It’s launch day! And this story has been a long time coming…
My life has been a series of God asking me to do hard things—uncomfortable things—and me crying, debating, arguing, and eventually saying yes. So imagine my surprise when he asked me to do something I actually enjoyed.
“I want you to write,” he whispered. I stopped short.
At first, I thought it must be my own selfish ambitions trying to get in the way. God couldn’t possibly want me to do that…could he? But then I tentatively whispered, “I’ll do it.”
And then I was on a plane flying across the country to go to a writing trade school to pursue the one thing I’d told myself never to let anybody else know about.
Writing is close to my heart. It’s personal. It’s vulnerable. It’s scary.
In my first year at The Company, I wrote a novella. I thought it was garbage. I’d been on such a tight deadline to finish it, I didn’t have time to do my usual editing on it— to remove myself from it and edit out anything that could let someone know how I really felt…but then my mentor read it and (gasp) he actually liked it. It wasn’t perfect, but it was workable.
And now, nearly two years later, I’m releasing it for the world to read. (Past me would be mortified. Present me is only a little bit mortified 😉)
Copper Lies
One secret can lead to many lies…
If you make something, and then that something accidentally comes alive and destroys your entire town…would it be fair to say that you destroyed the town, or can we just blame it on the thing?
Lillian Booker is dying to experiment on the strange glowing rocks hidden inside her adoptive father’s workshop—but the professor forbid it before he left on his journey. As Lillian learns all she can about the stones without breaking the professor’s rule, she finds herself stuck between two worlds.
Will she live the life of a brilliant inventor or give up on her dreams and become a respectable lady instead? What will make her happy? Most importantly, which will prove to the professor that he didn’t make a mistake when he chose her?
When Lillian secretly builds a mechanical dragon, one mistake leads to another—the strange glowing stones collide with her creation and her dragon roars to life! Lillian must make a choice…lie and keep her dragon a secret or finally face the truth?
Will any of it matter anyway if the town’s already been destroyed?
I hope you enjoy this story, but more than that, I hope you connect with it. I hope that you can read these words, see this journey, and realize you are not alone.
Take that leap God’s put on your heart. Hold your breath and squeeze your eyes shut if you have to.
Because you’re not alone and God loves you so very much.
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