Welcome to the Realm of The Adventurous Author!
I stand for helping you own your author identity, achieve legendary writing feats based on your unique strengths, and obliterate any obstacle in your way with little by little progress each day.
"My mission in 2025 is to help you
Find Your Voice & Finish Your Book so that you become the diligent, disciplined, driven author God called you to be."
The time is now to
Choose Your Adventure
JOIN THE LEAGUE
Become part of a small and active author community where you can interact with real people who know your name. Brainstorm ideas, share your goals for accountability, and enjoy being part of a team in the League of Adventurous Authors.
ADVENTURIZE TIME
Change the way you view time so you can get more done and have more fun in the process...even if (like me) you only have three hours or less a week to write. Adventurize Life launches soon.
ORGANIZE YOUR WORDS
Creatively organize your writing and never waste time hunting for ideas again. The Book Series Hub is a template designed by a fiction author for fiction authors that allows you to store all the pieces of your book writing process in one place. Launching soon!
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
The Adventurous Author is the podcast for underdog authors on a mission to achieve legendary feats in the publishing world but have to overcome impossible obstacles, limited time, and paralyzing inner skepticism along the way.
Escape to the Land of Zandador
Enter a world where dragons exist, adventures abound, and people live for hundreds of years.
The
Dragon Collector
DRAGONS EXIST? And he must collect how many of them to dethrone the absurdly powerful evil king and free the people of Zandador?
Fifteen-year-old Javan believes he is simply an ordinary orphan abandoned by his mother at birth—until he is whisked away to another dimension and his destiny as the chosen one from the Collector Bloodline is revealed.
Armed only with an ancient weapon, a trio of old advisors, and his determination to win, Javan is soon caught up in a dangerous Battle for the Throne.
Now his choices could save—or destroy—the people and dragons of Zandador, including the mother he just met.
The
Dragon Hunter
Will his quest end with a dragon…or death?
Micah, a strong soldier from the Hunter Bloodline and son of the Dark King, is on a mission to stop Javan the Dragon Collector by hunting the four types of Dragon Stalkers before Javan can complete his collection.
Micah is one of the youngest men to ever enter the Battle of the Throne, and he proudly fights to keep his father, King Omri, in power. But when he is transported to unfamiliar territory with his rival Javan, his fight becomes one of survival and can only end when he wins another dragon or loses his own life.
The
Dragon Protector
Can she crack the code and save the baby dragons?
Taliya has never opened the portal to Earth before.
But if she can’t crack the indecipherable code and get the dragon eggs to Earth, they won’t hatch.
If they don’t hatch, Javan can’t complete his dragon collection.
If Javan can’t complete his collection, he’ll lose the Battle of the Throne.
If he loses the Battle, King Omri will extend his oppressive rule, and all Dragon Stalkers will become extinct.
The hope of Zandador and the life of all Dragon Stalkers thus rests on her young shoulders.
Will she rise to the occasion or crumble under the pressure?
Meet
Bonnie Jean Schaefer
I host The Adventurous Author podcast and write fantasy fiction under the pen name of D.K. Drake.
As a coach, I combine my years of experience as a fantasy author and athlete with Notion and AI to help time-strapped authors write great fiction and publish book after book with confidence.
My driving purpose is to help you:
Skip the unnecessary struggles I went through when learning how to write a novel.
Discover that your imagination is a gift God wants to use now, not decades from now.
Challenge you to think like a professional author...even if you haven't yet published a book.
Collaborate with awesome authors on this same crazy book-writing journey.
Hear What Adventurous Authors are Saying
Isaiah K.
I’m really appreciative of the help with learning the steps it takes to get a book from an idea to actually publishable. It’s been so clarifying for me and helpful to organize my brain.
Allyssalet
I am 12 years old and an aspiring author. This podcast has helped me so much. I am currently writing my own book and having a grand time.
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