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…because saying “hello” once isn’t enough. ;P

My name’s Kariel, delving back into writing after denial since secondary school. Ex-theology grad student, psych background. I play with dolls to work out character ideas, and sing as prayer. I can discuss things in all seriousness, but have a mischievous streak. For you MBTI nerds, here be ENFP.

While my genre is romance, I’m keen on horror’s possibilities for God. However, I don’t read horror but tried something like poetry in it during secondary school. I’ve a wonderful fiancé who holds Gothic taste for his preferred literature, and more read in horror than I can handle. (Dracula is still sitting on my bookshelf, everyone, but I’ll chat for hours with him on lore!) We’re inching through a speculative romance story as co-writers, and I’m outlining my own trilogy project of a romance. My current work’s main cast keeps surprising me, so outlining/plotting has been taking a while.

To borrow from K.M. Weiland’s Scrivener template, my first entry in said romance trilogy looks something like this:

Returning islander Katrine Lialry wants to finish school and try on missionary works with an absent friend, so she can dismiss her engagement. But when this friend is declared dead, Katrine must wrestle with her motives against the estranged fiancé — a man who brought her sin, now her tutor in Koine Greek.

Because even dealing with one’s occultist fiancé is better in Koine, apparently, declared my dreaming mind. Song reference, teehee. <3 My affectionate working titles for this thing flip between The Fanged and The Cinnabun, and He Stole My Sweets! In other words, I ate delectable, baked, sweet treats while imagining this story.