Hello! I'm Ali.
I’m a USA Today bestselling author, speaker, story coach, and lifelong student of what it means to create a meaningful, joyful life.
I believe stories help us understand who we are, imagine who we might become, and find the courage to begin again.
That belief shapes everything I do—from the fictional worlds I create and the writers I coach to the conversations I bring to stages, classrooms, conferences, and communities.
It also explains why I’m constantly carrying a notebook, buying another planner, or turning an ordinary conversation into a philosophical discussion about identity and transformation.
You’ve been warned.
I’m glad you found me. Come in, make yourself comfortable, and help yourself to an imaginary cookie. I’d offer an awkward hug, too, but those are best experienced in person.
I’m a Storyteller
I write stories about ordinary people facing extraordinary choices.
As Ali Archer, I write speculative fiction filled with dangerous magic, dark worlds, complicated loyalties, found family, and the stubborn persistence of hope.
As Ali Noble, I write Christian romantic suspense grounded in faith, courage, enduring love, and the belief that light can still find us in frightening places.
The shelves may be different, but the heart of the stories remains the same: bad things happen, people are changed, hope matters—and happy endings are worth fighting for.
I’m very committed to the happy endings.
I’m a Speaker & Story Coach
Stories don’t live only in books. They shape the way we understand our experiences, the choices we make, and the futures we believe are possible.
As a speaker, I explore creativity, resilience, identity, meaningful change, and the courage to live with fewer regrets. I bring warmth, humor, honest personal stories, and practical insight to conferences, women’s groups, faith communities, writing organizations, and creative retreats.
As a story coach and founder of Wit & Wonder Story Studio, I help fiction writers deepen their craft, find sustainable momentum, and finish stories that resonate—without sacrificing the life happening around them.
Because I believe we can build bodies of work we love while living lives that love us back.
I’m a Wife, Mom
& Hopeful Human
Long before I became an author or speaker, I was a woman learning that life rarely follows the outline.
My husband, David, and I knew something important had happened between us from our very first handshake. Our path to becoming a family included infertility, eleven miscarriages, an uncertain IVF procedure, and two tiny embryos that apparently had no interest in following medical expectations.
Those embryos became our twin sons, Charlie and Xander—now grown men with stories and adventures of their own.
Our family has known miracles, unexpected detours, chronic illness, difficult seasons, laughter, faith, and more opportunities to begin again than I can count. Through all of it, my faith in God and my love for my family have remained at the center of my life.
Whatever else I create or accomplish, what I want most is for the people in my life to know that I love them—to have felt that love for themselves.
A Few More Things You Should Know
I’m a Canadian expat who traded an ocean view for the Utah mountains.
I live with my hacker husband, our adult sons, and two ridiculously adored Yorkies named Romeo and Percy.
I love pretty rocks, hopeful stories, text emojis, ambitious creative projects, and Amazon packages—especially the ones I’ve forgotten ordering.
I’m chronically ill, chronically curious, and still learning how to honor the life I have while reaching for the life that calls to me.
My motto is live life without regrets.
So I’m doing my best to risk the awkward moment, write the meaningful story, choose joy where I can, and begin again whenever I need to.
If that sounds like your kind of journey, you’re welcome to come along.
Choose Your Path
Looking for your next great read?
Enter one of my fictional worlds.
Planning an event?
Discover my speaking topics and bring me to your community.
Writing a story of your own?
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and creative resources
at Wit & Wonder Story Studio.
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