How does it all work?

Hey, Everyone –

What I would like to tell you about is just how this all works.

Let me say, right off the bat, that there are no fees for you to pay. Breaking Rules Publishing wants to work with, and partner with, you to make your book a success. Not just drop your book in your lap and say there you go. GREAT JOB !!

We will publish short stories - novellas and novels in the fiction and non-fiction genres.  We are looking for authors and writers who are looking outside the box, willing to help in their own success and breaking a few rules along the way.

To submit your work for consideration, please send an email to breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com. 

Please include your contact information as well as an attachment of your work. We will confirm your submission within 24 hours, as well as get back to you within one week on the possibility of publishing options.

Many publishers don't tell you about their royalty package until the very end of your process. We're letting you know up front that we will publish your book and help you market it. We will pay royalties of 70 - 30 (in our favor) until the first 200 books/Ebooks have been sold. Once you have sold 200 books that situation will flip and the rate will be 70-30 in your favor. Giving you a much higher return on your work. This will also allow us to help pay for the admin and printing costs related to your book. 

Next Up – Scholarships

Scholarships will be made available to young writers between the age of 16-22. The funds made available will be allocated for writing classes, writing workshops, writing camps, tuition for college writing classes, as well as writing tools (pads, computers, laptops and assistance with publishing).

How to Apply

To apply for a scholarship. please submit an email to

breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com
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with your current contact information - the need for the scholarship and cost, as well as a short essay, no more than 1,000 words, as to what your writing aspirations are, what you plan to do with the scholarship funds and the experience as well as why you feel you deserve the scholarship.


Here is a list of some of our current and published authors

Arthur Padilla

Katherine Brinson

Debra Bellera

Richard Randall

David Conner

H.C. Iser

ShaRod Jenkins

Jay Helwig

Roy Jeffers

Lu’Ciana Erwin

Christopher Clawson

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Remember to Break The Rules! 

Finally Moving Forward With New and Previous Authors And Titles -

Welcome to some of our new authors and congratulations to our present authors.

The reality is - Irma put a big hit on Breaking Rules Publishing. Hurricane Irma that is. 

One - we were without power for over a week. That in itself was a challenge as if wasn't just us, it was the entire city, area. But, like everyone else dealing with the after-effects, we survived. 

Two - because of the damage not only done here but also with our printer. They, like so many, also suffered some damage, causing many delays in their processes. Which has lead to our own delays in the printing of new and current novels. We apologize for any and all delays - things are finally getting back on track and we're moving full steam ahead.

Three - because of Irma we were also forced to move our lovely location on the water. Various damage was done which caused us to have to move. Luckily we were able to land close by in Gulfport, FL.

To that end, we received many new submissions, some of which are listed below. We are finally expanding in all of our genre's and would like to continue.  As mentioned on Facebook, we are currently accepting submissions. 

We are also looking to fill our Short Story Book Project. If you are interested in being part of a group effort to create a short story book and receive and share in the royalties from this book, please visit our website for details. www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com

Below please check out our new and current list of titles and authors. Please visit our website to order your copies today!

Children and Young Readers

New Author Debra Bellera - Pre Sale Price $10

Debra Bellera - The Secret In Soapshead Bay

Love no longer lives inside this old, tired Victorian house.  Once a thriving and happy place to live in, it had become a property that breathed only silence. As the original family lost their interest in each other, love began to fade away.  Loneliness grew stronger with the passing of time.  The house had its own identity.  As emotions grew intense on the inside, the outside veneer grew worn. Eventually, the family moved away and the lonely house was left abandoned.  People often walked by wondering if anyone would live there again. Love will find its way back home.  The sun will replace the constant tears of pouring rain.  New flowers will poke their smiles through the dry earth.  The tired, old house will live again and laughter will replace the silence. Love will shake this house to arise from her slumber. Love will someday wake up a hidden secret sleeping within her walls.

