Author Debuts Young Adult Beatles Novel

Nov. 18, 2015 - PRLog -- Up-and-coming writer Donovan Day has just published his first novel, Get Back, a fast-paced fantasy that intertwines the Beatles’ heyday with today’s world. The book is geared for Young Adults, though the story has elements that would appeal to readers from millennials to baby boomers. Furnished with plenty of Beatles references, the time-traveling tale sets out on the theme of its subtitle: “Imagine…Saving John Lennon.”

The idea came to Day in a dream. “I was doing research on The Beatles for an article and began dreaming about them all the time,” he says. “In one dream, I was in the studio with them and they let me sit in and jam. Later, we got to talking and they discovered I was from the future. They had all sorts of questions about music and records and what whether people would remember them in 2015 and still play their music. It was a happy conversation until — in the dream — John asked, ‘And what becomes of me?’”

Unable to bring himself to tell Lennon the horrible truth in his dream, he woke up and realized he needed to write the story out, which eventually turned into a novel. The dream took place almost exactly two years ago in October, and the novel was published the week before what would have been Lennon’s 75^th birthday. As YA fiction, the book fills a niche in the Beatles book marketplace.

Day attended Columbia University, where he studied creative writing. His short stories have appeared in several literary journals. A native of Oxford, Mississippi, he splits his time between his hometown and New York City. He is a longtime fan of The Beatles, having inherited his grandfather's taste in rock ‘n’ roll.

Get Back is distributed by Park Slope Publishing and available on Amazon. You can connect with Donovan Day on:

Twitter: @donovanday18

Facebook: DonovanDayAuthor

Day is represented by 910 Public Relations, and he is currently available for radio and print interviews. Copies of his book are available for review upon request. For more information, please contact nicole@910pr.com.