About Jill

ABOUT JILL

NOVELS

YA AUTHOR LINKS

· Wayne Thomas Batson

· Michelle Buckman

· Melody Carlson

· Bryan Davis

· Ted Dekker

· Barb Huff

· Kimberlee R. Mendoza

· Bill Myers

· Christopher Paolini

· Donita K. Paul

· Frank Peretti

· Diana Sharples

· Megan Whalen Turner

MORE AUTHORS
I LIKE

· Jill Elizabeth Nelson

· Francine Rivers

· Alison Strobel

· Camy Tang

· Susan Elisabeth Thomas

· Daniel I. Weaver

· Lori Wick

I was raised in rural Alaska. Alone with my thoughts and the moose, daydreaming was a favorite pastime. As was reading.

I always loved reading. I started out with Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Little House on the Prairie, the Hobbit, and The Chronicles of Narnia. I love just about every genre out there, but my all time favorites are fantasy and suspense.

I met Brad in college and we married after graduation. My dreams of becoming a fashion designer dragged us to New York City for one year. After that, Brad’s dreams of directing movies dragged us to Los Angeles. We both worked really hard for people who weren’t very nice.

A few years of torture passed.

Brad started volunteering with teens at our Burbank church. We had their first son, Luke, moved to a house, I got out of the fashion industry (woo hoo!), and Brad became an ordained minister and full time youth pastor (double woo hoo!). God is good. All the time.

I started writing a book. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I didn’t have a clue what I was getting into. All I knew for certain was that it was really fun. With two babies at home, it was a neat way to pass the time.

Writing was something I never really did before then. Daydreaming and plotting, however, were familiar old friends. So now I write...everywhere. At home, in the car, at church (only notes, I promises!), in line at the grocery store, at the park, while walking, in the shower…(TMI?). And I loves it. Creating characters and taking them on a journey is an amazing experience. I never knew what it could be like until I met Spencer, Nauja, Martyr, and Achan. Wow! Writing is a whole lot of fun. Plus, I can't get in trouble for forgetting to add a rosette onto a K-mart costsheet and costing the company a loss of $5,000. (Forget I said anything…) And, I can't get yelled at when the line of evening gowns I shipped via Fed Ex doesn't reach the showroom in New York in time for Market to open (Was it really my fault the plane got snowed in?).

No. I have no bitter memories of the fashion industry at all. (Can we say The Devil Wears Prada, anyone?)

But yes. Writing is something I love. Writing is something I could do forever, if God allows it. (Please, God? Pretty please?) I may never get published, I may never get paid, but I'm still going to do it as an offering to God. May He do with it what He wishes.

JILL LOVES:

· God

· Brad, Luke, &
Kaitlyn

· My extended family
& friends

· teenagers

· C.S. Lewis

· J.R.R. Tolkein

· Carolyn Keene

· Jane Austen

· Frank Peretti

· Ted Dekker

· Newsboys