5 – Teenage FBI

Roan decided he was done pushing his luck, and went straight home to do research. Also, he really wanted to avoid people, and since Dylan was at his artist loft, he had the house to himself.

After having a pale ale and suffering through the rest of Mandy’s emails and IMs, he got out a legal notepad and split the page into three separate sections, one for each case he was working. In the Mandy section, he put nothing but a question mark. All he really knew about her after struggling through those messages was she hated school, hated her mother, thought Jason was a dick and Kayla was a bitch, and was pretty well bored with life. Roan tried to be sympathetic and remember what it was like to be a teenager, but he spent most of his teenage years shuttling between hospitals and group homes, with the occasional punk concert thrown in. He would have loved to have been bored with life, but his life was mostly splashes of boredom between big swaths of uncertainty, upset, and the knowledge that most people sincerely wished he would go away and never come back. Total boredom would have been a nice change of pace. Still, it made him the trusting, happy go lucky person he was today, so he should give it some credit. (more…)

If you’d like to see it for yourself, please go here: http://sjdpeterson.blogspot.com/2011/05/getting-to-know-andrea-speed.html?zx=d9af1cecd9fb93a2

As a sort of a web extra on the heels of my latest book release, I made these wallpapers of my book covers. Since I’m new at the wallpaper making game and really only have one size of the artwork to work with, these are what you’re going to get in sizes. (Sorry.) Right click to save, and I’ll see if I can do more of these in the future. (Also, they look compressed due to the design of the web page, but they download non-distorted! I promise.) (more…)