He wanted a time machine. She wanted an adventure.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

KRISTEN SHELEY'S
"PARTNERS IN TIME":

Sam Foster is a fairly typical modern American teenager who just invented a time machine. He didn't mean to bring back anything from his first trip to the past, but he returned home to 2005 with more than he bargained for: Meg Clayton, a spirited pioneer girl from Oregon. Their lives - and history - will never be the same again.

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Sunday, October 9, 2022

I do use this space generally for updates for the website, not my life per se, so here we go.

My real life and all that jazz has often surprised me sometimes because in the fiction I've written over the years, I've sometimes found that plot twists I made up are plot twists I experienced firsthand. Easily the biggest one I can think of is having twins myself in 2017 after I had my fan fiction Marty and Jennifer have twins in that "universe." (Mine were not a boy/girl set, however.) I've always wondered about my writing ability in terms of what I'm picking up and from where.

Thus yesterday evening I was trying to remember a plot aspect from one of my BTTF fanfics or Mary Jean Holmes's fanfics. I went to my own website to check and saw that the little "entrance" pages to each of the stories was in a hideously cramped and confusing format. So after a bit of sleuthing, I went into each of the pages and cleaned up the format. Hopefully those who have visited them will notice and appreciate this change. Unsure why it got messed up.

While doing this, I was struck anew by how much BTTF fan fiction I'd written during my teens, twenties, and into my early thirties. It was a nice pleasant flashback. It also made me realize how little I remember now about the writing and the stories themselves, so I'm grateful to my past self for recording those "behind the scenes" memories for each story on the website.

In terms of the present, still working on the new fiction of a "mystery with supernatural elements." It's split into three parts and I'm about 80% done with the second segment. Which I started a year ago. The third segment will be the longest. Joking-not-joking that I may have it completed as a first draft in 2025. It's probably going to be my longest story ever.

I also recalled all over again how incredibly grateful I am to be a writer and to be writing fiction again after about a 8 year hiatus of writer's block. It is one of my first loves.

And just to mention again and keep it here: In Summer 2021 I started using Instagram to show where I was writing. A fun little photo essay I do not mind opening up to the world. And Facebook does have a community for PIT/Kristen Sheley fans that I established a few years ago. I would join or check those for more regular updates from me about writing.

ABOUT KRISTEN

Kristen Sheley was born in January 1979 in Beaverton, Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in magazine journalism, and later earned her Master of Arts in Teaching from Pacific University. She taught high school English for seven years in Northern California before eventually returning to the town of her youth. In 2012, she moved to Colorado, where she is teaching once more.

At nine, she fell in love with writing and dreamed of becoming a published novelist one day. Kristen wrote the first "Partners in Time" book on and off between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one. It was finally published in October 2002. The latest book in the series, A Change of Course, was released in the fall of 2010. She is currently working on a new book that is not related to PIT. She hopes to have it finished by 2025.

In her spare time, Kristen enjoys photography, history, research, traveling, reading magazines and novels, and movies -- especially the Back to the Future films.