About

Who am I?

She saw the world not always as it was, but as perhaps it could be. -Cinderella, 2015

Ever since I was thirteen, I’ve been babysitting foster kids, and now with an adopted sister of my own, I know the importance of giving kids hope for their own happy endings. So all of my stories are written for those kids in mind, reminding them to keep chasing the light.

When I’m not writing, I’m trying to grow my hair to Rapunzel lengths, making hundreds of cookies, pretending the endless cornfields of Illinois are my kingdom, or trying to convince my siblings to read just one more story.

What do I write?

Since it is so likely that [children] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny brighter but darker. – C.S. Lewis

I spent a lot of my early teen years devouring books that left my sensitive heart in a depressive haze. I was constantly wondering, “If these character that I love can’t make it, can I?”

So many books are set in dying worlds, feature characters being crushed, and leave the reader feeling worse.

And where’s the hope in that?

My books are giving you and your kids the encouragement that I needed as a kid. To help them find goodness in the hard times, and keep hoping when all hope is lost. To tell them about characters who persevere despite the problems and keep chasing the light. Giving them the hope that theses characters made it through to their hard-earned happy endings, and you can too.

What am I doing?

I’m probably off writing in a coffee shop and pretending it’s my castle, so if you’d like to keep up with what I’m doing and where I’m going, subscribe to my newsletter here: