Original Working Title: Gone - inspired by the chorus of Joni Mitchell's song, Big Yellow Taxi: "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone"
Current Working Title: Reconception - inspired by term used to explain changes being made for restaurants located at the hotel where I work: "The restaurant closed, because it is going through a reconception."
Premise: Following an unescapable unhappy marriage and the death of his teenage daughter, middle-age accountant Eli Thorne is given the opportunity to return to the moment that began his life on a negative spiral.
Since the above premise, much has changed. The goal was to write "something my grandkids could eventually read". I've been told that some of my work might be considered beyond acceptable. This is not up for debate, but I do want to create something different. The genre is urban fantasy. It is aimed toward older readers (age 16 and older). There have been minor problems creating the story. With fantasy, there must be rules:
. What exactly happens when a character reconceives (that's what I call it)? Can a character do it more than once, and if they can is there a different result?
Simple Answers: The first time the older version of the character takes control of the younger version. After the first reconception it works different. Sometimes very different.
Characters - Eli Thorne appears at three stages of life: age 42 years, 15-22 years, and 22-72 years
Ashley Thorne appears at the age of 42 and between 15 - 22 years.
Marcie Thorne will appear at the age of 18 and later in the story (still writing it folks)
Medenia (might change this) - a Time Watcher.
Still working on secondary characters.
Settings:
Isle Mujeres (near Cancun, Mexico)
Coldwater, Mi - multiple versions/worlds
Other locations - again, still writing it.
Why Isle Mujeres? Because it's a place I love.
Why Coldwater, Mi - The older I get the cooler it is to be from there.
Writers who inspire me: Clive Barker, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Cormac McCarthy
