Bio
As a youngster, Jared Garrett toiled in the Mines of Moria, cleansed a shire, ran across icy steppes with a battleaxe in hand, lost his best friend to a breaking rope, and raced down a train platform to catch his true love. Several times. Books of daring and adventure and romance saved Jared’s sanity and transported him from a bleak, lonely childhood to a place where he could weave his own plot threads together. So of course he writes books now: clean, heroic stories of people you will love, fighting for who and what they love, in worlds that will blow your imagination open – and will even sometimes make you think. His books have been number one bestsellers and have been used in classrooms around the world. Perfect for the voracious or reluctant reader in your life.
Oh, he also won a prime-time gameshow a couple years ago.
Contact Information
You can contact Jared Garrett through the Contact tab on this here website. Alternatively, you can email him directly at jared@jaredgarrett.com.
All business, speaking, rights, and other requests are best sent directly to the above email.
Q&A / Tip Sheet
I hope we get to chat! Here are some good questions to prime the ‘fun conversation’ pump.
Q: What’s the first book you remember reading?
Q: Why were books so important to you as a youngster growing up in a reclusive, abusive cult?
Q: What was the process like to fictionalize so much of your experience in this cult?
Q: Seriously though, tell me about this cult.
Q: Okay, no more cult talk. What is your writing process like?
Q: Tell me about this gameshow you won, including how much money you took home!
The Finding Home Series
The Finding Home Series is a four-book, coming-of-age saga, inspired by the author’s life, that follows Josh Kerr, a young man who was born and raised in an abusive, reclusive cult and his journey to freedom, peace, and happiness.
At turns heartbreaking, shocking, uplifting, and triumphant, the series is an ultimately uplifting look into what life in a commune/cult is like, and how two determined young people can make life after the cult a beautiful, fulfilling experience.
Excerpt:
“I gotta— We gotta get out of here.”
I glanced at Mal. “What? We have to get back?” Had I forgotten something? Was it already time to go back for dinner?
“Josh, no.” He laughed. “I mean, out of the Faith. Out of this weird, messed up cult.”
“I know. We’ll get out. As soon as we can.” I looked at his face. I wondered if he looked like his father. Our other brother, Aaron, looked so much like Miriam it was weird. But Mal looked way different. Did Mal even remember his father?
“It’s got to be sooner.” Mal paced, kicking piles of wood bits. He grabbed the hatchet we’d stolen from one of the sheds near the house. “I’m going crazy here.”
“I know.” He talked about it all the time. I couldn’t remember him talking about anything else, except for when we were building this cabin. He hated the Faith. “Do—” I swallowed. “Do you remember your father?”
Mal stopped, his head turning quicker than his body as he faced me. “Yeah. I do.” He swore. “That’s the most ridiculous thing. Miriam’s always talking about being good, genuine people.”
Genuine. She loved that word. Almost as much as she loved ‘authentic.’
“But how is her trashing the family we had, taking me away from my dad, and making this cult good or genuine? I mean, dad wasn’t the best and he sometimes—” Mal trailed off. He glared at the sky. “Doesn’t matter. Point is that this thing is screwed. Aaron’s dad left. We don’t even know who your dad is. These people spend their days begging for money for some charitable cause I don’t even see us doing.”
I kind of zoned out. When Mal got going, he tended to rant. I mean, I believed him. He was the only one of the kids that hadn’t been born in the Faith—except maybe Esther. Nobody knew anything about Esther’s family.
Family. Yeah. What did that even mean?