Whispers of Appalachia
a series by Misty Williams
What's Next?
Released June 3, 2026
Kaezia & Aiden's first story. Harrison Valley 101.
Completed. Release date: Sept 8, 2026
Kaezia & Aiden's second story
Completed. Release date TBD
Introducing Charlie Bartolucci & Maddy Harper.
Completed. Hope Refined. Release date: TBD
Charlie & Maddy's second story
Completed, untitled. Release date: TBD
Introducing Derek Cox & Melody Bartolucci
In progress, untitled. Release date TBD
Derek & Melody's second story
Non-Fiction
In Progress: Release date TBD
Saving sex for marriage is sometimes thought to be an archaic practice, and is often demeaned in today’s society. If you need this book, Congratulations! You’re part of a dying, but very happy breed. All too often, couples committed to chastity come to their marriage bed with little notion of what to do beyond “tab A and slot B” once they get there. After I do can help answer common questions about difficult intercourse, painful first times, how to please your partner, finding and giving satisfaction, and how to say “no” before things go too far. After I Do combines the down-to-earth grit of a midwife with the pragmatic fortitude of a veteran and minister. Written by parents of ten (birthed, blended, and adopted), this guide draws upon extensive research, deep interviews, and survivors’ perspectives. It is designed to lighten up the difficult conversations couples must have to unlock the true joy, fulfillment, and covenantal intimacy of a marriage built according to God's plan. Even for those who’ve been “making whoopee” for years, After I Do offers a bold, clinical, scriptural and humorous look at one of God’s greatest gifts to humankind.
In Progress: Release date TBD
Someone popped the question, someone said yes! Now it’s time to plan the wedding! Weddings are fantastic celebrations—a great time to spend with family and friends before you get to After I Do. They’re undeniably expensive, and they're often rife with drama, but everyone wants that one perfect day, right?
If you want a wedding planning book, go look up Emily Post. This is not that book.
This book is about planning your marriage, and that starts well before anyone hits a knee with a ring in their hand.
Who will pay the bills every month, or will you split them up? Will you have joint accounts, separate accounts, or both? Who will do the laundry, the yard work, or the cooking? Children? Stay-at-home parenting? Most important of all, will you build your marriage according to modern, secular standards, or will you build your home on Christ the Rock, using the foundations God provided in the holy scriptures?
Before I Do is a thinking and planning guide for both the single Christian looking to wed and the couple who have already started planning for their “big day.” Written with veteran military and marriage experience, it carries the hope of the parents of ten (birthed, blended, and adopted) for happy futures for men and women who choose to approach marriage purposefully. It offers a clear path to be married according to God’s original design—not the one foisted off on humanity by pagan Greco-Roman culture. Based on the truth that the marriage relationship is a gift from God intended to be a shelter and a joy from the storms of an off-kilter world, Before I Do challenges old tropes of the superior-subordinate marriage box with biblical wisdom and earthy humor. It challenges readers to look honestly at themselves as a marriage candidate and prepare for one of the most important roles God has designed for humankind.Are you up to the challenge?
Fierce: Moving Beyond the Consumer Drift to Become a Prepared Candidate for Adulthood, Marriage, and the Kingdom
In Progress: Release Date TBD
If you are looking for a book written by two perfect, plastic parents who navigated the teenage years with textbook precision, put this book down and walk away. We aren't those people.
Fierce combines the down-to-earth grit of a birth-worker with the pragmatic fortitude of a military veteran and minister. Written by parents of ten (birthed, blended, and adopted), this hard-hitting guide challenges Christian teens to break free from the modern consumer drift. It provides a strategic, scriptural blueprint to look honestly in the mirror, master the adult metrics of life, and transform from a passive passenger into a prepared candidate for adulthood, marriage, and the Kingdom of God.
We have walked through the trenches of military deployment, the high-stakes rooms of clinical maternal, infant, and delivery room care, and decades of family logistics. And as we sit here today, looking back with the absolute clarity of hindsight, we can see exactly where we dropped the ball. We can see the moments where we allowed our household to drift instead of holding the course, and we can see what we should have done.
We aren't writing this book to lecture you from a pedestal. We are writing it from the kitchen table, offering you our hard-won scars as a map so you can bypass our mistakes.
The modern world has conditioned you to think that life is something that just happens to you—an ongoing series of random events to be passively experienced. But scripture paints a radically different picture. God designed you to operate with fierce intention. He called you to be purposeful, not passive; to actively choose your boundaries, your responsibilities, and your character, rather than just drifting into whatever current the culture pushes you toward. Life is a one-shot deal: no do-overs—adulthood, marriage, and active ministry in the Kingdom do not just happen to you when you turn eighteen or twenty-five. They are roles you must actively train for right now. Stop being a passenger in your own life. It's time to learn how to steer.
Do you have the grit to hold the course?