Time Travel Romance with P.L. Parker

 

I met P.L. Parker online years ago when we were both authors with Wild Rose Press. Her Time Travel  Aimee's Locket was the first time travel I'd read that pulled me into the story. It was fun to discover she lived not that far from me. I'm in Eastern Oregon and she's in southwestern Idaho. 

Paty: What is Time Travel Romance?

P.L. Stepping into the past or future and finding a love in that new time frame, whether it is a Highland warrior or an alien being. Doesn’t matter. Romance is the basic theme.

Paty: What drew you to writing this genre of romance?

P.L.: I’ve never been interested in contemporary romance novels. I prefer historical romances and the farther back, the better. Besides my time travel romances (Time Warrior Series, Aimee’s Locket, Fiona, Heart of the Sorcerer), I also write scifi romances (Star Brides Series and The Chimeras Series). I have also written a paranormal romance, Absolution, which involves a vampire born in the dark ages who doesn’t know she’s a vampire and ultimately finds herself awakening in modern times (somewhat a reverse time travel).

Paty: Something about finding a love in another time fascinates me. I would love to travel back, not necessarily for romance, but just to see what life would be like in the past.

P.L.: Fiona was my first time travel novel, followed by Aimee’s Locket and then Riley’s Journey. Each of these ladies found themselves in the past with Riley finding herself traveling the farthest back and arriving at the end of the last ice age. I had so many requests to continue Riley’s journey that I was compelled to write Into the Savage Dawn. Ultimately, I wrote Beyond Tomorrow and The Sanctuary. I’m still being asked to write a final story in the series where the time travelers finally make it to the Americas. In each of the Time Warriors books, the hero and heroine find love in the far past.

Paty: Which is more important to this type of book, the romance or the time travel element?

P.L.: I think both are important in time travel romances. There’s a definite balance between the two.

Paty: Your Time Warrior books tend to be set in primitive times. Why did you pick this time period

P.L.: As I indicated before, I love history and the farther back, the better. I often wonder if modern man could survive in the far past. Could we overcome the obstacles that primitive man faced on a daily basis? Even trained in advance, would we have the skills and survival instincts we need? The more I researched the last ice age, the more I knew I wanted to write a time travel romance about that time period.

Paty: How did the plot idea for this book come to you?

P.L.: I wanted to write a time travel novel outside the norm of time travel romance novels - falling through a portal and finding a Highland warrior, stepping into Victorian times, etc. I wanted something different. Something unique. As I’m fascinated by ancient tribes, I decided that my premise would be to venture into a time far into the past. A modern woman falling in love with a very primitive male didn’t fit what I’d envisioned so I sent the man through the portal first, he was alone, lonely, needing a companion. So, Riley was selected as a mate and sent back and the adventure began.

Paty: Do you have a favorite character that you’ve written?

P.L.: I have several favorites but I think my most favorite character is Chloe from my novel, Absolution. She’s a vampire that doesn’t know she’s a vampire and the struggles she overcomes to make a place for herself in this strange new world she finds herself in. I actually love all my heroines, though. As I write, they become almost real to me. I know their stories, their hopes and dreams.

Paty: Who are some of the authors you read who write this subgenre of romance?

Di P.L.: Diana Gabaldon of course, especially the first three novels of her Outlander Series. H.G. Wells’ Time Machine is a favorite. Rebecca Preston, Maeve Greyson, to name a few. I’m an avid reader so it’s hard for me to come up with specific authors.

Paty: Just for fun – Tell us what is your favorite thing to do besides writing and reading, because we know that’s a given. 😉

P.L.: I have a lot of things I like to do, but my favorite is having my cup of coffee in the morning while I watch a movie or parts of a series. That is my morning routine and everyone who knows me will attest to this. Afterwards, I get up and get moving. I also love to travel. I dream of seeing the aurora borealis and visiting Scotland. Sometime in the near future, I hope to do both.

