Merry Christmas!

Hello From Your Favorite Absent Author!

12/19/20251 min read

Hello! Hello!

I am so sorry it's been so long since I've updated everyone and written a hello! Somehow it's December and I'm a little behind. (LOL! I think we can all agree it's more than a little)

Unraveling Grimm's release went really well! I am loving getting to connect with all my readers and fans, to see people's reactions to the story and characters and yes witness the tears firsthand! I have been getting out there a little more and doing more vendor markets and trying to get my babies out into the world. I have been meeting a LOT of AMAZING people and learning to stretch myself to socialize when I'm quite honestly, an antisocial opossum! ;D
Growth while painful, is indeed necessary.

I am making painfully slow progress on book 4, (Title TBA) (Perhaps it'll be a Christmas present for y'all!) But, I have finished part one, I'm into part 2, and I'm almost 100,000 words in, so that's good progress all things considered with life.
Life continues to kick me in the back of the knees, it is painful and rough, but we are still holding on and doing what we can. The next newsletter will have our Christmas card letter to update everyone.
Much love to all of you, and I hope you can feel the appreciation flowing from me to you. I cannot express how Grateful I am for all of you, for all the love you give my books and characters. I cherish every note, every conversation, every enthusiastic compliment. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Terms of service

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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