Brooke Adams Law

author, book coach & hybrid publisher

 

Who are we without our memory?

When Katherine Keene is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her four grown children must grapple with how to care for her – and how to remake their relationships with each other. 

And then there’s the secret that threatens their family’s very identity. Will the Keenes find healing and reconciliation – or implode from within?

Praise for Catchlight

 

“a beautiful, moving novel of a family in transition…

Law asks us whether we can find joy in the midst of grief, and whether we can make art out of pain, and then she shows us how that is done.”

-Phil Klay, author of Redeployment, 2014 National Book Award Winner for Fiction

“In the hands of a lesser writer, Catchlight could be a soapy collection of trauma dramas; but Law’s own empathy is so acute that these characters spring to life in a book that is part love story and entirely all-engaging read. At the end, you will know these people … and know yourself.”

-Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean (Oprah’s Book Club pick)

“Catchlight is a novel that should probably come with a warning. Reader, abandon whatever else you thought you might do, because once you enter into the world of this novel, it will exert an irresistible gravitational pull on you.”

-Rachel Basch, author of Degrees of Love and The Listener

 

Check out the Catchlight book trailer…

 

Essays

 

“This is the world I want to build with you.”

My essay, “The World I Build for You,” is a letter to my daughter about learning to love my body just as it is.

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Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. The award-winning podcaster and mother of four compiled fifty-three essays by forty-nine authors to help the rest of us feel understood, inspired, and less alone.

Order the #1 Amazon bestseller Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids. 

The day I started college, my dad gave me one word of advice: ENGAGE. His advice led me in some surprising directions.

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Have a few words of wisdom changed everything for you? Has a piece of advice from a friend, or even a stranger, opened your eyes? 

We asked the public to send us stories about the one piece of advice that reoriented them, solved a problem, or changed the trajectory of their lives. And we present an amazing new collection in these pages—101 stories that have the power to change your life, too.

Order Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Best Advice I Ever Heard.


 

“You don’t have to be ashamed of being a creative person.” So begins my essay on creativity, on going easy on myself, and reminding myself that the creative life is FUN, not a drudge.

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The alumni, faculty and students of Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing program share their experiences, advice and hard-learned lessons on surviving and thriving as writers. A unique blend of practicality and inspiration, this guide features personal essays, editorials, poetry, articles, instruction, checklists and other resources authored by more than 40 writers who have faced the challenges and demands of finding their places and voices as authors.

Order Now What?: The Creative Writer’s Guide to Success After the MFA.


Devotionals

Explore Advent as a season of coming into being, of waiting on God, of giving birth to whatever God may be calling us to bear.

Readers call Journeying Through Advent:

  • “a meditative delight"

  • “relatable and honest”

  • “accessible regardless of denomination”

  • “vulnerable, personal, theologically deep”

Download Journeying through Advent.


 
 

Explore Lent not as a season devoid of alleluias, a season of fasting and giving up, but as simply a time for making room for God in our day-to-day lives.

Readers call Journeying through Lent:

  • “[a devotional book that] has the potential to set us on the long road to freedom, healing, and wholeness”

  • “a wonderful heartfelt journey”

Download Journeying through Lent. 


About Me

Hi! My name is Brooke Adams Law.

I grew up in Philadelphia and came from a family of self-made entrepreneurs, studied English at Vassar College and went on to get my Master’s of Fine Arts in creative writing at Fairfield University.

In addition to being an award-winning author, I’m also the founder of the Writing Brave movement.

As a book coach, I help creative, intuitive women become writers and claim their author identity so that they can start, finish and publish brave, dazzling books.

I spend my professional time coaching book clients, writing my next novel, and running the publishing arm of my business, Writing Brave Press.

In my personal time, you can find me reading in the backyard, chasing after my two small kids at the playground, advocating for gun violence prevention, and making fruit smoothies.

Learn more about Brooke’s book coaching work, take her free writing personality quiz, and invite her to speak at her Writing Brave website.