SOMETHING TO SAY!
If you’ve read TimeRiders and enjoyed it, this is a plea from me, the author, to ask you to reccomend it to a friend or two. Even if you mention it in passing it to just one person today…that’s a big help to me. That’s how word-of-mouth starts out.
Yes, it’s an incredibly selfish plea…I want the series to be successful and I’d love to write many, many more of these books. And so far, I’ve every reason to be pleased with how well TimeRiders has done. But this is also an opportunity for us as a community of book lovers to get something actually interesting up there, front and centre before the eyeballs of the general public.
‘Alternative history? Wazzat then? Some sorta multiple choice ’istory quiz innit?’ That’s pretty much what you’ll get from the general public as it grazes over the centre tables at the front of store piled high with ‘literary’ offerings from various Celebrity Chefs, Footballers wives, the Z-list celebs now turning their hand to this booky-wooky writing thing.
Grrr. I’m ranting again. (Note to self – tea, not coffee in the mornings)
Anyway…point is. We could make TimeRiders a big, BIG, thing. We could convince a generation of boys, and dads who only ever read Top Gear Magazine or The Sun, that there’s an amazing ride to be had out there between the covers of a book; infinite worlds of what-might-have-been history. ‘What If’ discussions don’t need to be the preserve of historians and writers of academic essays. They could just as easily be a discussion between to boys in a playground, or two men in a pub!
So, if at some point today you find yourself in one of those really embarressing-pregnant-pause moments with absolutely no idea for a subject of conversation….you could of course put that silence to good use and fill it with a plug for TimeRiders?
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