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Michael Blatherwick
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Thriller, LGBTQ+, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Young Adult (YA)
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture
Michael Blatherwick was born and raised in New Jersey and has spent many years traveling the United States as well as work assignments in the United Kingdom and India. A graduate of Villanova University, he resides in Bordentown, New Jersey, with his wife, dog, and their loyal army of cats, permanent, feral, and foster.
Michael is a fan of a wide array of authors and genres, citing his main influences as Michael Lewis, T.C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Margaret Atwood. He believes that the best fiction has firm roots in "believability" but pushes the imagination to the fringe between truth and fantasy.
His debut novel, Photograph and the Atomic Juggernaut, is the first book in a YA thriller/adventure series with two mapped trilogies as well as a supplemental stories. The series is published under his owner imprint, Jackowick Publishing.
Michael Blatherwick's books
Photograph and the Atomic Juggernaut
Dana Jefferson’s life is simple. She’s just a regular twentysomething in New Jersey with an ex-girlfriend, a roller derby team, and a pair of military grade roller skates named Laverne and Shirley from her deceased father.
She also has a deathbed edict from her grandfather to bury his invention, a terrifying military robotics project codenamed the Atomic Juggernaut.
When Dana meets Nick, a perpetually bored local who feels trapped in the doldrums of ordinary life, they begin an adventure that will challenge their new partnership, if it doesn’t kill them first. A shadowy organization with ties to Dana’s family history are looking to obtain the Atomic Juggernaut before she can for their own sinister purposes, and it’s up to Dana and Nick to stop them as they learn the truth about her family’s legacy and the power of true friendship.
The Photograph Chronicles are the adventures of Dana "Photograph" Jefferson and her amazing mechanical roller skates as she discovers herself and the legacy of her family. This action-adventure series for young and new adult audiences reflects on what we inherit from our family and how we let it define or refine who we are and who we will become. For fans of adventure, light science-fiction, and new adulthood themes and challenges.
Photograph and the Daughters of Invention
Someone has a pair of Dana’s roller skates.
As if moving to New Mexico to start a new life while searching for her mother wasn’t hard enough, Dana Jefferson can’t control her panic attacks. A stranger on high-tech roller skates may hold the key to her mother’s whereabouts, but a paramilitary group with ties to her past have put everyone’s life in peril. She still has Nick, her best friend, but new feelings are complicating their friendship. If she could just figure out who the new skater is, she might be able to uncover her mother’s fate, stop a terrorist organization, and fix her head and her heart.
Photograph and the Daughters of Invention is the action-packed sequel to Photograph and the Atomic Juggernaut. Dana Jefferson’s continuing journey is about finding purpose and taking responsibility as she roller skates through the lives of family, friends, and foes.
The Photograph Chronicles:
Dana "Photograph" Jefferson is a young woman with a head in the clouds and her feet firmly planted in her amazing high-tech skates, Laverne and Shirley. Her adventures take her on a journey through her family's secret history and her own quest for purpose. Action, adventure, and relationships make the series a must for broad fans of thrillers, light science fiction, and young adult themes.