Tuesday - June 23rd, 2026
Apple News
×

What can we help you find?

Open Menu

Fastballs and Fear: A Coming-of-Age Story Twisted with International Intrigue with Author Harrison Jenkins

  1. Fastballs and Fear: A Coming-of-Age Story Twisted with International Intrigue with Author Harrison Jenkins Teri M Brown 25:03

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Harrison Jenkins, author of the book A Bad Hand. Harrison (Hank) Jenkins is a seasoned tech leader and product innovator with over two decades of experience delivering groundbreaking SaaS, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) products. With five patents to his name, he thrives at the intersection of creativity and Technology. Beyond his professional pursuits, Harrison channels his passion for craftsmanship into projects like his recent revival of a vintage 1975 Honda CB750 Super Sport.

 

He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his incredible wife where they have spent the last two decades raising their children surrounded by wonderfully supportive neighbors. Salt Lake City’s proximity to so many outdoor activities has fueled Harrison’s Love for all kinds of outdoor adventures. The only downside to his hometown is its distance from the amazing sailing waters of the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest or the British Virgin Islands.

 

Hank is always interested in talking with his readers. If you’re interested in inviting him to your book club, store, school event, or podcast, please visit his book clubs page.

 

In my book review, I stated A Bad Hand is a YA thriller by ​Harrison Jenkins​ – and this novel certainly kept me guessing. We quickly meet James, a loner teenager who isn’t sure of himself or where he fits in the world. He is obsessed with all things Japanese and baseball. He doesn’t really like school, isn’t sure how he feels about religion, has a mom with Mental Health issues, and believes the coming year is going to be a bust.

 

However, he meets a girl and begins restoring a motorcycle – both of which help him begin to see things about himself he didn’t know before. But before he can get comfortable, his world comes crashing down. As he works to figure life out again, he becomes embroiled in the Japanese Yakuza – a deadly criminal organization. The question becomes this – will he get involved at a risk to his own life? Will he become the person he was meant to be?

 

Although promoted as a thriller, it is also a coming of age story combined with a love story. I think you’ll love it!

 

 

Subscribe to Online for Authors to learn about more great books! https://www.youtube.com/@onlineforauthors?sub_confirmation=1

 

You can follow Author Harrison Jenkins

Website: https://write.harrisonjenkins.com/

IG: @hjenkinswrites

FB: @Harrison Jenkins, Author

LinkedIn: @hjenkins

 

Purchase A Bad Hand on Amazon:

Paperback: https://amzn.to/4loaYxB

Ebook: https://amzn.to/4rWJEZS

 

Teri M Brown, Author and Podcast Host: https://www.terimbrown.com

FB: @TeriMBrownAuthor

IG: @terimbrown_author

X: @terimbrown1

 

Want to be a guest on Online for Authors? Send Teri M Brown a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/onlineforauthors

 

#harrisonjenkins #abadhand #thriller #YA #terimbrownauthor #authorpodcast #onlineforauthors #characterdriven #researchjunkie #awardwinningauthor #podcasthost #podcast #readerpodcast #bookpodcast #writerpodcast #author #books #goodreads #bookclub #fiction #writer #bookreview

*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Teri M Brown Award-winning Author and Podcast Host

Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M Brown graduated from UNC Greensboro. She began her writing career helping small businesses with content creation and published five nonfiction self-help books dealing with real estate and finance, receiving multiple awards. In 2017, after winning the First Annual Anita Bloom Ornoff Award for Inspirational Short Story, she began writing fiction in earnest, and published her debut novel in 2022, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, a historical fiction set in Ukraine, which has won twelve awards. Her second novel published in 2023, An Enemy Like Me, takes place during WWII, winning 27 awards. Her latest novel, Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, a generational story about Appalachian healers came out in January 2024 and has already won three awards. Teri is a wife, mother, grandmother,podcaster, and author who loves word games, reading, bumming on the beach, taking photos, singing in the shower, hunting for bargains, ballroom dancing, playing bridge, and mentoring others. Learn more at www.terimbrown.com.