MNINS: Season 2, Episode 5 – Taking Advantage of Your Teen Years

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. This time we talk about great teens in history and how to use your teen years to be great. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In this episode: Satan […]

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Why Young Adult Novels? Because Teens Are Amazing!

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There is something special about the teen years.  You know enough about the world to figure out how it works, but you’re not embedded in it.  You see where the lines have been drawn by generations before you and you challenge whether they were sketched out in the right place. Teens also have more time […]

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My Divine Launch Team

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Every writer needs help.  I’m banking on the saintly kind. Any new business could use the assistance from a group of advisers that can guide them through the pitfalls and challenges they will face in their new endeavor.  Not only have I pursued that in our world, but the next. I’ve enlisted the guidance from […]

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MNINS: Season 2, Episode 3 – Your Muse Can’t Be Lazy

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. This time we talk about how to answer the call of your muse… and, hint, it takes a crap tone of hard work. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes […]

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MNINS: Season 2, Episode 2 – Challenges with Writing a Novel Series

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. This time we talk about some of the challenges faced when writing the Gabby Wells novel series and discuss the best way to avoid pitfalls, using film and television examples.  More […]

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Writers, Get Out More

Posted Sonlight Press Author Blog, Faith, Gabby Wells Novel, Independent Publishing, Social Media, Writing

Writing is often a lonely, isolating experience.  We usually find our quiet space, fill it with white noise or our favorite music, and write characters that exist in our minds before they do on paper. We spend a lot of time like that.  Too much, sometimes. The most valuable thing to me is my time.  […]

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Reminder – Kneel & Prey on Sale for $0.99 Until July 4th

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Kneel & Prey, the first novel in the Gabby Wells Thriller series, is on sale for under a buck until July 4th. In this fast-paced novel, Gabby hears rumors a classmate is planning to commit mass murder during the town’s Independence Day celebration and is willing to risk everything, including her soul, to save her […]

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Kneel & Prey – Chapter Six

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The popcorn ceiling looked like an alien landscape. With the full moon spraying its light into Gabby’s room, she stared up from her bed, her eyes exhibiting no interest in sleeping. The clock was nearing two in the morning, and Gabby did her best to convince herself it was time to dream. She didn’t peruse […]

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Kneel & Prey – Chapter Five

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Energized by her time with her friends, Gabby headed over to the Safety Harbor Hardware Store to visit Harold, her father. She loved stopping by. It was a piece of home and smelled like wood, paint, cardboard, and metal all mixed together—like a potent cologne. Before entering, Gabby stopped outside and stared at the small, […]

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Kneel & Prey – Chapter Four

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The downtown gazebo was the center of Gabby’s universe. Located on Main Street, catty-corner from her father’s hardware store, the old, wooden structure with a circular roof looked like something out of a Mark Twain novel. Gabby and her friends, self-dubbed The Gang, considered it their home away from home. The Gang started when she […]

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Kneel & Prey – Chapter Three

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The child’s cry echoed in Gabby’s mind. She had heard it so many times before. She hopped out of the police cruiser and closed her eyes, using her ears to lead her to its source. “Gabs, we’re supposed to stay in the car,” Emma said through the window. Guided by the child’s screams, Gabby jogged […]

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Kneel & Prey – Chapter Two

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Thirty minutes and two slices of pizza later, the school year officially ended and the student body surged from the building like a pimpled-skin tsunami. Gabby kept a steady pace toward the parking lot as the wave passed around her. Emma trudged next to her, lugging her stuffed backpack on her back, the searing June […]

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Kneel & Prey – Chapter One

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This wasn’t the first time Gabby Wells had snuck her way through Safety Harbor High unnoticed. It probably wouldn’t be the last. Heck, she could do it blindfolded. Actually, she had, once. But that wouldn’t help her now. Not today. Down the long, empty hall, the gray cinderblock walls resembled a prison and the harsh […]

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My Fears on Paper

Posted Sonlight Press Author Blog, Faith, Gabby Wells, Gabby Wells Novel

It’s not uncommon for writers to use their work to express their fears.  This is true for me as well.  The Gabby Wells Thriller series is infused with my internal struggles. Gabby faces a lot of serious crap in these novels, stuff no 15 year old should have to face.  She’s a bit broken by […]

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Kneel & Prey on Sale for $0.99 Until July 4th

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Kneel & Prey, the first novel in the Gabby Wells Thriller series, is on sale for under a buck until July 4th. In this fast-paced novel, Gabby hears rumors a classmate is planning to commit mass murder during the town’s Independence Day celebration and is willing to risk everything, including her soul, to save her […]

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MNINS: Season 01, Episode 10 – There Are No Original Stories and That’s Okay

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Welcome to the tenth episode of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. This time we discuss how there really aren’t original plots and that’s okay.  It’s not about originality, but execution. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In this episode: Kneel & […]

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Trusting the Journey

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God never seems to draw a straight line. I wish he did.  It’d sure make life a lot easier. The path I’ve been on in writing the Gabby Wells Thrillers is one of the most convoluted one could conceive.  Two years ago, almost to the day, I posted about this strange unfolding.  Back then I […]

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Creating an Enticing Book Trailer

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Books aren’t like movies.  It’s end form is not a series of moving images, it’s a number of pages with words.  Unlike movies, you can’t pick the coolest scenes, edit them together and make a trailer.  You have to be more creative. When movie trailers first came out, they were also called teasers.  And that’s […]

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Setting Expectations When Launching Your First Novel

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The dream of everyone that wants to be a writer is to draft the next great American novel, release it to public accolades and sit back while the money and notoriety roll in. There’s one word for that… fantasy. In today’s publishing climate, its never been easier to get your idea into novel form.  However, […]

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MNINS: Season 01, Episode 8 – Kneel & Prey Special

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Welcome to the eighth episode of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes This episode we’re going to talk about the release Kneel & Prey, the first Gabby Wells Thriller.  It’s taken almost a decade to get […]

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