New Author David Conner - Pre Sale Price $10

David Conner - Set in the land of nonsense where you can meet creatures we all dream about and learn life lessons throughout the book. This book was written for all the children and adults who have an imagination and are not scared to look outside the norm and believe that having a fantastic imagination is not a bad thing but one to embrace. 

Poetry

New Author Roy Jeffers - Pre Sale Price $7

 Roy Jeffers -The Writings of a Madman comes from deep within a devastated mind

But as you read the book it has beautiful after beautiful messages to find

One would beauty comes from devastation And a rich man could save the world if he had God's revelation

As this book is mainly about the fantasy land in my brain

From a cowboy who rescues people from a crashed train

To an evil biker who started a civil war as his hypnotic world drove everybody insane

As it's also lined with beautiful poetry that will touch your heart

To amazing poetry the unite two worlds as they are not too far apart

As I share my gift from God I meet friend after friend

With your help, these words will never come to an end

Jay Helwig - Mr. Jay Helwig has mastered a lovely book of poetry based on the impressions of Emily Dickinson. 







Romance

New Author - Lu'Ciana Erwin 
A Love To Remember
Pre Sale $10

Lu'Ciana Erwin - Take a risk. 

It was the first day of February. Just two weeks until the Valentine’s Day Dance. Christine English woke up with the sound of rain hitting her window. She got dressed and went to her mirror to fix her hair. She didn’t know that in just a matter of hours her life would change. Christine parked her car at the school and made her way into the school. April Davidson, one of Christine’s friends, was at their locker with some guy. When Christine got to the locker April introduced her to her brother, Paul. He had been away at a military school, young and sexy with beautiful blue eyes. Christine automatically fell in love with him. The issues were, could she let him get close to her? Did he want the same things as she did? Could she be with him and him going away to war? All she could do was, take a risk.

K.C. Brinson J.D. Norton Chronicles 
Destiny - 

The Year is 2040 and the planet is in dire straits. All of the world's nations have joined together to form into one world order. Three people in the World Organization hold absolute power, while corruption has brought humanity to the brink of destruction.

It will take a group of three of history's most brilliant minds accompanied by the leader of the Resistors, an underground Junkpunk civilization. The Resistors have survived persecution and now have a mission to reclaim their rightful place among civilization while saving humanity and the world in the process.
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Join Lucille Calhoun, Lady Renee Grey, and J.D. Norton in this Sci-Fi/Fantasy adventure of time travel and World Order conspiracies. While working with the cooperation of the Gods of the Galaxy, they also find themselves working in subterfuge under the radar of the Gods in order to root out an evil entity in their midst.

Arthur Padilla - 
A Kris Medford Mystery -
The Two Sides Of The Same Face   
Kris Medford arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico shortly after she agrees to take a job running a small family foundation. She finds herself quickly embroiled in a situation where a mysterious man is coming for her and is intent on finding the answers he has been paid to get. Without a real  plan or any real understanding of how she finds herself on the gun end of a sinister character, Kris  comes face to face with Brian  Fielding. When she is actually confronted and captured by Brian she explodes and her real potential is both frightening and revealing. Her actions and the confusion she  causes put Kris on the  radar of a silent group of underworld "do-gooders." This group of women  actively identifies and recruits women, worldwide, who present with certain gifts and they want Kris for reasons Kris would not even understand. In the end, what seems like mishap and circumstance,  results in the larger understanding that Kris and all the women involved have been intentionally manipulated to be part of this group. Kris finds her power, her strength, and her capacity as she confronts her nemesis in Brian while wrestling her own internal demons. 

Guest Blogger And Author Arthur Padilla - Welcome!

Welcome, Arthur Padilla - one of our newest authors and guest blogger for the week.

Arthur wrote "A Kris Medford Mystery - Two Sides Of The Same Face." Which can be found on our website at www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com

Discovering Kris Medford

In June of 2013, a very good friend of mine decided that life here on Earth was not what he wanted and he chose to leave. I knew him from the time of his emergence when he began to understand his gender and I was honored to be a part of his life and his journey.  When he died, I was struck by the impact of the loss.  I cried and became confused about my own life and why I had not found myself ready to leave.  How had his life become so different than mine?  How had his road taken him to such a different place? More than that I was confused and unforgiving in my willingness to have let him become so distant; I always assumed there would be time. I would see him lurking on Facebook and we would always say hello. We always said that we missed each other.  But we never said how much. We never really said what we meant to one another.  If I had just worked faster and harder. If I had figured this out before.  And the “ifs” will probably always be there. 

About a year prior to his death, I began to struggle with my own cascading emotional challenges. Since then, I have spent most of my waking hours working on the complex issue of post-traumatic stress disorder.  My personal experiences and the many people I have met in my life who have been stuck, have motivated me to understand PTSD. I spent many years trudging through this murky world taking down everyone that I came in contact with. The resulting manifestations were always grand and outrageous and they slowly took everything from me before I was able to understand that I was acting out my trauma. I was ensuring that I did everything I could to manifest what I had come to believe as true. My friend was also grand and outrageous and he also lost everything. We both suffered from PTSD.

Finally, during this same year, I was struggling with my own disconnect and confusion because my partner of two years had become distant and was pushing me away. Some of it was my PTSD and some of it was her own burgeoning awareness of her gender. She came out to me about a week after I had finished my first draft of this book. We both spent the Christmas season of 2013 in a sort of stunned silence. I was stunned because I had spent the past year writing about and learning about Kris and here in my personal life, I was being invited to witness Kris’ process of living into being a transgender woman. I have been with Katherine and have witnessed her courage and commitment to resolving the dissonance that has influenced her whole life; silently pushing for freedom while feeling the waves of misunderstanding and fear as society screamed their ignorance. She has become my real life hero. She has inspired me to expand my understanding of Kris and what it means to be special.

All of this is to preface where the character Kris Medford comes from. For Kris, her message to the world is that she doesn’t have to be perfect. She just has to be willing to work at it. In this first story, she is confronted with a part of herself that she has never really met, as she becomes aware of her PTSD. The experiences in this first book force Kris to see for herself that she experiences significant physical responses to her memories and if she is threatened the part of her that has kept her alive regardless of the costs, screams to life and seeks revenge. This dance between the part she controls and the part that is unconscious begins as she confronts her lies and her denials.

She is also the one that survives. She came to life in my head days after my friend left us. She allows me to see myself, someone different, as courageous and ready for whatever is next. She allows me to believe in the power of change and that for all of those that came and went before us, she manifests hope. She allows me to believe that every day I will walk closer to being who I always wanted to be. She is the woman I am not and she is how I learned to understand my own PTSD.

Kris is how I want to manifest my understanding as I move forward in my research of PTSD.   She is fiction. She is not me nor is she my friend, and she is not Katherine. Yet, for many of us who remain hidden in our own ignorance, Kris is a way for us to say to everyone who loves us that we can be different and we can be honorable, dependable, and courageous.  What we are asking of ourselves is monumental. Nothing can be left a secret. Nothing can be left unsaid. I will do as Kris does and find a resolution that works for me.

I wrote this for all the reasons above and because I wanted my friend to know that I heard him. He needed to know that the road he chose was harder than mine ever was. He was my hero. I saw him as my strength when I was once again driven to the edge of my own tolerance. To him I say:

When I talk to you, I also listen to what I think you might have said. You might be gone and I won’t get a hug again or see your smile or hear your laugh. You don’t know what I felt when you would punch my shoulder like I was one of the boys; the sense of belonging you gave me will never be lost. I will always be proud of you and because of you, I have been spurred to move forward. I found Kris because she is those that went before and those still to come. I believe in hope and the power of the human spirit to persevere. And I will always believe in you, my friend.

Things are happening - in a good way!

Things are happening - in a good way!

If you’ve read anything on our social media pages or website then you’ll know that we, along with Al and Chuck Travel are bringing Christopher Clawson’s first novel, Bless Me Father, to the stage. The performances will be Sept 26th and 29th at the Studio @ 620 theatre.

