Hi all. This is a bit of shameless promotion for my girlfriend's (Tara Kelly) upcoming young adult novel, Harmonic Feedback. While Tara isn't officially on the spectrum, her brother is and she suspects I am as well. She was inspired to write a story about someone who doesn't fit, someone who's a bit odd. In the main character's words, "All I know is I make sense to me. It's other people who seem complicated."
Here is a brief description of Harmonic Feedback.
Doctors have pinned 16-year-old Drea with everything from ADHD to Asperger's Syndrome. She has an obsession with sound design, a tendency to blurt out whatever she's thinking, and a problem making friends, but likes to think of this as following her own rhythm in a confusing world.
Having just moved to the latest in a string of new towns, Drea is hesitant to befriend purple-haired Naomi, her teenage neighbor with a kamikaze personality. But Naomi is the first person to treat her like she isn't a world class dork. Then there's Justin, the sexy and persistent boy in her film class. If she's learned anything from her mom, it's that boys are trouble.
When Drea discovers Naomi's love for drums and Justin's piano prodigy status, the three form a trip-hop band and a friendship that will challenge everything Drea thought she knew about herself and the world around her.
But just when she's found not one but two true friends, can she stand to lose one of them?
Please visit the official Harmonic Feedback site
Pre-order at Amazon
30 Nov 2009, 2:52 am
