Happy New Year, fellows! At least, I hope that this new year will indeed be a little happier than the last, for all of us just hanging on.

Hey everyone! If you subscribe to my newsletter, you would have received a notice this past Monday that King Eyes is now live on my website and available for download through Bookfunnel! I'm so excited to be able to share this story with everyone. Dalon and Kari, and the challenges they face, are quite different from any I've written before. But I'm hoping that their story resonates with you.

I'm currently making my way through Carol Berg's Dust and Light, and I was hoping to finish it in time for the New Year, but I don't think I'll make it. So I figured it's as good a time as any to write this post. 2023 was a very stressful year for me, especially the first half. And while I usually find solace in reading, I didn't have a lot of restful energy to sit down and concentrate on a book. Even some of the books that hooked me while I was reading them didn't seem to have left much of an impression after a few months. And thus, we've come to my sparse collection of favourite reads for 2023!

Hey folks! This year I had the opportunity to participate in the Inkling's Challenge over on Tumblr. If you don't know what this is, it's an annual challenge to write a Christian fantasy story. Participants get split into three teams, and based on those teams, they have a choice of two pre-assigned genres. I got sorted into Team Chesterton, and I decided to write an Intrustive Fantasy.

Hello folks, I updated my Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimer pages. Of the three, the Terms & Conditions probably has the biggest change. With this update, I'm now able to reduce the age restriction from 18 to 13, with only a minor caveat.

Sometimes going back to the Philippines can feel very wistful to me. Life is so different in Canada, and having spent two-thirds of my life here, sometimes returning home can feel like discovering an old pair of beloved shoes and finding that they don't quite fit you anymore. It makes me want to work harder to keep my connections with the country alive.

Yes, I know it's been seven months since my last update on my current work in progress. But the first half of this year has brought me some challenges, including a few health issues in the family and a packed preparation for a two-week long trip to the Philippines. Unfortunately it rarely left me with the energy to be creative.

This post is the first of a two-part account of my trip to the Philippines. In this post, I'll outline where I went and what we did, and in the second post, I will do a deeper dive on some of my thoughts about the culture there and how I perceive it as someone who's spent the majority of her life in the diaspora.

Happy new year, everyone! I hope the last couple of weeks have gone well for you so far. I really appreciated easing back into the swing of things, and leaving the more harried aspects of the holiday behind. I know, I know, I said in my previous post that I wasn't going to be a holiday-cynic anymore. But! I think it's also okay to accept that the holidays require unique effort and energy from us, and it's alright to admit that it can be overwhelming. Here's to quieter, more peaceful days!

Hey, folks! Hope you're all doing well as we start closing off 2022. I know, another year gone, I can't believe it either. But I'm trying my best to recover from being such a holiday-cynic, and what better way to do that than to celebrate the things I had the opportunity to enjoy this past year? So here are the books I really liked in 2022!