Currently, we are looking for funding in various ways. The links are below. If you can – take a moment and consider helping out with a donation or sponsorship. All of the proceeds will go to further our mission as well as help to fund the Breaking Rules Publishing Young Writers Scholarship Fund. Thank you in advance for your support.

Ways to help!

www.gofundme.com/breaking-rules-scholarship-fund

www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com

Sponsors to date

Corporate -

Al and Chuck Travel - Title Sponsor

Hollander Hotel

St Pete Kilts

Providence Consulting Services

Individual

Jason Fields and Channing Floyd

Cathy and Patrick Burns

Brian Longstreth

Felicia Reevers

Ray H

Peter Syracusa lll and Mark Friend

Brian Hannon

Also, we have a couple of new books that we would like to tell you about. They will be released soon, order you presale copy now while the price is low.

Arthur Padilla

Katherine Brinson

We are still accepting manuscript submissions!

Some Other Books Available Are - 

So How Does This All Work?

And the question is, what do we do?

Interesting question considering that the word publishing is in our name. 

But, simply put.

1)  We partner with you to publish and promote your book.

2)  We have writing competitions for young and not so young writers.

and lastly, we offer scholarships to young writers.

It’s really very easy. We don’t have a genre focus and want only to help authors see their writing dreams come true. If your manuscript isn’t ready, then we have services, listed on our website that will help you. If you need help, then we’ll help you. But remember, the book is yours and therefore – you have the last word.

How does all this work? We again, easy – you just email your manuscript to us at breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com and we’ll review your work. Once we have found your manuscript to be something that we’re interested in – we then present you with a contract – we ask for a blurb about the book, an authors photo, a cover photo and we’ll help you create your cover or send a pdf copy of your already prepared cover. We’ll ask you for your acknowledgment page and then we’ll get to work on formatting your book. And lastly, we’ll ask you for a list of, up to, 100 emails that we can send out an announcement and help to start the promotion process. Just before it’s complete we’ll present it to the world for pre-sale. Next, we’ll look for possible signing locations, local books stores, place you in our quarterly magazine, "The Scribe," add you to all of our social media, blogs, newsletters, and libraries that will be open to taking on your book.

 

So – ARE YOU READY? All you really need to do is finish your manuscript and send it to us. After that, we’ll work with you to make it as successful as we can.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us. Again, we would be happy to help.

www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com

breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com

Aren't you tired of waiting yet?

Aren’t you tired of waiting yet?

So here’s the deal. You have this story rolling around in your head, so you got up at 5a and spent your early mornings, evenings and weekends just writing your book. You struggled with your day job, your family and friends, because you thought that you could, you wanted to, and knew that you had something to say, so you wrote. Even though no one thought that you could do it. Let alone get published.

After spilling your insides all over the pages in front of you, copying it over to your computer and going through the editing process, you think that you’re finally ready. That you have just written the next great American novel. And you just may have.

Next step – you hit the library and look up how to get your first book published. You take out all the books you can that are related to the subject, hoping that some of it would set in and you’ll be able to finally get your book published, make your first million, become famous and live the life you were born to.

What do you learn? Well, you learn that you need an agent and that you need to write a query letter to get an agent. So, back to the library to find out how to write this all powerful letter that will change your life. Again, you check out all the books that will show you how to get it done. And so, you sit down and start to write to all the agents that you’ve found online. And then, you wait.

While you’re waiting for a response, you start on another novel, you go back and edit the first one, hit the beach (because all great novels are written at the beach) you drink lots of coffee and run your fingers through your hair. Be careful you may just pull it out. AND, you search online trying to find more agents to send that all magical letter to. And still, you wait.

Ouch – you got 15 letters back all in one day. And guess what? They were all no’s! But you keep that positive attitude and continue to send those letters out. You even think that maybe it’s time to go directly to the publishers. Again you head back to the library to see what you can find out about what your letter should say to the publisher. In the mean time, more of those agent letters come back, and yep, they are all no’s. So you send out the publisher letter and hope that you’re able to connect with someone at Random House. That the person you connect with is going to be the one to help make all of your dreams come true.

