Jonah Havensby (41 page)
Authors: Bob Bannon
“I’ll tell you everything,” he said, looking her dead in the eye. “Everything I know, anyway.”
He leaned back and closed his eyes in the sunlight, leaning his head back against the wooden wall. She was sitting so close, she dropped her head on his shoulder. Her hand trailed the length of his arm and she coiled her fingers around his.
He began with a tale about ‘dangerous men’.
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Author’s Note
Thank you for reading my first novel.
Hopefully, there will be more tales of Jonah and the search for what happened to his father soon.
Writing a novel can be a daunting task, seeking to publish it is a nerve-wracking experience.
It took me a year to complete ‘Jonah Havensby’ and then spent months researching the ins and outs of submitting to agents, longer still to select the agents I wanted to approach. Instead of blanketing a random list, I took some very good advice and looked up those agents who accepted Young Adult and/or Science Fiction novel and I had a few kind rejections.
(To those aspiring authors, I tell you that a rejection is still high praise in that it means an agent took the time to look at your submission and reply. Even if you receive many of them, I still say you should continue to submit to other agents until you find the one that works best for your material.)
Finally, I read an agent’s interview which listed off a few things she thought the current market just wouldn’t be interested in, shape-changers among them, and I decided then and there that I would electronically publish my first novel and allow the audience to decide what the current market would be interested in. I hope you enjoyed it.
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Thanks again! And I look forward to your comments.
Bob Bannon - author
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