Book giveaway for Try Looking Ahead by Jason Rodriguez
Reminder: You have until May 15th to request a free signed copy of my new book, TRY LOOKING AHEAD, on GoodReads. In addition to the signed book, you will get an insert featuring an original, hand-written, ~500-word story that will never be published ANYWHERE except for the paper it is written on. I may try to do some more of these for a charity drive, but this will be your only chance to get one for free!
So get to requesting! And get to pre-ordering, too! And remember, likes are nice but sharing is caring. More on the book after the cut…
The title comes from the TWILIGHT ZONE episode, “Walking Distance.” In this episode, the main character’s car break downs and, while it’s being repaired, he walks to his hometown only to find himself transported into his own past. He realizes how happy he was as a kid and how unhappy he is as an adult and decides that he doesn’t want to go back to the future. His father has a heart-to-heart with him and tells him, “Maybe when you go back, Martin, you’ll find that there are merry-go-rounds and band concerts where you are. Maybe you haven’t been looking in the right place. You’ve been looking behind you, Martin. Try looking ahead.”
The central theme in this book is time and history, and the effect it has on us, both positive and negative. Aimed at a Young Adult audience, TLA features an assortment of modern-day twists on classic fables and science fiction standards that tell of a girl who can live in yesterday, a boy who can see through mountains, and a sky that’s actually falling.
