Author Inspiration and This Week’s Writing Links

If you read my post on Tuesday, you know this was a bittersweet week for me. I’m in the process of saying goodbye to favorite characters. Tortured Soul, the fourth and final book of the Medici Protectorate series, is now available for preorder. Soon it will be released, and then the end will be official. It’s “bittersweet” because I’m proud of finishing it but sad to see them go.

That’s why I found this week’s quote to be so fitting.

How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?
—A. A. Milne

Milne had Winnie the Pooh, one of my all-time favorite children’s series. I have the Brotherhood, which I love more than I thought possible to love something fictional. Maybe because they were conceived based on family heritage, maybe because the guys are just so deliciously complex—both impossibly strong and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable…