Category: Life Beyond the Page

Step beyond the pages of my books and into the stories that shape them. From life in Cartersville and everyday adventures to personal reflections, favorite places, and the moments that inspire my writing, this is where you’ll get to know the heart behind the stories.

Gluten-Free Writer

It’s amazing how God uses events in my life to go into my novels. Each story contains bits and pieces of me, I want to feature my allergy and going gluten-free in book six, Giving Grace. Last Saturday, I went to a gluten-free expo at the Cobb Galleria. My mom and I drove down, spent […]

Tellus Museum: Hidden Gem

I remember the pre-Tellus museum called the Weinman Mineral Museum. It featured rocks, gems, and of course minerals. I’d been for a few school trips and one summer, my mother, the librarian, set up their library, so I spent a lot of time roaming those halls. In 2007, Weinman Mineral Museum closed its doors and […]

Cartersville: Places and Spaces

Cartersville is the main setting for my first novel and I feature some of my favorite places in many of my scenes. I grew up in Cartersville, and it was a great city to grow up in. Beautiful, peaceful, and close enough to the big city to visit, but it still has the country, backwoods […]