So, who am I?
Hello there and welcome to my corner of the Worldy-Widey-Web!
I'm E.R. Brookes! I turn blood into ink, talk to people who don’t exist, create entire worlds and spend way too much time plotting how to cause the most pain with my stories—all while making a general nuisance of myself and eating far too many cookies…(which isn’t actually possible, because there’s no such thing as too many cookies.) My existence is dependent on Jesus, copious and questionable amounts of magic bean juice, and grace, while I rearrange all 26 letters of the alphabet (under a pen-name) and gleefully use semi-colons liberally and incorrectly. (Thank goodness I have an amazing editor.) Oftentimes I compare myself to a horrible goose or a crow—for I hold a great secret desire to chase people around while screaming and an affinity for collecting shiny things. (I really hope I can find hidden treasure one day.)
I live in Kansas with my amazing Husband Drew and our two dogs (a land hippo and chaos gremlin). I work as an in-home caregiver, and I love my job and the many wonderful families I get to work with. When I'm not working, I like to dabble in many forms of music, art, and gardening (someday, my whole yard is going to be filled (and I mean FILLED) with wildflowers and roses.)
I am so honored to have you here! So, grab yourself a cup of coffee (or whatever your tastebuds desire) a delightful cookie, and buckle up for an adventure!
“We are writers my love, we don’t write, we bleed on paper.”
-a.y.
"The Brave Men did not Kill the Dragons.
The Brave Men Rode them."
-George R. R. Martin
How to Get in Contact with Me
I am on multiple social media platforms and you can message me on these platforms.
You can also get into contact with me at
erbrookesauthor@gmail.com
:) I look forward to hearing from you!
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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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