I’m finalizing my latest novel, which some of you have kindly read and reviewed. (It’s been revised substantially.)
The title will be “The Time Device,” and this is my proposed description.
A fit of rage sends Bill down a dark spiral into strange religions, madness, drugs, and a narrow escape from death. A kind hypnotist brings him back from the edge and sets him on a quest to heal the ache in his soul. Through deep meditation he discovers a device that enables him to travel through time and fix the fateful night when he lost the love of his life. But time travel is never simple, and his several attempts to fix the past land him in the middle of a conspiracy of galactic significance.
Would you want to read that book?
Yes, it sounds like an intriguing page-turner. The plot seems like an intersection of the movies “About Time”, “In Time”, “Looper” and “Inception”.
Hope it becomes a best seller!
Would I get a complimentary time device with my copy? I would like to send some of those people glorifying the Confederacy back to the Civil War.
Having read the pre-revised version and liking it, yes
My only objection is to the title, which IMO is a little bland.
You can get away with something as direct as “The Time Device” if you’re Wells and you’re doing it for the first time. These days, not so sure.. If the broad strokes of the story are similar to what they used to be, there are a lot of words and phrases at the nexus of music and poetry and time to play with.
Good thoughts.
Aside from the title, what do you think of this as a cover?
Nice! I like the background (both colours and the timepiece theme) the font choices are good for both the title and your name (with the nice banding), and it makes it pretty clear there’s a beautiful woman involved at the heart of the story.
I remember reading something somewhere once that an attractive woman on the cover tended to increase reads. I thought to myself ‘well, sure, maybe among a small number of people, but probably most are like me and of course I’m more interested in the stories themselves and not the cover art’. Then I looked at my own impulse Kindle purchases/unlimited downloads, and found a statistically improbable number of intense-looking redheads and/or cute aliens on the covers. So there you go.
Is she the time device?
Interesting question. No, but it was because of obsessing over her that he discovered it.
Next project: a story in which a person is a time device.