Hah! I knew there was a good reason that tag Will Travel for Romance appealed to me. I may have mentioned in my last blog that I came up with the blog name of Will Travel for Romance when I hit the road in a recreational vehicle (RV). It just resonated with me. I've traveled all my life. I was born overseas, lived in another country until I was 12 (with my American parents), and continued to travel throughout my life with my parents, between my parents, away from my parents :-) and after I joined the military.

So, when I decided to start writing fiction in 2006, it's no wonder that my stories were inspired by my travels. Which came first? The chicken or the egg? My travels or the stories? I'd say my travels came first, and they guided my stories. Occasionally now though, I have to travel to research my stories...especially books two, three and/or four of an ongoing series...like A Train Through Time.

But I had no idea that readers would favor my time travel romances until A Train Through Time was released and did so well. I'm fortunate in that the book continues to do well, and that readers have asked for more in the series. I am currently in the process of writing book four (as yet untitled), but you can bet it is set on a train and is a time travel!

My Moonlight Wishes in Time book also did very well (thank you, readers!), and I published a sequel to that though I didn't expect to turn it into a series. And I'll begin book three of that series after I finish book four of the Train Through Time series. I traveled to research that one as well this year.

But I digress! :-) My point was that I had no idea when I came up with the Will Travel for Romance tag that I would write time travel romances and that readers would enjoy them and ask for more. Hence the title of the blog Will Travel (through Time) for Romance. Very fitting, dontcha think?

I don't know what it is about time travel romances, but I love them...ever since I watched Somewhere in Time, and read Jude Deveraux's A Knight in Shining Armor. It could be the costumes, could be the courtly manners, could be the romance between two people of different centuries. Who knows? I know that each one of those facets had their miseries, and that those times were not happy for many, many people, but I wont address those subjects in this posting. After all, it is fiction, isn't it? Time travel doesn't really exist...except to my characters.

Or does it? It could. My characters think so. Clearly, my subconscious wants it to be so. Can we travel through time for romance? Gosh! That would be something.

Talk soon!

Bess McBride