Spotlight & Giveaway: Something’s Wrong with Micah by Jamison Hill

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Jamison Hill to HJ!

Hi Jamison and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Something’s Wrong with Micah!

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

In the wake of a devastating car accident, sixteen-year-old Micah Hunter’s world begins to unravel. A mysterious illness leaves him unable to pursue the football dreams that he once shared with his father. At the peak of his illness, Micah bumps his wheelchair into Evie Thompson, a headstrong fifteen-year-old living with her own challenges. Coming of age and coming to terms with their disabilities, Micah and Evie find solace and companionship in each other.

As their connection deepens, Evie helps Micah discover the truth about his illness, allowing him to reconnect with his past. But, in doing so, Micah fails to discover Evie’s deteriorating health, which she keeps hidden. When Micah finally realizes the gravity of her situation, he must make the most difficult decision of his life: get Evie the help she needs or respect her wishes and risk losing her forever.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

“It’s frustrating how you can see someone every day and never say anything to them, then suddenly they’re gone, and you wish you had.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

The title was originally Something’s Wrong with Micah, then I changed it to Disability Love Story, but changed it back because I preferred the original. There are Easter eggs throughout the book, mostly nods to San Diego, where the story takes place.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

Beyond physical appearance, they are both living with disabilities and they bond over that initially and as the book goes on.

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

I definitely cried writing the penultimate scene, where Micah visits Evie in the hospital. There is so much about that scene, mainly the dialogue between Micah and Evie, that brings up a lot of emotions for me.

Readers should read this book….

Because it is a transcendent love story that focuses on characters with disabilities, and it taps into the heart of the human experience.

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I’m trying to decide whether to publish another YA novel or try an adult novel. I love YA so much, but it isn’t as popular as it was 10-15 years ago. Either way, I would like to release another book this year or early next year.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

Giveaway: (1) One copy of SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH MICAH. Winner gets to pick between a signed paperback, an ebook, or an audiobook.

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Excerpt from Something’s Wrong with Micah:

As I approach Evie on the other side of the room, she briefly looks at me, her face expressionless, then she goes back to doing her work. I want to avoid sitting directly in front of her, as I did yesterday, so I turn my chair around, but too many desks are in the way, and much like trying to parallel park, the whole process quickly gets complicated. When I hit the joystick too hard as I’m backing up, I smack right into Evie. The desk tray on top of her wheelchair tips over, knocking her papers and textbooks on the floor.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me!” Evie says, raising her voice. She looks down at all the stuff on the floor and scowls.

I freeze. I don’t know what to say or do. It’s not as if I can get out of my chair and pick up the stuff I knocked over, nor can I make a hasty retreat—I’m jammed between Evie and two desks.

For her part, Evie looks as if she wants to stab me with her pencil, and I’m honestly quite intimidated. I can almost hear her homicidal thoughts. Ms. Fry comes over and defuses the situation by picking up everything I knocked on the floor and setting it back on the desk tray in front of Evie. Ms. Fry gives me a desk tray of my own, and she helps me get my wheelchair in the right place.

As I settle in, I try to pretend as if nothing happened, as if I’m not the biggest klutz in the world. But I decide that I should at least apologize to Evie, so I lean over and whisper, “I’m sorry.”

“You don’t look sorry,” she growls.

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Meet the Author:

Jamison Hill has written for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, among others. His essay for The Times was adapted for WBUR’s Modern Love podcast and read by Pedro Pascal from The Mandalorian. The essay is part of an anthology called Disability Visibility. Jamison has also been a guest on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, and is a main subject of a Netflix original series.
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