Super 16
February 2005 - SMOOCH Books
writing as Jax Abbott

The Top 5 Ways NOT to Celebrate your 16th Birthday:

1. Drive your mother's boyfriend's sheriff car into the river.
2. Accuse the team quarterback of setting the school on fire.
3. Tell the League of Liberty that superpowers are so yesterday.
4. Freak completely when your boyfriend tries for 2nd base.
5. Explode your sadistic orthodontist's drill -- on purpose.

Blowing out the candles is the least of Jessie's worries...

SHOP 'TIL YULE DROP anthology
Alesia's novella: A Publicist in a Pear Tree
Release date: October, 2004
Chick-lit with bite!

"Delightful to read, alternating between comical and emotionally moving." - RT BookClub

"Alesia Holiday has given the entire working class of women a story to rally behind in A Publicist and a Pear Tree. Leah has all of the stress of the Holly Jolly Season to deal with along with the stress of her job and non-existent love life. So take a break from your hectic Christmas Season and pick up a copy of Shop ‘til Yule Drop and see how Leah and all of the other ladies in these stories makes this Christmas something special." - Lydia Funneman, Writers Unlimited

SUPER WHAT??
SUPER WHAT? (August, 2004, Smooch books) is Alesia's first novel for Young Adults, under her pen name Jax Abbott.

Jessie Drummond is the 15-year old daughter of super heroes who never got any powers of her own. Now -- when she has to cope with a new school. flunking algebra, and finding a date for the prom -- her powers decide to show up with a bang!!

“Take this angst-ridden teen, mix in some hilarious situations, frost with touching scenes and heartfelt moments and you have SUPER WHAT? – A quirky fun-filled adventure into the lives of teens and, yes, even superheroes.”
- RT BOOKClub

“Jessie is an exciting, wise-cracking character . . . [T]his will be snatched up by fans of teen fiction.”
- Erika Sorocco, teen correspondent for the Community Bugle

“Speaking as one who whirled herself dizzy wanting to turn into Wonder Girl but never considered the drawbacks to getting the wish, this is a laugh-out-loud fun read for all ages.”
- Huntress Reviews

“[A] delightfully funny story that will keep you wanting to turn the pages faster to see what will happen to Jessie next.”
- Writers Unlimited

See www.jaxabbott.com for more!

Nice Girls Finish First
July 2005 - Berkley Trade

Kirby Green might lose everything because of a double-dog dare. Or, she might just discover who she really is…

Kirby didn’t get to be a Vice President of Marketing by being nice. But when she fires her entire staff within a few weeks (they all deserved it, really), her new boss is hardly impressed. Wanting to prove his point, he issues a bet: If Kirby can get someone—anyone—to call her nice, she can take that long-awaited dream vacation to Italy with her best friend, Jules. If she can’t, she can kiss the Coliseum goodbye. Oh, and her job too.

Now Kirby has exactly thirty days to bully someone into saying she’s nice—and to show her boss who’s boss. If she doesn’t fall hard for him first…

From the author of American Idle, the book Publisher's Weekly called a “zany debut,” comes an irrepressibly hilarious novel about learning how to be yourself—even if it kills you.

BLONDES HAVE MORE FELONS
Berkley Prime Crime - March 2006

When a lawyer who’s smarter than she looks and more stubborn than anybody expects opens a solo practice in small town Florida, she takes on the big drug company that killed the wife of her first major client. In her fight for justice, she encounters a kleptomaniac pro bono client, an Armani-clad bullfighter best friend, a poker-champ neighbor who bakes cookies, and a P.I. so hot he makes her rethink her No Bad Boys Rule . . . but she never suspects she may wind up literally laughing herself to death.

E-mail to the Front is the first book to look at military deployment from the perspective of the family left behind. This funny and sometimes poignant perspective gives America an inside look at the sacrifices military families make in order to protect our country and offers military spouses hope that they, too, can endure the long separations all military families must endure.