Where in the World? (Is Carmen Sandiego): Guest Post by Meradeth Houston

I love time-travel stories. I remember watching movies like The Philadelphia Experiment as a kid and thinking, "How cool would it be to be able to travel to a different time?"

My fascination with time travel has continued as an adult, so it's exciting to see one of my favorite bloggers, Meradeth Houston, has a new time travel book out. Today she is writing about her own childhood fascination with time travel. Be sure to check out information on her book, Travelers, which you can buy now for only $0.99!

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Where in the World? (Is Carmen Sandiego)
by Meradeth Houston

Okay, to start off, please tell me I’m not the only one who played the “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego” games? I loved those as a kid! The show was fun and I loved the computer games. They were slow and clunky and ridiculously primitive, but I got a kick out of them (which probably says a lot more about my childhood nerd-factor than I care to admit…). Anyhow, we also had the where in TIME is Carmen Sandiego, which is probably where my fascination with time travel began. And it’s never really gone away, because there are just so many cool things I’d love to go see!

There are plenty of people in the past that would be seriously fascinating to talk with (hello Gregor Mendel, my all-time historical crush, even if he was a monk…and probably ate too many peas). But the places and events also really attract me. I mean, I’d love to go back and experience a few things, so long as I got to come back for dinner ☺. Wouldn’t a walk through the libraries of Alexandria be fun? Or how about watching a ceremony at Stonehenge? The completion of the pyramids at Giza? I could go on and on. But that’s why I like time-travel as a concept—it allows me to imagine going back and getting to see these things, which is probably as close as I’ll ever get without a TARDIS.

Okay, confession time: what event would you most want to witness in all time if you could? If I could only pick one, it certainly wouldn’t be easy. But I’d love to watch Mendel figure out that what he was seeing in his plants had much larger implications for heritability (I did say I was a nerd, right?). Buuuut, the coronation of Queen Victoria (not from the cheap seats) would also be pretty fun ☺.




Blurb:
Sienna Crenshaw knows the rules: 1) no time traveling beyond your natural lifetime, 2) no screwing with death, and 3) no changing the past. Ever. Sienna doesn’t love being stuck in the present, but she’s not the type to to break the rules. That is, she wasn’t the type until her best friend broke every one of those rules to keep Henry, her twin brother and Sienna’s ex-boyfriend, alive. 

Suddenly, Sienna is caught in an unfamiliar reality. The upside? Henry is still alive. The downside? Sienna’s old life, including the people in it, has been erased. Now, Sienna and Henry must untangle the giant knot in time, or her parents and all the rest of the Travelers, will be lost forever. One problem: the only way to be successful is for Henry to die. 

Pick up a copy here!
Bio:
I've never been a big fan of talking about myself, but if you really want to know, here are some random tidbits about me: 


I'm a California girl. This generally means I talk too fast and use "like" a lot. I have my doctorate in molecular anthropology. Translation: I sequence dead people's DNA and spend a whole lot of time in a lab, which I love. I've been writing since I was 11 years old. It's my hobby, my passion, and I'm so happy to get to share my work! My other passion is teaching. There's nothing more fun than getting a classroom of college kids fired up about anthropology! If I could have a super-power, it would totally be flying. Which is a little strange, because I'm terrified of heights.Contact info:
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