This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducingThe Big Picture(NavPress Publishing Group April 15, 2008)byJenny B. Jones
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jenny B. Jones is the author of A Katie Parker Production series. The other books in the series are In Between and On The Loose. Though now an adult, she still relates to the trauma and drama of teen life. She is thrilled to see her writing dreams come true, as her previous claim to fame was singing the Star Spangled Banner at a mule-jumping championship. (The mules were greatly inspired.)
Jenny resides in Arkansas, where, as a teacher, she hangs out with teens on a regular basis.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sometimes there’s a fine line between comedy and tragedy—and Katie Parker is walking it.
School is winding down for the summer but Katie Parker is having a bad day. After leaving the drive-in, where her imploding love life was the main attraction, Katie arrives home to a big surprise on the Scott’s front porch.
Her mother, Bobbie Ann Parker, a former convict and recovering addict, wants to take Katie away from her family, friends, and church. Now Katie’s life will be changed by a series of dramatic choices as she struggles to understand what family and home really means.
Katie is forced to walk away from In Between, leaving behind a family who loves her, a town drive-in to save, and a boyfriend who suddenly can’t take his eyes off his ex. When the life her mother promised begins to sink faster than one of Maxine’s stuffed bras, Katie knows she needs to rely on God to keep it together.
But where is he in all this? Can Katie survive a chaotic life with her mother—and one without the Scotts? And if God is there, will he come through before it’s too late?
A Katie Parker Production series offers teen girls real-world fiction balanced by hope and humor. The The Big Picture helps us realize that the difficult chapters in our journey are only part of God’s big story for our lives.
You can read the first chapter HERE
“A heroine to love. Jones just gets better with every book, and The Big Picture is her best one yet.”
~BARBARA WARREN, author of The Gathering Storm
“Such inspiration in a package of fun and faith!”
~EVA MARIE EVERSON, author of the Potluck Club series
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On a personal note….I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!! Although I would say that it was geared for teens, I, as a 28 year old woman throughly enjoyed reading it, and will deffinitely be on the lookout for the rest of the books in this series!!!!!!!!!!! It’s one that I will be keeping for all time.
Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Winter Haven
(Bethany House April 1, 2008)
by
Athol Dickson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Athol Dickson’s university-level training in painting, sculpture, and architecture was followed by a long career as an architect then his decision several years ago to devote full time to writing.
Athol Dickson’s writing has been favorably compared to the work of Octavia Butler
(Publisher’s Weekly), Daphne du Maurier (Cindy Crosby, FaithfulReader.com) and FlanneryO’Connor (The New York Times).
His They Shall See God was a Christy Award finalist and his River Rising was a Christy Award winner, selected as one of the Booklist Top Ten Christian Novels of 2006 and a finalist for Christianity Today’s Best Novel of 2006.
He and his wife, Sue, live in Southern California. Visit AtholDickson.com for more information.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Boys who never age, giants lost in time, mist that never rises, questions never asked…on the most remote of islands off the coast of Maine, history haunts the present and Vera Gamble wrestles with a past that will not yield. Will she find refuge there, or will her ghosts prevail on…Winter Haven
Eleven years ago, Vera Gamble’s brother left their house never to be seen again. Until the day Vera gets a phone call that his body has been found…washed ashore in the tiny island town of Winter Haven, Maine. His only surviving kin, Vera travels north to claim the body…and finds herself tumbling into a tangled mystery. Her brother hasn’t aged a day since last she saw him.
Determined to uncover what happened in those lost years, Vera soon discovers there are other secrets lurking in this isolated town. But Winter Haven’s murky past now seems bound to come to light as one woman seeks the undeniable and flooding light of truth.
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Trouble the Water
Thomas Nelson (March 11, 2008)
by
Nicole Seitz
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nicole Seitz is a South Carolina Lowcountry native and the author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass as well as a freelance writer/illustrator who has published in numerous low country magazines. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism, she also has a bachelor’s degree in illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. Nicole shows her paintings in the Charleston, South Carolina area, where she owns a web design firm and lives with her husband and two small children. Nicole is also an avid blogger, you can leave her a comment on her blog.
