“Chase Potter!” I yell. Frustration make my voice gruff. “What the hell? Who’s that?” Tim asks. He looks up from the book he reads next to me. “Ugh,” I say. “He’s the author of this book. His characters, this story, it’s… Daniel, he won’t, ugh, well, so far he hasn’t…” …
I’m so glad Jay Bell wrote a book that let us into the mind and character of Jace Holden – one of the key characters in the Something Like predecessor books Summer and Winter. Finally, us fans could learn about the calm, caring, and wonderful man who gently captured Ben’s heart. I thoroughly …
This was an incredibly fun and easy-to-read book for me to read. Jay’s main characters David and Connor flirt with disaster but come out on top. David is outwardly shy and constantly picked on by the school bully, Chuck Bryl. Connor is bigger, bolder, and has a frightening reputation that even scares Chuck. …
I often wonder how other authors started out and what tools they used to organize their writing. After doing some initial research and reading articles about which software is better for what purpose etc., I set my path out before me. Between my Mac, iPhone and iPad, I’ve assembled a suite …
The picture of this young man fired up my imagination. I do not know who he is, who took the photo, or why. But I when I stumbled across it, I realized he would be the visual inspiration for a main character in a story I was incubating in my mind. It’s his eyes… they desperately …
Great science fiction is wrapped in solid story telling that is supported by a vast array of stuff that shapes the universe in which memorable characters exist. All of the ideas in my head need a stage to perform on. Even though I write them down for future development, I realized …
Galactic Inspiration – This is the image that started it all. From the moment I saw it, the ideas in my mind began spinning themselves into a new storyline that I am content to code-name as Galaxy. A year or so later, I can finally begin the exciting journey of weaving the many ideas …
This fall I finished Something Like Winter by Jay Bell. Like its predecessor, I enjoyed the heart warming story and deep insight into Tim Wyman. In the first book, I felt he came off as prick. Since solid context is the foundation of understanding, I can see why Tim behaved the way he did better …
This summer I finished reading Something Like Summer by Jay Bell. It’s a fun, heart warming story with some clever twists that kept me reading whenever I could grab some down time at the beach or when laying out in the sun on our back deck. In this story, a young teenager …