How does your faith impact how you approach storytelling?
I love writing about people who are faced with hard choices full of darkness and despair, and then find the light. I don’t set out to write those stories; they just happen. When I start writing about a character, they begin telling me about their past, their fears, and that they don’t know how they’re going to keep going. As I keep writing, the light starts to seep into their life, and I get excited because I know it’s God working in the background.
Yeah, it’s fiction, but I see this all the time in real life, and I love that it shows up in my writing as well. My favorite scenes are the ones when a character finally comes face-to-face with God and realizes that they were never alone. God was always there with them.
I love those scenes because I want the reader to realize how much God loves them, and that no matter how dark life becomes, He is always there—helping us, carrying us.
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Cry of the Raven
The Ravenwood Saga #3
Morgan L. Busse
Bethany House
Lady Selene Ravenwood has come into her full power as a dreamwalker just as the war with the Dominia Empire begins. Working with the other Great Houses, Selene and Damien use their gifts to secure the borders and save those devastated by the war. But conflict, betrayal, and hatred begin to spread between the Great Houses, destroying their unity as the empire burns a path across their lands. At the same time, Damien Maris starts to lose his ability to raise the waters, leaving the lands vulnerable to the empire’s attacks.
The only one who can unite the houses and restore her husband’s power is Selene Ravenwood. But it will require that she open her heart to those who have hurt her and let go of her past, despite the one who hunts her and will do anything to stop her power. Will Selene survive? Or is she destined to fall like the dreamwalkers before her?