside when the lightning starts flashing its light-up-the-sky daggers,”
― Wayne Edwards, A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community

“Her quiet sobs were absorbed into the aria of their voices, their protection and love enveloping her pain and carrying her song.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta