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Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

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Like many of my siblings, I would sneak out of bed, slip into the hallway, and pull my favorite books from the book closet. I read my way through the bottom shelf, then the next shelf up, and the shelf above that, until I could climb to the very top shelf, stacked two layers deep and two layers high, and read the titles of the classics. My desire to create stories grew as I was learning to read them.

Subsequently, I spent my time scribbling in notebooks rather than listening to math lectures at school.

I graduated with a degree in literary studies, and have spent several years working on the novels that keep pounding on the doors of my mind, as none of my characters are very patient to wait their turn. I currently live in Orem, Utah, with m ...more

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Average rating: 4.54 · 172,651 ratings · 27,382 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 4.13 avg rating — 35,429 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 4.50 avg rating — 25,703 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 4.58 avg rating — 21,600 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4 4.69 avg rating — 19,356 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 4.73 avg rating — 17,347 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6 4.75 avg rating — 15,644 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 4.74 avg rating — 14,477 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8 4.75 avg rating — 13,170 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Q 4.54 avg rating — 3,577 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen's Gambit (The Books of Imirillia, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 1,767 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Beth Brower Scribbles Away

Hello! For all of you who are here looking for news, I have some! A few weeks ago I began Beth Brower Scribbles Away. What is it, you ask? Let me explain.

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion (8 books)
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Beth Brower answered Aubrey Degn's question: Is there a map of St. Crispian's? I'm very visual and would love to see how Emma's world fits together. I love your books!! I just posted a map last month on my Substack: Beth Brower Scribbles Away. It's an open post for anyone to access. https://bethbrower.substack.com/ Thanks so much for being a reader!
Jul 07, 2024 05:41PM · 5 likes · like
Beth Brower answered Christine's question: Are there any plans to turn your 'Unselected Journals" into audio books? Yes! They will certainly be audiobooks. The trick is that I need to find the right voice for the job. I would rather not have then than have the wrong voice. So it may take some time, but they will come. Working on getting an audio book of The Q done See Full Answer
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“The idea that one could live in a world where a friend would invite you to go read in another’s library feels more dream than reality. It bodes well for my life’s prospects”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6

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“And I think that was the moment I began to suspect that the luck Hawkes spoke of might really only be an awareness, an awareness of grace.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

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“I make a go of it, when I can. It’s not my disposition to…what I mean to say is, I learned a long time ago that my happiness has to be separate from the things beyond my control.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3

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Polls

Time for the poll for April's novella.
Listed below are the books nominated.
Good Luck everyone.
The poll will remain open until March 28th.
Thanks and happy reading...

The Fall by Albert Camus

7 votes, 36.8%

Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

4 votes, 21.1%

Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood by Drema Hall Berkheimer

3 votes, 15.8%

W, or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec

3 votes, 15.8%

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

2 votes, 10.5%

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower

0 votes, 0.0%

Red Dog by Louis de Bernières

0 votes, 0.0%

The Moslem Wife and Other Stories by Mavis Gallant

0 votes, 0.0%

19 total votes

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Beth’s Quotes

“It is one of the great arts of the human soul," Ezekiel said to himself.
Her hand on the door, Quincy shifted and looked back at her uncle's profile. "What is?"
"Staying with someone. Companionship is one of the great arts of the human soul.”
― Beth Brower, The Q

tags: historical-fiction

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“If she could walk away, she would; her pride demanded at least that much from her. But Quincy knew that her heart beat with the rhythm of the presses in the back room, that her blood ran black with ink, and that her mind filled with reams of numbers and projections and plans. The Q was Quincy's only vital organ, so she would play the game.”
― Beth Brower, The Q

tags: historical-fiction

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“Quincy and Fisher walked through all this in silence. Silence was the most common stock-in-trade between them, and the portfolio of their friendship was thick with it. So, without words, they stepped across the streets, their feet pressing the pavement with the same sounds, their toes turned just so; they knew what life was like at each other's side. Sometimes he would speak, or she would, small offerings on the altar of their joint survival.”
― Beth Brower, The Q

tags: historical-fiction

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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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“I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

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