Dale Davies asked Jodi Taylor:

Hi Jodi. Have recently listened to all your current Chronicles books and I was curious as to whether you are avoiding any specific time periods, such as religious times (Christ, etc) or whether you have these pegged for the future? Are there any historical periods that you will categorically not let Max venture into? Thanks in advance

Jodi Taylor Hi - what an excellent question and yes, you're right. I am avoiding anything with a religious theme. In What Could Possibly Go Wrong, a character asks if confirming the crucifixion actually took place would be more or less catastrophic than proving it didn't. In my first book I had Dr Bairstow saying there are places to which they would not go - Jerusalem during certain periods, Mecca, Medina, Bethlehem and so on. The conversation was edited out in the interests of keeping the word count down, but it's a self-imposed rule I intend to abide by.

I'm also trying to minimise the risk of inadvertent paradox by not allowing them to jump back to any period less than one hundred years in the past, so as to minimise the risk of killing a grandparent. And also because I don't regard anything in the last hundred years or so as actual History. I always think if it's that recent then it's a memory, rather than History.

Sorry, I've bored on for rather longer than I intended. Hope this answers your questions.

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