Down Don't Bother Me (9780062362209) (24 page)

I
couldn't have written
Down Don't Bother Me
, or for that matter created Slim, without my dad (who, never fear, is nothing like Slim's) and his cheerful service as technical adviser regarding all things coal mines and miners. Obviously, any details I might have gotten wrong are on me, not him. Thanks and bottomless love also to the rest of my family—Mom, Ian, Jiffy, Celia Rose—for standing by me when life knocked me down for a while. Deep bows to my wonderful agents, Anthony Mattero and Yfat Gendell, who guided this book from its earliest versions and without whom it probably would never have left my desk drawer. Fist bump to my editor, the magnificent Cal Morgan, whose support, enthusiasm, and insight I can never hope to repay. Finally, but mostly, to Laura, the other coast of me.

Photo by Laura Carpenter

JASON MILLER
is half of the Miller Brothers writing team, creators of the critically acclaimed graphic novel
Redball 6
. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. This is his first novel.

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REDBALL 6, with Ian Miller

PHILOSOPHER REX, with Ian Miller

COVER DESIGN BY JARROD TAYLOR

COVER PHOTOGRAPH © PRZEMEK TOKAR / SHUTTERSTOCK

DOWN DON'T BOTHER ME
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ISBN 978-0-06-236219-3

EPub Edition March 2015 ISBN 9780062362209

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