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Time's Relative - Book Tour and Giveaway

4/28/2021

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Time's Relative
by Debbie DeLouise
Genre: Time Travel Thriller

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It’s the fall of 1998, and librarian Samantha Stewart is looking for a new job. After seeing an ad for a high-paying position at a company called Virtual Software that entails research and travel, Sam investigates the company and learns that its president has gone missing, and that it’s currently being run by the vice-president Greg Parsons.
Before Sam makes it to the interview, she's visited by a strange woman who introduces herself as Jane Oldsfield: a time traveler whose mission Greg Parsons is trying to prevent.
Sam ignores the woman and goes on the job interview anyway. Soon, she finds herself involved not only with Greg Parsons, but also Philip Montmart, a chain-smoking detective with a vendetta for his wife’s killer, and the time-traveling Oldsfield and her feline accomplice.
Witnessing world events that have yet to happen in her lifetime, including 9/11, Hurricane Sandy, Y2K hysteria and the COVID pandemic, can Samantha figure out Oldsfield's plans?


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​“What did Jane mean when she said the cat was working for her?”
“It’s a long story; but when Jane argued with me about the proper use of the Time-Travel Disks, she implanted a microchip in Floppy that would allow him to travel back and forth through time and act as her ‘Grounder.’”
“Is that what she meant by saying that she switched with him and why I saw the cat right before she appeared in my apartment?”
“Yes. Floppy is her grounder to the present time. She has the eleven Foundation Markers; the twelfth is in the circuits implanted in the cat.”
“Excuse me if I seem a little naïve about your technical terms, but what is a ‘grounder’ and how does it work?” Sam hoped she was asking the right questions and not exacerbating the listening detective who was probably getting impatient with all the small talk.
“I know you’re eager to learn everything, and I don’t blame you. But I’d rather not confuse you further. The next time we meet, I’ll show you the prototypes and Jane’s journal. For some reason, she didn’t take it with her. That’s what enabled me to duplicate the disks.”
“Now, wait a minute, Mr. Parsons.” It was Sam’s turn to be impatient. “You can’t give me half an explanation and see me off. If I’m going to be involved in this, I want the whole scoop. Besides, I don’t appreciate midnight or any other time of day visits from your partner.”
“She’s not my partner,” Parsons corrected her. “She used to be but not after she convoluted our project and used my cat as a guinea pig.”


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Debbie De Louise is an award-winning author and a reference librarian at a public library on Long Island. She is a member of International Thriller Writers, Sisters-in-Crime, and the Cat Writer’s Association. She has a BA in English and an MLS in Library Science from Long Island University. Her seven published novels include the 4 books of her Cobble Cove cozy mystery series: A Stone's Throw, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Written in Stone, and Love on the Rocks, her paranormal romance, Cloudy Rainbow, her mystery thriller Reason to Die, and her latest psychological mystery, Sea Scope. She also published a romantic comedy novella featuring a jewel heist caper, When Jack Trumps Ac. Debbie has also written articles and short stories for several anthologies of various genres. She is currently querying agents to represent the first book of a new cozy mystery series. She lives on Long Island with her husband, daughter, and three cats.


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​A Lot of Things Happen in 20 years

By Debbie De Louise

While trying to write a guest post for the blog tour of my new time-travel novel, Time’s Relative, I started thinking about the book and how I began it in 1998, put it away, and then discovered it twenty-two years later when cleaning up during the lockdown. I realized that, during that time, many things had occurred in my life. I began to mentally list them.
The best thing that happened, besides my daughter being born in 2014, is that I’d gone on to publish ten books (Time’s Relative is my eleventh) and dozens of short stories, articles, and even a bunch of poems.
There were many other occurrences during that time, however, that weren’t so great. I lost several loved ones, both my parents and my mother-in-law, as well as the two cats who were in the book and another one I got later. I also lost two friends, one who died way too young from a rare disease and one who caught COVID and died last spring.
I’m sure if you recall what your life was like in 1998, you’d also recall some bad and good things that happened to you since then. Now imagine that you could go back and change some of those things. Would you want to? How do you think those changes would have affected your present life?
In my book, the detective investigating Virtual Software and its missing president, gets an opportunity to return to the day his wife was murdered. His decision to try to save her, regarding warnings not to tamper with the past, has serious ramifications.
The main character, Samantha Stewart, known by all as Sam, not only transports to the past but also to the near future. What she sees about upcoming events, may or may not come to pass. Later in the book, she is able to view world events, as well as personal ones, including 9/11 and the pandemic. I added this information when I updated the book.
I hope you will enjoy Time’s Relative and its look back over the last twenty-two years.


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60 Comments
Bernie Wallace
4/28/2021 06:15:29 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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Debbie De Louise link
4/28/2021 09:33:59 am

I actually wrote this book in 1998. I can't recall how long it took. I think it was a few months, but I edited and updated it after locating it in some old files when I was home in lockdown last year. The updating took a month or so.

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Michele Soyer
4/28/2021 06:49:37 am

Love the title.. draws my interest....

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Debbie De Louise link
4/28/2021 02:37:03 pm

Thank you. My publisher didn't change the title. It was the one I created.

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Jon Heil
4/28/2021 07:40:48 am

Looking like another galaxy

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Kari B
4/28/2021 07:57:09 am

Sounds like an intriguing way to look at our recent past through the lense of this character.

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Debbie De Louise link
4/28/2021 09:31:55 am

Thanks so much for hosting the tour for my new time-travel novel.

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Marjorie Mallon link
4/28/2021 10:07:09 am

What made you write about time travel?

