The Keeper

by A.J. Smith

Jelly Jones' summer has gone from boring to miserable. First, her best friend leaves her for summer camp--all summer--then her uncle disappears! When the rest of her family goes to help search for the missing uncle, she is shunted off to stay with the stern old lady across the street. While Jelly is at the depths of her despair, a whisper in the dead of night leads her to a book in the forbidden attic ... and the adventure of a lifetime.

255 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 4, 2013

About the author

A. J. Smith was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. On her seventh birthday, the Smith family moved to Richmond, BC where they stayed for a while before they left for Bellingham, WA and became aliens in the USA. In Bellingham, A. J. Smith finished high school, college, and the first draft of The Keeper.

Eventually she moved to Santa Barbara, CA, loved it, but had to leave for Redondo Beach where she wrote the second book and rewrote parts of The Keeper.

After finishing the second book, she went to Disneyland a lot, then moved back to Bellingham for several months, then left to settle in Old Orchard Beach, ME for two months while she wrote the third book, rewrote a huge portion of The Keeper, and a smaller portion of the second book.

Then she returned to Bellingham, went to Disneyworld, and finally decided to go ahead and digitally publish The Keeper Trilogy.

It took longer than she thought it would, but she remembered Commander Taggert’s advice to “Never give up, never surrender,” and she got it done.

A. J. Smith currently lives somewhere on Earth. Most likely.

Reviews

[Pamela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun to read something my friend's daughter wrote! Quite proud of her.