From now until the end of the month, enter the March Mayhem contest
sponsored by Joanne Renaud, Kat Laurange, Donna Thorland, Lynne Connelly
and Kat Parrish. Details and entry form here.
Artist/illustrator Joanne Renaud's new novel, Doors is a sequel to her 2915 A Question of Time. As the title implies, the story involves a form of time travel, but she has created a new twist on an old trope, playing with the multiverse. Here's how the publishers at Champagne books describe Doors:
Jackie Karam always knew her friend Orne was a weirdo, even before he
enlists her help in opening a door to an alternate dimension. His theory
is that if one could find a book one lost, a book one loved but can no
longer remember anything about, it might open a door to another world.
Jackie just happens to have such a book in her past. A science fiction
novel her high school teacher had recommended to her before he died in a
car crash.
Jackie loves hanging out with her handsome, charming, eccentric friend, so she agrees on a trip back to her hometown to look for Mr. Forrest's book. She finds it in the White Springs library, and just as Orne hoped, opens a door to another dimension, one altered from the world she knows. Not just altered, but better. Her career is a success, her old teacher is alive and well, and her relationship with Orne is so much more intimate. Her own world is so drab and hopeless by contrast, she's tempted to stay.
But does she truly belong in this other world? What happens to this world's Jackie if she stays? And what will happen to her, if she refuses to go back through that door?
Jackie loves hanging out with her handsome, charming, eccentric friend, so she agrees on a trip back to her hometown to look for Mr. Forrest's book. She finds it in the White Springs library, and just as Orne hoped, opens a door to another dimension, one altered from the world she knows. Not just altered, but better. Her career is a success, her old teacher is alive and well, and her relationship with Orne is so much more intimate. Her own world is so drab and hopeless by contrast, she's tempted to stay.
But does she truly belong in this other world? What happens to this world's Jackie if she stays? And what will happen to her, if she refuses to go back through that door?
Sounds like fun doesn't it? Here's an excerpt:
Ordinarily I
would have been afraid of running in heels, but I was so determined to get down
to the Village that it didn’t occur to me to trip. I think a guy whistled at me
while I sprinted down the street, but I barely noticed.
