Dalea’s Blog.
Step into a realm where storytelling, creativity, and soul meet.
On this blog, you’ll find behind-the-scenes insights from my books and movies—including The Christmas Witch, Lost in Time, and the ever-expanding Amberlight Valley universe. I share writing tips, character deep dives, world-building secrets, personal reflections on creativity and healing, and updates on film festival journeys and screenplay adaptations. Expect cozy magic, mythic themes, seasonal rituals, and musings on what it means to be a neurodivergent creative navigating life with heart.
Whether you’re a reader, writer, dreamer, or filmmaker, there’s a spark here for you.
7 Ways Alpha Delta Pi Sorority Shaped Me Into the Author, Director, and Producer I Am Today
Next year I turn forty. If you’d told CSUSB student nineteen-year-old me, wearing Alpha Delta Pi letters for the first time at Eta Kappa, that this is where the road would lead, I’m not sure she would have believed you. Wife. Mother. Author. Screenwriter. Director. Producer. A film festival heading into its ninth year. A trilogy of novels on the shelf. More stories unfolding every day.