Six of Jon's Book Ideas That Didn't Make It
but don't steal them cause who knows
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The other night I was telling someone about the first book I ever tried to write (for a job). I couldn’t find the whole book anywhere (though I’ll keep trying cause dammit, it wasn’t bad), but in looking for it, I did find a bunch of other bits and pieces from other things that also didn’t work.
To start things off, here’s the cover (this and one rough spread was all I managed to find) from the aforementioned first book.
It was… not liked very much. But I’ll tell you the story anyway.



