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Time Travel Novels I Wish I’d Written

In this post, I’m going to rate several time travel novels, using my own I-Wish-I’d-Written-It test. Time travel novels go in two directions. Either the plot is a thriller-style story and takes a scientific approach to time’s paradoxes, or it immerses the reader as a tourist in a past era. Most often, time travel books have a romance. I’m not fascinated by time machines or historical paradoxes, so my stories go the romance and adventure…

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Undoing Time Is Out Now!

Book 3 in the Timegathering Series Is Out Undoing Time — my time travel novel of love and history — is out now! I’m thrilled to bring out a new book in my Timegathering Series. Each is a standalone, but each builds on the Timegathering world, where you can inherit the gene that enables you to move through time and history. Each book has a larger story than the time travel — for each protagonist,…

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Time Travel in a World Like Ours

In my magical realism world, people are born with a gene that allows them to slip through time. Like all genes, the timegathering gene expresses itself differently in different people, and behaves differently because of environment and natural modifications. For example, the time traveling tour guide that threads all the Timegathering Series novels together, George St. James, has time agility and time flexibility. He can time travel quickly and to many different places in history,…

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Sample of Undoing Time, new in Timegathering Series

UNDOING TIME IS OUT!The Timegathering Series #3 Read sample chapters of the newest book in the Timegathering Series below.  For more on time travel, women’s fiction, and writing tips, please sign up for my newsletter. I send news about once a month — along with previews, notes on work-in-progress, plus discounts and special offers. Chapter 1. May Gold’s Phone Call May Gold stepped outside of the museum. The afternoon sunshine in Florence dazzled her, and…

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4th of July – Celebrating Liberty and Equality

As we celebrate in the U.S. our national holiday, I’m thinking about what it is we’re celebrating. I’m especially interested in the American Revolution. It figures in my newest time travel novel (hopefully out in 2022).

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Why All My Novels Are Set in Italy

It’s hard to avoid noticing — all my novels are set in Italy. All or part of all three of my stories take place in that magic land, Italy. It began as an homage to the most fabulous traveling of my life, an art history tour of Rome, Assisi, Florence, Portofino, and Venice. Even just one of those places makes you want to fall in love — if with nothing more than this beautiful place.

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Themes, Titles, and Cover Art in Novels

With a new novel coming out soon, I’m thinking about themes, titles, and cover art. Self-publishing requires the author to wear a lot of different hats. Fortunately, I like hats. Themes The Time Gatherer is the story of a young man with an unexpected genetic gift, the ability to part the folds of time, and what he decides to do with it. Rock-and-roll, genetics, and a shadowy secret society all play a part, as does…

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Ideas for Your Global Pandemic Self Isolation Reading List

As a public service, here’s a list of books for your global pandemic, self isolation reading — you are reading more now, aren’t you? They’re books I’ve enjoyed recently (though I wasn’t yet in self isolation). Time traveling, sister stories, romance, and mystery When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal — 5 stars.A poignant story of sisterhood and reunion, this well-told story of separated sisters moved back and forth between the present and the…

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Deciding Your Fiction Category Before You Write

Deciding your fiction category before you write — that can make all the difference in finding your readers! But isn’t that a cart-far-before-the-horse decision? How can you know where it fits in the marketplace before you develop a story? It can be motivating to try, to think about your story idea’s shelf in a bookstore or on Amazon.

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