THE SANCTUARY

The compound provided a much-needed sanctuary for the battle-weary tribe, but the allure of the Americas is just too great to resist. The tribe would be sailing soon and with them would go Bree’s last hope of freedom from her nemesis, Yejun. The departure is complicated by the continuous threat of attack from the brutal and predatory Cros, but no matter what, Bree is going with the tribe when they set sail, even if she has to swim behind and the warrior, Kitch, seems to be her best chance.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sanctuary-Time-Warriors-Book-ebook/dp/B0BTMQ1G2J

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Goodreads:

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P.L. Parker was born and raised in Idaho where she lives with her three sons, a daughter-in-law, two grandchildren and now a little great granddaughter. She is an amateur Squatcher and can be found at times in the wilds of Idaho with her oldest son looking for the elusive creature.

Ms. Parker writes stories with alpha males and strong, determined women. Science fiction and time travel are her genres of choice but she has tried her hands at paranormal. Besides her stand-alone novels, she has three series: The Chimeras and The Star Brides, science fiction romances, and Time Warriors, time travel romances.

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Revisiting The Past #timetravel #romance

Hi, I'm Pippa Jay, author of SciFi and supernatural stories to engage your emotions. Today I'm travelling back in time to a post from 2016 on my favourite time periods. Slightly depressing to discover Brexit was still top of my thoughts even that far back. Eep! Still, the rest of the post remains true...

Until recently, I loved the place that I lived. Brexit and the hideous aftermath that seems set to get much worse before any possibility of it getting better has had me looking longingly at vague plans I started making for a possible move to New Zealand.

But if I'm honest, I would rather travel in time than space. Maybe it's because of being a lifelong Whovian. I have two specific time periods I would like to visit, though I'm not sure the reality might live up to my expectations and be somewhere I'd want to stay indefinitely.

Firstly the medieval period. I love the castles, the clothing, the weapons. I'm a big fan of the Ellis Peters books following the investigations of a medieval Welsh monk, Cadfael, and we go to the local medieval fairs and jousts. But I'm not sure I could put up with the lack of hygiene, medical care, or the loss of my beloved smartphone.
I would also love to visit the future, to see the human race set foot on Mars, or perhaps even farther afield.

Most of all I'd love to see my rather dystopian view of our future proved wrong. We are capable of so much more, and yet our main achievement appears to be an irresistible desire for self destruction. We seem to find it so much easier to destroy and to hate than create and love. Maybe in the future we could find a way to eliminate the darker, more negative side of our psyches. I would like to see us achieve that, rather than something like this:

But some days I feel like a nice solitary cave somewhere might suit me best. I'm a bit of a hermit by nature even before I became an author.

How I ended up with a husband and three monsters, I'm not quite sure. But I'd have to go home to them at some point because I could never leave them behind forever. ^_^
Instead, I get to explore past and future, and other planets in my books instead. Want to join me?

Want to chat? Find me on Twitter as @pippajaygreen or at my website http://pippajay.co.uk
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Introducing Genre-ista Maeve Greyson!

MAEVE GREYSON

I am honored to announce that Highlander Time Travel Romance Author Maeve Greyson (who guested with us in October) will join us as our third Wednesday of the month Genre-ista beginning in December of 2016! She is an award-winning, multi-published (and multi-publisher) author.

Maeve lives in the middle of a five acre wood in Kentucky. When she's not at her full time job at the steel mill, she's tapping away on her laptop, recording her daydreams of sexy Highlanders and the headstrong women who drive them crazy.

Check out the link below to visit Maeve Greyson's Book Page!
~Sarah Raplee

http://www.maevegreyson.com/books.html 

My Seductive Highlander – from Random House Loveswept

In this scintillating novel from the author of My Tempting Highlander(“Another exciting and heartwarming time-travel romance.”—Vonnie Davis), the ladies’ man of Loch Ness meets a hot-tempered lass who sets his heart aflame.
 
Though part of a legacy of time-traveling sisters, Lilia Sinclair is planted firmly in twenty-first-century Edinburgh. Her granny’s matchmaking with thirteenth-century Highlanders isn’t about to lure her into the past, especially as ancient Scotland enters troubled times. After all, Lilia is blessed—or cursed—with dire prophetic visions. To protect herself, she’s put up an icy emotional wall no man could cross—until a pair of gorgeous, rippling arms breaks right through.
 
