Liz Kessler Blog Tour: If I had a Time Machine...

Hello folks! To celebrate the release of A Year Without Autumn, today I'm having the wonderful Liz Kessler on the blog! Ever wondered what you'll do if you were somehow in possession of a Time Machine? Who am I kidding, of course you did! I think we all have gone through that phase in our childhood, haven't we?

Check out what Liz'll do below! Welcome Liz!

My new book, A Year Without Autumn, is all about a girl who accidentally slips
forward in time. Everyone except her is a year older then they were the day
before. She has no idea how she got there – and even worse than that, she
discovers that some terrible things have happened in the year that she’s lost.

Jenni has to try to figure out a way to go back in time and change what happened
so that her life – and her best friend’s life – can get back on track without the
disaster that is fated to happen.

So this got me thinking. What if I could travel in time? What would I do? Where
would I go? What would I want to find out? And perhaps more importantly, what
wouldn’t I want to find out?

So here are the top five things I would do if I had a time machine.

1. I would go back in time to the beginning of the earth. I know that the
atmospheric conditions would probably mean I wouldn’t survive very long, so
the time machine would have to come equipped with every type of survival outfit
you would need. But how cool would that be? To see planet earth when it very
first started!!

2. I would go forward in time 500 years and see if we still exist! Some of my
favourite books at the moment are set in futuristic worlds where life is run by
societies very different from our own. I’d love to see what is really in store for
our civilisation. Will we still be around then? Will we have conquered illness and
poverty – or will cockroaches be the only things walking?

3. I would go back about thirty years, when my beloved grandmother, who we
called Mama, was alive. I would tell her that I love her, and that I’ll never forget
her. But most of all, I’d give her an enormous hug. She was always the best
hugger. Oh, OK, if I’m honest – I’d get her to make me some of her wonderful
chocolate cake too!!

4. I’d go forward maybe ten years or so, and see if my books are still on the
shelves. If they were, I’d come back and take all my friends and family out for a
slap up meal. And if they weren’t, I’d get on the phone to my publicist and tell her
we need to work harder!!

5. And finally, when I’d had all those adventures in my time machine, I think I’d
destroy it. Because, you know what? The present is really all that we’ve got – and
at this moment, I’m pretty happy with that!

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Thanks Liz! Number five didn't quite fit with my plans, but I'm selfish like that ;) Phew, suddenly I'm glad no one has the gift (or burden?) of having such machine - because as we all know, with great power   comes great responsibility! 

Don't forget to check out Liz's blog at http://www.lizkessler.co.uk/  and the rest of the tour stops below: