Kneel & Prey – Chapter Two
Thirty minutes and two slices of pizza later, the school year officially ended and the student body surged from the building like a pimpled-skin tsunami. Gabby kept a steady pace toward the parking lot as the wave passed around her. Read more…
Kneel & Prey – Chapter One
This wasn’t the first time Gabby Wells had snuck her way through Safety Harbor High unnoticed. It probably wouldn’t be the last. Heck, she could do it blindfolded. Actually, she had, once. But that wouldn’t help her now. Not today. Read more…
My Fears on Paper
It’s not uncommon for writers to use their work to express their fears. This is true for me as well. The Gabby Wells Thriller series is infused with my internal struggles. Gabby faces a lot of serious crap in these Read more…
Kneel & Prey on Sale for $0.99 Until July 4th
Kneel & Prey, the first novel in the Gabby Wells Thriller series, is on sale for under a buck until July 4th. In this fast-paced novel, Gabby hears rumors a classmate is planning to commit mass murder during the town’s Read more…
Trusting the Journey
God never seems to draw a straight line. I wish he did. It’d sure make life a lot easier. The path I’ve been on in writing the Gabby Wells Thrillers is one of the most convoluted one could conceive. Two Read more…
Creating an Enticing Book Trailer
Books aren’t like movies. It’s end form is not a series of moving images, it’s a number of pages with words. Unlike movies, you can’t pick the coolest scenes, edit them together and make a trailer. You have to be Read more…
Setting Expectations When Launching Your First Novel
The dream of everyone that wants to be a writer is to draft the next great American novel, release it to public accolades and sit back while the money and notoriety roll in. There’s one word for that… fantasy. In Read more…
Faith is Dramatic
There aren’t a lot of authentic characters of faith in modern entertainment. And that’s a waste. I’ve often wondered why more writers don’t include faith as one of the key components of their main character. It adds weight to everything Read more…
Making Your Characters Suffer is the Best Part
My job as the author of the Gabby Wells Thriller series is to make Gabby’s life a living hell. And I do, relentlessly. That’s what every author is supposed to do. To torture the protagonist so you can torture the Read more…
Kindness and Covers
I love the independent publishing community. They are some of the most generous people I have ever met. I was looking for a book cover designer that could capture what I wanted shown and was competitive from a cost perspective. Read more…
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