Fields of dreams: Your story, unfolding

These books were not written in a classroom or from a place of theory. They were forged in hospital waiting rooms, in the quiet after heartbreak, and in the early morning hours when sleep would not come. Written by Amethyst A. Nelson-Preston, a woman who has navigated life's hardest seasons and refused to be silenced, these pages offer a conversation with someone who understands. Expect to find comfort, understanding, and a path forward.

The feelings: What you will experience

Amethyst's writing is bold and unflinching, yet always anchored in compassion. Readers consistently describe powerful emotional shifts:

Seen and understood: Her words reach the exact place you've been hiding your pain, saying: "I know. I have been there too."
Emotionally released: Given permission to feel what you've been holding back. Grief, anger, sadness, longing — her poetry and prose create a safe space for all of it.
Unexpectedly uplifted: Even with heavy subject matter, a current of hope runs underneath. Readers finish feeling lighter.
Fired up and ready to rise: Her bold, empowering tone often ignites a surge of energy and determination. These books leave you ready to move.
Deeply connected: To the author, to yourself, and to the wider human family, reminded that none of us has to carry our burdens alone.

“You will feel like someone finally wrote the words you could never find for yourself.”

The stories: What you will find inside

Amethyst's books are drawn from the full landscape of a life courageously lived. Discover themes woven through her work, including:

Loss and grief: From the devastating loss of motherhood dreams to supporting a husband through life-threatening illness, Amethyst writes about loss with rare, healing rawness. She walks straight into grief, showing you how to walk through it.
Love and relationships: The complexities of love — between partners, within families, across broken bonds. She writes about love not as a fairy tale, but as a courageous choice made repeatedly in the hardest moments.
Faith and spirituality: The thread holding Amethyst's story together. She writes honestly about holding onto belief when life gives every reason to let go. Her spiritual writing is personal, searching, and deeply real, meeting readers wherever they are.
Overcoming adversity: From challenging teenage years to navigating life as a traveling nurse, her books are filled with stories of rising — not perfectly, not without scars, but rising nonetheless. These are stories of keeping going when it feels impossible.

“Her stories are not about people who never fell down. They are about people who got back up.”

The messages: What you will carry with you

Long after the last page, readers carry these core messages from Amethyst's work:

Your pain has a purpose: Nothing you've suffered has been wasted. Every wound, loss, and hard season shapes you with depth, compassion, and wisdom.
Your faith is allowed to be real: You don't have to pretend to be okay with God when you're not. Amethyst's writing gives permission to bring your full, messy, questioning self to your spiritual life, and find that you are still held.
Love is worth it even when it’s hard: Whether fighting for marriage, grieving a loss, or learning self-love, her message is consistent: love is always worth the risk, the effort, and the courage.
You are stronger than your hardest moment: Adversity is not bigger than you. Her life and words remind you of your own proof: the fact that you are still here, still trying, still reading – that is strength.
Your story is not over yet: This underlies everything Amethyst writes. No matter how final something feels, the story continues. More chapters ahead, more beauty, more life.

“These books do not just inspire you. They remind you of who you already are.”

For the one who needed these words most

A message from Amethyst A. Nelson-Preston

Honestly? I had in mind the version of myself that needed these words most. I had in mind the teenage girl sitting alone in her room, trying to make sense of a home that did not feel safe, picking up a pen because it was the only place she could say what she could not say out loud. I wrote to her. I still write to her.

I had in mind the woman who dreamed of becoming a mother, who opened her heart wide enough to love a child not born to her and then had that dream taken away without warning. The woman who had to find a way to grieve something the world does not always recognize as a real loss. I wrote to her too.

I had in mind the wife who sat in the hospital waiting room not knowing if the person she loves would walk out alive. The one holding everything together on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside. I know that woman. I have been that woman. These books were written in the margins of her story.

I had in mind the nurse exhausted, far from home, pouring herself into the care of strangers while quietly wondering who was taking care of her. The helper who needed help. The healer who needed healing.

I had in mind the person who has carried so much for so long that they have forgotten what it feels like to put it down. The one who has been strong for everyone else and has never once been given permission to fall apart or to be put back together.

But I also had in mind someone I have never met. I had in mind the person reading this right now—whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever you are carrying. The one who found this page because something in them was searching. Maybe you do not even know exactly what you are looking for. But something in you led you here. And I believe that means something.

The person who will find the most comfort and insight in my words is:

The one who is in the middle of something hard and needs to know they are not the only one who has ever felt this way.
The one who has lost something—a person, a dream, a version of themselves—and is trying to figure out how to keep going.
The one whose faith has been shaken but not completely broken, who is still asking questions and still hoping for answers.
The ones who need bold, honest words—not polished, pretty ones—that tell the truth about what pain feels like and what survival looks like.