Graham MacTavish is pure trouble. Once the dragon bound to Loch Ness, he’s transformed into a philanderer of the first order. In fact, because of his dalliances with other men’s wives, a rival clan wants his head on a pike. Before he provokes an all-out war, Graham is banished to the twenty-first century, where he must win Lilia’s hand—or return to die. But after meeting a lass as fierce as any Highland warrior, Graham knows one thing: life with Lilia, in any century, is a fate 
to embrace.

HIGHLANDER TIME-TRAVEL ROMANCE by Maeve Greyson

“What if” game seeded my love for Time Travel Romance

Have you ever played the “what if” game? Like after an important job interview or a book pitch with that awesome editor you’ve been stalking…er…I mean researching, your mind rewinds, replaying every single word you said and you think, “What if I’d said…? What if I’d told them…?” Would it have made a difference? Would I have won them over? And then you think, “Well crap on crackers! I wish I could rewind time and say (insert witty and awe-inspiring words here) instead.”

Awkwardly shy introvert that I am, I am an expert at the “what if” game. Been playing it for years and wishing I could have any number of “do-overs” to better present myself in whatever situation I’d just muddled through. And I’ve decided that’s most likely why I’m so fond of the time travel romance genre—both reading it as well as writing it.

I love when the heroine from the future discovers that the past isn’t as romantically rustic as she believed. Instead, it’s uncomfortable, inconvenient, and vastly smellier than she ever imagined. Or the hero from the past finds the future confusingly loud, complicated and frightening. But then they find each other and learn that love is timeless and having that one special person capable of winning your trust and cherishing your heart is all that really matters—no matter the century.

My Highland Hearts series is about the Sinclair women. Granny and her four granddaughters. Time-runners. The females of the Sinclair bloodline are able to skate back and forth across time at will and also control a specific set of powers such as healing, premonitions, and the talent of looking through a person’s thoughts and memories like flipping through the pages of a magazine. And since Granny’s getting up in years, she’s determined to see each granddaughter happily married to the perfect Highlander—the Highlander that Granny has seen through visions that her granddaughters are destined to love. 

The only kicker is that these perfect Highlanders happen to reside in the thirteenth century. That’s the century in which the Sinclair women were born before resettling to modern day Kentucky to survive. No modern man could ever meet Granny’s standards and besides, fate has matched her granddaughters with Highlanders from the past.

My Seductive Highlander is my latest release and the final book in the Highland Heart series. Here’s a bit more about it:

In this scintillating novel from the author of My Tempting Highlander (“Another exciting and heartwarming time-travel romance.”—Vonnie Davis), the ladies’ man of Loch Ness meets a hot-tempered lass who sets his heart aflame.

Though part of a legacy of time-traveling sisters, Lilia Sinclair is planted firmly in twenty-first-century Edinburgh. Her granny’s matchmaking with thirteenth-century Highlanders isn’t about to lure her into the past, especially as ancient Scotland enters troubled times. After all, Lilia is blessed—or cursed—with dire prophetic visions. To protect herself, she’s put up an icy emotional wall no man could cross—until a pair of gorgeous, rippling arms breaks right through.

Graham MacTavish is pure trouble. Once the dragon bound to Loch Ness, he’s transformed into a philanderer of the first order. In fact, because of his dalliances with other men’s wives, a rival clan wants his head on a pike. Before he provokes an all-out war, Graham is banished to the twenty-first century, where he must win Lilia’s hand—or return to die. But after meeting a lass as fierce as any Highland warrior, Graham knows one thing: life with Lilia, in any century, is a fate to embrace.

Praise for My Seductive Highlander

“Ms. Greyson pens a masterpiece of visions, kilted passions, and humor to cast a spell of utter delight over her readers. My Seductive Highlander is a perfect romance you won’t want to miss.”—Vonnie Davis, author of both the Highlanders Beloved and the Black Eagle Ops series

“For lovers of Scottish time travel romance—I’m a new fan!”—USA Today bestselling author Angela Quarles

“Maeve Greyson weaves a magical tale. My Seductive Highlander will have you holding your breath and flipping pages late into the night.”—Lisa Kessler, author of the Moon series

MAEVE GREYSON

Maeve’s Bio:

No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them. That’s Maeve Greyson’s mantra. When she’s not working at the steel mill, Greyson’s writing romances about sexy Highlanders and the women who tame them. She and her hubby of nearly thirty-seven years reside in a five-acre wood in rural Kentucky.

