Hello readers, and welcome to my website! I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to click around, and I sincerely hope that you find something here that you like.

I am a (very) new author, though I have been writing since I was old enough to know how. When I was very little, I suffered from night terrors. We never knew what brought on these bouts of vivid nightmares, but they were a frequent visitor. In an attempt to help me cope with and overcome these night terrors, my parents suggested journaling every morning. Just like how you feel better getting something off your chest by telling another person, the hope was that I would find the same relief by putting my thoughts on paper. Not only did this work, but it jump-started my passion for writing!

Initially, I only documented my nightmares. After a while, I started adding the good and silly dreams as well. Then, I began adding details to these entries to transform the enigmatic dreams into short stories. By the time I was twelve, I began writing my first novel, determined to create my very first book. Over the years, that story has been rewritten more times than I can count as my storytelling abilities developed. I have yet to finish that story, but hope I someday will!

Over the years, whenever inspiration hit me, I would write a short story. Then, I came across ReedsyPrompts and began using those prompts to enter into writing contests. It is from those contests that a lot of my stories in my first anthology, Wyrds of Wonder, came from!

I have a few stories set aside that I didn’t include in Wyrds of Wonder. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t trim them down into a good “short story” size without losing too much detail. I’ve set these aside for now and hope to turn at least a few of them into novels.

Thank you again for stopping by, and I hope you’ll do so again the future as I continue to write!

~ J.B. Redel