Every time you pick up a book, you are travelling back through time. Whether that book has been sitting on your shelf for a year or you found it in a rummage sale or it was automatically delivered to the e-reader of your choice at midnight on release day, that book was likely written long ago.
From the time I opened a new word doc and started typing KILLER CONTENT in 2019 until its publication on Feb 2, 2021 was about two years. Same for NO MEMES OF ESCAPE, due out in Oct 2021. Here it is March 2021 and essentially NMOE is already out of my hands. A whole lot of things can happen between now and then. In fact, a lot of earth-shattering things already have. I submitted NMOE to my escape the day before my state went into COVID lockdown – pretty much a year ago. Plus, the ideas for both books were floating around my wonky author brain long before I ever typed a single word, and the books themselves will outlast me.
If that’s not time travel, I don’t know what is.
That book you’re reading represents the author’s entire world for a fixed time in their life. And by the time you’re reading it, they’re writing another book (or more likely, several other books). But the best part? While you’re reading that book, it’s your entire world, too. While you’re between those pages – or listening to the narrator, or scanning the e-book – you’re in a world that hasn’t existed for years.
People ask me all the time if I am afraid that that the technology that is so central to KILLER CONTENT – Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. YouTube. Netflix – is going to date KC and the answer is “Yes. Of course it will.” And even if I could see into the future (which I can’t and anyone who tells you otherwise is a dirty liar!) I wouldn’t change how I refer to the tech of the day, because it is exactly that, the tech of the day. Because KILLER CONTENT is a fixed moment in time.
And it, like all books, is your passport to time travel.