Seitz’s writing style recalls that of Southern authors like Kaye Gibbons, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Sue Monk Kidd, and this new novel, which the publisher compares to Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, surely joins the ranks of strong fiction that highlights the complicated relationships between women. Highly recommended, especially for Southern libraries.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In the South Carolina Sea Islands lush setting, Nicole Seitz’s second novel Trouble the Water is a poignant novel about two middle-aged sisters’ journey to self-discovery.
One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she’s got it all together until her sister’s imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne’s Island.
Strong female protagonists are forced to deal with suicide, wife abuse, cancer, and grief in a realistic way that will ring true for anyone who has ever suffered great loss.
“This is another thing I know for a fact: a woman can’t be an island, not really. No, it’s the touching we do in other people’s lives that matters when all is said and done. The silly things we do for ourselves–shiny new cars and jobs and money–they don’t mean a hill of beans. Honor taught me that. My soul sisters on this island taught me that. And this is the story of true sisterhood. It’s the story of Honor, come and gone, and how one flawed woman worked miracles in this mixed-up world.”
“…a special sisterhood of island women whose wisdom and courage linger in the mind long after the book is closed.”
-NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author SUSAN WIGGS
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This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing
Amber Morn
(Zondervan Publishing Company - April 2008) by
Brandilyn Collins
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brandilyn Collins is a best-selling novelist known for her trademark Seatbelt Suspense™. These harrowing crime thrillers have earned her the tagline
“Don’t forget to b r e a t h e …®”
Brandilyn writes for Zondervan, the Christian division of HarperCollins Publishers, and is currently at work on her 19th book. Her first, A Question of Innocence, was a true crime published by Avon in 1995. Its promotion landed her on local and national TV and radio, including the Phil Donahue and Leeza talk shows.
She’s also known for her distinctive book on fiction-writing techniques, Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn From Actors (John Wiley & Sons), and often teaches at writers conferences.
Brandilyn blogs at Forensics and Faith. Visit her Website
to read the first chapters of all her books.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The whole thing couldn’t have taken more than sixty seconds.
Bailey hung on to the counter, dazed. If she let go, she’d collapse—and the twitching fingers of the gunman would pull the trigger. The rest of her group huddled in frozen shock.
Dear God, help us! Tell me this is a dream . . .
The shooter’s teeth clenched. “ Anybody who moves is dead.”
On a beautiful Saturday morning the nationally read “Scenes and Beans” bloggers gather at Java Joint for a special celebration. Chaos erupts when three gunmen burst in and take them all hostage. One person is shot and dumped outside.
Police Chief Vince Edwards must negotiate with the desperate trio. The gunmen insist on communicating through the “comments” section of the blog—so all the world can hear their story. What they demand, Vince can’t possibly provide. But if he doesn’t, over a dozen beloved Kanner Lake citizens will die…
Amber Morn is the climactic finale to Collins’ widely read Kanner Lake series. All first three titles in the series, Violet Dawn, Coral Moon, and Crimson Eve, were bestsellers. Library Journal placed Crimson Eve on its Best Books of 2007 list, and hailed it the “Best Christian suspense of 2007.”
A few early reviews of Amber Morn:
“… essential reading … a harrowing hostage drama.” – Library Journal
“… heart-pounding … breakneck pace … satisfying and meaningful ending.” – RT Bookreviews
“This cataclysmic ending left me breathless … Kanner Lake is the Best Suspense Series of 2007/2008.” – deenasbooks.blogspot.com
“Collins has saved the best for a last .. a powerful ensemble performance.” — BookshelfReview.com
“… a staccato tempo … Sometimes you just have to close the book in order to come up for air.” – Dale Lewis
“…a masterpiece of page-turning suspense with a cast of dozens.” – Peg Phifer
Wow, I didn’t realize it had been so long since I had blogged in here…I will try to do better from now on!!
I am hoping to start doing book reviews, which I’m sure I will enjoy, considering I love to read so much!!! In any case, if I can do the reviews here, than that will help get me in here more often, so I don’t get so far behind on entries!!
