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Coming January 2026.
The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig. A 9-episode epic novel about American teens in the 1980s.
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Are you longing to escape the chaos, divisiveness, and digital overload of our modern world and go back to a simpler time? How about returning to the MTV-powered decade that defined cool? To a time when Pac Man fever swept the nation; leg warmers, Members Only jackets, and Wayfarers were the height of fashion; and the big hair just kept getting bigger?
Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, an epic novel in 9 parts about a group of suburban teens, is a sweeping and so choice coming-of-age story that captures the essence of teenage life. (It’s a novel about teens, written for adults; it’s not YA literature.)
Through these 9 books (or episodes), you can leave behind the modern world of AI, algorithms and the internet, and step into a quaint yet fresh world of mixtapes, handwritten notes, rotary dial payphones, VCRs, videogame arcades, floppy disks, and Trapper Keepers. You’ll experience the heart-swelling joys and struggles of teens during a decade formative for a generation. This 9-episode novel is not just a nostalgic trip down memory lane; it’s a bangin’, bad to the bone immersive experience that will transport you to a bygone time.
Finally, all 9 books will be published between January 2026 and November 2027—about one book every twelve weeks. This means that, unlike with series including Bridgerton, Harry Potter, or Game of Thrones, you and other readers won’t have to wait years for the next installment!
So, get amped, get stoked! This is your chance to be a driving force behind the creation of a wholly new genre in literature: the teen epic. Join us and let’s make history together.
A Time Machine Back to the 1980s
THERE WAS A TIME…before smart phones and the internet, before social media, “smart” TVs, apps, GPS tracking, cyber-bullying, AI, or e-anything. It was a time when music was played on cassette tapes or vinyl records; CDs (compact discs) were a brand-new innovation; and phone calls were made on push-button or rotary-dial telephones. It was a time in America when most households didn’t have a computer, when gasoline was under a dollar per gallon, and MTV was king. The time I’m speaking of is the mid-1980s—indisputably the greatest period for young people in U.S. history.
Over the past decade, I have crafted a 9-episode novel about a group that has rarely been given serious consideration in literature—teenagers. While there have been many novels about teens and “teen angst,” some of them considered classics, of the two dozen or so that I’ve read, none of them have had an especially broad scope, and none of them have conveyed the teen experience in as much detail as I do.
Like other groundbreaking novels, my “teen epic” transcends existing labels. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Reagan era, it’s a coming-of-age story, a love story, historical fiction and an odyssey, offering readers a truly immersive experience: immersion in the music, culture, fashion, lingo, customs, and everyday details of teenage life in the ’80s.
Truly, what I’m offering readers is a time machine back to this magical era—possibly the greatest time ever to be a teenager in America. If you were a teenager (or young) in the ’80s, these books will take you back to your youth. If you were a parent in the ’80s, these books will give you insight into what your kids might have been doing back then. And if you weren’t alive in the ’80s (you’re a young person now), these books will help you understand why your parents can be so overbearing. (Hint: they’re probably overcompensating for the lack of parenting they received.)
Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome: The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig tells the story of Avery and his high school friends against the backdrop of seminal events including the return of Halley’s Comet, the Challenger disaster, the Chernobyl meltdown, the Reykjavik conference, the “Garbage Barge” fiasco, and President Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech.
Over the course of two years, Avery goes on adventures across the United States and to Europe; crosses paths with ’80s celebrities and political leaders; navigates the perilous, tempestuous seas of sex and romance; learns the nature of true love; endures death, loss, and hardship; and transforms from a teenage boy into a young man.
I’m confident that I have written the next great American novel, a 9-episode epic novel that tells the story of my generation’s experience (“Gen X”)—a generation whose childhood and teen experience has been scandalously absent from American literature. For these reasons, I want this series to reach as many people as possible.
I’ve put ten years of my life (and a third of my working life) into this novel, sacrificing steady income, vacations, comfort, health, sleep, friendships, relationships, free time, and much more—all willingly, so I could create a work of literature that, for decades to come, will entertain, enlighten and delight readers, not to mention capture for posterity the zeitgeist of American teen life in the ’80s.
Following are the titles of the 9 episodes of BTTA. If you grew up in the ’80s (or you’re a young ’80s aficionado now), you’ll notice that each one is named after a song that was popular between 1986 and 1987:
- Episode I: Bad Boy
- Episode II: True Blue
- Episode III: Danger Zone
- Episode IV: Secret Lovers
- Episode V: Yankee Rose
- Episode VI: Invisible Touch
- Episode VII: Modern Woman
- Episode VIII: True Colors
- Episode IX: Big Time
So, spread the word, and as the books are published, buy them, read them, love them, review them, and tell your friends about them. Together, let’s make Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome a bestselling sensation! Subscribe below for publication updates!
*Special Thanks to Victoria Heath Silk for the BTTA Cover Design, and Alexas Orcutt for the BTTA Book Trailer Video.*
Bodaciously Yours,
Chris Orcutt