Welcome to my website!
As an author, I'm honored to have had my writing published and am looking forward to more projects in print. It's my goal to show God's truths in story form. I work hard to never preach, but to engage and entertain my readers. I'm also learning about myself as I go along.
As an editor, I'm here to help and encourage you. I have been on this writing journey since 1994 and have gleaned a lot along the way. What do you need? If you are a new author and need a fresh pair of eyes, I can read your manuscript and give you notes, examples and encouragement. If you're experienced and need some feedback, I can help strengthen your story. Check out the editing page.
As a parent, I know it's not an easy thing, raising a child with special needs. Many days I feel isolated, tired, frustrated, and sometimes angry. We can encourage each other when the days are heavy and we can rejoice when they are light. If you're the parent of a special needs child and are feeling overwhelmed and need support from someone who understands, please visit my blog.
As an inspirational fantasy novelist, I'm always learning. If you're a Christian who writes fantasy, reads fantasy, or wonders if a Christian should even enjoy fantasy, this is the place to talk about it. I'm looking forward to some great discussion!
Thanks for stopping by. I hope I have blessed you in some small way today.
~Pam
Good from Covid?
Thursday, May 18, 2023
RELEASE DAY for Perchance to Dream!
Monday, May 1, 2023
Hey FFFers! This is Release Day for Perchance to Dream, an anthology based on Sleeping Beauty, and published by Ye Olde Dragon Books. This is their 3rd fairytale anthology.
Every spring, Ye Olde Dragon books releases an anthology based on fairytale characters. In the fall, it’s classic monsters.
But none of the stories is what you’ve ever read before. “Based on” is the key thought. Editors Michelle Levigne and Deb Smith want contributing authors to think of the theme as a spring board. They want us to interpret that any way, any genre, we want!
So when we got the title of this spring’s anthology, my thoughts went right to “dream.” But I didn’t want to go typical dreaming or dream world. What could I do?
I started off by thinking about what the cursed princess might dream about. Nothing I liked came to mind. So, I went further and asked myself “what if?” This is the main question fiction authors ask themselves when they brainstorm a story.
What if what Sleeping Beauty saw in her dream was not really a dream? What if her spirit actually went to the dream realm? What would she see? Who would she meet? What would be the consequences, if any?
Then I thought, the Bible says all Christians have guardian angels. What if we also had a spirit being that controlled our dreams? A Dream Host?
In my story, Dream Host, that’s exactly what happens. Princess Zella (the name based on the oldest known story of Sleeping Beauty) pricks her finger on the spindle end and wakes up in the dream realm. Her dream host, Hal, works to get her out before the nightmare hosts find her. Which, of course, they do!
How can Zella be saved? You’ll have to read to find out!
Backcover description of Perchance to Dream:
A princess with thirteen children would give anything for a good night’s sleep, but her fairy godmothers don’t seem to have practical answers for her.
A veterinarian falls into a coma after trying to treat a dog who had contact with an unusual lizard. But can the sheriff find a cure and save her life?
A spy can’t remember her past. Her partner must trigger her memories before enemy agents find and kill her.
A young girl signs a contract to save her family from eviction and ends up frozen far into the future.
A prince falls into a sleep realm, and finds his true love among the Fae when he thought she was long dead. But can he find a way to save her?
Join our Ye Olde Dragon authors as we leap out of the box and into seventeen diversely fabulous worlds surrounding the Sleeping Beauty legend!
I’ve read a few of the stories already and they are fabulous!!
You can order a copy directly from the publisher https://yeoldedragonbooks.com/homepage/
or on Amazon (if you do that, please type in Perchance to Dream Anthology in the search bar and hit enter. This will help our book get pushed up in the search engines!) Put if on your Wishlist, too, even if you buy it.
Or you can order directly from me here (go to the bottom of the page and contact me). I’m offering a Release Day price of $15 (plus shipping) and a mini dream catcher!
Thank you! And may all your dreams be free of nightmare hosts.
COVER REVEAL - Winter of the Bees
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Hey FFFers! I have a shiny new cover to share with you. But first, a little about the story.
Winter of the Bees (isn’t that an intriguing title??) by Angela R. Watts is a middle grade fiction story about a thirteen-year-old boy and his grandfather.
Thirteen-year-old Niles Filzbin has a list of problems a mile long: his parents filed bankruptcy, his older sister ran away, he moved in with his whacky grandparents, and he’s stuck tending their farm of magical (or so Grandpa says) bees. One problem quickly tops the list--Grandpa is dying.
