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In this episode of FailCraft,violin teacher, mother, and debut YA historical fantasy author Brigid Kennedyjoins Ezekiel to share the wild journey of turning an unresolved century-oldfamily mystery into a published series. Rooted in true genealogy, the storycenters on her great-grandfather, Robert Patrick Kennedy—an Irish treasurehunter who married in Peru in 1910 and later vanished without a trace into thedepths of the Amazon rainforest.
After her late grandmotherappeared in a dream urging her to preserve their heritage, Brigid said yeswithout any prior writing background. What followed was a brutal trial by firein independent publishing: accidentally getting her Amazon KDP accountterminated, having her self-composed cinematic audiobook rejected by Audiblefor complex sound effects, and facing universal rejections during her firstquerying round with a 145,000-word manuscript.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction: BrigidKennedy & The Mystery of the Amazon
02:38 The Late-Night Calling: AGrandmother's Plea
03:36 Indie PublishingPitfalls: Surviving Amazon Account Termination
05:31 Cinematic Audiobooks vs.Platform Rules: The Audible Rejection
07:28 The MissingGreat-Grandfather: Facing History's Wall
09:25 Saying Yes to the CallingWithout Credentials
11:30 Surviving Querying:Cutting 65,000 Words to Fit the Market
13:30 Quieting the Critic:Violin Discipline Applied to Fiction
15:24 The UncomfortableBusiness of Art: Algorithms and Contracts
19:18 The Power of ARC Readersfor First-Time Authors
21:43 Beyond Fantasy: HealingGenerational Family Grief
24:01 Explore the Book &Behind-the-Scenes on YouTube