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A #Romance Across Time #amwriting #timetravel #scifi

Hi, I'm Pippa Jay, author of scifi and supernatural stories to engage your emotions. And my main romance series includes time travel. Why?

Rocking my Anakin cosplay on the Iron Throne!

Well. While I'm a huge Star Wars fan (and it's the universe I tend to focus on for my cosplay creations), I'm also a life long Whovian. My parents were fans. My earliest memory from Doctor Who is The Planet of the Spiders--the final adventure of Jon Pertwee, the Doctor's third incarnation, and the episode I can possibly pin my spider phobia on! His companion Sarah Jane Smith was my first heroine inspiration.

Me aged 18, with the then 7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy

So perhaps it's not surprising that my debut novel and the main series it started are time travel romances/adventures. Even the book I refer to as my 'Star Wars' story--Gethyon, set about twenty years before my time travel series and sharing some of the same characters as well as the same universe--still has a time travel element to it. While not a romance, my hero accidently catapults himself twenty years back in time to meet a girl he falls for. He comes to learn and hate some of the restrictions this kind of travel carries while being thankful for it as well.

Gethyon

But in my main series I have to deal with how and why they time travel, the limits of their abilities, the benefits and consequences. For example, at one point my heroine has to face an ancient nemesis responsible for the death of her sisters, her home world, and even the powers she considers more of a curse than a blessing. But she can't kill her because it would directly impact the very existence of the hero and cause a paradox. She also can't leave the woman free to cause any further harm. What to do?

There are also things they can't go back and change. Their method of time travel involves a certain amount of focus on a place or person to work. So if someone dies, the knowledge of their death stops anyone from going back to any point in their life before their death and possibly preventing it - a psychological block rather than a physical or temporal one. There are also certain worlds that can only be accessed by special portals - gateways.

So it's a little more complicated than jumping in a TARDIS, though probably just as haphazard. The thing I love most about time travel romance is I can have my characters jump anywhere, any time, exploring alien worlds but also the ups and downs and complexities of time travel, and how even love can cross such barriers between those destined to be together.

Keir

Keir's Fall

Want to chat? Find me at my website or blog, but my favourite place to hang out and talk all things geek and scifi romance is as @pippajaygreen on Twitter.

BREACHING THE TIME TUNNEL by Charlene Raddon

 To write time travel gives the author the best of two worlds—the present and the past. I could say three worlds and include the future, but I don’t write futuristics. My fascination is with the past.

The first book I wrote was a time travel romance. In 1989, time travel was not selling. All my book ideas then were time travels. But I set them all aside and went on to write several other romance novels, figuring I would get that first book published some day. Still mean to do that.

The trick with writing time travel is, of course, how to get your characters back to the past, and if the plot calls for it, returned to the present. Finding a fresh, believable approach takes some doing.

In my book, she returns to the present.

The first thing a writer must deal with once she has her hero/heroine in the past is how they react. Are they horrified, thrilled, scared? Most likely all three. But these reactions must be shown in a believable way. By the same token, the writer must show the reaction of the characters in the past to this strangely dressed invader into their world.

• Should the heroine admit where she came from? Is she believed? 
• Does she try to return to the present or accept her new home? 
• All these questions must be answered to the satisfaction of the reader.

Recently, I was asked to write a time travel novella for an anthology entitled The Good, The Bad, and The Ghostly. Historical western ghost stories. My hero, a ghost hunter, travels to a location where he hopes to banish a ghost and winds up in the past. Great fun to write. My particular story in this anthology is A Ride Through Time. 

The anthology is for sale on Amazon for $0.99. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ghostly-Western-Romance-Historical-ebook/dp/B01KKVK9BI/.

CHARLENE RADDON

Charlene Raddon is an award-winning author of historical romance novels set in the American West, and a book cover designer who specializes in historical covers.

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Western Time Travel Romance by Peggy L. Henderson

Thank you so much for inviting me to kick off time travel romance month!  I write western time travel romance as well as strictly western historical romance. What I hear from a lot of readers is that they are hesitant to read time travel books because of the time travel aspect!  If they give my time travels a try, I usually hear that they were pleasantly surprised, which is always nice to hear.

