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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, December 2025

December 29, 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my December Book Buffet, a monthly newsletter featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novels When …

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Book Tour Bus Fueled & Ready to Roll!

September 14, 2025

Can you believe it! Nearly a decade in the making, two title and book cover switches, tons of editing and …

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My Lately: Book Launch, Reviews, & Backyard Bliss

August 25, 2025

Things have been crazy around here this summer, getting ready to launch my debut novel, as well as visits with …

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Writing, A Leap of Faith

June 30, 2025

Writing—or any creative endeavor—to some extent is a leap of faith and a huge personal risk: Faith that what you …

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Beauty the Brave, the Exemplary, Bursting Open

July 24, 2022

What is it about the fragile, fleeting, and flagrant beauty of flowers that can so break a heart? I wrote …

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Celebrating Ten Years of Blogging

July 11, 2022

When I created this blog ten years ago I named it “Living on the Edge of the Wild.” I saw …

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Time Away, and Back Again. Kinda.

July 7, 2022

I took two months away from blogging, most of May and all of June. Some of that time was finishing …

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Immersed in My Art, Finally

May 2, 2022

Please Do Not Disturb: That’s how I’ve felt these past few months, and even more so these past few weeks, …

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Embracing Joy, A New Year Resolution

January 24, 2022

Like many, I’ve been finding it difficult to write my normal New Year’s “Looking Back, Looking Forward” blog post. Looking …

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To Hu-Mor, or Less? That Is the Question

May 23, 2021

Last week I was questioning whether my blog had become too serious. To even ask such a question, of course, …

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Purpose of Blog

After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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