Good afternoon and welcome to the daily with still Stein here on anchor happy happy Friday This is Sylvia Stein, and this is a daily with still Stein. Thank you for joining me as I said on the show We had on Wednesday. I started it with book recommendations, and I mentioned the author So I hope you'll check out AJ Brown with stitch mile publications Go ahead and check out his books if you haven't already Please do because they're amazing and wonderful and I'll have more book recommendations on the next show We do but for now I hope you'll focus on checking out the books by AJ Brown and Jeff Brown and He's from stitch mile publication. So a big shout out to him and his books but recapping on the show for That I did on Wednesday.
I was talking about my thriller battered mine, which is hopefully going to be out April of This year if not no later than jr. July of this year But all the works and all the stuff that I'm talking about is copyright It's owned by me. So this time my novel my thriller is all mine the title everything So everything I speak about is my own work and I'm just going to recap on a few things that I said First and foremost, I read a small excerpt I have more to share but I won't do that until the following show for today I just want to recap about you know being in this journey working on this novel as an author You know when you begin a draft you you know You get amazed by all the things that come you know coming to play when you're working on a novel or book or story or You know when you start a short story or you make it a longer version for me This book has meant so much. I started it a while back as I said I started with an idea then when I did national novel month back in I think it was 2014 I started with a story and and this this character And and and the journey that I wanted to show and even though it is a thriller and there's some moments that are going to be very hard And and you know the whole point is to make sure that all of what I'm saying in this story Makes sense to you the reader because You know, I love to tell stories and write them for you all You know when I create a story through my composition book and or paper or paper and pen And I do it old school and then I do my timelines and then you know, it's all for you the reader Of course, I love writing I do it because I love it and I'm an indie author and this story A Sadie story is one that I've been trying to tell for a while and while it's fiction There is a lot of research behind it It has a lot to do with with the different things that Sadie is going through and I had to do my own research on that And and then the characters and you know when we're dealing with characters that are going through something very hard You have to make sure that everything that you're saying makes sense and you're not putting words or adding more than than you should So this story, you know is about a woman going through so much and and her journey and it starts off in a very Very hard predicament for Sadie And then you follow the journey of the story and the characters around her surrounding her from her parents to her husband to all the things that are around her and When when you do when you do something like this it takes a lot and and this has really brought me into a whole new perspective On the type of work I want to do and even though I've written Closure the diary of the broken father and chasing clarity which all have different characters that I can totally See myself relating to or other people that I've known my character Sarah is a big one Um, she's someone that you know, I've known or you know Have been in the same place as her enclosure diary of the broken father in some way or another Um, or you know someone like her garrison james is very relatable Especially with addiction and all the things that he goes through in his story And this is why I did the diary of the broken father to kind of bring kind of a closure Uh, which is another novel but bring kind of a perspective on not just Sarah's story But also garrison and what they both went through because of their loss and what they dealt with same thing with Mia Mia Gerard and chasing clarity my whole point with her story was to show what a young woman endures And and her dream of dance and but the losses and the things that have come You know, they that happened to her and empowering a message and the same token this thriller will empower a message Of I hope hope and and there are many things that are going to layers that the story has That's why it had to be done the correct way Um getting all of the the timeline like I said the stories of characters that are involved and invested in this story It had to be done properly.
So I really hope that you enjoy Um battered mind and as it comes and as I share different things and and different excerpts and different Sort of dynamics between the characters I hope that you'll be more driven into wanting to read it and wanting to learn more about it And you know that my writing process is Composition book paper and pencil then I put it on the computer that I go through a few drafts before I decide This is my final copy also printing out your work printing it out Um if you have a good printer and looking over it also reading it aloud Also, you're able to see and hear your mistakes before you hire an editor You do your own self editing and then send it to a professional editor I recommend that highly get a professional editor get them to look at everything interact with the editor I think that's important and make sure that your story comes together Now, you know, I really hope that you know in these few conversations that I've given you about my work and what's coming and The process that you're able to share your own thoughts and your own works of what you're working on or perhaps you might Maybe this sparked an idea to get you to write for me. Battered mind is something I've written for a while I've written a little bit here is shifted in direction and I'll share more about that if we get closer to releasing it Um, it's got to be where you see the end of the story And then you know, for me, it went back a lot people say I write forward I wrote it in the back like what was gonna happen at the end to the beginning You know, I did different shifts with it and and it depends on you the author the writer what your process is But my story came kind of like when you see on a show like if you watch uh different shows on tv Uh, you'll see how to get away with murder on a bc with riola davis You notice a lot of the a lot of them go back to things that have already happened And then they go back to like a flashback and then present tense and then they keep going back And then there's other different things like this is us It deals with different timelines as far as the time like the past When they were the people in the story are smaller and they're like now or in between also or even in the future Every show. Well, that's the same thing I that I do with my stories I I go to the like the end and then take it all the way to the beginning so that way I can really set up my story But everybody's different. We're not all the same But I just wanted to share more about what I do my writing connect with you guys in the daily whistles I not just rely on my writing tips books, which are great by the way Don't get me wrong However, it's always good to connect with you the listeners And if you have questions about any of my writing process or my story you can ask that You know, you can always send send it a recording email seal writers zero seven at gmail.com But also i'm doing a q&a on instagram I'm asking i'm doing an author q&a I have done a live video or done several live videos And if you have questions about any of the podcasts or like the daily was so Stein on anchor Or my own books or my own writing or what i've said today Please feel free to send a message Or a queston and I will answer it tomorrow at one eastern through my insta story on instagram But I wanted to do this short show today on the daily whistles Thank you all know that I am working on my book better mind the thriller is coming together I couldn't do it You know, I do it for all of you that tune into my podcast those that buy my books And the passion is there always to empower to show the stories And I want to bring you stories that you can relate to or you've heard of someone relating to And whether it's a difficult subject or not, you know, it is it's something that I hope that empowers Whoever's reading the story and where the journey took that character So I hope that you all have a great friday I really appreciate you and I didn't do a wrap up or anything I just wanted to kind of go raw today and speak to you from my heart and About my author process and where i'm working on and how passionate I am about it So you all have a happy happy friday and thank you for tuning into the daily whistles time on anchor and we'll be back If not tomorrow for sure monday We will be back and thank you so so much And please download the episodes that are on on our podcast I had another one on wednesday and the other ones you can listen to and all the author interviews that we had And again, the book that I recommended for this week was the books by aj brown Please be sure to check them out.
He is on amazon. I believe foreign is a noble He's through stitch mouth publications. I think he has a website or a blog called aj um I think aj brown negative or and he's on on facebook jeff brown or aj brown look him up And he has books beautiful minds Uh, I think it's voices the latest ones. Um, I believe a stitch of madness Dredging up memories so many books.
Please check them out and you all have the most happy happy friday And I can't wait to bring you this new book. Have a great one. Enjoy Thank you for joining us on anchor for the daily whistles time on anchor. Thank you so much