In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Nancy McCabe discusses her new book, Vaulting Through Time. This is Nancy’s first novel for young adults. A 16-year-old biracial high school student named Elizabeth is coming to the end of her competitive gymnastics career. But that isn’t the only thing that has her head spinning. Elizabeth discovers a mystery surrounding about her birth that her mother has kept secret from her. She also finds herself catapulted through time, through her family’s own history as well as great moments in gymnastics history, in order to solve that mystery and stop a fellow time traveler whose actions may prevent her from being born at all. This book holds a special place in Nancy’s heart, because she has always loved time travel stories, and her main character Elizabeth was inspired by Nancy’s own daughter, who was a competitive gymnast. Nancy has taught writing at the university level for many years, but she admits Vaulting Through Time is unlike anything she has ever written before. In this episode, I’ll chat with Nancy about her writing journey, why she credits her students with convincing her to try her hand at writing a time travel novel, and the one simple truth she tells all her students: the more you read, the better writer you become.
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