I'm probably 80,000 words into this novel ... I feel funny calling it that. "Novel" sounds like I know what I'm doing, when I'm really winging the whole thing. But I've discovered that, over the last year, it's the most fun I've ever had. I've never tried to create something out of nothing before. It may go abso. nowhere, but I won't regret a bit of it, regardless.

Working query - subject to change:

It is December, 1999, and Richard Black has secrets. A fifty-nine year old chemistry professor, he has been in love with Mira Braden, a pharmacist almost half his age, since she was four years old. And thirty-four. At the same time.
As their romance heats up on the eve of the twenty-first century, Richard reveals something he’s kept quiet for years. Back in the late sixties, his colleague - Mira’s father - synthesized a chemical substance that he insisted could enable him to move through time at will.

Mira, who has only contempt for the man who abandoned her family years ago, doesn’t believe a word. But only a week later, when Richard is seriously injured in a car accident, she takes the drug in a frantic attempt to keep him from dying. I can make this never happen. Thinking she has gone back only a few days to warn him, she regains consciousness to find herself in the midst of Vietnam-era Knoxville, Tennessee, thirty years before. Horrified at being so far from her own time, Mira makes her way to the local university, determined to find the man who told her about the substance, in the hope that he can help her return.

Richard Black, now twenty-nine, and currently romancing a graduate student, is perfectly content with his professional and personal life. At least until an oddly dressed woman shows up in the middle of his chemistry lecture, claiming that she knows him thirty years in the future. Jolted by the unpleasant realization that his colleague’s compound worked a little too well, he feels compelled to provide Mira a place to live until he can produce more. In the meantime, Mira learns that the man she loved in 2000 was much more mysterious than she ever knew.

By the time she leaves, Richard realizes, too late, that he cares much more for her than he wanted to admit. He launches his own desperate campaign to find out what happened to her. In the process, he discovers exactly how much Mira loved him, and the life she gave up for his sake.
My ( ) -word novel, Parallel Universe, explores how two people, forced to deal with unusual circumstances, are able to reinvent their love for each other at different stages of their lives.

Hello! My first blog EVER, and thank you for reading. Not that I have anything to say, after being brutally beaten down by the repeated "make sure you're not a spammer" tests that I couldn't pass, even though I spelled each one correctly. Whateveh...

Okay, I have my day job, and then I write stuff. Minute to minute; it depends on how good I think it is. Working on a novel at the moment. It's a love story, spiced up with a bit of time travel, but mainly a love story. Well, I like it. As does my hubby (of course, he gets paid to ....;)) and my cool friend M who reads and comments along the way. We'll see where it goes, if anywhere.