The one with the moral dilemma

A long, long time ago, in a land far, far away, I stood next to a group of girls my age and realized, for the first time in my life, that other people thought things about me and that those things were not very nice. I was homeschooled, a little overweight, had braces and glasses, and decided when I was thirteen that, to top it all off, I needed a perm.

(Yes, that is a clip-on feather in my hair.)

As you can probably guess, I was very quickly labeled “weird” and written off. From that moment on, I had a very intense moral conflict that went to my very core… To be who I was created to be or to be who I thought everyone wanted me to be.

For a long time I chose the latter. But then I moved to Ohio, where nobody knew me and had zero expectations for who I was, and I was faced with that choice once again. Only this time, I decided to step out and see who it was God created me to be. Was she funny? Mopey? Sarcastic? Sassy?

Much to my disappointment, she was still pretty weird. But, I learned to find that she had some really good qualities too.

As I processed all this change inside myself and wrestled with that inner voice that begged and demanded I be somebody else—somebody better—than who I was, my mentor assigned me to write a book. In the end, even though I didn’t intend to write about this moral conflict I was experiencing, it just sort of…came out.

Who you are—what is inside of you—comes out in your writing, whether you like it or not. This moral conflict is strongly presented in my latest book, Copper Lies! In the book, my protagonist, Lillian Booker, wrestled with this very concept…to be who she wants to be, or who she thinks everyone else wants her to be.

Check out the cover below!

Copper Lies

One secret can lead to many lies…

If you make something, and then that something accidentally comes alive and destroys your entire town…would it be fair to say that you destroyed the town, or can we just blame it on the thing?

Lillian Booker is dying to experiment on the strange glowing rocks hidden inside her adoptive father’s workshop—but the professor forbid it before he left on his journey. As Lillian learns all she can about the stones without breaking the professor’s rule, she finds herself stuck between two worlds.

Will she live the life of a brilliant inventor or give up on her dreams and become a respectable lady instead? What will make her happy? Most importantly, which will prove to the professor that he didn’t make a mistake when he chose her?

When Lillian secretly builds a mechanical dragon, one mistake leads to another—the strange glowing stones collide with her creation and her dragon roars to life! Lillian must make a choice…lie and keep her dragon a secret or finally face the truth?

Will any of it matter anyway if the town’s already been destroyed?

God created you on purpose…

The biggest thing I’ve learned since moving out to Ohio (and writing this book) is this. God created me on purpose with a purpose. My voice matters, and the things I say about myself matter, too. It would be so easy to excuse myself, make myself be whoever it was I thought everyone else wanted me to be…but if I kept doing that, this book wouldn’t have been written, and it wouldn’t be published next month.

Your voice matters too. Your unique touch is exactly what God wanted in this world. 🙂

Excited about the message in Copper Lies? Me too!

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