Personally, I love the idea of time travel. Mixing modern mindsets with old- fashioned values can be so much fun, especially when it involves romance. I hadn’t actually read more than one or two time travel romances when I wrote my first book, which combined my love of Yellowstone National Park with the notion of traveling back in time. That book turned into an entire series, and I loved writing the genre so much, I decided to write another time travel series, which combined my love of time travel and my fascination with the old west.

The Second Chances Time Travel Romance Series has had various settings – on a wagon train to Oregon, on a Montana horse ranch, and in modern-day Montana. The idea for a second chances series came about when I considered what it would be like to go back in time (or forward in time) to change something about your life – anything from unfortunate circumstances to bad choices. What if someone granted you the ability to make things right, or to travel down a different path? What if we could have a fresh start? A new beginning? What if it meant leaving everything behind that you've known?

However, that second chance had to come with a price, namely the character had to complete some sort of task in a different time in order to be granted a do-over to straighten out his or her life. Then I threw in some romance to make it even more challenging for the characters, and their decisions would be even harder. What were they willing to do, or give up, for true love?

The series is planned as a set of standalone books, with the common thread being a mysterious character who grants second chances to people who have lost their way. Throughout the series, this character experiences his own character growth as he seeks to understand the motivations of the people he’s been assigned to grant second chances to, especially when it comes to the notion of love and romance. He is known as Reverend Johnson because he appears mostly as a reverend, but could take on just about any role as it suits him to meet the people to whom he grants second chances.

At the moment, there are three books in the series – Come Home to Me, which was a Laramie Award winner in 2014, Ain’t No Angel, and Diamond in the Dust, a RONE finalist and Honorable Mention in time travel romance in 2015.  A fourth book is in the planning stages.

Thank you for reading about my Second Chance Time Travel Romance Series. ~ Peggy

Peggy L Henderson is an award-winning, best-selling western historical and time travel romance author of the Yellowstone Romance Series, Second Chances Time Travel Romance Series, Teton Romance Trilogy, and the Blemished Brides and Wilderness Brides Western Historical Romance Series. When she’s not writing about Yellowstone, the Tetons, or the old west, she’s out hiking the trails, spending time with her family and pets, or catching up on much-needed sleep. She is happily married to her high school sweetheart. Along with her husband and two sons, she makes her home in Southern California. 

Peggy L Henderson

Western Historical and Time Travel Romance

“Where Adventure Awaits and Love is Timeless”

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Yellowstone Romance Series

Teton Romance Trilogy

Second Chances Time Travel Romance Series

Blemished Brides Western Historical Romance Series

Wilderness Brides Historical Romance Series

               

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Travelling Through Time

by Kristina O'Grady, Time Travel Romance Author

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel through time? In my novels, I use quantum physics, abet very loosely. Most of my reasoning comes more from my creative licence than it does from science, however, if you read books such as Matrix Energetics by Richard Bartlett it does seem possible; we just haven’t figured it out yet. Maybe that day is coming. And wouldn’t it be fun?

If you could travel through time, where would you go?

When I was a kid, I dreamed of traveling to the Old West.

The way of life back then fascinated me. Of course, I wasn’t ready to give up my comfortable jeans in exchange for a tight corset, no matter how good it was for posture. So I figured I’d have to disguise myself as a boy. This theory was all well and good, that is, until I hit puberty. Then I wanted to go somewhere romantic.

What period in time is more romantic than the Regency Era? I easily fell in love with the dashing rakes, the beautiful dresses and the extravagance and elegance of everyday life of the ton.

To me, every one of those ladies was a princess and every rake, their prince charming. I love reading about their journey to find the love of their life. It allows me to believe in the good of this world that we live in.

I suppose that’s what romance is all about; and that’s why we read it. We read it to escape from our everyday lives, to forget the bad news we see on the television and in the papers. That’s why I love time travel, to escape. And since I can’t actually travel through time (not yet, anyway J) I’ve done the next best thing…I wrote about it.

