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.
Wow! So that’s why the story feels so cinematic. And some of the characters were very funny. Kitty Morgan, for instance, is a blast to read about. So do you like time travel movies and books? Have you been studying the science of time travel? Or did this specific idea of time travel just come to you?
I’ve always enjoyed time travel stories ever since I watched the 1960s version of The Time Machine. Again the draw of characters being out of their natural environment and trying to survive is very entertaining to read and to write. At the time I began to write Time Masters, back in 1994, time travel stories were very popular and I was reviewing a lot of them. So the idea of using a time travel element was rather natural.
So how did this story come to you? As a word? A phrase? A scene? What was the first inkling of the story that came to you? And when did you decide to sit down and begin writing?
I started a story back in the late 1980s entitled The Door To Muirara. I took those elements started in that story and added them to new ones I had developed. But the full story line didn’t emerge until I created Time Master’s main character, Dallan MacDonald. Like many people who are avid readers, not to mention reviewers, you think to yourself, "I can write something!" And I had… but not a full length novel. So I wrote one more scene and another... to see if I could than anything else and had a lot of fun doing it.
And so you discovered what the Muirarans were really like.
The Muirarans are actually an alien race forced from their own time and place/planet and who evacuated themselves to our time and place/planet. Their origins are only hinted at in Book One: The Call.
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