First Author/Writer's Blog - Taking a deep breath...

 Good Afternoon All,

     I'm very excited to have found this forum.  I've been looking for a way to share something about this project that took over my life awhile back and this seems to be a nice fit.  I've gotten to a point where I'd really like some feedback, as well as a place to put something out that might help as an incentive to keep me on track for finally finishing it.

What I've got...

A book series with the working title: 'Twinned Souls'.  

Book One's working title:  The Janus Paradox.

And being the neophyte writer, I just have to add:

What follows is a work of fiction created by Cymbric Early-Smith © 2011

Thanks for understanding...  :)

Logline/Elevator line:

A time rift in the twenty-first century must be healed from almost a thousand years in the past - by two people who no longer no each other...

What's it about...

            The Janus Paradox is a paranormal time-travel story that primarily moves between two time periods: The first set in modern-day Vancouver, BC during the 2010 Olympics and the other in Medieval Ireland around the year 1100.

            The main character is a US athlete in Canada training for the Olympics, who has a profound psychic connection with a Detective in the RCMP, with whom she’s shared a long-distance friendship for many years. 

            During her stay in Canada she becomes the focus of a stalker - or stalkers - who are harassing her anonymously both on line and in the real world.  In the midst of the investigation she’s kidnapped. A biomedical research company arranged the stalking incidents as a distraction to throw off the police while they use her in an attempt to gain information about the future.  Their experimental protocols involve manipulating her psychic abilities with a combination of drugs and direct neuro-stimulation, intended to forge her consciousness into a host somewhere in the future.  However, the process the scientists use inadvertently triggers her own innate ability to bridge a telepathic connection with both her past and future lives.  With a little help from her future selves, the medical procedure backfires, but in turn their interference sends her psyche reeling back into a past life in 12th century Ireland, where she unwittingly changes her soul-path. 

            Twenty minutes later her consciousness returns to the present where she's comatose and suffering through a series of visions and memories interconnected with that past life.  Gradually emerging from the coma she finds she’s living in a divergent timeline alienated from almost everyone she knows.  Most terrifying of all, she discovers the soul-bond she shared with her best friend has been nearly severed.

            Ultimately she’s faced with an almost impossible choice:  Heal the time-rift that’s been accidentally created nearly a thousand years in the past or face the fact – and live with the consequences – that her life is irreparably changed and the bond she once shared with those closest to her is so severely wounded it will soon bleed-out – separating them all forever...

Analogy: Imagine the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life meets the TV Series Quantum Leap mixed together with the story of Romeo & Juliet…

Book Logline: Two people discover they have the ability to telepathically bridge into both their past and future lives and must fight to prevent their unique gift from being exploited by a team of scientists attempting to gain information about the future.  The process the scientists use creates havoc and misery – and a pair of fearsome enemies – in more than one timeline…

Book Series Notes:
The Twinned Souls stories follow Glen and Alyse as they continue to fight the Magnus Unlimited Research Corporation in its attempts to coerce them into using their psychic abilities to benefit MURC’s ominous PROPHET* program.  In the process of trying to protect both the past and the future from MURC’s exploitation, Glen and Alyse encounter one challenging situation after another as they find themselves interacting with the many lives and various relationships their souls have experienced throughout history.

            As Glen and Alyse’s adventures unfold, an underlying theme is explored, which centers on the concept of Recognition: The sense of being fated to recognize and bond with certain people on an often subtle, but soul-deep level – as friends, as confidants or lovers, even as rivals. 

            Many different cultures have stories about people who overcome profound obstacles on their way to ultimately recognizing they share a mutual kinship with one another that is so strong it defies rational explanation.  From the ancient Sumerian tale of Gilgamesh, Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe or Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, their names and circumstances may change in the retelling, yet all over the world and throughout history we have found their stories to be irresistible.  In the books of the Twinned Souls their names are Glen and Alyse...

 *PROPHET = Profit Recovery OPportunities from Historic Events in Time

Message of The Janus Paradox:  History must be fiercely protected. 

   In the realm of fiction, that can literally mean saving and/or protecting historic events from being changed.  In the real world it can be just as important to protect history from being forgotten, or worse, re-written