Please find me at my website, www.kristinaogrady.com on Facebook, www.facebook.com/kristinawrites and on Twitter, @KristinaOGrady. I would love to hear from you. Thank you to Romancing The Genres for hosting me today.

Debutantes Don’t Date Book 1 Time Travel to Regency England

At the stroke of midnight...

One minute Grace Lancaster is an overworked event manager organising 2013’s New Year’s Eve ball… The next she’s kissing a rather gorgeous man at the Regency themed party. Everyone’s entitled to an out-of-character New Year’s kiss, right? Except Jasper Mossman, Earl of Bingham, isn’t at a costume party - he’s a real-life gentleman from 1813...

And, it seems, kissing a man in Regency London has consequences!

What Grace considers normal behaviour scandalises Regency society and so far she’s provided the irrepressible gossips of the ton with a season’s worth of conversation! In a scramble to protect her reputation, as well as his own, Jasper insists that they marry for the sake of her honour. Marrying Mr Darcy might be a 21st century girl’s dream – but the reality is far from romantic. Corsets are uncomfortable, no running water is disastrous! Grace had always planned on falling in love before she got married, but when Jasper takes her in his arms she just might believe she’s finally found her very own Prince Charming.


Damsel In Distress? Book 2 Time Travel to Regency England

A chance meeting that could scandalise the ton!
19th century England. Harriet is running for her life, chased by three men on horseback through Hyde Park. Knocked unconscious, everything goes black…

Philip, Baron Eaglestone, has never seen such a beautiful damsel in distress. And he’s even more intrigued when she opens her eyes, and begins to speak. Because this irresistible woman can only remember her first name, and has no knowledge as to who was trying to kill her… or where she is!

As Philip cares for Harriet, their attraction burns… and neither can shake the feeling that their chance meeting was truly a moment out of time. But if her memory returns, Harriet will be faced with a question. Will she return home or could it be that family is where her heart is – with a Regency rake!

Seeking Treasure

by Lorraine Beaumont, New Adult Time Travel Romance Author

Treasure is such a solitary word and yet it has the ability to send your mind racing off on a journey through time and have your heart chasing right after it.

For the heroine’s in my books, it is no different. In Forgotten Time, my debut new adult time travel novel, Katherine Jamison is a young woman temping at a high end auction house, and when she “borrows” an ancient amulet to wear to a costume ball, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of events that result in her waking up in Victorian England betrothed to an arrogant self-centered earl.

Normally when you hear the word treasure, it will incite visions of chests of gold, swashbuckling pirates who look like, maybe, probably, definitely…Johnny Depp.

When in reality treasure does not always come in the form of gold and it is not always accompanied by pirates, no matter how good looking they are. Instead, it is merely something found of great value.

While researching these items for my books, I uncovered many different stories about real treasures that were found by everyday people, like you and me.

And who doesn’t love a good treasure story? I know I do.

Take for instance the story of a man who walked into a flea market one day and bought a small oil painting for $50 and found out it was by a listed artist worth $1 million dollars.

Or the story about a man who went to a Pennsylvania flea market and bought a dismal painting for $4

dollars because he liked the gilded ornate frame and found out he is now the possessor of a first printing of the Declaration of Independence, which is expected to bring $800,000 to $1 million dollars at auction.

And last but not least….at a New York tag sale, someone bought a ceramic bowl for $3 dollars and it sold at the famed auction house Sotheby’s, for $2.23 million.

To the auction world however, these items of great value are not called treasure but instead “Finds.” They come in many different mediums, shapes and sizes, which in the third book in the Ravenhurst Series, Time to Remember, my heroine Raven Tremaine discovers while cataloguing the contents of Ravenhurst estate,  a castle with a few thousand feet of additions that dates back to King Arthur’s realm. She has a few good “cheats” up her sleeve as well that will enable just about anyone to be able to discern whether they have stumbled upon a true “Find.”

So the next time you pass a flea market or happen by a tag sale or auction, why not stop, take a look around and maybe just maybe you will “Find” a treasure for your very own.

I’ll keep my *fingers crossed* for you.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my little “Finds.”

Happy Hunting and as always, I’m sending out a big THANK YOU for reading.

