Gloir do Dhia

Hey there, and welcome.

My name is Danielle, and around here we value:

  • There is no neutral media. I want to make sure that the stories I’m telling are ones designed to encourage and uplift, that by them the coming generation, and each of you who read them would be pushed towards the pursuit of what is good.

  • I think that stories written for adults should be written a little differently, but not so that they cannot be shared with your kids. If an 18 year old shouldn’t read it, because of content, then you won’t find it on this page.

    I keep content PG-13, as much as possible. You will never find any smut, or glorified or unnecessary gore in my stories.

  • I’ve read my fair share of books with morally gray heroes, and they left me feeling frustrated. Because you become like what you ingest into your brain. For that reason, I strongly believe in writing characters who struggle and overcome, and put up a fierce fight for what they believe in.

    We have enough characters who do what they want when they want, and curse the consequences.

    We need more characters who fight when its hard, and get back up the next day to do it all over again.

  • I write fantasy, and the subgenre is specifically Noblebright, or hopefilled. That means that at the end of the day, there will always be hope, always be light, and always be light triumphing over darkness in some way, no matter how dark the path to get there is.

    Because I want to reflect the truth in each story I tell, and we know in this life that no matter how hard it gets, and how dark the road it, darkness has already lost. That happened at Calvary.

If you are tired of stories that make you feel dirty at the end, or of books that you have to worry about your kids picking up, then you are in the right place.

FANTASY BOOKS THAT FEEL LIKE THE

CLASSICS.

Written to feel like the historical fiction and fantasy you grew up with.

I have published two books to date,

The first one feels like you took ‘The Long Winter’ by Laura Ingalls Wilder and mixed it together with ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott.

It’s got hope, darkness, wintery coziness, siblings learning how to survive after abandonment, a lonely woodsmen, and overall hints of finding beauty in places that you never wanted to be, like the dead of winter.

I wrote this book for my sister who struggles with seasonal depression, but it has become a tale of broken households, hope and learning to rejoice right where you are, even while nothing is what you want it to be.

If you don’t love fantasy, or do love historical fiction, this book is the one for you, because it is low-magic, high-fantasy, and feels like a historical fiction. So not much fantasy. Yes much to character interactions.

Is set in a place that feels like my home, because it feels like rural Appalachia where I grew up meets the medieval lands of England.

Sparrow in the Sun

Is a high-fantasy book, with more of the classic style we used to see a lot of in fantasy. It feels like if you took Tolkien’s love for ponderous, beautiful things and quieter pacing, set it set it with a first person narrative, and gave it twists and turns like Stephen Lawhead, and gave it a good shake.

It’s about a herbalist, who has been hiding from the soldiers that are hunting out her bloodline, and what she does when everything she fears comes knocking at her door. There are questions of what to do when the world turns dark, a powerhouse of a goblin guard, a hidden forest, herbalism, lyrical prose, a missing prince and reminders of why we fight for what we do.

If you like slow-build stories, with world-building, history, songs and poems, and characters to root for, this is the book for you. And bonus? It’s the first one in a trilogy.

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, the things worth meditating on.

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What readers have said:

  • “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.”

    Goodreads review, ‘Frost Light’.

  • "If Tolkien had written a book set in Rohan, I think it would feel a lot like this book. I loved the setting, and the prose is beautiful."

    Reader review of ‘Sparrow in the Sun’

  • "This was such a lovely read. It's one of those books that just leaves you feeling full. I don't know how else to explain it. I loved so many of the characters, they're so real. It's set in a world that's well-developed, and clearly has much more to explore. I totally can't wait for the next book in the series!"

    Goodreads review of ‘Sparrow in the Sun’.

  • "I LOVED this book. Danielle Bullen's writing is so soothing, while being so real. Her characters and their interactions are so relatable- honestly more so than most of the works of fiction I have ever read...

    Goodreads review of ‘Frost Light’.

  • "Danielle created a story so beautiful and now incredibly close to my heart. I've never read anything like this before, a story so unique. It calms my spirit, but it's grasping at the same time. There's so much feeling in these pages and at times it felt like a reflection of my own emotions. I would recommend this book to anyone."

    Amazon Review, ‘Frost Light’.

  • "I enjoyed this deeply epic tale. It builds slow but steady and the slowness is not a detractor....quite the opposite. I found myself incapable of rushing, I had to savor and enjoy."

    Amazon Review, ‘Sparrow in the Sun’.

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