My books are not for people who have it all figured out. They are for people who are still in the middle of figuring it out—just like I have been, just like I still am.

If you have ever felt invisible, overlooked, or forgotten, I wrote these books so you would feel found.

If you have ever felt too broken to be put back together, I wrote these books to remind you that broken things can be made whole.

If you have ever felt like your story was over, I wrote these books to prove that it is not.

That is who I had in mind. That is who I always have in mind. You.

What makes these books stand out

There are a lot of books in the world, shelves and shelves of inspiration, poetry, and self-help. So why these books? What makes them different? Let me tell you what makes these books what they are.

They come from a life actually lived, not imagined. I did not sit down and research what grief feels like or how to write about loss. I lived it. Every word in these books was earned through real experience. That is something that no amount of research or writing craft can replicate.
They carry the wisdom of a healer. As a Registered Nurse and a mental health counselor, I bring something to the page that most inspirational authors cannot: a deep, clinically informed understanding of how human beings process pain, trauma, grief, and healing. My books are infused with that knowledge but delivered not as a clinical guide, but as a human being who has been in the trenches alongside you.
They are bold, not soft. A lot of inspirational writing tiptoes around the hard stuff. My writing does not do that. It walks straight into the difficult places—the anger, the doubt, the grief that does not resolve on a tidy timeline—and it sits there with you. My tone is bold and empowering because I believe you deserve honesty, not just comfort.
They speak to the whole person. Loss and grief. Love and relationships. Faith and spirituality. Overcoming adversity. These are not separate books for separate problems. They are woven together the way real life is woven together because no one is suffering from just one thing at a time. My books meet you in the complexity of your full human experience.
They were written over a lifetime. I have been writing since I was a teenager. I have more than 40 books drawn from decades of experience, reflection, and survival. What you hold in your hands is the distillation of everything I have learned about pain, faith, love, and what it means to keep going.
They make you feel less alone in a world that can feel very lonely. Perhaps most importantly, these books have a way of making readers feel genuinely understood. Not in a general, vague way. In a specific, personal, how-did-she-know-exactly-what-I-was-feeling way.

“These are not books written about life from a safe distance. They are books written from inside of it.”

The unique gift every reader takes away

Every reader is different, every story is different. But there is a gift I intentionally place inside every book I write, and my deepest hope is that you receive it fully.

Permission. Permission to feel what you feel without shame. Permission to grieve as long as you need to. Permission to be angry, to be uncertain, to be a work in progress. Whatever you have been holding, you are allowed to feel it. You are allowed to say it. You are allowed to heal from it.
A mirror. When you read these books, I want you to see yourself, perhaps more clearly than you have in a long time. Not the version of yourself you perform for others, but the real one. My words are a mirror held up with gentleness and honesty, so that you can see yourself as you truly are and discover that what you truly are is enough.
A companion for the hard seasons. Life is not always hard, but when it is, it can feel unbearably lonely. My books are designed to be companions. Something you can return to repeatedly when the weight becomes too much. Something that reminds you, in the quiet moments, that someone else has walked through the dark and found the light on the other side.
Renewed belief in your own strength. Not motivation that fades by Monday morning. Not a temporary emotional high. A deep, settled, bone-level renewed belief that you are stronger than you think you are. That the strength you need for what is ahead is already inside you.
Hope that is honest. Not the kind that pretends everything is fine or promises that life will get easy. The kind that says: it is hard right now, and it may be hard for a while longer, and you are going to make it through anyway. Honest hope. Grounded hope. The kind that holds up even when life does not cooperate.
The unshakeable belief that your story is not over. Whatever has ended, whatever has been lost, whatever chapter you thought was your last—it was not. There is more ahead. More healing. More love. More purpose. More you. I wrote every single book with this truth at the center, because I needed to believe it for myself. And now I will give it to you.

“I do not just want to inspire you. I want to change something in you that stays changed.”

Welcome to Fields of Dreams. I am so glad you are here.

With love and purpose,
Amethyst A. Nelson-Preston
Author | RN | Mental Health Counselor | Dreamer

For you, exactly as you are

If I could reach through the screen or the shelf and say just one thing to you the moment your eyes land on one of my books, it would be this:

“This book was written for you. Not for someone like you. For you exactly as you are, right now, in this moment.”

Not a sales pitch. Not a list of reasons to buy. Just that one simple, powerful truth.