Back when I was a kid, I wrote a lot. Before I even liked reading. It was just what I did, and I kind of half assumed that everyone was like that until I was halfway through my teens and heard the first person make a remark about writing, and realized it was not, in fact, what most people spent their evenings on.

For all that writing though, I never planned to do anything with it.

But as I got older, I began to look around more, at writing a reading, until the end of 2021, when I had just finished writing the first draft of a novel. I was talking with a dad friend, and he suddenly turned to me and said, “why haven’t you published a book yet?” and I didn’t have an answer.

So I went home, and I prayed. And a week later, I started the publication process for Frost Light.

Fantasy has been my genre almost since I began writing. There is so much potential for it, especially I think, as Christians. As we seek to imitate and serve our God and King, it is good to be reminded of the beauty, power and skill that He has displayed in this whole world, and a beautiful way of seeing it clearly can be between the pages of a book. Fantasy books can act as a small mirror, pointing us back to what is actually here, and good and true.

That is a beautiful thing, and one worth looking into more. That is something that I strive for, with each word that I write, though I am only just beginning to learn how to praise Him well.