Stephanie Cardel
Author
Stephanie Cardel is the founder of Lighthouse Literary Agency. She lives on a farm in middle Tennessee with her husband and their goldendoodle. They have three grown children and five precious grandchildren.
She led VBS and wrote and directed Christmas plays at her church when her children were young. Then she turned to the women’s ministry and was active planning events and leading Bible studies, which she continues to do. She had the pleasure of being on the crew of three faith-based films and a Christmas movie and even had a small part in three of them.
She taught abstinence-based sex education in the public schools for five years. She co-wrote a Christian advice column on the Daughter of Delight website for two years, which is still available in the archives. She is a member of the MidSouth SCBWI and the ACFW.
This Isn’t Shakespeare is her debut novel.
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This Isn’t Shakespeare
Young Adult Romance
To be or not to be…a professional dancer. Seventeen-year-old Madison is a hopeless romantic who loves quoting Shakespeare and dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer—a dream she hides, afraid of disappointing her mom and her boyfriend. But when her dreams fall apart, she believes it’s a sign from God that she should commit to her boyfriend and make a new dream.
When she realizes God wouldn’t give her a sign that points her to sin, the happily-ever-after she’s planned crumbles. Now Madison must confront the lies she’s told herself and all the red flags she’s ignored. In the process, she begins to understand that seeking God’s will may not lead to a perfectly scripted ending—but it might just lead to something real.
Also by Stephanie Cardel
Whatever is True
Youth Bible Study/Devotional
The future is unpredictable and full of possibilities. That much is true for us as well. Do we know who we are in God? Are we living in that certainty? This world bombards us with very worldly ideas about who we are and what we are. When you are told from a young age that you can choose your identity and this identity will define every aspect of your life, you accept it as truth. In fact, today, if you deny that and speak biblical truth about identity, you may face consequences. But the fact is, as Christians we don’t choose our identity. We find it in our relationship with Christ. We know who we are… and more importantly, we know whose we are. Let’s look at what that means.
Whatever is True is a companion youth Bible study/devotional for Stephanie Cardel’s YA novel, This Isn’t Shakespeare, and is appropriate for individual or group Bible study for both girls and guys.