Jackie Taylor Zortman

As an award winning writer/published author, I've been writing short stories and articles for the last 29 years and have seven published books, all available on Amazon.

My popular character JAKE is a woman's wildest dream, a handsome and macho Hotshot Firefighter with a Harley, He's a "man's man". He's a drifter who rides until some town mentally signals him to stay for a while. I first introduce him in my novella "Whiskey, Water & Wildfire." Why is Kimble, Colorado the place he's meant to be? Will he finally fall in love and get married? Why does Miss Berta adopt him as her pseudo-son and why is he so drawn to her as his mother figure? And then there's the wildfire. The ending will surprise you. and, hopefully, make you want to read the rest of my JAKE series.

My book titled JAKE-Echoes of Silence is a paperback and Kindle containing the first three of my Drifter Series featuring Jake. It contains the previously unpublished Jake-Echoes of Silence, plus Whiskey, Water & Wildfire and Winds of Change. GHOSTED is the fourth book in the series and is available as both a Kindle and paperback here on Amazon.

My very first book, WE ARE DIFFERENT NOW, was re-released on April 11, 2019 after being unavailable for two years. It invites you to come along on my journey through death on the mountain when my 21-year-old grandson, Pete, died beside the river in the pitch dark of night after falling 100 feet to the rock-strewn canyon floor. Read the true story of what has been revealed to us since we lost this young man with the angelic face and born possessing an old soul.

My first place award winning fiction novel FOOTPRINTS IN THE FROST introduces handsome homicide detective Max Richards and his girlfriend, Sami Murphy. The two play an emotional tug-of-war deciding whether Sami can cope with the female victims Max must spend time with during a high profile case and trial, as well as the numerous women who are drawn to men in positions of power. Max sits at the prosecution's table in court with an Assistant DA who is highly capable, but undependable. Will he show up each day and, if so, will he be sober. To complicate matters more, the Assistant DA once worked for the high profile and theatrical defense attorney. Find out what happens in this important case.

SNOW ANGEL is Detective Max Richards Book 2, but can easily be read alone. When he and his sister inherit their mother's estate, an ornate antique wooden box is found shoved far back in a corner of her bedroom closet shelf. Long forgotten and dusty, opening it reveals a secret she's been hiding for many years. It's all right there - the property deed, the key to the doors and letters written long ago. What was inside that box and where did it lead?

A contributing author to the anthologies, Felons, Flames & Ambulance Rides, American Blue, Recipes by the Book: Oak Tree Authors Cook; Echoes From the Silence; Dusting Off Dreams and The Centennial Book of the National Society of Daughter of the Union 1861-1865.

Charter Member of the Public Safety Writers Association and member of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Winner of ten writing awards in the annual PSWA Writers Competition in Las Vegas.

I live in a quaint, bustling tourist town high in the Colorado mountains. When the deep snows of winter blanket the terrain surrounding my home, it becomes the perfect spot in which to write.

Learn more about me on my blog, Jackie's Mountain Memos at www.jtzortman.wordpress.com or find me on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Linkedin.