Satori - BJ Pittman QUEENSLAND AUTHOR Partially Set in the Whitsundays

Satori - BJ Pittman QUEENSLAND AUTHOR Partially Set in the WhitsundaysDave and Nia are not typical teenagers. While they try to understand their special abilities, experimenting with these together can only take them so far. Out of nowhere, an environmental organisation brings them together with other teens. Are these teens like Dave and Nia? Is there more to this organisation than the environment? Together Dave and Nia start their journey towards awakening, comprehension and understanding. To complicate things, Nia is

Dave and Nia are not typical teenagers. While they try to understand their special abilities, experimenting with these together can only take them so far. Out of nowhere, an environmental organisation brings them together with other teens. Are these teens like Dave and Nia? Is there more to this organisation than the environment? Together Dave and Nia start their journey towards awakening, comprehension and understanding.
To complicate things, Nia is in love, she has been since she was five. She cringes at the cliché, but she can’t help herself. She is in love with Dave, her best friend, the boy next door and the most popular boy in school. How does he feel about her? He likes her, but is that enough? Why doesn’t he date? After a blow to her already shaky confidence, Nia decides it’s time to act. Even if this wrecks everything. Even if she isn’t worthy. It’s time.
This feel good story takes our teens on a new direction, out of their ordinary world. Can they help the darkness in people around them? Can they help the environment?

1. Publication date 27 July 2021
2. Reading age  14 - 18 years
3. Grade level  9 - 12

   Product Depth:  2.5 cm

   Product Height:  23 cm

   Product Width:  15 cm

Age level – mid teen to young adult. While there are some adult themes (it is a romance & fantasy) mostly wholesome & sweet. Characters age range from 14YO to 16YO other than minor parts played by the adult mentors / parents etc.

Barry has been an avid reader since childhood. Always examining scenes and their endings to see how he would have written them differently. He does the same with movies, always looking for a better ending. Barry started writing seriously several years ago mainly as a way to get the stories that have been running through his head for decades out on to paper. Barry has written novels in a few different genres, the YA Banduri series to start. Followed by a collection of post pandemic novellas (What Lies Within series), and a dystopian novel (Shining Star).

Barry has been working in businesses and banking over the years where the main form of communication is dot points and graphs, where brevity is king. It has been a real culture shock to rework his skills and expand on thoughts / scenes to make something engaging and believable. Like most Indi authors he makes mistakes and there has been a steep learning curve, but he loves the craft and the result.

Transplanted Victorian now resident in QLD for over 40 years and to some extent Satori has been influenced by his time holidaying and working around the Whitsundays and regional Queensland.