Well, got to go again…So much to do!!!
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First I would like to appolgize for putting two entries in a row with the same title, as was the case acouple of days ago. I did an entry titled “Entry” and the one that I had done a week or two before that, was also titled the same, so if anyone is interested, they might go to my main page, and click on the entry right before “Another Entry” Which is the one right before this one, and see if they have read it or not, although I’ll tell you now, it probably doesn’t contain anything all that interesting…
Now onto the reason for this entry….this entry I have had planned for some time, but haven’t had the words or sometimes the desire to write it before now.
What do you do, when you are faced with an overwelming fear?? I mean obviously if that fear is being in the water, than you avoid swimming and such…If that fear is motorcycles, than you don’t go buy one or ride one…But what if this fear is something that you can’t avoid, or escape?? A kind of fear that makes you want to stay in your room, and live with the blankets pulled over your head, in hopes that what you fear will just pass you by, all the while knowing it doesn’t work that way. I figure most people are afraid of many things, whether they admitt it or not. Me, I’m afraid of a lot of things, and I generally voice it. I’m afraid of Desi going to school, I’m afraid of the girls hating me at some point in their life (not the general teenage type stuff, I’m talking the real thing), I’m afraid of the work Terry does, I’m afraid of Dad having an accident on the road, I’m afraid of living so far from my family and missing out on their lives, I’m afraid of Malachi growing up never really knowing how much I love him, I’m afraid of Bubble living her life never really being happy, I’m afraid of being a disapointment to Terry, to the girls, or even to my Dad and sister, I’m afraid of spiders, and certainly one of my biggest fears is failure…I have a great many fears, and yet, there is one that I have not mentioned, and almost never talk about to anyone, not even Terry. There are times I can push it to the back of my mind, and yet it always remains there in my head. Other times it consumes me…making me cry uncontrollably, or as I said, making me wish to live out my life hiding under the blankets..What do you do when you have this kind of fear??? I mean, it’s not like when I was afraid of snakes, that you just take time, and slow steps to overcome, the same with the motorcycle…This is a different kind of fear, something I can’t control, or do anything about…This fear is of something that there won’t be a D*mned thing I can do about it, like if I was afraid of natural disasters (tornados, floods, that type of thing), anywhere you live in the world has it’s own type of natural disaster, so there would be no escaping it, and that’s the way it is with this fear that I have, there is nothing I can do and that terrifies me to no end!!!�
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Wow, go for weeks with nothing to say, and than do entries two days in a row…*L*…Okay, so I probably still won’t say anything that interests anyone, but here goes anyway…
Today was supposed to be spent cleaning the house, by my own admission it’s a disaster area, but after a trip to Walmart didn’t get a darn thing done today….*shakes head*…Guess there is always tomorrow.
Called the school today, that Desi will be attending in the fall…Terry was trying to figure out his vacations, and I wanted him to get one of his weeks the same time that Desi has Spring vacation…I also asked about when registrations are, thinking that like Kansas they would be in July or August. Good thing I called!!! They are doing Kindergarten registrations the 27th of THIS MONTH!!! Anyway that will give Desi a chance to look around the school, and hopefully a chance to meet her teacher…As the time approaches I get more worried, and sentimental I suppose…I just want to hug her and never let her go!!! *L* Okay, so I know it’s stupid, and silly, but to me it’s like the point of no return….She’s been my little girl for so long, and yet now it seems like once she starts school, she’ll never be my little girl again…Good grief it’s pitiful I know…
Been thinking about Josephine lately…Lord it’s been ages since I’ve worked on her….Keep thinking I will sit down and work on her, but than don’t feel like it, or get busy doing other things…Is the same way with Malachi’s blanket..Anyway, guess I will find my footing again, and start working on the things I enjoy again…Finding the balance again, between things that have to be done, and the things I like doing…
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Wow, go for weeks with nothing to say, and than do entries two days in a row…*L*…Okay, so I probably still won’t say anything that interests anyone, but here goes anyway…
Today was supposed to be spent cleaning the house, by my own admission it’s a disaster area, but after a trip to Walmart didn’t get a darn thing done today….*shakes head*…Guess there is always tomorrow.
