I grew up on stories. I could name them all for you, all the stories I imbibed and adored and obsessed over in my childhood and later in my teens, all the fandoms my siblings and I lived in. (There are far more than represented in this list!) Without a doubt, they influenced my storytelling, […]
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The Influence of Other Stories on The Kraesinia Trilogy
Posted in My Books, My Life, Writing on March 7, 2016 | 10 Comments »
Ah, To Be Shelved With My Own Kind…
Posted in Musings, My Life, Publishing, Speculative Fiction on February 16, 2016 | 22 Comments »
Yesterday morning my husband surprised me with a breakfast-and-lunch date, and a trip to Barnes & Noble sandwiched in between. (He’s pretty awesome, if you ask me!) Rambling around the bookstore, I was struck by something I’d never thought about before. There is, of course, the science-fiction and fantasy section – packed to the gills […]
Hello, Again – It’s January!
Posted in My Life on January 13, 2016 | 3 Comments »
Hello, readers! 😀 Long time no posts!! A lot has happened since I last blogged. Our family experienced a life-changing medical event with my 3-year-old daughter, for which we are still praising God (and which looks like the beginning of a very long journey, at this point). I went on a trip to California. There […]
Prayer Needed for Our Family
Posted in My Life on November 21, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Blog readers, I mentioned in my last post that my daughter was having increasing neurological issues. Since then we have taken her for an MRI, and she was diagnosed with an arteriovenous fistula – a malformation of blood vessels (right over her brain stem) that is swelling and pressing on her whole brain. We took her […]
How God Used My Fictional Character to Teach Me True Things
Posted in Christian Living, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, My Life, Speculative Fiction, Writing, tagged adrenaline, Bible, character, faith, fiction, God, Scripture, writing on November 6, 2015 | 16 Comments »
What if our characters are real? What if they are actually the souls of unborn children who died before birth, and God gives them to authors as inspiration for characters in our stories? What if we will meet all our characters someday in heaven? When I came up with that fun fictional concept last week, I […]
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Bethany A. Jennings is a YA speculative fiction and poetry author, a freelance editor, and a lover of artisan sandwiches. Born in SoCal, with a heart and soul raised in many different worlds, she now lives happily in New England with her husband, four children, zero pets, and a large and growing collection of tiny houseplants. She is a firm believer in the power of words to reach hurting hearts, uplift the weary, and pierce the darkness.
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