Helping Indie Creatives and Small Businesses
Write, Publish, and Grow
Hullo, Storytellers! Let's write.
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Recent Book Clients
When Daybreak Lit works with authors, we settle into a virtual story boutique. We're collaborators, helping writers introduce their amazing story to the world.
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Editorial Contracts
JD Development, JD Veterans, Vendor Research Management, the nonprofit Dallas Leadership Foundation, and other organizations have hired Daybreak Lit for content strategy and development. In 2023, Culturs, The Global Multicultural Magazine, briefly hired Daybreak Lit for editor-in-chief services.
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Speaking Gigs
Daybreak Lit's founder was featured at one of David Daniel Wallace's wonderful summits, invited as a guest on Alyssa Berthiaume's the Open Book Podcast with editors and publishers, and on the Author Chat with D.A. Murray, author of Dominion: Ascension.
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Course Builder
Daybreak Lit created a course for fiction writers to help them develop an amazing story cosmos. For novelists writing during the November 2025 challenge, Daybreak Lit created a custom GPT to help them develop their novel. The GPT is based on one of Daybreak Lit's course modules. It doesn't write the story for authors; it coaches them to think through their project.
YA Author
Under the pen name J.H. Ellis, Daybreak Lit founder Judy Howard Ellis has written three YA novels in the Seven Gates of the Kingdom series. The books are inspired by the Book of Genesis and the ancient Near East. She studied the food, the worship, the settings, the language, the family relationships, the war practices, and more. From that research, she created a fantasy world filled with wall reliefs, date palms, ziggurats, gods, goddesses, moonlit balconies, and mysterious deserts.
About Daybreak Lit's Founder
Daybreak Lit is a dream spot. A blank canvas for Judy Howard Ellis. If you can imagine a boho shop filled with books, art, and cups of chai, that would be Daybreak Lit.This comfy story boutique has taught Judy be a content hybrid, a person who identifies threads of a story everywhere, no matter what hat she's wearing. Journalist. Book editor. Business analyst. Creative director.What she's learned is that for every project, in any industry, the question will always be: what story is being told?
Kudos
A few words from those who've worked with Daybreak Lit.Dear Judy,Thank you so much for being a brilliant speaker for Find Your Readers Summit 2024.People absolutely loved your talk:"Thanks for the wonderful talk Judy! It was excellent.""I really enjoyed your presentation Judy. Your approach helps worldbuilders to consider more than just superficial details. I've got to go. But I'll be in touch via email. Take care and best wishes, Tony "We're very grateful for your amazing work and hope to work with you again!Yours,Dwight Bautista
Customer Support
danieldavidwallace.com---Judy Howard Ellis has a profound mastery of identifying issues and providing viable solutions. She listens attentively, voicing the concern of her clients and skillfully attacks the problem with business savvy, dignity and intellect. A person of her word, she is formidable communicator and quick learner. Customer service is always a priority; she remains fair and professional at all times, never wavering a "can-do" spirit...then Judy delivers. She clearly understands the significance of business partnership and enacts it in all situations to do what it best for the customer. I highly and enthusiastically recommend Judy!
--Althea Satterfield-White, Strategic Marketing and Public Relations Leader (supervisor at Vendor Research Management)---
When we both worked for AT&T Partner Exchange, I looked forward to any opportunity I had to work with Judy. I appreciate her clear and concise way of communicating in person and in media. She is direct and thoughtful. She is a practical problem solver with a curiosity that drives her to seek substance. She is open and always learning. She dug into the UX perspective when we asked for her editing expertise, especially for transactional flows. I also appreciate her quiet confidence and steady presence. I hope to work with Judy again. -- Leslie Davis, Experience Designer
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