Hello! My Name is
E. R. Brookes
Welcome to my website! (*Hands you a cup of complimentary coffee and dagger for stabbiness*) I am a YA author of clean fantasy, and I have an avid love for reading, writing (obviously ;D) snark, coffee, cookies, and anything shiny. (I'm essentially a crow and hope to find lost treasure someday.) If you're a fan of epic reads, random posts, usually followed by hysterical laughter at my own writing) bookish updates, and the randomness that is me and my life, please subscribe, and come along for the ride!
I look forward to having you!!
I am a very random person, and thus, all my content is very random, depending on my mood. :) There's no telling what you're going to get, but I can promise you, (well, I can imply) that you'll enjoy yourself with whatever malarkey I manage to cook up. Welcome to the E.R. universe, here's to epic adventures and snarky faerie princes.
Come on an Adventure with Me
“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
-Jane Austen
Books
I am currently working on a YA Fantasy series, The Grimm Inheritance Chronicles. There are six books in this series. I published the first book, Kidnapping Grimm in 2023. The second book, Breaking Grimm releases July 2024.
Favorite Book Quotes
(Perhaps I can persuade you to read my book!)
"You are a bright, beautiful thing, and they will take great pains to destroy you until you are what you were born to be--a darkened weapon in their hands."
-Marcus
"Terrible people do terrible things," I whispered, "and they force others to do terrible things to protect what they love." Tears slid silently down my cheeks. "I have done terrible things, and I will do more, to protect the ones I love. We are all turned into Rube Goldberg machines, leaving a trail of destruction and misery in our wake, vainly hoping to protect what cannot be saved."
-Faye
"I will never stop saving you," he said fiercely. "No matter what you think, you're going to make it out of this. I promise."
-Ronan
Want to see me turn into a piranha? Because that's exactly what's going to happen.
-Ember
Blood roared in my ears, my heartbeat a song of the sea as I dug deeper and deeper into the well of endless, painful memories.
-Evadne
"Relax," he murmured, his lips brushing my ear as he pulled me close and then spun me out. I was traitorously breathless as he pulled me back into his arms. "If you let the moonlight and the music carry you, you might even enjoy yourself."
-Artemis
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”A writer is a world trapped inside a person."
-Viktor Hugo
I aim to convey themes of hope in the midst of great sorrow and heartbreak. Courage in the face of evil, standing up for what's right and fighting for the ones you love.
I hope to express the ideas that, no matter what you're facing, there are things worth fighting for. Moreso, no matter how you feel, you have the strength to rise again and continue fighting.
These are all ideals and truths I pull from my faith, and in my aim to create God honoring fiction, these are truths I try to convey around the darker, heavier themes we so often encounter in this life. We live in a dark world, and we face great darkness everyday.
How we face it, and find courage in the fight, is one I believe can be conveyed through the journey of a life.
The strands of silver interwoven on a blackened cloth.
I have characters who are flawed, characters who fall, characters who lose hope. But we all do at some time or another, don't we? In the end, isn't it more important not how many times we fall, but how many times we rise again to keep fighting?
By the grace of God, we rise again, and while I don't write allegory, I write that strength and courage.
As C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien so often fought over, should a book necessarily be an allegory to be of worth? I land firmly on the side of Tolkien. :) Which is why I don't write allegories, I write concepts and ideas, themes of Christianity, if you will.
I know that I am not everyone's cup of tea, and I'm okay with that.
As always with my writing, my heart is to open the door for conversations about the one true source of hope in this life, Jesus Christ.
I've at last found peace in my convictions as a Christian author and my goal is always,
Soli Deo Gloria
With love and great gratitude,
-E.R. Brookes
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