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BOOK 1 Summary
The Time Anomaly
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For all intents and purposes, mild-mannered introvert and engineer Johnathan Davidson of Toledo, Ohio may be one the most influential persons who ever lived.
Mostly by accident, and without leaving a clear indication of how on earth he accomplished it, Johnathan invented the only time machine that, thus far in the history of humanity, has been proven to actually work. The trouble with his success is that when he made his fateful journey forward, he didn’t go alone. Johnathan’s machine somehow caused a snag, or ripple, in the fabric of time that dragged every person in an approximately 25-mile radius around him out of the present, each to reappear at a seemingly random point in time between his own exit and reentry exactly 100 years later. In short, Johnathan unintentionally vanished the population of an entire mid-sized American city and scattered its residents forward into a future without any of the connections that anchored them to their past or present lives.
The social, economic, scientific, and psychological impacts of Johnathan’s little experiment threw the entire country, in fact the world, into disarray for the next 100 years and beyond.
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BOOK 2 Summary
The Time Influx
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The snag in the fabric of time that engineer Johnathan Davidson's time machine created dragged every person in in the city of Toledo, Ohio around him out of the present, and each reappeared at random over the course of the next 100 years.
Though it irreparably confused their lives and relationships and caused an entire network of professional and scientific support to be built around the time survivors, the close of the wormhole at the end of a century seemed to be the ending of the time disaster. Johnathan was the last to return from time, and to him the 100-year trip seemed instantaneous. Now he is just learning that his journey impacted hundreds of thousands of lives and is known infamously as The Time Event. He strives to take accountability, while also exploring his futuristic new home.
A new chapter in the saga begins when the time machine is stolen by a mysterious entity before it can be destroyed. Soon rumors of illicit time travel for profit emerge, and terrorist threats to use the machine in populated cities cause concern all over the world. The discovery of dangerous rogue time zones that seem to defy the previous 'rules' of time travel also emerge, and a new team of "Watchdogs", a group intent on finding the culprits and restoring order, is recruited from the Alpha teams of Orien-Sadler.
In The Time Influx, we follow the intersecting stories of Johnathan and his newfound friends and colleagues in Lake City. As the scientists and engineers attempt to define the rules of time travel and find a way to reverse the effects of the rogue time zones, the Watchdogs track down the time terrorists in a global chase.
THE STORY ABOUT My Story
This series was a long time coming. It began over ten years ago from a random idea about time travel, and what would happen if everyone came back at different times instead of together. I promptly churned out 50 pages and wrote myself into a corner I couldn't get out of. I saved it on a flash drive and told myself I'd return to it later.
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Time passed, other miscellaneous life happened, and I told myself someday, someday. Fast forward to many years later as I was watching a favorite comedian talk about his mid-life career switch, and decided it was finally time to do something fun with my life. I tore my desk, then my office, then my house apart in the middle of the night. No flash drive to be found. Feeling crushed, I told myself I didn't want that first draft anyway and I should just start over.
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The result was an outpouring of 120,000 words between 10 PM and 2 AM in a nightly four-week span. I'm not sure anything survived from the first draft at all. ​So yes, the first book took me ten years to write. Sort of. The sequel definitely came a little easier. Thanks for joining me on my mid-life crisis, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
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Frequently asked
Q: Why did you choose the self-publishing route?
A: After researching the options, traditional routes are clogged with submissions, and take 1-2 years just to get an answer. Self-publishing has become a legit avenue over the years, and gives authors more control over their plans. Plus, I'm impatient!
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Q: Now that the sequel is out, will there be a book 3?
A: That's the plan so far - stay tuned!
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