Spark Publishing seeks to provide a place for new authors to publish, established authors to hone their skills, and staff to develop publishing expertise that can grow into opportunities to teach, mentor, and grow a platform for their own careers. Our goal is to release three issues a year with eight to ten new stories in each, including a featured author and a staff author.
Award-winning author Leslie DeVooght writes women’s fiction with faith, love, laughter, and a lot of Southern charm. In 2017, Leslie was first published in Spark Magazine and fell in love with writing romantic flash fiction. After placing in the top ten, Leslie’s flash fiction story, Avoiding the Bouquet, was published in the 2018 Writer’s Digest Anthology of Short, Short Stories. When Leslie isn’t writing, she volunteers with several organizations, cheers on her three children, and enjoys date nights with her husband, who loves that she researches kissing. Leslie is represented by Bob Hostetler of the Steve Laube Agency.
Hope Welborn writes about small towns and big suspense, with a sprinkling of romance and a hefty dose of faith. Her manuscripts have won the ACFW Genesis contest and the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference Foundation Award. Her debut, Hidden, was published in the Holiday Menace romantic suspense collection in October 2023 and is now available as a stand-alone novella.
By day, Hope works full-time job in digital content marketing technology, and by night, she stays up too late putting words on the page. She is a member of the Suspense Squad and is represented by Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steve Laube Agency.
Jennifer Purcell is a Georgia native who loves to write about faith, family, and romance. She is an ACFW First Impressions contest winner and a semi-finalist in the ACFW Genesis contest. Her debut historical romance, A Different Kind of War, released in September 2023.
When Jennifer’s not writing, reading, or blogging, she enjoys watching Hallmark mysteries and daydreaming about happy endings.
Sheri Yutzy writes atmospheric fantasy and science fantasy fiction, both Young Adult and Adult, and is working on her third novel. She’s an acquisitions editor at Spark Flash Fiction, and writes flash fiction weekly to keep up her writing skills. She also writes thoughtful and inspirational pieces for women’s magazines, and has had several published.
Her writing has won multiple awards, appeared in Casting Call, a Havok Publishing anthology, and House Between the Branches, an anthology from Nightshade Publishing. When she’s not writing, she’s reading to her three children, tending her cottage garden, or planning a family hike.
Abbey Downey started writing inspirational romance stories during naptime when her kids were babies and found she couldn’t stop. Several of her flash fiction stories have been published, along with two books (written under the name Mollie Campbell). Her latest release, An Uncertain Road, is the first in the Adventurous Hearts series, from Wild Heart Books.
After growing up throughout the Midwest, Abbey settled in central Indiana, where her family has lived since the 1840s. She fills her days with fixing up a few acres in the country and hanging out with her husband, two kids, and one rather enthusiastic beagle.
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Jordan Millsaps lives in the rolling hills of East Tennessee with her husband and two daughters. Her first flash fiction story, The Helpful Assistant, was published by Spark in 2020, and her story, Pine Tree Picnic, was included in the Summer 2021 issue. Both stories won the ‘reader favorite’ vote for the issue.
Jordan is an indie author of sweet romantic comedies and loves to draw inspiration from all the weird, hilarious things that happen in real life. Her debut, The Wedding Date Deal, released in October 2023. The second book in the Boyfriend in the Bargain series, The Parenting Pact, releases April 2024.
When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, baking, trying new restaurants, and traveling with her family.
A Texas girl living in a Georgia world, Laura DeBow has loved words and stories since she could first string sentences together. Laura writes inspirational fiction with an emphasis on contemporary romance and romantic suspense. She is a Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference Foundations Award finalist in the Romantic Suspense category.
When not dreaming up characters, figuring out plots, or tinkering with words, Laura can be found spending time with her husband of 22+ years, cheering on their teenagers in multiple sports, reading, cooking, or doing something active.
Laurie Ingram Sibley is a pastor’s wife and mom of three. She and her family live in South Carolina where they’re planting a cross-cultural church. Laurie homeschools and does freelance editing and proofreading. If that doesn’t keep her busy enough, she squeezes in pockets of time to write inspirational romance. She’s a pantser and an ACFW First Impressions award winner. She procrastinates by reading (does that count as research?) and never by cleaning (although that might be a good problem to have). Visit www.lauriesibley.com to sign up for her newsletter and follow her writing journey.
Alyssa Schwarz is a Colorado native who attended the Colorado School of Mines, got her masters in Geological Engineering, and promptly became a watercolor artist and author (as one does). She now writes heartfelt fiction full happy endings, a bit of mystery, faith, humor, and second chances. In 2021, she wrote her first flash fiction story for Spark Flash Fiction, and has gone on to indie publish multiple books and short stories with the same romantic charm. Her Prescott Family Romance Series includes The Glass Cottage, The Glass Road, and Fields of Glass, as well as the prequel Dear Beth.
When she’s not writing, you can find her reading (research, right?), baking up a new recipe, or creating Pinterest boards for new story ideas.
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