Theresa Stinnett is a Christian author and illustrator of novels and children's books. Her engaging writing style and charming illustrations will keep you captivated. Follow Theresa on her  social media pages to keep informed about her upcoming novels and inspiring artwork.

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~What She Writes~

Theresa writes Christian historical fiction novels for all ages. She enjoys weaving mystery and spiritual lessons throughout her books and is dedicated to keeping each of her novels clean. Themes such as romance are kept discrete and light.

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~Story of my life~

            I have always loved to write. It seems like I’ve always had stories building in my imagination. And ever since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted to be an author. But I had no idea that my dream would become one of the biggest adventures in the story of my life.

            I dabbled in all kinds of genres as a teenager: fantasy, sci-fi…all those odd-ball things. My head was full of the most bazaar ideas, and fantasy was a playing field without guides or rules. There were no bounds, and I could literally create worlds and rewrite the laws of physics if I chose. But, with me, writing in fantasy was like trying to build a mansion out of sugar cubes. The flimsy structure was always being crushed or dissolved in the end. It was just as well because, when I was about fourteen, something marvelous happened in my life: I fell in love with Jesus.

            I have always been a Christian. God blessed me with a family who all shine with Christ’s light, and I grew up knowing about a wonderful, merciful savior who died to save me from my sins. But there’s a big difference between knowing -about- Jesus and truly knowing him personally for who he is. When I was a young teenager, Jesus began working in my life. When I felt like my whole world was crumbling, he became the anchor of my soul, the rock I clung to when I fell overboard, the one who took the broken pieces of my heart and healed them completely. He became my all in all; and when you truly fall in love with Jesus, everything begins to change. The difference He makes in a heart is the difference between night and day, light and darkness. He is now my comforter, my friend, my first love, my eternal Father. There were so many aspects of my life which changed when I gave myself completely to Jesus. One of them was my writing.

            As I drew closer to my Savior, I began to see all of my past goals and attempts at writing as worthless and dim. Fantasy was unfulfilling to say the least, and, at its worst, it verged on witchcraft. Witchcraft is not a game, a joke, or a fictional notion as movies and books make it seem. It is a deceiving tool Satan uses to entrap and enslave people’s souls. God helped me to see that, even as a professing Christian, I had been delving so deeply into Fantasy that I had nearly stuck my foot in the devil’s snare. I would have taken a wrong turn in my life that ultimately would have led me straight away from God and toward eternal devastation. But, mercifully, Jesus saved me from that. With his help, I shut the door of Fantasy, where I had once played, and surrendered my wish to be an author to him.

            I cleared my head of the muddled chaos Fantasy had brought to my imagination and simply lived my life for several years seeking God, studying his word, and enjoying the marvelous things he had given me in the real world. Believe me, when I was focused on Fantasy, I hardly lived in the real world at all! But the desire to write always came back and, in time, God gave me a new way to do what I had always loved. He showed me that I could use my writing to share my love for him with other people. I now write Christian, historic fiction, weaving adventure, mystery, and godly principles into stories which I hope very much will bring glory to God and enjoyment to my readers’ hearts. Thank you for reading my life’s story, and I wish you all a blessed day!

Theresa

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