I recently got a chance to talk with Geralyn Beauchamp, author of Time Masters Book One: The Call, which was published in 2007 by Cold Tree Press.

If you love time travel novels, and stories about destined lovers who must be brought together to save the world, this fantasy novel is for you. It’s also a long book and the beginning of a series, so those of you who love to be captured and enraptured by a world will really love it.

Geralyn, where were you born? And when did you realize you were a writer and how has your environment/upbringing colored your writing?

I was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in a little logging town about 35 miles SE of the Portland area. I wrote my first book in the fifth grade. It was a whopping fifteen pages long complete with illustrations! Ah, my first masterpiece! Going to school in a small town environment and being raised in a log cabin out in the woods (really!) does influence. We had horses growing up and I remember lots of games of cowboy and Indians. We had tons of adventures and my little sister and I, especially, were quite the tomboys. So my penchant for using action and adventure in my writing can be attributed to that.

I can see that. So that’s where the sense of adventure and battles came from. Now, your novel, Time Masters is a time travel story, with folks from three different centuries — a seventeenth-century Scotsman, destined to marry a woman raised in the twentieth century, who is being trained by a Time Master from the future and well, from all time actually.

I love history and Time Masters gives me the opportunity to delve into quite a bit of it. To put a character totally out of his natural environment, and into an environment familiar to the rest of us makes for great entertainment. But to take a group of characters out of not only their natural environments, but also let them be unfamiliar with each others’ — for the most part — and put them all in one familiar to the rest of us, well, this makes for one wild ride! Sit back and enjoy the fun of watching all of them try to adapt and adjust to new and strange surroundings. Mix in a bit of romance, suspense, and danger and you have Time Masters.

Is this the genre you are most comfortable writing in? Or do you write in other genres also?

I love the action/adventure genre and writing within the science fiction/fantasy realm allows for a lot of freedom to do things. Time Masters is a series that will be a blast to do. But having been a reviewer of romance and mystery, I am also drawn to those genres and have outlined a Regency. I have also written comedy for the screen.