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Debbie De Louise link
4/28/2021 10:25:48 am

I've always enjoyed time-travel tales. I loved the Time Traveler's Wife and other books with that type of theme and thought I would like to try my hand at writing one. Thanks for your question, and good luck in the contest.

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Robert Young
4/28/2021 10:23:14 am

Thank you for sharing about the book as well as about yourself.

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Crystal link
4/28/2021 10:38:09 am

Love the cover and title of book. So intriguing and interesting. I so want to read and review this book in print format.
What made you write about Time?
What made you pick this title?
How did you pick your charcters, setting and plots?

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Debbie De Louise link
4/28/2021 02:39:51 pm

I answered the question above about why I wrote about time -- that I've always enjoyed reading time-travel books. I just came up with the title, but it fits because of some of the happenings in the books with the characters' relatives. My choice of characters, settings, and plots are random. They often come to me very early in the morning. Good luck in the contest. The paperback copy of the book is less than $10, and you might win $20.

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Rita Wray
4/28/2021 11:13:33 am

Sounds like a good read.

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David Basile
4/28/2021 11:55:33 am

This book looks interesting

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Abigail Gibson
4/28/2021 12:03:11 pm

This book looks so cool!!!!!!

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Marcy Meyer
4/28/2021 01:01:42 pm

The cover looks good. Thanks for sharing!

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Calvin
4/28/2021 01:17:24 pm

Awesome theme to your book.

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Wendy Jensen
4/28/2021 02:10:49 pm

The book details make this sound like an interesting thriller.

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Sherry
4/28/2021 02:12:10 pm

Looks like a very interesting book.

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wendy hutton
4/28/2021 02:49:01 pm

awesome cover, congrats on the release

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Barbara Montag
4/28/2021 02:58:42 pm

This looks like an interesting read.
And I like the great cover.
Thank you for sharing the review.

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Victoria Alexander
4/28/2021 04:52:39 pm

Sounds like a good book, thanks for sharing!

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Amy F
4/28/2021 05:14:12 pm

Amazing cover design! Sounds like a great thriller.

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David Hollingsworth
4/28/2021 05:27:54 pm

I love that cover! It's stylish and intriguing.

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Kelly D
4/28/2021 05:35:35 pm

The book sounds great, with an interesting plot.

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Ann Fantom
4/28/2021 05:43:37 pm

This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.

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Debbie P
4/28/2021 05:45:56 pm

I really liked the excerpt and ithis sounds like a great read. Cool cover!

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Serge B
4/28/2021 06:43:13 pm

Cool excerpt and very cool cover!

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bn100
4/28/2021 08:07:35 pm

nice excerpt

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Angela Heerde
4/28/2021 08:42:51 pm

I like book details

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Thomas Gibson
4/28/2021 09:55:10 pm

Nice cover and excerpt!

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Cynthia C
4/29/2021 10:38:35 am

The excerpt is interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

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Ginger Hafer
4/29/2021 12:21:34 pm

I like the cover. It has beautiful coloring. Sounds like a great time travel story.

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Susan Smith
4/29/2021 01:43:56 pm

Sounds like a good book. I like the cover, very colorful!

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Peggy Salkill
4/29/2021 08:28:36 pm

Cool cover!

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Alisha Mccracken
4/29/2021 09:11:45 pm

The cover is absolutely beautiful!

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Stephanie Liske
4/30/2021 03:40:45 pm

I like the book details.

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Beyond Comps
5/1/2021 03:27:11 pm

Great cover!

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Tara L
5/2/2021 02:15:00 pm

I think the cover looks kind of cool and creative and mysterious.

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Ellie Wright
5/2/2021 02:57:39 pm

I love time travel books. I'm looking forward to reading this.

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Daniel M
5/3/2021 02:48:29 pm

like the cover

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Jennifer Galindo
5/3/2021 08:12:38 pm

I love the idea of time travel. If only If only I could I would!

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BILL HOFF
5/3/2021 09:06:53 pm

My daughter would enjoy this book

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Virgil C Treadway
5/3/2021 10:03:18 pm

THank you

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Karin
5/4/2021 06:05:22 am

What an interesting way to add cats to your story.

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Audrey Stewart
5/4/2021 09:00:03 am

Debbie De Louise is a favorite author of mine. I enjoy reading all her books.

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Kara Gill
5/4/2021 09:15:39 am

This sounds so good!

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Christy R
5/4/2021 11:24:58 am

The book details sound interesting. I love cats !

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Teresa Kunberger
5/4/2021 02:56:46 pm

Love this cover so much!

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Emily B.
5/4/2021 03:48:47 pm

Very cool looking cover! I like the incorporation of the clock.

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joy f
5/4/2021 07:29:22 pm

Sounds good.

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Leigh Nichols
5/4/2021 07:57:18 pm

Fascinating- I am so intrigued by Time Travel and portals, etc

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Sarah L
5/4/2021 07:59:45 pm

Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Nancy
5/4/2021 08:56:00 pm

I think that the cover of your book is colorful and eye catching.

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Renata
5/4/2021 09:48:38 pm

Sounds good

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Sand
5/4/2021 09:55:13 pm

Sounds like a good book!

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Rick Mace
5/4/2021 10:11:38 pm

This sounds like a good read. I love the colors of the cover. Stands out

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Ally Gibson
5/4/2021 10:34:04 pm

I really like the book cover. The eyes and clock are very mysterious.

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Jerry Marquardt
5/4/2021 10:39:17 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Time's Relative, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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megan allen
5/4/2021 11:26:39 pm

Sounds like a great read! I'm adding this one to my tbr!

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