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Richard Todd
Hi Brian - I am sorry for the very slow reply. I am very glad you enjoyed the first three books in the series. I've started a fourth book, though I've had to set it down to do work on movie treatments, as well as work on graphic novel versions of the books, which are intended in part to serve as storyboards for the movies. I'm hoping to return to book 4 shortly. I'd like to have it ready for publication by end of year.
Richard Todd
Indeed Annika was pissed to be abandoned in 1890! Yes, she returns in 'The Eclipse,' along with a mysterious new character.
I am so glad you enjoyed my books! I hope you enjoy book 3 too!
Very best,
Richard
I am so glad you enjoyed my books! I hope you enjoy book 3 too!
Very best,
Richard
Richard Todd
Hi Clive -- I'm so glad you enjoyed my books! It's looking like late spring/early summer for "The Eclipse". The story is finished, though I still need to add a lot of flesh to the bones. Additionally, this book will have a considerable number of early 20th-century period style illustrations that are being developed now. I didn't think it would be possible to top "The Empire", though I'm very excited about "The Eclipse"
Richard Todd
Hi Christopher,
I'm so sorry for taking so long to respond. Your question was buried in a bunch of older questions from Goodreads (not readers) and I missed it.
Is time travel possible? In a sense, it probably already is. In my interview with astrophysicist Brian Greene (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-ab...), he describes how wormholes established between black holes create nexus between different space-times. I used concepts of the relationship between space, time, and gravity as described by Einstein, Greene, and Kip Thorne when constructing my time machine in "Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers".
Best,
Richard
I'm so sorry for taking so long to respond. Your question was buried in a bunch of older questions from Goodreads (not readers) and I missed it.
Is time travel possible? In a sense, it probably already is. In my interview with astrophysicist Brian Greene (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-ab...), he describes how wormholes established between black holes create nexus between different space-times. I used concepts of the relationship between space, time, and gravity as described by Einstein, Greene, and Kip Thorne when constructing my time machine in "Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers".
Best,
Richard
Richard Todd
I penned the first 10K words on the first sequel to "Time Tunnel: The Towers" this week. It's titled "Time Tunnel: The Empire." I'm very excited about where the story is going in books 2 and 3 in the series! "The Empire" will be out this summer -- stay tuned!
Richard Todd
Believe-it-or-not, I rarely suffer from writers block. I work out the broad strokes of stories in my head long before I begin to download them through my word processor. Once I finally begin writing, I write rapidly. That said, I invariably make substantial edits when I do read throughs. My own bad writing highlights and presents itself to me to fix. Because of the genre in which I work, it's easy to dismiss the quality of the writing. A great story is not sufficient for me -- I want it to be very well-told.
Richard Todd
I have to be inspired to write in order to get inspired to write. Inspiration is not a choice for me -- it either happens or it doesn't. Fortunately, this storyline is a constant and generous source of inspiration.
Richard Todd
The story behind "Time Tunnel: The Towers" is almost as interesting as the book itself. I did not set out to write a story about 9/11. For that matter, I didn't set out to write a novel at all. The story landed intact in my head one day in 2013. It was so vivid and detailed that I was able to write most of the book over the two week end-of-year holiday period. I don't think I wrote the book as much as the book wrote me. It was like a core dump -- I spent almost every conscious moment of that two week period writing. I became totally immersed in the story and the characters -- I am even more so as I write the first sequel.
It's probably worth noting that I don't assign any particular meaning to the way the book happened other than, perhaps, like many Americans, I wanted to rewrite the story of 9/11.
It's probably worth noting that I don't assign any particular meaning to the way the book happened other than, perhaps, like many Americans, I wanted to rewrite the story of 9/11.
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