Publication date: September 12th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult
Synopsis
California
Blend Summer Vacation is the first book of this series.
As
book one it introduces the three main characters: Tori Logan, AJ Reynolds and
Kalea Kinimaka.
It’s
summer vacation, and all seventeen-year-old Tori Logan wants to do is hang out
with her two best friends, practice her mixed martial arts and go to FBI spy
camp. Summer means freedom (mostly from adults) and Tori plans to fill every
spare moment of her last summer before graduating from High School with all the
fun things she and her best pals can come up with.
The
Heart’s Journey Home Book CoverTori, whose mom died of breast cancer when she
was young, has always relied on her own strength to get by – especially because
her Archeologist father tends to leave her behind with his live-in girlfriend
while he gallivants around the world on digs. Thankfully, Tori can take care of
herself. She knows exactly who she is and what she wants to do with her life.
Her Lakota Sioux grandfather, a former Navy SEAL, trained Tori in self-defense
from a young age. Now, as a teenager, Tori excels at mixed martial arts and the
use of various weapons. During the summer she will be attending an FBI
sponsored Summer Camp which she hopes will lead to her dream job – becoming an
FBI serial killer profiler.
With
her two best friends at her side, Tori believes she can handle anything. And
with summer vacation stretching before them, the trio plans to find plenty of
adventure.
But
while Tori is determined to be independent, life has other plans for this
fierce young woman, and they include coming to grips with some hard – and
surprising – truths about both her past and her future.
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Guest Post
My
Dream Co-Writing Partner
If I
had the opportunity to co-write a book with any living author I would choose
Steven King. Those who know me would be
surprised because I don’t watch ‘scary’ movies and I don’t read scary books. I saw the original version of Night of the
Living Dead many years ago and that was it (well, that coupled with those
flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz). I
couldn’t sleep for a month. That’s when I
swore off scary movies forever.
So
then why Steven King? Two works of his: The
Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. The movie - The Shawshank Redemption
was adapted from King’s novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. I
thought it was excellent - the plot, the characters, the tightly woven story –
I’ve watched the movie a zillion times.
Likewise,
The Green Mile, another prison story and another fine piece of work. Wonderfully diverse characters, great drama:
parts of it was funny, other parts sad, a story any author would read and wish
they’d written (or co-written).
King
is great at his craft. Literally a
master. We writers read and view the
works of those we respect with a jealous awe because they’ve figured it out –
how to take the reader/audience through a full range of emotions and leave them
spent and satisfied in the end. I’d love
to look into the non-scary inner workings of his writer mind, a mind that can
make plots and characters so believable. A mind that can weave a morality tale
into the middle of a gory story that challenges the reader/viewer with - what
would you do if faced with the same situation?
He both scares you and makes you think.
He makes you commit. This is why
Steven King is my co-writing choice. He’s
an amazing story-teller and cinema genius.
I
love being a writer. I love the idea of
having the effect on others that the authors I’ve read have had on me. Laughing out loud and crying out loud
too. Getting mad and yelling at the book,
even throwing the book against the wall because I got shocked or snookered just
that bad. I love endings I didn’t see
coming and then the sweet sugary ones I saw coming a mile away but I hung on
because I was curious as to how the author would write it. I love reading that last page and closing the
book and smiling. Totally satisfied.
Ultimately
that’s what we writers want from you readers – we want you to buy into the
journey and be satisfied at its end. We want
you to lick the plate clean, and grin your widest grin, and ask us for more.
AUTHOR BIO
Nikki
Jackson considers herself to be an Indie Writer, Journeyman and
Traveler. She's camped out in the Grand Canyon just to see
the sunrise over a stupendous backdrop and she yet dreams to travel
to Mount Everest, not to climb any part of it but to simply stand at the
North Base Camp and take it all in, in person. Nikki's love of
adventure was inspired at an early age at the local library where she spent
summers reading about young travelers going cross-country and around
the world. She loved the adventures that took her out of the bottom bunk
of her bed (her favorite reading spot) and had her soaring across the
clouds to lands filled with wonderful and diverse people. It was then
and there Nikki decided she wanted to be a writer - she wanted to
have the same effect on people reading books had on her. The Heart's
Journey Home is the beginning of the adventure.
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