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My Audacious Time Traveling heroine Is Recognized!

By Rachel Dacus | June 27, 2023June 27, 2023 by Rachel Dacus

Thrilled and delighted that my book JANE AUSTEN, TIME TRAVELER has placed as a Finalist in the 17th Annual National Indie Book Awards, in the women’s fiction category! My audacious time-traveling heroine Jane Austen is recognized. Take a bow, girl! The National Indie Excellence Awards These awards honor “self and independent publishing excellence. They give awards to books published by mid-size independent presses, university presses, and self-publishing authors. My book was honored in the Women’s…

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Sculptor, Quaker, Spy – A Character Interview

By Rachel Dacus | May 4, 2023May 5, 2023 by Rachel Dacus

A character interview with Patience Lovell Wright This is a character Interview with Patience Lovell Wright, a Reviolutiuonary War era sculptor and featured character in the time travel novel UNDOING TIME. Women artists feature in my stories because they don’t feature enough in art history. It’s my way of bringing to our attention extraordinary painters, writers, sculptors, and musicians who didn’t make it into the canon of history — precisely because of their gender. Patience…

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Time Travel Novels I Wish I’d Written

By Rachel Dacus | June 30, 2022July 10, 2022 by Rachel Dacus

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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Which authors would you erase from history?

By Rachel Dacus | March 26, 2022April 17, 2022 by Rachel Dacus

As I work on another time travel story, I find myself thinking deeply about what it would mean for the present to change the past. This is the kind of thing I ponder in my best thinking places — where running water or wind is involved. That’s why I dictate more and more poetry and prose on my phone. I think well in the shower, washing dishes, or walking my dog. Today I found myself…

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Badass Time Traveling Heroines

By Rachel Dacus | November 21, 2018March 20, 2022 by Rachel Dacus

Badass time traveling heroines are one of my favorite things in fiction. Books about women who go on a quest, to rescue someone, or the world, or ight a wrong. Time travel with adventure on their minds. There may be love too, but that’s not the main plot. I grew up reading about one truly badass heroine — Dorothy of Oz. Here’s a short list of some other favorites in female-led time travel books. Time…