Skye Bothma
I have a diploma in Book Publishing and Editing from Whitireia Polytech and after twenty years working as a professional editor in online communications and book publishing, I now write full time. I am terminally single and live a quiet life in rural New Zealand with Ben, my adopted who is my constant companion. I was born in South Africa, but consider myself a global citizen by effort. As a person with several chronic conditions, I am an advocate for raising awareness and acceptance of neurodiversity, chronic illness and invisible disability issues. I enjoy learning about the world, arts and crafts, gardening and attempting the occasional DIY disaster.
Shooting Stars is my first novel.
Genre:
- Fiction
Skills:
- Editing
- Freelance Writing
- Novelist
- Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
- Proofreading
- Tutoring
- Website Content
Branch:
Central Districts
Location:
Pahiatua
Publications:
Shooting Stars
Catherine Marshall is used to being invisible. Although she’s intelligent and talented, she’s an underachiever and lives her life in other people’s shadows. She has a job she hates and dreams she’s too afraid of pursuing. When she wins a writing competition and her long-term boyfriend persuades her to spend the prize money on air tickets to Hawaii, she’s convinced he’s about to propose at last. Instead, he betrays her and unable to change the tickets, Catherine goes to Hawaii alone to mend her broken heart.
Jake Donovan can’t hide from being in the spotlight. A Hollywood superstar and one of America’s most eligible bachelors, he’s in Hawaii taking some time to decompress after the filming of his latest hit show wraps. Surrounded by paradise he should feel like he has it all, but he’s feeling jaded and aware of a growing dissatisfaction with his world.
When a chance encounter brings their two lives together Catherine and Jake discover they have more in common than expected. Together, they escape their everyday lives and develop a fragile intimacy. But as reality closes in, it becomes clear that the fairy tale is not likely to survive in the real world and they begin to question whether their meeting was meant to inspire personal change or if it really was fated in the stars.