Niles is running out of time to help his family, and learn about Grandpa's stories that may hold the secret to Niles's future, too. While the bees know that winter holds no good thing, Niles misses their warning. But maybe magic can be found in even the darkest of places... And maybe, just maybe, Niles isn't as alone as he feels.
Winter of the Bees follows an ordinary boy who must learn to say goodbye to people he loves… with the help of extraordinary bees.
Wow! Doesn't that sound amazing? I’m looking forward to reading it … even though I’m allergic to bees. But I’ll be safe as long as they don’t leave the pages of the book. haha!
Before I share the cover, I wanted to share the Kickstarter link.
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Isn’t it gorgeous??
Here’s a little info on the author:
ANGELA R. WATTS is the bestselling and award-nominated author of The Infidel Books and the Remnant Trilogy. She’s been writing stories since she was little, and has over 23 works in print. She also writes articles for a few magazines and publishers. Angela is a freelance editor, blogger, and artist. She lives in Tennessee with her family and many pets.
Links:
Website / newsletter: https://angelarwatts.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AngelaRWattsauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelarwattsauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeculiarAngela
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Angela-R.-Watts/author/B07F97JNMY
Here’s the Kickstarter link again. It’s alreayd half funded! WOOT!
When Covid first shut everything down, we all wondered if anything good could come out of it. Turns out, something did.
As a believer in Jesus, I lean hard on Romans 8:28 which says, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
What does this mean? Simply, it means God doesn’t waste anything that comes into His children’s lives. I don’t know how I would live if I didn’t believe this with everything I am.
March 17, 2020, Anna’s day program closed for what we assumed would be a couple of weeks. Seven months later, I learned I could hire SDEs (self directed employees) to work at home with her. Bonnie was already doing respite care, so we increased her hours and had her come during the day.
Then I hired Chardana to split hours with Bonnie. We worked out goals and made a schedule. November 1, 2020, Anna’s “Home Day Program” started. It’s still going on. And Anna loves it!
Anna does crafts and painting, says her letters and numbers, does puzzles, plays games, helps with baking/cooking, watches shows and movies, and goes on community outings.
But the BIG thing we discovered is that Anna doesn’t just love to paint. She’s really good! She has a sense of color and design we never knew was inside her.
While she doesn’t hold a paintbrush or sponge herself, Chardana or Bonnie will hold it. Anna chooses colors and what brush she wants. She moves their hand into the colors she wants and moves their hand again on the canvas. Sometimes she moves side-to-side. Sometimes up and down. Sometimes she makes dots. And sometimes she’ll push the brush down and twist their hand to make a design. We were blown away!
Now, because Anna is Anna, she won’t do a thing if I’m in the room. And she will absolutely not cooperate for anything if I’m trying to take a picture, so I have to get sneaky. But most of the time, I can’t capture her in the process. The girls sometimes get pictures, but mostly, Anna hates having her picture or video taken.
Here is her first small painting. She did this with Bonnie on Sept. 30, 2021. Daryl and I came home from dinner and Bonnie said, “You’ll never believe what Anna did.”
Isn’t it amazing??
Here are a few more:
Anna is always ready to paint!
But here’s the big thing … Chardana got her a LARGE canvas for her birthday this week (Monday, May 15th) and on Tuesday, she got things out so Anna could paint on it. I got a quick picture before they started and then went into the sunroom.
A little while later, Chardana came into the sunroom to show me what Anna did. She said, “I swear to you, I only set things out. Anna picked the brushes and the colors. She moved my hand. And she let my hand go when she was done.”
Then she showed me
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Your mind is gonna be blown. I know mine was. In fact, I cried.
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Y’all realize what my girl’s favorite thing is, right? FLOWERS!! Anna painted a field of flowers!! Oh, if only Bob Ross was still alive! I wish I could show it to him. We watch him every morning! (Anna did the small paintings before she started watching Bob Ross, so the artist was inside her all the time!)
What good was Covid? Well, it was NO good ……. BUT GOD.
God used it to bring out the creativity lurking inside Anna. She couldn’t tell us. Maybe she didn’t know. But if not for Covid, we would never have created a Home Day Program. If not for Bonnie and Chardana, who love Anna and are creative women, we would never have known Anna was an artist.
God is faithtul to His Word! Never doubt it, friends. Glory to His Name!!