Q&Aw/Lisa Jackson New Release FeatureYou Don’t Want To Know
Please welcome back Lisa Jackson, she was just with us a bit over amonth ago when she released Afraid to Die and she’s back this time withher Hardcover release of You Don’t Want To Know.
1. Debbie Tell us a bit about this novel
Lisa - YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW has becomemy favorite novel to date. For years, SHIVER was my fave, but it’sfinally been eclipsed by this one. Set on a solitary island in thePacific Northwest, YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW is the story of Ava Church, aonce-strong woman who has been mentally crippled over the loss of herson. Is she paranoid? Being haunted? The victim of aconspiracy? Hallucinating? Being gas-lighted? Or just unable toface the truth that her precious two-year old boy is lost to her forever? She keeps seeing him, through the mist and rain, on the end of a pier and theimages are so vivid she thinks she may be losing her mind. Trapped in abeautiful home which is now her prison, she is slowly unraveling and doesn’tthink she can trust anyone of her family—not her husband, her cousins, or herbest friend. A stranger on the island and rumors of sightings of a serialkiller who escaped a now-abandoned mental hospital add to her confusion. It’s her quest to peel off all the layers of secrecy and find out what happenedto her boy and in so doing, maybe, just maybe she’ll find her own sanity again.
2. Is this a stand-a-lone or is it part of a series
YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW is a stand-a-lone. (So far, but who knowsin the future? I keep dreaming up books as sequels with charactersI already know and love!
3. So Lisa the first thing I have to say is, I guess the bribe I sent youdidn’t work and all the pleading I did with all my local friends because I seethe release event will be in Las Vegas, so as I dry my eyes tell us what thegrand prize winner will get in Vegas
After three months of voting, the town that got the mostvotes in the “Straight to the Heart of Your Town” contest was Las Vegas, sowe’ll be throwing a VIP party there on August 7th. All of the peoplewho voted for Las Vegas are invited, and we’ll be giving out free books to gowith the delicious food and drinks. It’s going to be a blast. On August 6th at 6:30, I’ll also bedoing an event that’s open to the public at the B&N in Las Vegas (8915 WCharleston).
4. Do you usually tour when you have a new release come out and how do youhandle it when you have two releases so close together like you do this summer
I haven’t done an official “tour”for the last few books, but this year I’m attending many conferences and eventsduring the summer when both AFRAID TO DIE and YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW arereleased. It’s exciting, exhilarating and exhausting!
5. What are you working on now
I’ve got a couple of projectsgoing. My sister, author Nancy Bush and I are co-writing the third bookin the “Colony Series.” SOMETHING WICKED will be out next June, and I, bymyself am working on READY TO DIE, the 4th book in the GrizzlyFalls, Montana series. I think for the first time in 5 books, it’s notChristmas there!
6. You mention two organizations on your website that are important to youand they are also closely related by supporting families that have lost achild.
Yes, the M. I. S. S. Foundation and Molly Bears. My familyhas suffered the tragedy of infant loss so I know first hand how important thesekinds of organizations are.
7. Tell us a bit about these organizations and without being invasive whatthey mean to you and how to contact them if anyone would want to eithercontribute or ask for assistance.
They are both listed on my website, lisajackson.com under Lisa’sCauses. The MISS foundation offers support for those families who havelost a child or suffered infant loss and that website is www.missfoundation.org . Molly Bears is also for families who haveexperienced infant loss. This organization, run entirely by volunteersand with donations, makes custom “Molly” or Teddy bears to the exact weight ofthe lost infant. Families experiencing this kind of grief can placethemselves on a waiting list for a bear, which is (so far) free, though theorganization is in desperate need of donations to keep running. I have aMolly Bear, a picture of which is located on my website www.lisajackson.com under Lisa’s causes, where you can also link to www.mollybears.com .
8. Now we would never want you to give up writing, but when you were youngwhat did you want to be when you grew up.
A writer, of course and then, maybe a veterinarian until I realized howmany bloody, injured animals I would have to care for. (Okay I did thinkI could be a bareback rider or horse whisperer, but I was very poor at any ofthese things.) Oh, yeah, I can’t sing either, so that was out. LadyGaga is soooo relieved.
9. Okay one more question to let us know you a bit better: What would yourdream vacation be.
Yikes, that’s tough. I suppose either a week or two in a Welshcastle or an Italian villa? In the winter, of course. I live in thePacific Northwest and summers here are spectacular---winters, not so much!
Thanks Lisa, have fun in Vegas, and good luck with the new novel.
My Review of You Don't Want To Know
You Don’t Want To Know
Lisa Jackson
Kensington
ISBN13:9780758258571
416 pages
Two years ago Ava Garrison’s son Noah disappeared never tobe found, since then her life has been a nightmare, a medicated blur filledwith despair and misery. Recently released from a mental hospital she’sreturned to Church Island and her family mansion of Neptune’s Gate, surroundedby her husband, employees other family and friends she’s never felt so aloneand through it all she’s never given up hope of finding her son. She misses thetake charge woman she once was but a series of episodes requiring her rescue bysexy new ranch hand Austin Dern only seems to confirm her instability, stillshe can’t get over feeling that something is off, that someone is against her.But who. And is there anyone on the Island she can trust.
Austin Dern has his own agenda for taking the job as ranch hand at Neptune’sGate and the last thing he needs is a sexy off her rocker Ava Garrisoninterrupting his thoughts and getting in his way. But the more he gets to knowher the more he thinks that beneath the fragile mask is a tiger and he’d reallylove to see that tiger roar, but she’s married and he’s got his own job to doon the island, and besides she’s crazy. Or is she.
Lisa Jackson has hit another one out of the park, a grandslam of a who done it, a psychological thriller that kept me awake at night, onthe edge of my seat during the day and my heart pounding through the wholenovel. Her storyline is as intense as it gets filled with tragedy, betrayal,murder and loss. Her characters are enigmatic, engaging, demented andunforgettable and Ava is a heroine I will likely never forget. I felt the seaspray, saw the fog, tasted the seafood and experienced the joy and the horrorthanks to her signature scene painting narrative and the pages flew by thanksto her easy reading dialogue. This is a definite must for your beach bag, onyour commuter train or sitting on your sofa if you like a racing pulse withyour read this is your cup of tea.
Ms. Jackson thank you for the most fear filled ride yet this summer, I can’twait to see what comes out of your imagination next.Buy the Book here visit the author's website here
Want to learn more about the fabulous Ms. Jackson, click here and see what Jeremy Cesarec blogged about her on the Nook Blog at B&N http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/The-NOOK-Blog/I-m-Not-Weird-and-Neither-is-My-Family-An-Essay-by-Lisa-Jackson/bc-p/1370110#M9756
Photos by Kimberly Butler Photography
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