Jill Williamson | Where Adventure Comes to Life

In early 2019, I had just been accepted to grad school to earn my teaching credential. It was a 20-month master’s degree program at Washington State University that also included a year of student teaching. I would not be able to substitute teach, and I was a little worried how our family was going to […]

The audio book for To Darkness Fled is here! It came out slowly, first in early December on Apple and various other online stores, but Audible didn’t release it until January. It’s fabulous. Gillian Bronte Adams is a narrating genius. She does all the voices, and is so entertaining as a narrator that I smiled […]

When I decided to indie publish the Thirst Duology, I hired Emily Hendryx to design me two book covers: one for Thirst and one for Hunger. The cover for Thirst I released pretty much right away. The cover for Hunger I’ve been hiding all this time! And I FINALLY get to share it with you […]

It’s here! Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel, the book I wrote with my dear friends Stephanie Morrill and Shannon Dittemore, has released into the world. I still don’t have my own physical copy to hold in my hands, but they are on the way. I’m so excited that the book is now out there […]

We’ve been working hard over at Go Teen Writers. We have some super fun news about our upcoming book release: GO TEEN WRITERS: WRITE YOUR NOVEL. The book releases on December 3rd. That’s just three weeks away (!!!), and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. Here’s the fun part: When you […]

I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year. Click here to see my NaNo 2020 page. Do I have the time? Not really. However, I do need to get back into the habit of writing words every day—or at least on certain days of the week—so I figured NaNo would be good […]

I’m SO EXCITED to tell you that four the fourth year in a row, Writer’s Digest has listed www.GoTeenWriters.com as one of their recommended best websites for writers. Here is a screenshot of the blog post. What’s even cooler is that we are listed first this year! Click here to read it for yourself and […]

You guys. My friend Shannon Dittemore just had a book release, and I just had to tell you all about it because I loved it so much. The book is called Winter, White and Wicked, and it’s an ice road trucker fantasy novel. It’s Frozen meets Mad Max. It’s awesome. Here’s the story: ❄️ ❄️ […]

A few weeks ago, I visited with Thomas Umstattd on the Christian Publishing Show podcast. Thomas and I had a great conversation about writing for the young adult market. You can listen to listen to the episode by clicking here.

Hello, my bookish Explorers. It has been so long since I gave you an update on life. What have I been up to? Well . . . I finished grad school (hooray!), earned my degree and my teaching credential (hooray!), then started looking for a job (ug). My son went of to COLLEGE (dies), and […]