Lorraine Beaumont is an international bestselling author. She writes books with an ensemble cast of characters, with plenty of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end. She writes the kind of books she enjoys reading and can only hope that you will enjoy them as well.

There is not much more she enjoys than interacting with her readers, so if you happen upon a “Find” of your own and want to share, she would love to hear about it.  Who knows, she may even be able to tell you what it is worth.

The fifth book in the Ravenhurst series, Now and Forever will be available soon.

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Reality... What a Concept

by Angeline Fortin, Time Travel Romance Author

Reality… What a concept.

Robin Williams uttered those profound words as a part of one of his most memorable stand-up comedy routines. As I was just a preteen when it first came out, most of it was largely beyond my understanding but that quote has remained with me throughout the years since.

Reality.

The notion really doesn’t seem to have much relevance in the genre of Romantic Fiction, does it? No matter what the sub-genre, be it contemporary, historical or paranormal, there is always an element of magic in a romance novel if only because the Hero is always a magnificent lover and true love always ensues. Not an exceedingly credible idea, is it? But we take it, accept it because it embodies the escape we are looking for and because the author’s finely woven tale manages to suspend our sense of reality and make their world as genuine as our own.

Time Travel Romance has a greater challenge in successfully suspending reality than many subgenres, I think. The concept of time travel itself is pure fiction. Even when logically presented and grounded in scientific probability, it is still only theory and therefore, as much fantasy as the witches, vampires and ghosts that are commonplace beings in paranormal romance.

That being said, I don’t believe Time Travel Romances are destined to fail in successfully engaging the reader’s imagination if there is an element of truth included in the tale. But too often they do fail when things seem too easy.

There is nothing that I find more improbable in Time Travel Romance than those tales where the time-traveler accepts the phenomenon without question. A Heroine who discovers that she traveled through time only to shrug prosaically and essentially say, “Yes, of course, I did. Why not?”

Even more incredible and unlikely, is the Heroine who inexplicably possesses extraordinary skills that help her fit seamlessly into her new environment. I’m not speaking of skillsets that are vital to the story line but those that provide her the ability to drop in at some random point in history without a stumble or two along the way.

More than likely, it wouldn’t happen that way, and as a writer, I believe it shouldn’t.

Where is the thrill for the reader if the Heroine travels back to the ancient city of Atlantis and just happens to be an expert at under-water basket weaving?

To me, the thrill would be found in a Heroine’s inability to swim.

I believe it is the conflict found in not knowing everything or sometimes anything that drives time travel plausibility. It shouldn’t be so much about the Heroine fitting in as it is about her standing out.

She should be confused, angry, or even afraid of the situation. Isn’t it more far-fetched that she wouldn’t be? Imagine yourself in such a situation. How do you think you would react? Nonchalantly? Completely unnerved?

Though I’ve penned four Time Travel Romances so far, I’ve never given this notion the consideration I think it deserves and will address it more fully in my upcoming novel, TAKEN.

In TAKEN, my Heroine denies, panics and rallies against her peculiar, bizarre circumstances. She defies her dazzling, rugged Scottish Laird, confounds him with her foreign words and outlandish ways.

She thoroughly leads him on a merry, passionate chase. There are moments of joy, friendship and adventure while she stumbles her way through the past, but she refuses to blindly accept the hand Fate has dealt her. Despite her efforts, she never truly fits in well enough for the Hero to divest himself all doubt… even while he divests himself of his clothes.

If the idea intrigues you as it does me, I hope you’ll take a chance on TAKEN, when it is released later this fall.

Is Time Travel Romance Back "In" Again?

by Angela Quarles, Time Travel Romance Author

At the time I'm writing this post, the mid-season finale of Outlander hasn't aired yet--in fact, it's tonight! And I, like scads of other fans, are eagerly awaiting another dose of Jamie goodness. Since I'm kicking off this month for the time travel romance authors, I felt like it would only be appropriate to mention the series that most judge our time travel romance books by, even though technically it's not a Romance. But I think the reason readers do, is because of the hero, Jamie. He does epitomize the Romantic Hero. And let's face it, you write a yummy, compelling hero like that, and you'll get droves of fans (though not all, there are some haters).

