Jack Storm and New Orleans Hoodoo: Book 1 of Hurricane Hoodoo

Twelve-year-old Jack Storm moves to New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina. Little does he know that has been chosen by the legendary Hoodoo Queen to protect the city from the bad ghosts and evil spirits unleashed by the hurricane.

＂I highly recommend this book to anyone, young or old, who loves to read about history, interesting characters and the supernatural. It will capture your attention, entertain you and take you on a journey to the historical and mysterious city of New Orleans, LA.＂ -- Jerrye Sumrall, author of Middle Grade series THE BAYSHORE MYSTERIES

Yael K. Miller has been interested in stories from a very young age, and as a child she frequented the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where paintings that told stories held her interest. At the University of Pennsylvania Yael majored in English with a Medieval/Renaissance concentration and minored in Classical Studies. She likes to say that she spent four years studying story. In her senior year Yael won the 2004-2005 Penn Playwriting Fellowship, which earned a stipend and a week-long workshopping of her short play JULIET’S NURSE (an Ovidian retelling of Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET). In the spring of 2007 Yael became interested in New Orleans and the effect Hurricane Katrina had on it. She began to write a half-hour tv pilot about a 12-year-old boy who moves with his father to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In October 2007, two years after Hurricane Katrina, Yael visited New Orleans for the first time - discovering the places where her characters roam. Somewhere along the way she changed the story from a tv pilot to a Middle Grade novel, and in the spring of 2013 Yael self-published JACK STORM AND NEW ORLEANS HOODOO. Visit her at her author website at www.HurricaneHoodoo.com and follow her on Twitter at http: //twitter.com/YaelKMiller