by Vella Karman | Sep 3, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Soli Deo Gloria
I stood alone on my porch on the 4th of July, listening to the boom, crackle, pop of the firework displays surrounding my house in a sort of trapezoid. The sound was as close as bacon sizzling on the frying pan of my stove. A boom would come from the show behind my...
by Vella Karman | Aug 6, 2026 | BOOKS, Clean fiction, Filling your life with LIGHT
I’d never heard of abalones, a type of sea snail, until my friend Lucy Grecu announced the name of her new magazine. The Abalone is a high art magazine…named after a sea snail. Honestly, that sounds kind of incongruent to me. High art? Doesn’t that...
by Vella Karman | Jul 29, 2026 | For Writers, Reader Thoughts
Dear Reader, I don’t know if you’ve realized this, but you hold all the power in our relationship. When I put my heart out there, it’s in your hands…on your bookshelf I am accepted or rejected. If you like my books, you can leave them five...
by Vella Karman | Jul 15, 2026 | Author News
There are a LOT of scams aimed at authors. Awards, book club features, fake publishers. It takes so much time and energy to sort through the noise. Scammers like to prey on everyone, but author scams seem to work especially well because writers are looking for...
by Vella Karman | Jul 8, 2026 | Author News
After I spoke underneath the World’s Largest Mailbox, I wasn’t sure what could top it. Was that one of my career goals? No. Was it extremely fulfilling? Yes. Luckily for you, that won’t be the only chance you get to meet me, either online or...