Called the school today, that Desi will be attending in the fall…Terry was trying to figure out his vacations, and I wanted him to get one of his weeks the same time that Desi has Spring vacation…I also asked about when registrations are, thinking that like Kansas they would be in July or August. Good thing I called!!! They are doing Kindergarten registrations the 27th of THIS MONTH!!! Anyway that will give Desi a chance to look around the school, and hopefully a chance to meet her teacher…As the time approaches I get more worried, and sentimental I suppose…I just want to hug her and never let her go!!! *L* Okay, so I know it’s stupid, and silly, but to me it’s like the point of no return….She’s been my little girl for so long, and yet now it seems like once she starts school, she’ll never be my little girl again…Good grief it’s pitiful I know…
Been thinking about Josephine lately…Lord it’s been ages since I’ve worked on her….Keep thinking I will sit down and work on her, but than don’t feel like it, or get busy doing other things…Is the same way with Malachi’s blanket..Anyway, guess I will find my footing again, and start working on the things I enjoy again…Finding the balance again, between things that have to be done, and the things I like doing…
Anyway, Terry just got home, and talking about Desi going to school kind of depressed me, so I’m going to get out of here… |
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Really don’t feel like doing this entry…Have been so tired lately, fatigued, drug out…whatever you want to call it…It boils down to never having any energy!! I must say over the last couple of years I haven’t been as energetic as I used to be, but this is getting to the extreme point….Don’t know what the problem could be…I mean I don’t have a perfect diet, but can’t see that I would be severely lacking in anything…Deffinetly can’t say it’s because I have been busy…*L*…Anyway, if anyone has any ideas..Let me know!! I am thinking of buying some bananas (you will know why if you read the email I sent you), and possibly getting a multivitamin to see if those will help. Other than that, haven’t a clue what to do, besides go to the Dr. and I really don’t want to do that just because I’m tired.
Terry is back at work today. Had to work day shift today, because he had to go requalify with his gun. *shakes head* Makes no sense to me, because MGM is supposed to be taking over next week, and they don’t have guns on their properties, so why have everybody go requalify?? Anyway is pretty cool him working dayshift today, as that means he will be home for dinner, and the girls going to bed and such. I wish he worked dayshift all the time, and he would if that’s what I really wanted, but it would take him a LONG time (maybe years) to get Saturday and Sunday as his days off again…and the weekends are too important to us to give that up, especially with the girls getting to school age.
Vacation was nice, mostly…*L*…We went up to Caliente Nevada, with the plans of camping along the river, doing some fishing…that type of stuff…The first night we got up there, we camped pretty close to the river, in this really nice field, grassy, trees…It was nice, except for being a little chilly at night….Anyway, the next day, a farmer/rancher showed up and said that we had camped on his land…(OPPS!!!!) and that he wanted us to leave…He was really nice about it and all, but still sucked!!..Anyway, we packed up and drove up and down the river trying to find another spot, but considering there had been a BIG flood recently, we were out of luck…Fences down, trees torn out of the ground, and mostly the road was gone!! So we decided to go out the other end of Caliente and do some desert camping. Found a nice place, and set up camp…First night was nice, a campfire and all…After that the nights were windy, and rather chilly..okay, in reality I was flat @ss cold!!! Especially come Monday night Tuesday morning, when it started raining/sleeting/SNOWING!!!! Not knowing when the weather was set to change, we decided to pack it up and head home…Okay, more like I decided…I was cold, we were stuck in the tent..I was misrable!! I prepared for chilly, not for cold and snowy!!!..We had a radio, but all we could get was a weather report for Cedar City Utah, which said that it wasn’t supposed to clear up until Wednesday night. Anyway, even now I feel a bit guilty, because I feel like I ruined Terry’s vacation.
