Pre-Order You’re Brilliant
Have you met anyone that loved middle school?
Yeah, me neither.
That’s pretty much the reason why I shuffled my writing schedule for nearly three years and worked with our daughter, Hannah, to create the Surrendering Stinkin’ Thinkin’ series for girls and women of all ages. After releasing You’re Beautiful and You’re Amazing, I come to you with bags under my eyes and coffee in hand to announce the final book, You’re Brilliant, is now available for pre-order.
Julie
When Hannah finished the eighth grade, it was a huge victory because she had extra challenges. When all was said and done she told me she wished there was a way to encourage girls about to go through the things she did. She started talking and it was in the form of a story.
And it was good.
Really good.
I told her that she had a great book forming, and if she would work with me, I’d help her get it published. She sketched out what she was thinking. It was a three-book series.
Our process has been the same since the beginning. Hannah has the vision for the series, and for each book. She created the characters and their names. I look at the overall plot and start writing. Each chapter goes to her to make sure it fits her vision and approval. If so, I send it to critique groups for revisions and editing. Hannah also had the vision for the covers, so they are her design.
The hardest part of the process has been marketing. It’s a book for girls, and yet we have two characters who are the protagonists, almost two books in one. One main character is a student believing a lie about themselves. The second is an adult mentor, struggling with the same lie. As Hannah and I talked, we realized that too many women are walking around defeated when it is all a lie. So the mentor is there to remind women they are all things beautiful, amazing, and brilliant.
When I write romance, I use Upstate NY settings, so for this series I flipped it and used our current location, NE Ohio. We created a mentoring ministry for girls so the different ages could meet up and learn from each other. Honestly, I’m really proud of what we’ve accomplished.
Although Hannah is shy about it, and we laugh when her friends think we should go to Vegas on our almost non existent royalties, she admitted she can’t believe we’re at the end. I feel the same.
I truly hope you check the series out, and read them all. They can be stand-alones, but they also flow together. If you enjoy them, please leave a review on Amazon/Goodreads/BookBub. We’d love to see a lot of readers find this. Not because we want to go to Vegas, but because we want to see females living free.
Bethany’s not excited to start high school in a new community where she doesn’t know anyone. She quickly befriends KJ, a popular sophomore, and it looks like the transition will go well until Bethany discovers KJ’s boyfriend is a bully. With a strong sense of justice, Bethany challenges Brent Sullivan, and he’s determined to make her suffer.
Cheri takes on an additional job in a school to help pay for Sabrina’s wedding. It’s a different atmosphere than at the church where she feels more comfortable as the pastor’s wife and mentor with the Linked ministry. After several mishaps, Cheri feels like she’s found an assignment where she can make a difference until a teacher belittles her work.
Can Bethany and Cheri resist the lies about their competency and hold on to the fact they’re brilliant?
The final book in the Surrendering Stinkin’ Thinkin’ series for tweens, teens, and women of all ages by mother and daughter authors Julie Arduini and Hannah Arduini.
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