As promised/threatened, I’m revisiting Timely Persuasion 12 years after releasing it / 17 years after writing it / 6000+ days since I jokingly told Jon Mack “maybe I’ll write a book…” with a new round of fresh eyed commentary. Here we go… Prologue For a few years now I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the…
Category: Writing
Kurt Cobain + Time Travel = 3 Books
Fun fact: Searching for Cobain time travel on Amazon yields 3 results: Lost in the ’90s by Frank Anthony Polito: A teenaged rocker stage-dives during a ’90s themed dance and wakes up in 1994. Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman: An essay collection featuring unrelated sections on time travel and Kurt Cobain. Timely Persuasion by JL Civi:Â A…
Remember Remember the 5th of November
November 5th continues to be one of my favorite pseudo-holidays for obvious time travel geekery reasons. In honor of that great red-letter date, here are a few BTTF tidbits found in Timely Persuasion. Chapter 3: After a year of constantly playing the Back to the Future soundtrack, my uncle took me to see Huey Lewis…
“Fester” – New Short Story
My new short story “Fester” is now available as a free eBook on Smashwords. Background: Been working on and off (mostly off) on a novel called Duty Calls for the last few years. Â Inspired by a 6 week stint on jury duty, it’s mainly a tale set during the long idle times at the courthouse….
Nick Hornby, Audrey Niffenegger & Me
I’d call it an early Xmas present, but this review from Goodreads was actually posted in June and I managed to miss it. The Nick Hornby / Audrey Niffenegger comparison is quite flattering 🙂 I’ve always referred to Timely Persuasion as a rock and roll time travel novel, and this nails both sides of that coin. I…
Expiration Date = TP Remake?
Just finished reading an awesome novel featuring: A recently unemployed journalist who goes back in time A musician father in the past Time travel that works by just thinking hard about a specific date An inability to visit the same date twice Being ghost-like and invisible to most people while back in time Always traveling…
I Write Like
I spent some time playing around with the  “I Write Like” website using various snippets from my writing.  Check out the results below.  Never realized how wide my range was or the company I kept. Bowling Alley Scene (Chapter 2 of TP) I write like P. G. Wodehouse I Write Like by Mémoires. Analyze your…
How To Write A Novel
Words of wisdom from Nic Alderton:
Quantum Commentary
Finally got around to posting my 5th place entry from the fan fiction contest at Leap Back 2009 to the extras section of the main site. “Just Like Starting Over” It’s called “Just Like Starting Over” (you knew I’d go with a song title…) and serves as a bridge between the beginning and the end…
A Negative Review
It was bound to happen eventually. 215 days after Timely Persuasion was released, a critic has emerged who didn’t like it and felt strongly enough to write about it. His name is Gavin Williams, and in the interest of honesty and full disclosure I’m posting it here: Unfortunately, I don’t need more persuasion… I’ve always…