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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Release Day for This Sea Within: Spilling So Many Emotions

June 15, 2026

She’s here! Free at last. Out into the big world all on her own. I’m not sure how I feel …

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A New Book Is Being Born, Join in the Celebration!

June 8, 2026

Bits & Drips as My Big Launch Date Approaches!

June 4, 2026

My second book This Sea Within will launch on June 15. It’s been a wild ride getting this book out …

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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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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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