Jump When Ready blog tour stop spotlight, playlist & giveaway.

Since he drowned, Henry has remained isolated with the same group of teenagers and he keeps wondering why. After all, what could he possibly have in common with a Mohawk-sporting punker from the 80s, a roller skater from the 70s with a thing for kimonos, and an English “rocker” from the 60s? Henry can hear the other groups but he never sees them. Soon, Henry learns that his new friends all possess unique skills for making themselves noticed by the living. Is Henry’s group kept isolated because of their abilities? If so, are they considered gifted or seen only as a potential bad influence?

Before Henry can reach any conclusions, he witnesses his sister being kidnapped. He knows who did it, where she’s being held and what will happen if the kidnappers don’t get what they want. As the police chase false leads, Henry comes to realize that he’s his sister’s only hope. But for Henry to even have a chance, he has to convince a group of teenagers that dead doesn’t mean helpless.

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David Pandolfe has been a bartender in Seattle, the front man for an alternative rock band in Los Angeles and a college writing teacher in Richmond (among other things).

One day, it occurred to him that sometimes these experiences felt like completely different lives altogether. Which got him to writing Jump When Ready, a novel about a bunch of teenagers trying to get over their past lives while getting ready to jump into their next.

While he’s still writing about himself in third person, David Pandolfe should probably mention that at one point he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University (yet another life). He has had short stories published in Millennium and the Georgetown Review. Jump When Ready is his first young adult novel but he's currently working on another, to be released in the fall of 2013.

 

Time for the music! Pandolfe definitely likes a variety of artists from Cold Play to the Beatles to Zeppelin. Check out his playlist on youtube..

 

My Chemical Romance, Na Na Na

(One of Henry’r favorite bands.)

 

Imagine Dragons, It’s Time

(“I’m just the same as I was. Now don’t you understand, I’m never changing who I am.”)

 

Coldplay, 42

(“You didn’t get to heaven but you made it close.”)

 

We Are Augustines, Book of James

(“Here lie my green eyes, rolled back in my head, but they’re alive.”)

 

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Can’t Hold Us

(The ceiling literally can’t hold Henry.)

 

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Runaway

(“Can’t help looking back.”)

 

The Cure, Just Like Heaven

(Jamie’s favorite band.)

 

The Smiths, How Soon is Now?

(Jamie’s self-altering band logo T-shirt.)

 

Clash, London calling

(Another from Jamie’s era.)

 

Doors, Riders on the Storm

(Curtis is on a dark and lonely journey and this one is from the 70s.)

 

Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same

(Nikki died in the 70s and she was a Led Zeppelin fan.)

 

Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows

(For Simon, who died at the height of Beatlemania.)

 

Buddy Holly, Peggy Sue

(Naomi fell off a cliff in 1957, the same year this song came out.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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