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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Cover Reveal & Design for This Sea Within

April 12, 2026

I’m excited to share the full-color cover of my new novel. My designer Baris Sehri, who I found on Reedsy, …

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Days After the World Was Supposed to End

April 9, 2026

After these nail-biting days in which the President of the United States, on Easter Day, threatened to end the world …

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, February 2026

February 28, 2026

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

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When Every Cell Becomes a Miracle – Dancing on Ecstatic Toes

December 14, 2025

I’ve always loved Walt Whitman’s way of turning the mundane into a miracle, or seeing what’s marvelous in the everyday. …

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Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems

December 7, 2025

Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …

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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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Feeling the Flow, from Mountain-Top to Marketplace

November 10, 2025

Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …

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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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A Poet & Artist, Making the Unknown Known

August 17, 2025

What precipitates the creative process? For poet Mary Oliver, it’s the need to step over “the edge” into something vague …

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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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