Welcome to this little corner of the world.
I hope that you walk away with your heart encouraged, remembering a little more of the joy of the Lord.
May He be with you as you scroll through this page, and onward in life.
Hey there.
I’m Danielle
So Hi,
It is my goal to share stories that will remind you of the goodness of God, books that will challenge you to drink more deeply of the honest things in life, thoughts that will remind you of our God’s everlasting faithfulness and words that remind you to look at the beauty He has carved into each part of this broken world.
Frost Light
Out now, just in time for the winter, a story for quiet days, with the hardships of winter, isolation and darkness.
“This was SUCH a lovely read. It’s the type of book you want to curl up with by a fire. Fuzzy blankets and hot chocolate within reach and no clock in sight.” -H.L
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.
I grew up reading books by authors like C.S Lewis, Douglas Bond, Rosemary Sutcliff and Stephen Lawhead. Authors who celebrate good, beautiful things in life, later to be joined by JRR Tolkien, James Herriot and others.
Those books still have an impact on me today, and I don’t believe that it is a coincidence that God wrote His Word so that we have it, because stories are powerful, and that is the way that He made it to be. He made stories to have an impact. Which means that we should be careful the kind of stories that we are filling our minds with.
My first book was about growing where you are planted, and not living in discontentment with the things that you can’t change.
And it was terrible.
But one of the best things in life is that we grow, and that we keep on growing, learning and changing until the day that we die. It’s part of the beautiful way that God made us, and one that I am particularly thankful for. We get to grow and learn and try and try again, and somedays, we get to see God use things in beautiful ways to His glory, things that began as a thought and came about by His grace.
All that to say, I hope that through the carefully written stories tucked between the pages of these books, you are somehow reminded of the goodness of our King, and the pleasure that He has in all that He has made.
This world is broken and war-torn, and God still has it all bound between His hands.
He is good.
Gloir do Dhia.
