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I told you I couldn’t leave it at only four brief weeks of gorgeous fan art. Pshaw! I recently found a new saliva-inducing pic that I’ll be sharing with you all today, but first, a little bit of news and updates.

My NaNoWriMo is going swimmingly well (4,000 words ahead of schedule–Yeah!), and you can find some of my updates on my Facebook page.

I just discovered that Defying Shadows made it onto Goodreads’ list of Most Anticipated Christian Fiction 2016. Holy strombonie! #1 on the list (and rightfully so) is Melanie Dickerson, one of my favorite Christian authors, along with Francine Rivers, so it was an absolute honor. It also reminded me that I never made a page for the final installment in the Rising Shadows trilogy. *gasps* EGAD! So I quickly remedied that by creating a new tab at the top of my feed for the last book, which you might have already noticed. (check out the page!). It isn’t much right now, but I’ll slowly be adding to it over time, so keep checking for more updates!

Shantelle, the winner of the Chasing Shadows Celebration, absolutely loves the Rising Shadows trilogy! I sent her Rising Shadows so she would have a bit of background before she dived into the paperback copy of Chasing Shadows she won in the giveaway, and I was so pleased to find that she enjoyed both books and is looking forward to the release of Defying Shadows (me too, Shantelle!).

You can find her review of Rising Shadows here and her 5 star review (^_^) of Chasing Shadows here!

LASTLY, because so much fan art has been made over the past month and a half, I decided to create a Fan Art page with links to the books and images. It’s basically like a Pinterest board right here on my site! Okay, and because I know this is why you showed up today, I’ll make you wait no longer.

Anyone recognize this romantic scene from Chasing Shadows?

I believe we’ve previously established that I have awesome friends: They have supported be through this entire writing endeavor and have even gone so far as to film a Rising Shadows book trailer (coming soon!). And then my friend Bethany, who is a fantastic photographer, saw a photo on my Pinterest that I was gushing about., and it inspired her to do an author photo shoot at Mission Trails. I told you I have amazing friends. ^__^ I had the best time hanging out and goofing off with her, and the park was incredible. Here are just a few of the results of a fun Saturday evening!

One of my favorite because the lighting was so amazing … And also the copies of Jane Eyre and Sherlock Holmes. 😉

How she captured this picture reminds me of a Vogue shoot I just saw. So fun!

The moss and trees were such an incredible background for this shot … Don’t you just want to curl up here with a book (and bubble pipe!) for the evening?