Meet the Author -- Jamie Seitz

Name: Meet the Author -- Jamie Seitz
Start: 2025-01-07T18:30:00-06:00
Location: 2629 Beaver Ave Ste S1, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50310

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Tue, 07 Jan, 2025 at 06:30 pm

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2629 Beaver Ave Ste S1, Des Moines, IA, United States, Iowa 50310 | Des Moines, IA

The majority of Quinn Keaton’s life has been spent living in the shadow of her mother’s debilitating grief. After her brother Griffin’s accidental drowning sixteen years ago, her mother retreated from the world with Quinn in tow. Water, strangers, heartache, and the unknown become possible threats to their small, safe life, so she created an insulated bubble where nothing could harm them. But now, Quinn isn’t sure where her own insecurities and fears begin and where her mother’s end.
When an opportunity arises for Quinn to spend her senior year abroad at an English boarding school, her mother demands she turn it down and threatens to disown her if she goes. Quinn’s first act of rebellion opens the door to what her life could be if she is brave enough to live it. As her world expands in England with new friends and a chance at love, Quinn wonders how she can ever go back to her previous life, even if it means letting her mother go.
Jamie Seitz is a middle-grade and young adult fiction author. Her funny backyard garden adventures also become stories that pop up in the monthly humor column, In the Weeds, in Garden Gate Magazine. Besides writing, her talents include being an expert maker of guacamole and the perfect mixed CD for any road trip, knitting extremely long scarves, and having a knack for finding the funny in everyday life. She lives in Iowa with her husband, four kids, two dogs, three cats, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Weight of Water is Jamie’s debut novel, in which teenager Quinn Keaton has been held back by her mother’s grief her entire life, breaks out of her cocoon, develops the resolve to pave her path to a brighter future.