Congratulations Brody Daniels - 1000 word writing competition

Congratulations to Brody Daniels, the latest winner of the 1000 Word Short Story Competitions for Young Writers – the theme was Valentine’s Day.

Brody’s short story is a delightful narration of a love story between two your lovers in rural America. Another fantastic bit of news is that Brody has opted to place his short story in the current Short Story Book Project. Soon we all be will be able to read his award-winning piece.

Congratulations again Brody!

As a reminder – the Short Story Book Project has a deadline of Feb 20^th. Please make sure that you contact us by email at breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com. We will be happy to walk you through the process.

Also – Congratulations to Otto Throw – the newest member of our author’s family.

The Given Hand: A Messenger's Journey
Price - $15

The Given Hand: A Messenger’s Journey is the spellbinding story of Otto Throw and how his special, sometimes problematic Gift has shaped his life. It chronicles the challenges he faced as he learned how to live with, and finally harness his rare Gift, and what the knowledge he gained in the process can mean to us all.

Please go to our website at www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com to order Otto’s book.

Also welcome – ShaRod Jenkins – another new member of our author’s family.

Pain Is My Only Weakness
Pre Sale Price $15

Andre Black was born in Milledgeville, Georgia but he’s currently stationed in The Republic of South Korea trying to be all that he could be and remain a courageous soldier who goes over and beyond the call of duty. Unfortunately, there are some things that are beyond his control and calling: that is his inability to stop inflicting so much pain on himself. Surrounded by pure temptation on a peninsula filled with a variety of flavorful women, the chase is on and for once he’s the prey. Andre runs away until there is nowhere to hide or run to. Women tempt him than torture him as his passions are sucked dry from days and nights of pleasure. The women leave soiled sheets, erotic memories, and an unbearable pain that Andre can’t shake loose

You can also order ShaRod’s book on our website at www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com

Go to our website to see a complete list of our authors.

Short Story Project - Writing Competitions and New Authors - GO!

As always - Breaking Rules Publishing is thankful for any and all donations you may be able to make.

We are also continuing to accept new manuscripts - please contact breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com for details.

Breaking Rules Publishing has had a few new authors lately. We'd like to share a bit about them and the imaginative books they are offering.

Here we go - But first, just a quick mention of the Breaking Rules Publishing Short Story Project.  

                                      

You only have a couple of weeks left to be a part of the project - the Deadline is Feb 20th.  The Short Story Book Project is open to all fiction and non-fiction writers. the genres that we are searching for - Romance - Science Fiction - History - Mystery - Drama - Action/Adventure - Horror - Poetry - LGBT stories in all of these genres. An author is welcome to submit as many stories as they like, in as many genres. The piece must be an original work of the entrant. At the discretion of Breaking Rules Publishing - submissions selected may be published in the Breaking Rules Publishing Newsletter - The Scribe - as well as the website and social media sites. Entrants retain copyrights on his/her own individual work. We ask that the stories be no longer than 50 pages and no shorter than 20. The age requirement for this project is for the writer to be at least 18 years of age.

All participants will share in 70% of the profits after printing costs.

Please visit our Short Story page for further details - email us at breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com for questions and submissions.

Also - we have a couple of writing competition deadlines coming up.

M/M - F/F  Writing Competition
Short Story - 
Subject - M/M - F/F Based Story

Deadline - March 1, 2018
Winners Selected - March 15, 2018
Word Count - No more than 150 pages
Submission cost - $10

Breaking Rules Publishing has placed their standard $50 in the kitty. With every submission, the kitty will grow.

M/M and F/F is your theme so let your imagination run wild and free.

Do you have 5000 words in you?

Starting Over Writing Competition

5000 Word Challenge -
Subject - "Starting Over"Stories
Deadline - March 1, 2018
Winners selected - March 15, 2018
Word Count - 5000 words. 
Submission cost - $5

Breaking Rules Publishing has placed their standard $50 in the kitty. With every submission, the kitty will grow.

Your theme must be centered around starting over, but your flavor can be whatever you desire. Share this competition with your friends and fellow writers. 

For all competitions, there will be three winners - 1st - 2nd and 3rd. Each will receive a percentage of the total funds collected for this particular competition. 1st Place 35% - 2nd Place 15% and 3rd Place 10%. Check the totals daily as the number of competitions submissions increase.

If you have any questions or would like to make a submission, please contact us at breakingrulessubmissions@gmail.com

July a few of our new authors - check them out on our website at www.breakingruleswritingcompetitions.com

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 -