Maybe This Time
London stage star Jennifer Knight’s life goes haywire when her genius niece sends her tumbling back in time from London in 2001 to 1968, bringing her face to face with her worst nightmare – her first husband.
Now the only hope of righting the universe is to go forward in time and alter their future.
Maybe this time Jen and Lance will get it right.
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Awards
2019 Raven Award Contemporary
2019 Gold Medal ‘Best Time Travel’
2019 Runner-Up RONE Awards Audiobook - General
Reviews
“Charming, funny, a nice twist.”
Susan B. James deftly weaves a tale of romance, time travel and history. What makes this story stand out is that James does not take us back to 1988 for a do over. As Jen and Lance try to straighten their timelines out, they are both well into their fifties when they journey forward to 2005. The combination of a love that has never died and a historical backdrop from the not too distant past will capture listeners’ attention and make them hope that maybe this time, Lance and Jen will get it right.
-InD’Tale Magazine
“Two things about this book that are delicious: the idea of having a second chance with the love of your life AND the fact that the main character gets that chance in middle age.”
If you like romance stories but wish they weren’t all about young adults or 30-somethings, this is the book for you. Ms. James does an excellent job of presenting the scrumptious possibility that maybe, just maybe we don’t have to live with the mistakes we made the first time around. Read it for the time travel, the spot-on era descriptions that take you back to a simpler age, and most of all for the romance.
– PATRICE LEWIS
“A great beach read!”
Time and Again sequel is here and I’m so glad! I enjoyed the first book in the series and this story is equally as good. The author does a great job conveying the heroine’s tough exterior and vulnerable interior as she risks opening herself again to love. As in the first book, the tricky time travel element is masterfully done. A great beach read that I’d recommend to women’s fiction readers.
– A.M.
“Never let the teenager run the time machine.”
– JANET M.
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Behind the Story
I attended April Kihlstrom’s Book in a Week workshop at the 2015 California Dreaming Conference and I felt 50% sure I was equal to it. All I had to do was write 8,000 words a day.
On April 9, 2015 I started the my Book in A Week challenge..
Everything was in my favor. Beautiful place to write. A chance to clear my mind every day with Yoga and a walk on Ventura Beach. Zero interruptions. . . .
I had decided to follow a secondary character in Time and Forever, Jeremy’s sister, Jennifer. I knew Jen had three husbands because she remarks in the epilogue of Time and Forever, “Third time lucky.”
Day One
I began writing at 10:00 AM. I started the story with Jen’s forty-ninth birthday, a turning point for many women. I assumed she would be meeting her third husband – the happy-ever-after one.
Now I am one of those writers who starts with a glimmer of an idea and assumes the story will flow from that point. My brain wouldn’t cooperate. Jen veered off course, taking the plot with her. My subconscious took over the writing. Good, yes? Ummmm.
My subconscious spent a lot of time meditating. Tidbit by tidbit, it released plot points.
Sixteen hours later, I quit for the day. I had written about 6,000 words. I knew I couldn’t keep up that pace.
Day Two. 4,000 words.
I didn’t count on my characters kidnapping my story. I had no idea that Jen’s third marriage would be to her first husband and that they would take me on a ride through time to places I never dreamed of revisiting. When my subconscious presented me with a section of the book taking place in New York on the evening before and the morning of 9/11, I almost stopped writing. I didn’t think I would ever want to revisit that memory. But I couldn’t say no to the story. The characters in Maybe This Time spoke to my heart and I had to follow.
By the end of the week, I had 33,000 words; a plot that scared me, and a determination to see it through.
Fortunately, it was April. I turned to CampNaNoWriMo for encouragement, I am a deadline junkie. I need chocolate, coffee and a goal. I highly recommend Camp NanoWriMo.
At 11:00 PM on April 30th, 2015 I typed The End on Maybe This Time.
Believe me, I was delighted when I made it through to the happily-ever-after.
My first drafts are messy and I revise many times. My editor Cheryl Yeko at Soul Mate Publishing accepted the book. It published on July 2017. The audiobook released on Valentine’s Day, 2018.
In 2019 it won The Raven for Best Contemporary, Reader’s Favorite Gold medal for Time Travel and was the runner up for the RONE Best Audiobook General.
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