A Lot of Things Happen in 20 years
By Debbie De Louise
While trying to write a guest post for the blog tour of my new time-travel novel, Time’s Relative, I started thinking about the book and how I began it in 1998, put it away, and then discovered it twenty-two years later when cleaning up during the lockdown. I realized that, during that time, many things had occurred in my life. I began to mentally list them.
The best thing that happened, besides my daughter being born in 2014, is that I’d gone on to publish ten books (Time’s Relative is my eleventh) and dozens of short stories, articles, and even a bunch of poems.
There were many other occurrences during that time, however, that weren’t so great. I lost several loved ones, both my parents and my mother-in-law, as well as the two cats who were in the book and another one I got later. I also lost two friends, one who died way too young from a rare disease and one who caught COVID and died last spring.
I’m sure if you recall what your life was like in 1998, you’d also recall some bad and good things that happened to you since then. Now imagine that you could go back and change some of those things. Would you want to? How do you think those changes would have affected your present life?
In my book, the detective investigating Virtual Software and its missing president, gets an opportunity to return to the day his wife was murdered. His decision to try to save her, regarding warnings not to tamper with the past, has serious ramifications.
The main character, Samantha Stewart, known by all as Sam, not only transports to the past but also to the near future. What she sees about upcoming events, may or may not come to pass. Later in the book, she is able to view world events, as well as personal ones, including 9/11 and the pandemic. I added this information when I updated the book.
I hope you will enjoy Time’s Relative and its look back over the last twenty-two years.
Thanks for sharing my book tour and guest post.
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