Verse & Vine Publishing

12/01/2026

We are excited to watch our budding online community grow! There are so many treasures tucked away in The Vineyard, but perhaps my favorite are the Monday Motivation posts I get to write!
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Emily Dickinson wrote, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” It’s one of those lines that lingers because it is both intriguing and deeply wise. Dickinson knew something we often forget: truth can be stunning, blinding even. It can overwhelm when delivered too harshly, too fast, too directly. Good writing—faithful writing—knows how to handle the weight of truth with tenderness.

To tell the truth “slant” doesn’t mean to dilute it. It doesn’t mean to water it down or hide from honesty. Instead, it means allowing truth to arrive in a way the soul can receive. Sometimes truth needs metaphor. Sometimes it needs storytelling. Sometimes it needs poetry. Sometimes it needs silence before it speaks at all.

In Scripture, Jesus rarely delivered truth like a hammer. He spoke in parables. He invited imagination. He let people walk around truth long enough until it began to unfold gently in the heart. Truth came wrapped in kindness, narrative, wonder, and sometimes mystery.

As writers, especially writers of faith, we are entrusted with sacred realities. Trauma. Hope. Redemption. Sorrow. Longing. Healing. Not every truth needs to be shouted. Some truths need to be held. Some truths need to be given language gently so others can breathe inside them without fear.

So if you feel hesitant to speak honestly, perhaps your calling is not to be louder, but to be careful and reverent with the truth entrusted to you. Ask, How can I tell truth in a way that heals rather than wounds? How can I honor both honesty and compassion? How can I tell it slant—not to avoid clarity, but to make room for grace?

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This week, consider the truth you feel called to write. Does it need metaphor? Stillness? Subtlety? Courage? Let’s talk about it. What do you think Dickinson meant? Where are you learning to hold truth gently in your writing?

Then share your writing focus for the week. One step forward. One act of courage. One honest word.
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12/01/2026

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07/01/2026

"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face, questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"

C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

07/01/2026

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01/01/2026

Happy New Year!!

Check out our latest newsletter to learn more about where we're heading and how you can get involved.

Which of you are saying, "This is it! This is the year I take my writing to the next level"?

Step into 2026 with favor. Our new Verse & Vine community is ready to welcome writers like you—those ready to create, connect, and share their God-given stories. Early members not only shape the conversation but also receive free access to our Publishing 101 course ($329 value) all month long.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! 🌿

31/12/2025

🌿 We’re dropping a big, beautiful newsletter tomorrow, and trust us—you don’t want to miss it. Haven’t subscribed yet? We’ll drop the link below so you can join before it lands in inboxes.

Start 2026 off right (or should we say… *write* 😏).

While you wait to see what’s new—and to snag some truly valuable resources to fuel your writing goals—tell us in the comments:

✨ What’s been your most memorable Verse & Vine moment?
Maybe it was a newsletter, a post, an article, an event, or even a favorite quote you’ve tucked into your commonplace book. We’d love to hear.

🍷🥖 Here’s to a year of words, wonder, and God-given creativity.

29/12/2025

📚🌿 The Power of Telling the Truth

For years, I believed silence was synonymous with survival. But healing has a way of loosening what fear once fastened, and slowly I began to hear a different invitation: Your voice is part of your healing, and your healing is part of someone else’s hope.

Revelation 12:11 speaks of overcoming the evil one “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony.” Testimony is not decoration; it is warfare. It is the holy defiance of speaking what darkness tried to silence.

This conviction is the foundation of my life’s work. I write because stories uncover what shame buries. I publish because voices—steady or trembling—carry the power to liberate. I walk beside authors, both nonfiction and fiction, because every narrative released into the world becomes another lantern held against the night. Whether it is memoir, devotional, poetry, or faerie tale, I believe stories tilt the spiritual landscape. They are spiritual weapons. They are sacred tools. Testimony is resistance. 🌿📚

And this is why I am excited that in just a few days, we get to launch our online community! Because the truth is, as a Christian writer and reader, you have a holy calling, one best fulfilled when you link arms with other truth-tellers. Together, we can hold one another accountable, sharpen our swords, and cheer one another on as we cultivate the kingdom here as it is above. Are you ready to join us? 💚

When God Meets Us in the Places We Break | For most of my life, I believed love demanded smallness. Before I even knew the vocabulary of wounds, I had learned—quietly, instinctive

28/12/2025

For the past two years, I’ve been faithfully tending to Verse & Vine—watering a dream God planted, learning through pruning seasons, and celebrating every new leaf of growth. Though we’re no longer brand-new, Verse & Vine is still very much in its startup season, continuing to build, expand, and deepen its roots so we can better serve authors and creatives with excellence.

As I step into this next phase of growth, I’m opening the door for anyone who has asked—or feels led—to help financially support this work. When you sow into Verse & Vine, you’re not just giving to a business; you’re helping cultivate his kingdom here on earth.

Every gift, no matter the size, helps strengthen the mission, provide resources, expand opportunities, and continue creating spaces for meaningful storytelling.

If you feel called to partner, support, or simply come alongside this growing work, you can click the link below.

And whether you give, pray, share, or simply cheer from a distance—thank you. Your support means more than you know. 🌿🤍

With great love,

Samantha Rose,
V&V Founder

25/12/2025

Christmas is not small. It only arrives small.

Tolkien begins "Noel" in a world that feels uncomfortably familiar—grim and grey, fires fallen dead, paths bent and wild, the air sharp as a drawn sword. A world holding its breath without knowing why. And then, without spectacle or argument, the veil is rent and a child is born. Not to overpower the darkness, but to outlast it. So quietly that it could be missed. So decisively that all the bells in Heaven and Earth ring together at midnight.

C.S. Lewis widens the lens until the whole cosmos is watching. In "The Turning Tide," empires pause, seas still, beasts and gods alike fall silent. The tide lies motionless at ebb. Everything waits. And then life returns—not as thunder, but as music, infinitesimal at first, gathering force until galaxies themselves begin to tremble. History shifts. The current changes direction. What seemed inevitable is undone.

This is the kind of Christmas that matters to us at Verse & Vine. Not ornament or sentiment, but incarnation and reversal. The reminder that the Author stepped into the story and the plot bent around Him. That humility can carry cosmic weight. That imagination is not escapism, but one of the ways truth announces itself when language alone is not enough.

For writers, readers, and keepers of words, this season calls us back to wonder—not as decoration, but as discipline. To attend to the small, the hidden, the quiet births that change everything. To trust that even when the world feels breathless and cold, the tide has turned before and it turns still.

Glad is the world and fair this night. The bells are ringing. The story is not over.

Merry Christmas from Verse & Vine.

22/12/2025

🌿 Hi friends—Samantha here, resident dreamer at Verse & Vine! 🌿

I’m sitting on a little secret for the year ahead, and it’s taking real discipline not to blurt it out. So for now… a crumb.

What if we offered our Publishing 101 course to Verse & Vine community members
for FREE? (Yes, really. Free, instead of its previous $329.)

A gentle on-ramp for writers who keep saying “one day” and quietly hoping that day comes soon.

If you’ve been whispering “maybe next year”…
If you’ve been side-eyeing your notebook…
If 2026 is starting to feel suspiciously like your year...

You might want to stick around.

Tell me—does 2026 have your attention? 📚