Dear Agent:
Thirteen-year-old Byron has always been a loser. That is, until one day, when helping his dad fold up a blue tarp they’d been raking leaves onto, one of the metal grommets drops out of the hemmed section of the tarp and goes rolling across his father’s shoe.
It just so happened that they’d been arguing about Byron not being allowed to take the car on a date that night because Byron didn’t even have a license. When that grommet catches Dad’s eye, Dad lunges for it, thinking it’s a coin. He never even notices Byron grabbing his keys and taking off with the car.
From that day on, every wish Byron ever had comes true as he becomes endowed with a special power to distract anyone— Mom, Dad, teacher, neighbor, cops — who refuses him anything. All he has to do is surreptitiously drop that grommet within their peripheral view and they go: “Ooh, what was that?” Before you know it, Byron is scurrying away with whatever prize he was after, leaving the authorities crawling after the grommet in the dust. Byron never worries about anyone stealing the steel ring that gives him so much power. After all, it’s only a little grommet from an old blue tarp.
But he should worry. Someone somewhere will catch on, prepared to fight Byron to the death for that ring.
THE MAGIC GROMMET is a New Adult novel, complete at 73,000 words. I look forward to hearing from you.
Munley