Anyway, after we got home, we haven’t done a lot…Put away the camping stuff, did mountains of laundry,�watched movies, went to the swapmeet Saturday, and that has been about all…
Oh, speaking of laundry, you did get the total for the Amway order right?? And would anyone know why I am getting dirt left in the bottom of the washer, and streaked on the clothes??? Doesn’t matter which soap I use, ALWAYS have dirt in the washer, and sometimes on the clothes. I think I am liking the Amway soap…*L*…Well it’s kind of hard to tell when the clothes were stained to start with…The socks that we took camping (which I’m sure you can imagine got pretty dirty), seem to come out okay…I put some LOC on a blood stain (the pj’s had been washed before)on one of Desi’s PJ’s and it didn’t take it out, but it sure gave a good try!! Anyway, we will see as time goes on…
Didn’t find a whole lot at the swapmeet. Did get the girls one dress each, a pants outfit for Meg, although at this point it’s possible Desi could fit into it, and a t-shirt for Meg. I know the girls aren’t much for wearing dresses, and I don’t really encourage them to, because I can’t see them getting them all stained, or playing outside in the dirt, but do try to keep at least one dress each for them…
Made up a babysitting poster yesturday, although I still need to go put it up..Can only keep my fingers crossed that I can pick up a kid to sit for! The extra money would be nice, especially with Meg’s birthday coming up, Desi might need some clothes for school, would like to get Terry a late b-day present, and stuff like that…Not to mention hopes of paying off a few Dr. bills a little quicker, and paying off a�credit card, saving money for the lawyer for the girls, and I want a bomber of a Christmas…*LOL*…Okay, so my list could go on and on, for what we could use the extra money for!!
Also am going to try selling some rats….Figure to go down to the petstores and put up some of those “Free Ad” cards…Snakes aren’t eating anywhere close to regular, and we just had a whole bunch of babies not too long ago…Who knows, maybe I can start a rat business?? *LOL*…Well okay, so I’m selling them cheaper than the petstores, but really I just don’t want to be stuck with this many…Wasn’t bad when the snakes were eating every week, or every other week, but that’s come to a halt, and with the babies, would have 29 rats total!!! Too many…There is always the option of freezing them, but the thought of having dead rats in my freezer is really repulsive!!! Plus if I can make a few bucks selling them, why not??!!
Well anyway, think that is about all the news for now…Love to you all!!! |
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*LOL*@You and dead rats…I DON’T blame you…
As for the dirt in the bottom of the washer, has that been with just THIS washer, or did you have that problem with the other one too? I would say that either your pump that pumps the water and dirt out isn’t working too well, or maybe it just doesn’t like to have to pump it into the garden hose?
Yep, we got the total for the Amway order….THANK YOU!!!
Glad you like the Amway!!! You’ve got Mary’s address and such if you need more, right? How is it lasting you?
Yes, I WOULD try a multi-vitamin…something with some iron and potassium in it, to start with, and you MIGHT try one either formulated for women, OR one formulated to give you energy. Let me know if it helps!!!
Will catch you one of these days soon!!! You all take care, and we’ll be in touch!! |
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That I seek out approval?? Why am I constantly looking for those pats on the back, or someone to say that I did a good job??
I just don’t understand…Like when I rearranged my kitchen, it wasn’t enough for me to like it, I REALLY wanted Terry to like it…Or I have been attempting to keep up with the dishes better these days, and I went to the extent to get that pat on the back by saying something to him about it, like “aren’t you proud of me”….When Dad and Bubble were here, I wanted them to pat me on the back and say I’d done a good job on the house, and I’d done well with the girls…I wanted Bubble to be awed over the work that I had put into the girl’s blankets, and the one I’m doing for Malachi….*shakes head*….God I know this sounds childish!!!!…Maybe I do seek out approval, because I am still such a child…*shrugs* Lord knows it’s not a defiency in my childhood, as I always remember Dad and Bubble saying I was doing well with my riding…and Dad saying I was coming along with my dreadful schoolwork….*scowls* Don’t remember Mom saying much, but than my memory is clouded when it comes to her….
