by Vella Karman | Sep 23, 2026 | Author News, BOOKS, Clean fiction, Filling your life with LIGHT
If you’ve been around for awhile, you’ve probably heard that I write gripping, whimsical YA. My books fall under a lot of categories. But none of them can fully explain my mission. I write books to fill your life with light. Please don’t mishear me:...
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 bad deals aimed at authors. Awards, book club features, fake publishers. It takes so much time and energy to sort through the noise. A few months ago, I entered Beyond the Mirage to the Christlit awards. I’d seen authors touting the Christlit...
