Buy my book so Shinichi can have his job back
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Hello legend-lovers! How have you been? (Have you listened to the podcast yet? All the episodes are up, so it's the perfect time to binge :D.) While recording the podcast with Rebekah O'Donovan (I believe it was in episode thirteen or fourteen, in the uncut version on Patreon), I said that I was going to officially stop trying to edit my novel, An Experiment in Time and Memory. I felt like my edits were making it different/worse and that maybe it was time to move onto a different project. Beks, who has read this book at least twice, possibly three times, was disappointed that it would never see the light of day. And that disappointment was all it took to convince me to keep going. I threw out all the edits I'd been making and decided to publish the most recent finished version. To be clear, this version was about the tenth version. I'd first written it when I was nineteen, when it had a different title, a completely different plot, a different villain, and the characters had different jobs. Over the next ten edits, I took out subplots and the distracting villain, made the plot more linear, the villain more sinister, and the pacing a bit faster. Oh, and I fired Shinichi. When I read it again for the first time after a year-long break, I wrote a review of my thoughts. Such high praise as: "The pacing was better than I remembered. Not perfect, but not as slow as I remembered." "I wanted to read it in the middle of the night and didn’t want to stop AT ALL. I finished it within 24 hours, which is not normal for me, and really surprised me." "It wasn’t confusing, and it did feel like the characters were playing catch-up and were out of their depth for a lot of it." (There were some negative points as well, such as "Laura being a matchmaker was fine but she could be a bit more mature about it" and, "I found like four typos". It also appeared that I could not count beyond Chapter 48, which I didn't pick up on in that review.) I decided to self-publish that tenth version (after making Laura "a bit more mature") and put on a fun, mini-release to celebrate the hard work I and many others have put into this book. To celebrate that despite it not being perfect, I still think it's a darn good book. The date I've chosen to release it is November 20. I've been told I should release the blurb on its own, but I'M JUST TOO DARN EXCITED. So you can have it all at once <3. Lucky Holmes and Amber Elkhoury failed their first mission at ARCHIVE—the secret organisation that steps into history to save those who are recorded as saved. Lucky’s still not sure what happened, but when they’re asked to pick up the new time machine, they’re both keen for an easy mission.
But at the lab, two mysterious men hold them up and chase their car. As they race to escape, the car crashes and both Lucky and Amber are injured. Lucky is concussed, and Amber, the timebox and one of their pursuers, disappear into history.
Lucky is desperate to get Amber (and the timebox) back. Running out of help from ARCHIVE, he asks a favour of the disgraced ex-ARC-researcher Shinichi Samejima, to cover his back while he travels to find her. But Shinichi knows more than he’s letting on. He’s already been involved in the end of this story, and he doesn’t want to go through it again. But as he investigates the car crash, and their first mission, he starts to realise that everything ARCHIVE has stood for has been turned upside down. If the past can't be changed, what does that mean for the future?
I'll keep you updated as things unfold, and I'll share all the fun steps and freebies with you! But if you're excited and would like to know if you can help, there are a few things I need ;) :
I'll leave you with this beautiful character art that Meghan Fedor made for me, of Lucky and Amber talking to Shinichi on Lucky's phone. Till next time! <3 Debbie
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