As part of the recent @reviseresub.bsky.social revision process with @hannaneier.bsky.social, I looped back on iconic time-travel novel first pages, beginning with @emmastraub.bsky.social whose THIS TIME TOMORROW is pure genius. (Part 1) #AmWriting #AmReading #AmQuerying #Bookstagram #RevPit

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#RebeccaSerle employs speculative elements like time travel to explore relationships and ONE ITALIAN SUMMER is a perfect example. The MC knew her recently-deceased mother as a woman with rules — so it’s perfect when she shows up to break them. (Part Two) #AmWriting #AmReading #Bookstagram #RevPit

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(Part Three) OH, how I love KINDRED by #OctaviaButler. This is the book that I believe singlehandedly shifted the #timetravel genre from one that reflects a chauvinist and colonialist past to one that foretells a feminist and egalitarian future. #AmWriting #AmReading #AmQuerying #RevPit

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(Part Four) To see the place where the #timetravel genre was before #OctaviaButler transformed it, just read H.G. Wells — or my thesis. Talk about curiosity seeds! “I lost an arm on my last trip home.” Who wouldn’t turn the page to find out more about that? #AmWriting #AmReading #AmQuerying #RevPit

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(Part Five) Which brings me to THE BOOK OF HOURS, the dual-timeline upmarket debut with romantic and speculative elements that I’m #AmQuerying now. When a 42-year-old woman accidentally time-travels from 2019 Los Angeles… #AmWriting #AmReading #RevPit

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