About
Jan Tilley was born 1964 in Akron, Ohio. Jan has held a wide array of jobs throughout the years, including newspaper reporter, veterinary assistant, Public Information Officer for Emergency Management, and currently works as secretary/treasurer for a local elementary school. But, her most important job has been raising her two daughters, Sara and Brooke. She has been married to her high school sweetheart, Kevin since 1985.
Jan wrote her first novel "Coming About" after her oldest daughter went off to college. She began writing about her feelings over the loss of her child to the big bad world. It began as a purging of emotions but as they always do, the characters came alive and took the story down a totally different path that she never expected.
She then got bitten by the bug and is now admittedly obsessed with writing. She released her second novel "Embody" to rave reviews and followed it with "Rogue's Hollow." She is now an award-winning author who speaks at conferences and is more than happy to accommodate interviews.
She will continue to write her heart out and do her best to entertain you for as long as you'll welcome her into your lives! If you would like to contact Jan you can reach her at [email protected] or follow her on twitter @tilleytalk
Description
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
Story Behind The Book
Rogue's Hollow is a small town in northern Ohio near where I grew up. My friends and I would go there on the weekends and get scared. The places mentioned in the book, ie: Cry Baby Bridge and the house that drips blood are actual places in Rogue's Hollow. The old Chidester Mill is still standing.
Reviews
<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:20px;">"If you love small-town secrets, mystery, and folk lore you'll love Jan Tilley's latest suspense novel Rogue's Hollow. A fascinating and satisfying yarn penned by a superb author!" Andrew McAleer, best-selling author of the 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and Fatal Deeds</span>
