Meet The Authors

Founder & CEO

Abigail Thompson

Abigail Thompson is the teen author behind The Whispers of the Wind and poetry collection Scrawled Out Timeline. Her mission is to write God-glorifying fiction that compellingly uplifts Biblical themes and promotes divine Truth through heart-pounding stories so lives can be transformed by the Gospel’s message of hope and inspiration.

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Vanessa Thurgood 

Vanessa is a farm raised free-spirit who fell in love with fantasy at an early age thanks to the likes of Brandon Mull, Tolkein, and many others. Since then, stories have become her life as she's pursued the writer's dream with her debut series: The Comstock Chronicles. She loves getting lost in the mountains with her favorite humans and reading books from her To-Be-Read list in front of the fire with a mug of hot chocolate.

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Brian McBride

A winner of the 2016 Wattys Award, Brian published the award-winning Young Adult Contemporary debut, Love and the Sea and Everything in Between, in 2018.

Born and raised in Oregon, Brian moved to California at sixteen, where he has lived ever since. He's been writing since he was thirteen-years-old and has been reading for longer. Brian is pursuing a degree in Social Work, which he hopes to use to aid children and families. Perhaps he'll work to better the United States foster care system. Or maybe he'll join an organization that fights human trafficking. A fourth generation pastor and founder of the Pioneer Movement, he is passionate about his faith and longs to see Christians become all that they are called to be. Among other things, he is also passionate about iced tea, animals, adoption, and the arts.

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Hannah Pennington

Hannah Pennington was born in Dallas, Texas and moved around the country ever since. She first started writing stories at the young age of seven, and began building the foundations of her debut trilogy at eleven. Passionate about fantasy and allegories, Hannah dedicates her journey and works to the Good Lord. She attended Indian Capital Technology Center for an associates degree in Graphic Communication and Design, and now lives in Oklahoma with plans for more novels to come.

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Jayden Jelso

Jayden Jelso is an aspiring author, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His love of storytelling first stemmed from a fascination with the Star Wars saga, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Harry Potter films. He began making short films at eight-years-old, and still has a passion for it. He started writing his debut novel, Talon, when he was only sixteen and published it at eighteen. Outside of writing, you may be able to spot him making a film, watching The Office, laughing at inside jokes, or posting about his current writing projects on his Instagram feed @authorjaydenjelso. He currently lives in Nashville with his parents and younger brother.

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Victoria Lynn

Victoria Lynn is in her 20s and if she's not writing, she is probably sewing, singing, playing the piano, washing dishes, creating something with her hands, or learning something new. She has a passion for serving her Creator, encouraging others and being creative. She blogs at www.rufflesandgrace.com about writing, fashion, her walk with God and life. She lives in Michigan with her parents and 8 siblings.

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Marisa Phillips 

Marisa Philips is a teen author, saved by the grace of God! She was born and raised in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. She is the sixth child out of seven and has been homeschooled her whole life. She likes to write fast-paced stories that catch the attention of all and that will hopefully inspire them in a wonderful way.

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Stacy Bair Ogden

Stacy Bair Ogden has been writing as long as she can remember, weaving together rich worlds with a wide variety of characters, from kids with superpowers to young adults struggling to overcome self-doubt. When she is not daydreaming about her writing, she dabbles in watercoloring and has her nose in a book more often than not, eagerly devouring the written word that has come to mean so much to her. Stacy lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and baby boy.

Author / Comic Artist

Miranda

Miranda is a self-taught artist from the Midwest. At an early age, Miranda quickly fell in love with art and drew constantly, creating short picture books to share with family and friends. She loved to study images from animated children’s films, graphic novels, and comics whenever she went to the library.  Around age 11, she made a 100-page picture book inspired by a fairy manga she studied. Surprisingly, the idea of becoming an author never entered her mind. Miranda wanted to be an animator and didn’t consider comics until her last year of high school, during which she began writing The Spirit Seeds and later illustrated the first book at age 19.

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Cydnie Trenholm

Although she’s never shot to kill, Cydnie Trenholm is co-owner/head writer for Moving Mountains Productions and author of By My Own Betrayal. Her drive for action-packed and truth-saturated stories is the reason she started writing novels. When she isn’t labouring over a plotline or on a film set, Cydnie can be found writing and performing music, studying God’s Word, and raising her family.

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Jaiden Phillips 

Jaiden Phillips is a teen author residing in the mountains of western North Carolina. She has six older siblings and one set of amazing parents!

More often than not you can find her sketching one of her wild ideas, writing out a scene for a book, or giving her sisters a healthy dose of sarcasm.

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Mara Tran

A Pacific Northwest native, Mara Tran has been pursuing the written arts since she was little and would type on her dad’s laptop for hours on end. In her lifetime, she has been a musician, librarian, bookseller, blogger, medical office assistant - and now a fulltime housewife and author. She’s a summer girl, but has learned to appreciate each season for what it brings, and she’s passionate about everything Victorian. Her top hobbies are reading, baking and cooking, swing dance, junk journaling, tea and cheese sampling, and embroidery. Her favorite
authors are Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen. THE WARD is Mara’s first published novel.

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Kaytlin Phillips

Kaytlin Phillips is a homeschool grad who spends her days praising her Savior, reading, writing, blogging, and annoying her sisters with random thoughts. She is the fifth child out of seven and resides in the Southern Appalachian foothills of Western North Carolina.

She believes in the power of stories and their ability to change lives. And when not writing stories of hope, purpose, and redemption, you can find Kayti (as everyone calls her) reading, hiking, or taking random pictures.