by Vella Karman | Oct 14, 2026 | Author News, Filling your life with LIGHT
Sometimes, I feel like I’m not allowed to have a personality as an author. Everyone has an opinion on how to do my job: The algorithim. The book buyers. The librarians. I want to do it right! In fact, I want to do it with excellence to the glory of my Jesus...
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...
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 1, 2026 | Author News, Filling your life with LIGHT
I grew up on the edge of a rough neighborhood. Sometimes there’d be gunfire so close it sounded like it was in the backyard. One time, a police squad with K9s and a chopper were out looking for a wanted criminal in the creek about fifty feet from my backdoor....
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...
