About the Author

Being a part of such a book-oriented family, it isn't surprising that I now love to write; the love of creating one's own stories often follows on the heels of a love of other people's books. I have a mother who excels in teaching grammar and spelling, a father who taught me history and gave me my love of books, and a sister who paved the way for me to begin penning my own novels, so I owe a great deal of my writing-state to them.

Historical fiction is certainly my preferred genre in terms of my own stories, as it blends two of my favorite things - the written word and history. There are spaces in time that lend themselves particularly to having novels written about them, and there is a certain satisfaction that comes from the research and from the knowledge that one has written, not only an entertaining story, but also something that can help the reader learn. If you take a look at My Writing page, you'll see that most of my works in progress and to be written fall into that category.

In addition to these things, and overarching all of them, I am a Christian. While not all of my works have as Christianity-centered a plot as, say, The Soldier's Cross, they will never go against my faith and will incorporate my beliefs in some way. Christianity is not so much something that I believe, as it is what I am. As Henry Scougal put it in his book The Life of God in the Soul of Man - "They know by experience that true religion is a union of the soul with God, a real participation of the Divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or, in the apostle's phrase, 'it is Christ formed within us.'"