FOG OF DEAD SOULS

After surviving a violent attack, a woman battles with the emotional scars of the attack, her growing alcoholism, and her inability to trust as she slowly realizes that her attacker is still out there -- and he is hunting her down.

About Jill Kelly: I've always been in love with words and sentences. The first books I remember reading came from the Airstream bookmobile that traveled once a week to the general store in rural Skamania, Washington. The first stories I wrote (at age 9) were in a spiral notebook and illustrated with magazine cut-outs. I still have those notebooks! I started writing in a women's group in 2000 with friends. Eventually the group disbanded although two of us wrote memoirs and published them. My memoir, Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman, was a finalist for a 2008 Oregon Book Award in literary excellence. I've been touring around the country since then offering writing workshops and retreats. I wrote my first novel in 2009 and recently published it. It started with a 10-minute writing with a prompt, "witnessing the creation," and grew into an unconventional romance with a second-rate painter as the unlikely hero. The Color of Longing is now available on amazon and kindle. I've also written a how-to book, Sober Play: Using Creativity for a More Joyful Recovery. It's a collection of a lot of my ideas on how becoming a writer and a painter has made my own sobriety more meaningful and joyful. And in early February 2013, I sold my second novel, FOG OF DEAD SOULS, to Skyhorse Publishing. It's a literary thriller and will be out in Winter 2014.