I’ve always loved the idea of a split personality — and especially the thought of how much of a curse it would be if one side was pure goodness and the other pure evil. Queen Filia Barnette, the main villain of Child of Prophecy, wasn’t always evil. Her story is really about a curse that slowly turns a good woman dark — especially when she no longer knows who she can trust.

Originally, I had Fia’s two best friends as Rose and Kathy, but I eventually realized Rose was meant to be much younger than both Fia and Kathy. I wanted someone closer in age to balance out the group, so I changed the trio to Fia, Lili, and Kathy — and it ended up being perfect for the story.
I’m incredibly grateful to have my brother as my editor, and my husband has also been amazing at helping me work through character motivations and big story moments.

This book was about five years in the making — years filled with library work, school, graduations, pregnancy, and motherhood. I originally planned to publish it in 2017, but life kept pushing that date back again and again until I finally set it for November 2020.

Along the way, I dove deeper into learning about Kindle e-books and discovered Amazon’s free formatting software, Kindle Create. It lets you design e-books so they look clean and professional on e-readers. I ended up redoing all of my existing e-books, and Child of Magic became the first one fully designed with this new format before release.
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I also found an amazing design platform called Canva, which I now use for branding — creating logos, redesigning covers, building full paperback wrap PDFs (front, spine, and back), and so much more. I’ve learned a ton through Canva and ended up redesigning all my books.