With my stories as well….When I was little, just starting to write, I relyed on Bubble when it came to my stories, but I found myself even now, with my Josephine, hinging, hanging for the approval of others…and I still wonder if they just say they like it, because I wrote it and they don’t want to hurt me, or if it really is good….
I could understand it when I was little…but why so much now??…Have I yet to realize I’m a grown woman, capable of making my own decisions, and some of them being the right ones…Am I so afraid of making the wrong choice, failing, that I turn to everyone else to make the decisions for me?? I am baffled by this, and it has been in my head for weeks now, ever since I did make the comment to Terry about the dishes….Have I made so many wrong choices that I feel every choice I make will be the wrong one?? Am I still just being a child, in the fact that I seek out pats on the back?? I don’t know…I really don’t know….Okay, so it seems to me that just about every decision that I’ve made myself has turned out badly (Not you My Love, as I feel that was more desitiny than decision, so don’t be getting paranoid!!), but still why would I still seek out approval for my housecleaning?? My cooking?? All those little things??? To me it doesn’t make sense….And yet I can’t go with the idea that I’m still stuck in childhood, as I remember being praised, and patted on the back, so it’s not like I’m trying to make up for something I didn’t have as�a child….
Is it a defect in my personality?? *L* No, go with me on this…I always tried to keep up, to be just as good as anyone else with something..and I usually failed…I could never be as good at math, or spelling as Bubble…I could never stand the heat like Dad or Bubble…Could never get the hang of knitting like Mom, or be as devoted to God as she seemed to be. And it’s not just my family that I felt I could never “live up to”…When I was with Ronnie (forgive me for mentioning the @ss) I never lived up to what their family was either…No matter what I did, or how I acted, hardly, and maybe none,of them ever liked me….
When I worked out at the truckstop, I can’t even say that I lived up to their expectations, or however you want to put it…Not working graveyards anyway….but now I have to wonder if all of that was me, or if it was Bob, as I only seemed to have trouble on that shift when he was�cooking for me. No, I take that back…it’s stupid, and childish to try and push the blame off on someone else…It’s just I know that I’m a D*mned good waitress, and that place has been the only place that I REALLY enjoyed working…It just amazes me, now that I look back, that for some reason working graveyard was a disaster…Although I have to admitt I was stupid for taking the fulltime graveyard position in the first place, as it took too much time away from the kids, was too hard on me during the day…but anyway, that would be another one of my failed decisions.
Forgive me, I’m getting off track again….As I said before, I just don’t understand why I seek out approval for everything….*LOL* and I know it’s a strange word, not often used, but I think it fits my situation perfectly, I’M BAFFLED!!! |
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Well, hon, I’m afraid I can’t tell you the answer to your problem. There is NOTHING wrong with seeking approval from the ones you love, though….BUT, YOU, as a grown woman with her own house and family, HAVE to be set in YOUR own mind that, no matter WHAT your loved ones think, whether we give you our approval or not, you HAVE to have your OWN approval.
The blankets were magnificent…what else can I say other than you have done something I’ve never done….finished an afghan. I’m PROUD of you…and I THANK you for doing one for Malachi!!! ONE of these days, maybe I’ll FINALLY finish the one I have started for Desiree, and get the one for Megan done….and if I’m doing REAL good, I MIGHT even get the KNITTED one for you finished…remember it?…*scowls past the cloud in her head to remember it*
And, hon, as one of my entries here soon will probably state, I didn’t FEEL like I was a TOTALLY grown woman…mentally and otherwise, until a few weeks ago, then it FINALLY dawned on me that my birthday was coming up and I was ALMOST 30….*LOL*
More later, hon…and will catch you soon, hopefully!!!….*HUGS* |
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Jenny B. Jones is the author of A Katie Parker Production series. The other books in the series are In Between and On The Loose. Though now an adult, she still relates to the trauma and drama of teen life. She is thrilled to see her writing dreams come true, as her previous claim to fame was singing the Star Spangled Banner at a mule-jumping championship. (The mules were greatly inspired.)
Sometimes there’s a fine line between comedy and tragedy—and Katie Parker is walking it.