But Outlander wasn't the first. As near as I can tell, that honor goes to Anya Seyton and her 1972 novel Green Darkness, but I'm not positive. If you know of an earlier one, please pipe up in the comments! But Outlander did seem to spawn a sub-genre in time travel romance--the Scottish time travel.

I was a late-comer to Outlander; I didn't read it until 2010 after I'd written the first draft of my newly released debut novel Must Love Breeches (and promptly had to change the name of my main character from Clare to Isabelle!).Until then, my forays into time travel fiction were in the science fiction genre, like Connie Willis' Doomsday Book, or the classics like H.G. Wells The Time Machine and Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. But I think I mainly enjoyed time travel stories through movies, like Kate & Leopold or Hot Tub Time Machine or Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. But I think the first one for me, was the classic Christopher Reeve movie Somewhere in Time.

I'm not sure what draws me to it, and since I discovered time travel romance, I'm able to feed my love for it more often. I think it's the fact that, when well-written, it allows the reader to experience the past through a modern lens, which allows for more opportunity to contrast modern culture with the past. I'm also a sucker for fish-out-of-water stories.

It's funny how trends go, or what's perceived to be popular. From what I hear, time travel romance was very popular in the 90s, but then the market became over-saturated, so the traditional publishers pulled back on them. But it enjoyed a solid following of readers afterward, who got their fix from indie or small press publishers, or the occasional traditionally published book. I've had readers say, after hearing what my book is about, say "oh, that's so popular right now," and I'm taken aback, because for the last three years, which was when I started the publication journey for this book, I was hearing from agents and editors that the genre was dead, and that I was going against trend. I didn't care, I loved this book and wanted to find a home for it. Three agents loved it enough too, and offered to represent it. I chose one, and off we went, only to face rejection. It did get through some gatekeepers in two NY houses, only to be shot down by the marketing department, who felt it wasn't marketable. Basically, the refrain we were hearing was that time travel was dead and coupled with being a debut author, it was too risky. I wanted to shake them, and say, "But Outlander is coming to Starz and will breathe new life into it." I did receive two offers from reputable small presses, but decided instead to turn them down and go indie, because I wanted the control. And I'm glad I did! I worked hard this summer to put it through rounds of professional edits so that it could be ready in time for Outlander, in case it did spark a new trend, a flexibility I wouldn't have had if I'd gone traditional or accepted the small press contracts.

Now, because of Outlander, new readers are coming to that series (I know, because I work in a bookstore and am selling it). And because of its popularity, and huge media exposure, people outside of our writing world are thinking this is a hot, popular thing. Yay! As I said earlier, this was a weird mental shift for me, as I'd been hearing for so long that it's a dead genre. Hopefully, Outlander will appeal to a new generation of readers and again spawn a curiosity to read more in that vein. I've already seen some reviewers of mine say they picked it up because they'd been watching Outlander and wanted to try a time travel romance.

What do you think? Twenty years later, is the Starz adaptation of Outlander making time travel romance popular again?

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Blurb: She's finally met the man of her dreams. There's only one problem: he lives in a different century.

"A fresh, charming new voice" – New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare

HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL FOR LOVE?

A mysterious artifact zaps Isabelle Rochon to pre-Victorian England, but before she understands the card case’s significance a thief steals it. Now she must find the artifact, navigate the pitfalls of a stiffly polite London, keep her time-traveling origins a secret, and resist her growing attraction to Lord Montagu, the Vicious Viscount so hot, he curls her toes.

To Lord Montagu nothing makes more sense than keeping his distance from the strange but lovely Colonial. However, when his scheme for revenge reaches a stalemate, he convinces Isabelle to masquerade as his fiancée. What he did not bargain on is being drawn to her intellectually as well as physically.

Lord Montagu’s now constant presence overthrows her equilibrium and her common sense. Isabelle thought all she wanted was to return home, but as passion flares between them, she must decide when her true home—as well as her heart—lies.

Bio:Angela Quarles is a geek girl romance writer whose works includes Must Love Breeches, a time travel romance, and Beer & Groping in Las Vegas, a geek romantic comedy in novelette form. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and International Studies with a minor in German from Emory University, and a Masters in Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University. She currently resides in a historic house in the beautiful and quirky town of Mobile, AL.