by Vella Karman | Jun 24, 2026 | Clean fiction, For Writers
I was thirteen. I ventured into the teen corner of our local library, my footsteps hushed on the gray carpet flecked with small green lines. No one else was in the little corner alcove where the teen books resided, but the place seemed hushed. Subdued. Bathed in a...
by Vella Karman | Jun 17, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT
This post contains affiliate links. I’m one of those people who won’t watch a YouTube video for weeks or months, and then goes down an internet rabbit hole. If you ask me, YouTube is one of the safest places online. Every time I upload a short to my...
by Vella Karman | Jun 3, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Guest Post
Did you know God likes to have fun? Probably. After all, He created the platypus. But did you know God likes to play word games? A few weeks ago, I grabbed my backpack and took a walk to the coffeeshop. It’s about a thirty-minute walk, so I decided to play a game with...
by Vella Karman | May 27, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Guest Post
The other day I was cleaning out my desk, and I came across a bunch of old folders. Most of them were pretty boring—tax stuff, my acceptance letter from college, notes from classes I took years ago. But then I came across a bright green folder so full of stuff it...
by Vella Karman | May 21, 2026 | Author News, BOOKS, Clean fiction
I was driving down a highway between Ohio and Indianapolis when it flew in the window. A book. Sort of a teal color, kinda beat up and scratched around the edges, like a well-worn suitcase. Roughly the same size as Fantastical Summer, and prettier too. The windows...
