Meet Jackson Redrickson, from Suddenly Rural Girl

Suddenly Rural Girl’s protagonist is a conflicted teen wrestling with faith and friendship after her father dies and her family moves to a new town–and this neighbor boy is both intriguing and repulsive.

Jackson stepped out like a shadow. He was as dirty and di-
sheveled as ever, standing silently with his palms up helplessly, but he displayed neither shock nor fear.

Neither the boy nor his home received much care:

Jackson opened his car door and climbed out. The Redrickson porch was falling off. Old equipment and
brown bottles were strewn through the yard, and the dog Hunter was chained up and barking his head off—just one more unwelcoming thing to greet you. Nothing appears to be cared for—including the teenage boy who called this home.

And it often seemed like it was only going to get worse for him.

I kept the reins taut, and Eyeballs pivoted three hundred and sixty degrees until all three of us circled back around and looked at Jackson’s distorted face again. It was impossible to tell where the blood was coming from, but
his face and forearms were covered in it.

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Dann is an educator, Media & Design Guru, Author, and Public Speaker. He currently serves as Media and Design Specialist at an impressive little Midwestern College where he works directly with faculty to develop effective instructional videos. He has an MFA in Digital Cinema from California's National University, a BSED in English and Theatre Education from the University of South Dakota, and a certificate in Online Education from UW Stout. He was founder and principle owner of Little Prompter, LLC, a teleprompter design and manufacturing company until he sold the company in 2020. Prior to joining Carleton's staff, he taught communication, theatre, and video production for approximately 15 years while working as a professional actor and director--appearing in over forty national and regional commercials and directing and editing dozens of videos and musicals. Dann’s MFA thesis project involved writing and directing an original, full-length musical, filming the entire development and production process, and editing it into an educational DVD entitled How to Write and Produce Your Own High School Musical. His DVD is currently being distributed by Films Media Group. His debut YA Christian Fiction novel, Suddenly Rural Girl, is published through Kirk House Publishing.

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