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Naomi Olsen's Nevaeh and adventure for girls
The Agassiz Voice, November 1, 2005 by Ken Maccinnis
One Harrison hotsprings girl is the inspriration for all the major character's in Naomi Olsen's forthcoming book about three girls on an outer space adventure, and each character's traits, put together, would make up Ashley Paige Linden. The ten year old is Agassiz Author Olsen's granddaughter, and the catalyst for her book Nevaeh, to be published early next year.
"She's humerous, adventurous, comical, and a daredevil", Olsen says of Ashley. "She's not your typical little girl-she likes fast cars, not dressing up in frills."
Neither is Amy, the protagonist in the science fiction story Olsen started writing 18 months ago.Amy who after being diagnosed with a blood illness, decides to go on a final hiking trip with her friends Miranda and stella, who each also incorporate some of Ashleys' traits.Ther trio see a falling star, and are transported through it to Nevaeh a space ship in outer space. She does not want to give away the ending to the 74 page book, she says the story is humerous and uplifting. "It's a pleasnant story all famillies can read," she says. "There is no violence or vulgarity."
Already a story telling veteran-olsen would make fantasy stories for Ashley -she decided to send the manuscript, it was excepted by Publish America. Olsen has already started on the second and third books continuing Amy's adventures,The third book will feature Amy and her friends as adults.
"It just started to flow," Olsen says of writing the story. :Characters just popped up".
She has done plenty of research on the solar system, stars, and other spce science. Than makes the book educational as well, she says.
Olsen, a polio survivor, says Nevaeh, like her other work-including paintings and a sitcom pilot filmed a ledoux Hardware in 2001 about disabled detectives-illustrates how thouse with disabilities, or in Amy's case, a serious disease can overcome them. "Disabled people can do things too." she says. "They don't sit there in the background watching people pass them by. She expects to have copies in January, and is exploring the possibility of book signings.
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