Why I Wrote a Full-Length Novel About The First Unicorn

I’m a children’s picture book author. I love writing in rhyme. Stories that are creative, imaginative, and hopefully unlike anything readers have seen before.

So why write a full-length Christian fantasy novel?

Why not?

This story needed to be embellished, it needed room to breathe. It needed more detail than I could ever fit into a rhyming picture book. And it needed to be told in a way that could speak not only to children, but also to adults.

I didn’t set out to write just another fantasy story. I set out to write about faith.

There are ideas in this story that reach into something older than modern imagination — things that feel almost historical. After all, unicorns are mentioned in early biblical translations, just like other mysterious or symbolic creatures such as dragons, the Leviathan, the Nephilim, angels, and even talking animals like serpents and donkeys. Whether read literally or symbolically, Scripture is full of moments that stretch human understanding.

Some people call that magic. Others dismiss it as mythology or imagination. But for me, someone who naturally lives in stories and daydreams, fantasy, folklore, and biblical narrative all share space in the same creative world.

Artists, poets, and musicians have always tried to give shape to things that are difficult to explain. That doesn’t make those ideas less meaningful, it often makes them more alive. So with that in mind, I asked myself: why wouldn’t I create a fantasy world where God makes the first unicorn? And where every creature in that world has the opportunity to earn its own horn through something meaningful?

And who knows, maybe, just maybe, it is not even fantasy.

This book grew out of questions I kept returning to:

• What does it mean to truly trust God?
• What does courage look like when you’re afraid?
• Where do you find light when everything feels dark?
• What can one person do when the world feels too big?

Fantasy became the space where I could explore those questions honestly and vividly. It allowed me to take spiritual themes and shape them into something accessible, something readers of different ages could experience for themselves.

At its core, this story is about hope. It’s about choosing faith even when it’s difficult. It’s about discovering purpose. And it’s about becoming who you were created to be, even in a world that constantly tries to make you doubt yourself.

This book has just been released and is now in the hands of early readers. Seeing their responses and reading their reviews has been incredibly encouraging. I hope you, too, decide to read the book and leave a review.

I’m looking forward to sharing more of this journey soon.

Thank you for being here and for reading along.