I wrote a novel and I don't even know what genre or category to classify it as.
It began with a simple question as the premise for a sci-fi book: what if people could jump back and forth in time, but only three times in their life? What would they choose to jump for?
Somewhere along the path of outlining what the book might be, I sidetracked from my initial vision into something that ended up becoming my latest book, Unmarked. Something that zooms in and really focuses on the individual human, and the "philosophy," if you will, of jumping.
If you could see or change the past or future, would you? What if the mere act of jumping to the future changed the outcome you saw? How much should we rely on what we see vs. what we can change with our actions?
Unmarked tackles these, and other questions, through the lens of a 34-year-old clockmaker, Yasin Al-Razi, and his aging mother. They discover a jumper who saw the collapse of the local dam, flooding and killing thousands. Should they jump into the future, and how far? What can they do to stop it?
You can read more about the book here.