The Origins of Time Travel
As many of you may already know, I’m eagerly counting down the days now until my second book, The Origins of Time Travel, is released! I am thrilled to get this book into your hands. It is chock full of some of my favorite themes.
Time Travel (obviously) ✔️
Psychic Ability ✔️
Astral Travel (on crack) ✔️
Murder (this is new!) ✔️
Love ✔️
Complex Friendships/Relationships ✔️
Small Town Arizona Mystique ✔️
High Strangeness ✔️
Consciousness Exploration ✔️
The Bonds that Build and Break Us ✔️
Death and Rebirth ✔️
Ruth and James (from The Luxury of Time Travel) ✔️✔️
I’m not going to lie… I loved writing this book from start to finish. It felt like I hit a stride and I hope you feel that too as you’re reading it. There are echoes of my first book, new elements I’ve never played with before and twists and turns that even took me by surprise.
I thought I’d take a few minutes to talk about the book, the series, and what’s next for me before the release date on October 26, 2021.
Synopsis
Time travel wasn’t discovered in a lab. It doesn’t happen in a machine.
When Ruth Riley decides to lie on the damp earth above John Parker’s freshly buried body, her simple aim is to escape her small life. What she does instead is unwittingly set in motion decades of discovery around the true nature of time travel.
As a psychic in a small Arizona ghost town, she felt doomed to die in the place she was born. Her only escape was her secret ability to travel into the past using the dead as a doorway. When she decides to nose around in the life of the town’s only murder victim in years, her otherwise boring existence is thrust into chaos.
Soon, she finds herself at the center of the murder investigation, operating as both the cops’ psychic sleuth and a time-hopping heroine, tasked with saving John’s life. With each trip back in time, Ruth attempts to learn more about the young man she’s falling in love with before he meets his seemingly inevitable end.
In this mind-warping exploration of consciousness, human potential and fate, Ruth sets into motion a series of events that echo through time and beg us all to confront the nature of our reality.
Questions about The Origins of Time Travel
It’s a prequel?
Yes! When I wrote The Luxury of Time Travel I knew that I had reached the end of London’s story… but I felt a bit of a void was left. Ruth, London’s mother, was a relatively mysterious, but intriguing character. I enjoyed writing about her and knew that her past was a looming secret that had to come out of the dark.
Thus, The Origins of Time Travel. This book is all about Ruth. The story is set in the late 1980s, in a small ghost town in Arizona called Jerome. In my first book, there were two questions left unanswered:
Who was London’s father? And what happened to him?
What is the deal with Ruth and James’s relationship?
In this prequel, I answer all those questions and much more about where AION originated as well as the people who founded it.
Do I have to read The Luxury of Time Travel first?
Nope. I wrote both books to be standalones. I think you can enjoy them in either order (chronologic Origins > Luxury or in the order I wrote them Luxury > Origins). I *think* it’s more fun to read Luxury first. Origins is more Easter Egg-y that way. However, I don’t think you’ll be missing any key information if you read Origins first.
Will there be another book in the series?
For now, I’m moving on. This will stay as a duology for the foreseeable future. That being said, I DO have an idea for what a third book would look like. If there was enough demand for it, I could be persuaded into a trilogy.
That won’t be my next book though.
What are you working on now?
I am currently writing a dystopian novel. I’ve only just started… but guys this book has me on FIRE right now. It is diving MUCH MUCH deeper into the kind of strangeness I love. I have a severe soft spot for dystopian fiction, so there will be familiar notes from that genre. It has elements that appear in all my stories like consciousness, family and love. But it’s also going to be jam-packed with technocracy, futurist ideology, balancing the natural world with the manufactured world, power structures, control mechanisms, deception, death, depopulation, higher functions of the human mind and WHO KNOWS what else.
I don’t know if it will be a series or a standalone as of yet. I tend to be more of a standalone reader so my goal is one book. But who knows? The story will go where the story will go!
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