Guest post: Deborah Bryan PLUS a giveaway of Deborah's new book The Monster's Daughter.

Today, I'm excited to feature Deborah Bryan, one of my blogging buddies from the mommy blogging world, and author of The Monster's Daughter (The Glass Ball Trilogy). Deborah has been my guest previously on Cookie's Chronicles, my personal blog. She wrote a beautiful piece entitled Mother, Child, Mother that I highly recommend you read if you are or intend becoming a mother.

Today, Deborah is here with a most appropriate end of year guest post.

Stay tuned following Deborah's guest post to enter the giveaway for her new novel, The Monster's Daughter.

Every single blessed rung

by Deborah Bryan

Books were the magic of my youth. No matter how rocky the waters outside their pages, I could always find the solace of hope within them.

Books whispered to me, "What's to come needn't be a continuation of what is."

I grew up. I built a life so full of inspiration I didn't need it from stories anymore.

I read less and less.

Early this year, a girlfriend recommended a handful of books she felt I'd love. I read A Brief History of Montmaray (The Montmaray Journals) over a weekend and remembered the joy of being totally transported to another world.

I found I needed more. I wanted to experience the rush of living passages from other peoples' lives.

I read more of my girlfriend's recommends, and sought out a few of my own.

This year, I've read over 40 books. Each has enchanted me in its own way. The last, A Monster Calls, I described as "heartbreaking, breathtaking perfection." It was a gift of love I would never have received had I not picked up that first book and given it a shot.

Working, writing, and loving on my son leave little time for reading. Still, I steal those moments I can to read, and I savor every word.

Every single word. Every single blessed rung along the bridge to the world as seen by another.

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About Deborah

Deborah Bryan is a writer hailing from the Pacific Northwest and, not coincidentally, now living in Long Beach, California. She is the author of several novels, the first of which she is thrilled to have edited in just six short years. She's currently working on more writing and editing projects than she can count, and loving every minute of it.

Books by Deborah Bryan

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~ GIVEAWAY ~

WIN a copy of
The Monster's Daughter
by Deborah Bryan

There are 7 ways to enter below. Note that none of these are mandatory, so you can pick and choose how you will enter the contest. Enter once, or enter multiple times. There are two Twitter options, each worth one entry, which can be done once per day until the end of the contest. The contest will be open for 4 days. It is possible to earn up to 13 entries! The winners will be selected randomly once the contest has closed. Good luck!


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