And what happens next? Shit, SHIT, Shit! More no’s! So you try again and continue to send out letters, continue to write your next book and deal with all the negative attitudes around you. Unfortunately, the cycle goes on and on and on. Apparently never understanding that expecting a different result from the same action is the definition of insanity.

So I ask you. Aren’t you tired of waiting yet?

What Breaking Rules Publishing is offering you is for you to be a part of making your dreams come true. We are offering to partner with you to say, we’ll publish your book. We’ll work with you to get you a great marketing plan. We’ll get your books in the books stores and we’ll do all that we can to make sure that you and your book get out there and are sold. Together – did you hear that part? TOGETHER we will get it done.

Breaking Rules Publishing isn’t going to just publish your book and let it sit there. Tossing it back in your lap and saying, “here you go – you’re on your own now!” NO! We are here to help you and work with you to get your book and your dreams moving.

Why are we doing this? So here’s the story. Our founder, Christopher Clawson-Rule wrote his first book 16 years ago in just 3 months. Yes, he worked hard to get that done, and then he did exactly what every other author does. He started writing letter and continued to get no’s. He did this for six years until a publisher took him on. And guess what? They didn’t exactly what was mentioned above. Toss the book back at him and said, “here you go – you’re on your own now!” Oh and the great news, when he did sell his book, he only got about 20% of the price of the book back in royalties. Certainly not the millions that he was hoping for.

The notion that he had just published his book was amazing. Now, he was a writer, an author. He was excited and over the moon, thinking that he was going to start to make his millions. And like most, it didn’t happen. For years he continued to do the same, write, publish and try his best to market his work on his own. Then it all hit him. This entire publishing process was crap. And he didn’t want any other writer to have to go through the same situation that he did. To feel that same doubt and wonder when their break was going to come.

So here we are. Now WE are waiting. Waiting for you to send us your manuscript. We’ll help you format it, publish it, and help you market it. We are even turning the table on the royalties’ situation. We are offering you 30% back, after printing, until you reach your first 200 books. After that, you jump to 70%. If you’re not saying, “NOW WE’RE TALKING” then you’ve missed the point.

And here boys and girls is my last SO – So, aren’t you tired of waiting? Aren’t you tired of writing all those letters? Aren’t you tired of getting all the no’s back and aren’t you tired of putting your dreams on hold?

Take the leap – send us your manuscript and let’s get started making that dream of yours come true.

Breaking Rules Publishing is now accepting manuscript submissions.

Need help? Just get in touch with us and we’ll do all that we can to help you out.

breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com

Authors and books on our website - take a look.

Authors and books on our website 

Take a look

www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com

K.C. Brinson

J.D. Norton Chronicles - Destiny 

by K.C. Brinson 

Pre-Sale $10

The Year is 2040 and the planet is in dire straits. All of the world's nations have joined together to form into one world order. Three people in the World Organization hold absolute power, while corruption has brought humanity to the brink of destruction. 

It will take a group of three of history's most brilliant minds accompanied by the leader of the Resistors, an underground Junkpunk civilization. The Resistors have survived persecution and now have a mission to reclaim their rightful place among civilization while saving humanity and the world in the process. 

Join Lucille Calhoun, Lady Renee Grey, and J.D. Norton in this Sci-Fi/Fantasy adventure of time travel and World Order conspiracies. While working with the cooperation of the Gods of the Galaxy, they also find themselves working in subterfuge under the radar of the Gods in order to root out an evil entity in their midst.

Arthur Padilla

A Kris Medford Mystery -
The Sides Of The Same Face 

by Arthur Padilla
Pre-Sale Price -  $10.

