RUSH by J Friesen: speaker

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Hear Jonathan Speak--His Winter/Spring Schedule

Check to see if your school or communtiy is included.

Jan 24, 2011
Anoka Correctional
Anoka, Minnesota
Staff Event

Jan 26, 2011
Anoka Correctional
Speaker
Student Event

Feb 3, 2011
Kimball High School
Kimball, MN
School Visit

Feb 8, 2011
Springfield High School
Spingfield, IL
School Visit

Feb 9, 2011
Downers Grove High
Chicago, IL
School Visit

Feb 10, 2011
Peoria High Schools and Public Library
Peoria, IL
Author visit, Book Signing, Meet & Greet

Feb 24, 2011
St. Michael School
St. Michael, MN
School Visit

Feb 26, 2011
ARC Midstate--KEYNOTE
Sauk Center, HS
All Day

March 2, 2011
Speaker-Rivier College
New Hampshire
Day Long

March 16, 2011
Concordia College, MN
Convocation
11:45 am

March 24-25, 2011
E/BD Conference KEYNOTE
Greensburg, IN
All Day

March 31, 2011
Pacer Event
All Welcome!

April 7, 2011
Windom/Luther/High School Event
Full-Day
Windom Area, MN

April 11, 2011
Bethel University
Campus Visit/Evening event
St. Paul, MN

April 14, 2011
Isle Public Library
Isle, MN
Evening Author Visit

April 15-16, 2011
Speaker-MACHE
Duluth, MN
VISITORS WELCOME!

April 21, 2011
Rockford High School
Rockford, MN
Author Visit

May 6, 2011
St. Thomas (Minneapolis)
KEYNOTE
Author Visit

May 11-12, 2011
Craig High School
Janesville High School
Author visits
Wisconsin

July 29-30, 2011
Miracle Lodge
Minnesota

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

SUMMER/FALL 2010 APPEARANCE SCHEDULE

Get your copy of "Rush" signed by the author. Jonathan Friesen will be signing books and/or speaking at the following venues this summer and fall. Drop by and say hello!
http://www.jonathanfriesen.com/

July 24, 2010

Scout & Morgan Book Store

Cambridge, Minnesota

11:00 a.m. Book Signing ALL WELCOME

August 12, 2010
Minnesota Reading Association, Annual Conference
Break-Out Presentation
Come by my booth and say hello!

August 28, 2010
Borders Book Store
Maple Grove, Minnesota
2:00 p.m. Book Signing ALL WELCOME

September 13, 2010
MN Christian Writers Guild
Speaker
Christ Presbyterian, Edina, MN 7:00 p.m. ALL WELCOME!

October 6, 2010
Borders Book Store
Book Signing, Meet & Greet
Rosedale, MN 7:00 p.m. ALL WELCOME!

October 9, 2010
Barnes & Noble, Teacher Appreciation Event
Guest Speaker, Educator Reception, Book Signing
Maple Grove, Minnesota 9 a.m. ALL WELCOME!

October 30, 2010
MCWG
Full-Day writer's workshop
Christ Presbyterian, Edina, MN ALL WELCOME!

November 11-12, 2010
Keynote, Crossroads Conference
Grand Junction, Colorado ALL WELCOME!

Welcome to the World of RUSH...

...a world of dare devil rock climbing, extreme biking, smoke jumping and the riskiest adventure of all---young love.

Equal parts romance and heart-pounding action, this novel will leave you absolutely breathless. Join teen Jake King, an adrenaline junkie turned hotshot firefighter, as he struggles with the one risk he cannot take: losing his best friend and secret love, the beautiful Salome Lee. But to Jake, firefighting is like breathing pure adrenaline. And if he doesn't stop soon, they could all get burned. . . .

Coming on the heels of his successful debut novel Jerk, California, Jonathan Friesen presents RUSH.

We'd like to invite you to take a ride on the wild side and visit the World of Rush.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I had the perfect life.
I was the grade-school star and the teacher’s pet. The world revolved around me and I suspected it always would. If you ask most people about their life, they don’t begin with fifth grade. But that was a good year.
Illness changed that. I retreated into a shell and escaped into words. Writing a story sucked the pain out of me, at least for a while. That’s when I learned to “feel” on paper. I didn’t think I’d be an author, I didn’t think I’d be much of anything, I was simply writing to survive.
Life changed in college. Health returned, the cloud lifted, and I got my teaching license.
Being a teacher, and being with those kids healed me. Surrounded by them, I relived periods of time stolen by childhood sickness. I was in my glory. But I couldn’t escape storytelling. All those years expressing myself on paper left their mark.
While my students worked, I wrote at my desk. JERK, CALIFORNIA, my first book, flowed out of my own “lost years,” but hope fills the pages. Writing it was a beautiful thing to experience.
I now live on a horse farm with my wife, three children, and a growing number of animals.
Our home is on a hill that overlooks a river that snakes through a beautiful valley. We tear along the stream on the 4-wheeler. My three kids race through the pasture and scale the sides of the sand pit; they search for agates and chase wild turkeys that trespass on the gravel road that connects our hill to the rest of the world. I have promised them chickens and horses, but for now they settle for bald eagle and bear. It’s a good place to play and write.
At night, I walk out and listen to the wind rattle paper-thin bark on our birch trees. I stare at stars nobody else has seen and start a bonfire so bright it chases all the stars away. Then, my clothes full of smoke and my mind filled with ideas, I come inside and write until my fingers get heavy on the keyboard.
I love it here.

RUSH by J Friesen

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RUSH, The Video

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Hear Jonathan Speak--His Winter/Spring Schedule

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

SUMMER/FALL 2010 APPEARANCE SCHEDULE