Thanks for stopping by! What attracted you to the science fiction genre?
I’ve been a high school or middle school science teacher for nearly 18 years so I guess you could say I perpetually have science on the brain. I’m also around young adults most of my day and have a front row seat to their relationships with friends, family, and their daily struggles. Writing a YA science
fiction series is a natural outlet for my imagination.
Do you write in any other genres?
I’m dabbling in women’s fiction and short stories when I’m not working on The Timestream Travelers’ series.
What inspired you to write The Rescue?
Years ago, I had two students named Tabitha and Aeneas who sat next to each other in my sixth-grade science class. They had interesting last names and I joked that they would make great characters in a kid’s mystery novel that I might write one day. The next year I had an idea for a book and that moment came back to me. These two students were acquaintances— they weren’t best friends, but they were the spark. Working in Federal Way, Washington, a melting pot school district, I worried my students weren’t seeing people like themselves in books so I wanted to portray more bi-racial and multi-ethnic people that are found here locally in the Pacific Northwest. With that mind, I developed characters like Aeneas, C.J., Shelia and the rest of the Entwistle family.
The time travel piece evolved from my keen interest in Earth science and the uncertainty I felt living in the valley of a potentially destructive volcano (Mount Rainier). Being a proactive Hurricane Katrina survivor, I signed for up earthquake alerts from U.S.G.S and started checking the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network where I was stunned by the number of small earthquakes occurring each day along the Puget Sound and the coastlines of Oregon and British Columbia. I started wondering if the space-time continuum could be opened by the energy released from an earthquake, could individuals whose genetic markers allowed them to withstand the timestream travel along their timelines?
Can you give us your book blurb so others can find out what your book is about?
It all starts when the sheets go slack, and Aeneas vanishes! He and his two best friends, C.J. and Tabitha are spellbound as they watch the video feed of his disappearance and witness him climbing through his bedroom window an hour later, wearing different socks. Aeneas Entwistle, a slightly above average eighth grader is about to discover that the mystery of waking up with different socks is much more than just a prank.
Adding to that dilemma, Aeneas is struggling with new feelings for Tabitha and loses his cool during her birthday party. Meanwhile, Aeneas’s twenty-something daughter, Cassie has traveled thirty-eight years from the future hoping to find any small detail that might help locate her missing father. Enlisting Harold, the Entwistle’s quirky housekeeper, Cassie works to rescue a middle-aged Aeneas, who vanishes into the timestream when a 7.2 earthquake strikes northwest Washington in May of 2053. But Cassie’s presence in the past might have unforeseen consequences for everyone in her circle. As she struggles to find her father, a carefully guarded family secret is revealed, and Cassie must choose between altering the past or violating the shamanic rules of time travel!
How can readers discover more about you and your work?
https://www.timestreamtravelerchronicles.com/
https://www.instagram.com/timestreamtraveler/
Where can readers buy your book?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P7ND264
Thank you very much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to take part in this interview. What’s next for you?
I’m wrapping up the final edits for book two in the series, hoping to have it ready by February 2023 and looking for new adventures in my life, like traveling back to Iceland. Book 3 in The Timestream Travelers’ series will toggle between Iceland and the Pacific Northwest, so I’ll need to immerse myself in Icelandic culture to pull off a great story!