Kris Medford arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico shortly after she agrees to take a job running a small family foundation. She finds herself quickly embroiled in a situation where a mysterious man is coming for her and is intent on finding the answers he has been paid to get. Without a real plan or any real understanding of how she finds herself on the gun end of a sinister character,   Kris comes face to face with Brian Fielding. When she is actually confronted and captured by Brian she explodes and her real potential is both frightening and revealing. Her actions and the confusion she causes put Kris on the radar of a silent group of underworld "do-gooders." This group of women actively identifies and recruits women, worldwide, who present with certain gifts and they want Kris for reasons Kris would not even understand. In the end, what seems like mishap and circumstance, results in the larger understanding that Kris and all the women involved have been intentionally manipulated to be part of this group. Kris finds her power, her strength, and her capacity as she confronts her nemesis in Brian, while wrestling her own internal demons. 

Jay Helwig

Mr. Jay Helwig has mastered a lovely book of poetry based on the impressions of Emily Dickinson. 

Brit Chism

Mnemosyne's Daughters by Brit Chism - $15.

Another exciting component to Mr. Chism's book "Mnemosyne's Daughters" is that he is donating ALL of his royalties from the sale of this book to the Breaking Rules Publishing Young Writers Scholarship Fund - specifically to young LGBT writers in St. Petersburg. Breaking Rules Publishing will match Mr. Chism's generosity and respond in kind.

ALL proceeds from the sale of Mr. Chism's book "Mnemosyne's Daughters" will go directly toward the Breaking Rules Publishing scholarship fund.

Thank you, Mr. Chism, for your amazing generosity and support of the LGBT youth in St. Petersburg.

Mnemosyne's Daughters by Brit Chism -
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The impetus for stories comes from the Muses. Old myths, many of them five thousand years old, provide a seed of truth, a plot, a glimpse of the character that can be developed in a modern context. Societal structures, patriarchy, family, religion, cultural norms and mores, and women’s hopes and goals shape these stories and push and pull these female protagonists into their arcs.

The reality for women in the twenty-first century is that fully half the households in the U.S. are headed by a single, working mother. One in three women are raped. Millions across the globe migrate to escape war, famine, and destruction of their environment. All face discrimination based on gender. I have no interest in writing escapist fiction with a happy ending. I do, however, want to tell gripping stories about the truth of women’s lives.

“Medea Royal” began this journey for me several years back. Others: Jocasta, Eurydice, Katya, Mnemosyne, Alice, Claire, etc. seemed to push forward in my creative imagination waving their raised hands, “Me next!” they shouted from my dreams.

​The cost for this book is $15 - plus shipping and handling.

Christopher Clawson

Waters Edge by Christopher Clawson - $13 .                                    

Waters Edge is the next installment in the Matthews Family saga.
 
Tristan and Boston Matthews desperately need of a vacation, in no time they find themselves in Madeira Beach, FL. getting more than just some time away. Each has their own back story and challenges to bear, neither expected to find happiness, or their future on a quiet beach in Florida or with the girl and boy next door. Their summer neighbors, Seamus and Claire Waters, father and daughter, have their own demons to deal with, yet quickly the two brothers jump feet first into love stories and memories that would last a life time. Using the beach, water and sunsets from the Gulf of Mexico as its back drop - Waters Edge has real life characters as the Matthews brothers develop their own story of family, love, sex, betrayal and death. Tell me, what will you find on the water’s edge?

Bless Me Father – by Christopher Clawson - $15

Noah Matthews, husband, father of five and art professor, has a cross to bear.

Sexually abused as a child, he was led into a challenging life. After his first confession to Father Vincente Connetti, an equally cursed man, the two became friends. Both, in the end, help each other through their pasts. Vincent, who never allowed himself a life, changes his vocation and abandons his collar.
 
Noah employs David, a young model driven by urges based around his sexual appetite for men, for his life drawing class. Showing his true colors,
David proves himself and makes Noah and Vincente relive the nightmares of their youth in the most lamentable fashion possible. Colorful and endowed with realistic characters, Bless Me Father paints a paradigm of honesty, friendship, and morals with sex and violence aplenty.

The cost for this book is $15 - plus shipping and handling.