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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the writer.

Cover Arts by C. Monaco

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Tina Anderson
1524 Lexington Way
Morgantown PA 19543

First eBook edition: April 2014
Second eBook edition: January 2022

ISBN: 978-0-9744195-7-2

Sonata 9 began life as a novella called Lost Along the Way. I created the plot sketch in 2007 and finished writing the bare bones in 2010. I submitted it to someone I thought was a developmental editor (the sort that gives advice) and found out later that day that she was a ‘publisher.’

Oh, the embarrassment.

I shelved the manuscript after that.

The project was special because it was my first ‘real prose.’ 2010’s horror novel, Gadarene, came from a comic script I wrote, and the brilliant CB Potts novelized it. Prose writing is different from scripting; both are valid forms, but one is meant for ‘readers,’ and writing for readers is where my skills needed work.

Then, a Polish client contacted me (I won’t call them a publisher because their business went kaput before they published anything.) I finished the novella in Polish, and they acquired it for a small advance. I commissioned C. Monaco to draw a cover and some back art for the book; this took place during our creative and personal split.

Zagubiony Po Drodze went to contract at the end of 2014, with a clause stipulated by me that the client publishes in print within ten years, or I get the rights back. I did this because the ‘bl’ and ‘gay fiction’ market aimed at manga readers began imploding, and some publishers in Europe and the States hadn’t handled things well with me; there were canceled contracts, returned advances, and outright ghosting. The Polish publisher disappeared, and I heard nothing for several years.

2020 rolled around, returning Zagubiony Po Drodze to my creative custody. I no longer possessed the English manuscript for Lost Along the Way, so I translated every chapter back to English and cleaned up the prose. Retitled, Sonata 9, my second draft revisions got posted at Tapas for free. I got plenty of readers but zero interaction or feedback. Sigh. I finished it, though, since it amassed more readers than my sapphic sci-fi series, Femitokon.

Sonata 9 is finished without an extensive rewrite.

It’s still the freshman effort written in 2007, and I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you for reading.