My name is Jon Bradbury and I wrote the story Jump for the Forbidden Future Anthology.
Basically it’s about this FBI agent searching for his missing fiancee. I was very proud and still remain very proud of this story. It required using a lot of creative writing muscles I didn’t even know I had.
You see, up until Jump, I had never even written a time travel or even a science fiction story. I enjoy reading either genre, especially science fiction. Writers such as Timothy Zahn, Ben Bova, Peter David and Douglas Adams, have prime spots in my library.
The idea of writing a story in the sci-fi genre was something I had tried before — and failed miserably.
This was supremely frustrating. Apparently it takes a little more than an over-active imagination to write a sci-fi and/or time travel story. Even a short one.
Then last summer, I went on Twitter and literally happened on a Tweet from Masquerade Crew putting out a call for time travel stories for an anthology. It sounded interesting. One thing led to another and so here I am.
Writing a story in another genre is something every writer is afraid of. Even if they say they are looking forward to it, they are afraid of writing in another genre besides that which they are most comfortable and familiar with.
Just in case you have never heard of me, I am best known for writing interracial BF/WM erotic romance. Not the kind of background one might think of when thinking of writing time travel stories.
Just look at the reality tv program “So You Think You Can Dance.” Dancers are put through their paces, and put to the test, dancing in all sorts of styles they have never heard of in their life and have no experience with.
Writing a short story about time travel actually excited me, because I had an idea. However, writing about the time you start out with is the easy part. You as the writer have to send the character somewhere or somewhen, as the case may be. What is it about this future that will make them stay? Or what might make them rethink their position and decide the present they came from wasn’t so bad, after all.
And that is the challenge.
Now you might be thinking, “Write a scenario for the future” doesn’t sound so hard. Yeah, give that a try and get back to me about how easy it was.
So yeah, I was a little bit scared of how readers might react to my attempt at a time travel story.
Unfortunately my fears were well-founded. The story went through a couple of rewrites, not to mention some editing, before it arrived at the version you see now.
So I do hope that you read the book, and enjoy all the stories, but I also hope you like mine.
Happy reading!
Jon Bradbury is the writer of 11 erotic romance eBooks including Sugar Daddy and Worst Kept Secret. He lives and works in Reno, Nevada. He is a full time writer thanks to the never ending Great Recession. He is currently and probably permanently single.
