New Book: The Last Window to the Old World

Hi everyone, long time no chat! I’ve got some news that I’m quite excited about: my next book project is going live on April 4! The Last Window to the Old World is the first book in The Practical Historian’s Guide to Time Travel, a new novella series about time travelers in space:

When Altren University opens a time travel research division, Ellie Nelseren is thrilled to land her dream job as the first historian on staff. She’s eager to make her mark in the emerging field, and not just for her own sake - as one of the few academics originally from the agriculture colonies, she hopes to pave the way for others to come after her.

Her first assignment is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to work with the oldest person on their planet to visit an important historical event, back on the world their people originally came from. And since the time machine requires a living person’s memory, it’s the last chance to observe this event that anyone on either planet will ever have.

It’s the perfect chance to prove herself, with a feat even the old world’s researchers haven’t been able to match. But between university politics and their memory partner’s secrets, the biggest challenge might be just keeping the department funded long enough to finish the project. And if she can’t pull this off, she might end up right back where she started in the farms…

The Last Window to the Old World is a bit different from Gift of the Stars, in that it’s much lighter in tone. It actually started as my ‘relaxation’ project between Gift of the Stars and another project I’m working on that’s also rather dark, and then it ended up muscling its way to the front of the release queue. The initial inspiration sparked from a drabble I wrote quite some time ago; the memory-based time travel idea just wouldn’t let go.

Expect the same character focus and adventures in a spacefaring world…but with stakes that are more “will we get our grant money” than “are we all going to die.”

So, fair warning, no explosions this time around. But we do have professional time travelers, a space colony whose past missteps are catching up with it, and an ongoing academic dispute on whether the latest time-bending science has just been magic the whole time. Preorders are live now!