Thank you for checking out my website! My name is Jacob Bohman,

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My love of writing began at the age of nine with a story for a school assignment. Even though I never completed that story, it introduced me to creative writing, and helped me believe that I could write other stories. I primarily wrote fantasy and fiction for about six years before I stumbled on the idea that would later become my first book Transmission. I had never considered myself a writer of science fiction, since it wasn’t something I had been interested in before, but the idea of Transmission became more fascinating as I continued to write it. 

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From mid-December of 2016 until mid-February of 2017, I worked on that story, primarily using a word-processor on my cellphone. For the first few weeks—before I got a Bluetooth keyboard—my mother thought that I was just playing video games. But once my parents found out I was actually writing stories on my cellphone, they bought me a keyboard to connect to it, so writing would be easier for me. During the time I was writing Transmission, I was also involved in a play. I spent many hours sitting backstage in the theater writing out the majority of my book.

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Once I finished my book, in mid-February, I didn’t work on it again for over a year. I never really imagined I would write a book, which left me utterly unprepared to publish it. I would read through it occasionally, but I didn’t make any concrete efforts to edit my book until March of 2018, when a friend offered to edit it for me. I spent the next year and a half editing and doing some minor work on it, preparing to publish it. And then, at the start of my final year in high school, I decided to take an ambitious step in my publishing, by preparing it to publish for my senior project. It took me less than a month to finish all the final details, and I was able to set the final release date for later 2019.

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Writing and publishing this book has been an adventure, and while I know that Transmission won’t be my best work, I am immensely proud that I accomplished this feat as a teenager. As a senior in high school, I have been learning how to write both formally and informally. I have always considered myself to be a self-directed learner, capable of learning on my own, and the process of writing and publishing a book has only reinforced that for me. Self-publishing is not always an easy path, but if you are able to overcome obstacles and seek out the resources you need, it is very rewarding.

 

Besides writing, I have worked as a lifeguard at several different locations, as a stockman for a hardware store, and am currently serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Lyon, France.

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Thank you so much for checking out my website and my bio! If you want to receive more updates on what will be happening in the future, or if you want to support my work, check out the links below!

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