Since 2007, I've been working on a young adult novel titled "A Door In Time." It's a science fiction story about three teenagers from Wichita, Ks, who accidentally pass through a time portal in an old abandoned building. They land in a cornfield and are taken in by a farm family, the Richmonds. However, they are separated and one gets into trouble with the law, although innocent.
The story is about their reactions to being in 1887 Kansas. There are no electronics, no cars, no phones, nothing is the same as they are used to. They struggle to find each other, and the time portal to come back to the "present" they were living in prior to their little journey.
The culture shock is not limited to them, either. Everyone they meet in 1887 is shocked by the teens' stories about microwave ovens, movies, space travel, cell phones, computers, cars and everything else that we take for granted in our time.
The families of the teens are also going through a lot of stress, worried sick about their kids and worried that they may never see them again. Unable to believe initially that time travel really exists, they are sceptical at first, but when one of the sheriff's deputies follows the kids into the past voluntarily, they start to believe.
The book has gone through many changes and revisions already, and it's far from being completed. The rough draft is not that far from done, but then I will have editing, and finding a publisher.
This is all being done during my time off from my library job. I get excited about it all over again with each chapter I finish. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, finally, and I'm praying it's not a train coming from the other end.
So if I disappear from this blog for a while, I can probably be found either at home or at the library, working on my manuscript. Any and all prayers for a successful story are welcome.
