Books

My books The Trail Back Out, Grounded, Tsunami Cowboys, and Broken In: A Novel in Stories are available in paperback and as eBooks.  All may be purchased online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other bookstores in countries all around the world. Buy my books at my author page: Jadi Campbell

The Trail Back Out was Winner of the 2023 San Francisco Book Festival  in General Fiction, named a Finalist for the 2021 IAN Book of the Year Award (Short Story Collection) by the Independent Author Network, 2021 Wishing Shelf Book Awards of England Red Ribbon winner, American Book Fest 2020 Best Book Award Finalist: Fiction Anthologies, and 2021 Top Shelf Award Runner Up. The title story The Trail Back Out was longlisted for the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Award.

The Trail Back Out is a collection of 10 short stories, many written during the coronavirus lockdown. From tales of Eddie, high on LSD and trapped by “What Died in the Fridge” or a compulsive gambler hiding during a Category Five storm in “Better Weather”, to the luminous title story of two strangers meeting by chance in the backwoods during a pandemic, I wanted to describe the pain and humor of being alive. Included in this collection are “Rules to Live By”, a funny and deeply thoughtful story about what we choose to teach our children. I wonder about our responsibility to others as a hunter is shot and left for dead in “The Green Under the Snow”. In “Do Dreams Float?” a wife considers a hit-man’s offer of revenge. And the eternal search for happiness is carried out by a gloomy little girl nicknamed “Princess Rain Clouds”.

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Tsunami Cowboys was longlisted for the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Award.

Prepare to meet Todd, a hero with dangerous fantasies. Coreen, trapped in a cult. Ronnie, dreaming other people’s futures. Guy, waiting for disaster at a Christmas Market. And Lynn, the connecting thread, taking a train with a seductive stranger. By turns terrifying and funny, this is the story of people riding life’s waves… the tsunami cowboys.

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Excerpts from Tsunami Cowboys may be read on these posts.

• The Hostess 1 & The Hostess 2
• What A Guy 1, What A Guy 2 & What A Guy 3
• Precognitious 1 &  Precognitious 2
• The End of the World 1 & The End of the World 2
• TNT 1 & TNT 2
• Nippon Visions

My first book Broken In: A Novel in Stories was a Semifinalist for the 2020 Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection Award and a Finalist for Greece’s Eyelands Book Award 2021 (Short Stories).

In JJ’s, the bartender and a teen aged patron plan exotic trips. JJ’s chef meets several men who’d kill for her. Valuables and peace of mind literally get stolen. Couples celebrate, or split up. In a rainy night accidents happen and people vanish. These are the stories of people whose paths cross – or crash. The tales begin in a bistro and move on to Bangkok, a carnival midway, and the bottom of a lake, among other places. Broken In: whether totally random or according to plan, after tonight life will never be the same.

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Excerpts from Broken In may be read on these posts.

• A Massage at Wat Pho
• Drowning in Love (1) and (2)
• 2,000,000 Wrinkle-lipped Bats
• Punctured
• Despair Is An Exotic Ingredient
• Death On A Wet Road Between Towns Without Names
• Just Riding Around
• Hit & Run 1, 2 & 3
• An Interview with Standoutbooks
• Write A Revolution
• Strangers on a Train

Grounded is the story of how two people react when cyber attacks lame the world. It’s the tale of a father’s love for his son, a woman’s search to feel alive again, and what the Arctic Circle and a temple in a remote corner of India reveal.

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Excerpts from my novel Grounded can be read on these posts:

• Bazaar/Bizarre
• The Reluctant Pilgrim
• Holy Cows
• Save the Recriminations
• Holiday Insurance 1
• Holiday Insurance 2
• History’s Loop 1
• History’s Loop 2
• History’s Loop 3