Heather Trim

THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

With over 25 years in ministry, she works alongside her parents, Tim and Katie Mather, running a Christian retreat center called Bear Creek Ranch, where folks come from all over the world to receive ministry. She stepped into the role of Executive Director in November 2018, organizing and leading the family ministry into the future.

THE DESIGNER

Heather has been a graphic designer with TrimVentures since 2001, creating beautiful websites, book covers, print media, and other graphics. 

Meet Heather

THE WRITER

Heather Trim is the award-winning author of the Wingbound Series, a young adult fantasy series. She’s been a freelance writer and blogging since 2011. She’s written for several local newspapers and magazines, sharing her unique view of the world.

Raised in Upstate New York, she now lives in North Georgia surrounded by family, her husband, Kevin, and five lively teenagers. Creativity brings her life. If she isn’t writing, doing ministry, graphic designing, bullet journaling, playing overly complicated board games, or reading, she’s probably out gazing at the clouds daydreaming and wishing she had wings.

Awards

WINGBOUND - 2016 FIRST PLACE - The Hal Bernard Memorial Award for Novel


WINGBOUND - 2017 FIRST PLACE - The Vega Award for Speculative Fiction

Author Q&A

  • I'm an avid daydreamer. I spend a lot of time drifting off into some other world after asking “What if…” and because I love stories, I must find out how these daydreams end. So I write.

    On top of all that, friends at the Bear Creek Retreats ask me all sorts of questions and I figure… hey, that should be in a book! So I write it.

  • Writing isn’t quite routine yet because I have five wild children. I wrote WINGBOUND while we were homeschooling. During that time, I could only write for 15 minutes intervals, interrupted by “Mom, he hit me!” “She took my ball!” etc. I’m so grateful for my husband. I finally set a writing time in the evening, he would directly traffic, and I would get a whole HOUR! 

    So anyone who says they can’t find the time to write, I say it is a choice. You must negotiate for your time and always, always, always ask for help. You’d be surprised the kind of support you’ll get. If I can write a novel while homeschooling, you can too—whatever your circumstance!

    Now that all of my children have graduated, I’ve found even more time to do what I love to do.

  • I love notebooks. (Hence the bullet journaling.) A little daydream hits me and I have to write it down in my idea notebook. Sometimes it’s a story line, sometimes it’s just a question. “What if there was a floating island that circles the world? And what if the people who live on that island have wings?” When things in life get stressful (or boring), I dig up those ideas and see if I can go somewhere with them. Many stay tucked away, and others are in different levels of process. 

    Then in a new notebook I start asking all sorts of “What if” Questions with the help of several book-plotting books: 

    Outlining your Novel by K.M. Weiland

    Writing Fiction for Dummies by Randy Ingermanson & Peter Econom