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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Fiction

The Transforming Power of Art: Welding the Broken Pieces of Our Lives

March 8, 2026

Art-making has been a transforming power in my life, in my writing and poetry and paintings. Even in the artful …

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, January 2026

January 31, 2026

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

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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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My Book Buffet Newsletter, November 2025

November 24, 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my November newsletter, featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novel When Things Go Missing, as …

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, October 2025

October 27, 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to My Book Buffet newsletter, a new monthly feature where I’ll share news about my …

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Prose Poem: 13 Ways of Looking at Dying

October 19, 2025

October is the month I was born and the month my mother died. Sweetness and sadness rolled into one. It …

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“When Things Go Missing” Is Released! Another Dream Realized

September 22, 2025

My debut novel When Things Go Missing is finally, officially, published today! It is a creative endeavor long in the making that …

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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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Seeking Authenticity, Sparking Joy

September 8, 2025

What are our responsibilities toward our own self-actualization? I think we all seek authenticity, to be who we truly think …

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It’s a Hard Knock Life for Kids, Books & Reviews

August 11, 2025

Little Orphan Annie knew all about what it’s like as a child to live a “hard knock” life, and yet …

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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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