Synopsis

Oedipus Poole, known as Ed from the time he reached the age of three, when he announced to his mother - ‘my name is Ed, mother,’ led a life so fantastic the world believed him to be the greatest imposter who had ever lived. Nevertheless, the truth was simple. Oedipus Poole had lived each incredible tale and indeed was the ripe old age of one thousand and three.

He encounters the gentleman, HG Wells, through an introduction by his Professor, James Moriarty, who insists he help him build the creation of his book, the Time Machine. Ed, who is a genius beyond compare, enlists his talents to complete the task. But Moriarty's daughter, Elizabeth, isn't so keen on the idea of being overlooked, and thus begins the war between the young woman, Sherlock Holmes, HG Wells, and Nicola Tesla.

After kidnapping Ed's beloved, Elizabeth forces Oedipus to follow her through time, leaving a trail of crumbs only a genius could understand until the rescue occurs, and they return home only to discover they have inadvertently changed the Victorian Timeline forever.

Outline

This is a bit difficult for me to do, as I let the characters tell the story, never do outlines or chapter headings until complete as I am a bit  unorthodox. It would start with Ed's mother realizing her child is a genius. Progress through his young life and the eventual journey.

Audience

Time travel/time travel romances have hit an all time  high and are trending at the top of Amazon and have been for the last six months. This book appeals to Victorian Era enthusiasts, steampunk lovers, fantasy readers, adventure seekers, and readers who love historical novels.

Promotion

I post to over 300 groups on FB 4x's a week regarding my books under Hargrove Perth. I also pay for FB marketing, schedule tweets, host giveaways, and have a street team that helps with all of my published works. Each book I release debuts in the Top 100 of its category.

Competition

A Lady out of Time by Caroline Hansen

Sent back in time to Victorian England to stop the invention of a deadly weapon, Helen Foster knows the job looks too easy: All she has to do is go to an auction, buy the weapon plans, destroy them, and she’ll save millions of people back in her own time. And even if she spends the rest of her life as a spinster stuck in the English countryside with a plethora of cats, changing the future is worth it. 

The Last Time Traveler by Aaron Ethridge

Robert is a time traveler. In point of fact, he's the last time traveler. He managed to snag that impressive title because when he comes from has no future. This, as you can imagine, makes it much easier to be the last of any number of things. The current lack of future is due to the mess all his predecessors, the previous time travelers, made of things. It's Robert's job to repair the damage they did in the hopes that this will jump-start time 

The Time Store by Andrew Clark

Greenwich, London. A borough steeped in history. Home of the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and the PRIME MERIDIAN. Also home to the Bradbeers, a family of Time Travellers. If you’re lucky, the Bradbeers will help you live your dreams or recapture lost time. Walk with dinosaurs or presidents, become a Wild West cowboy or a Roman legionnaire, resolve your past or lay your ghosts to rest. 

Time Travel Chronicles by Samuel Piralta

travel. Humanity has long imagined what it would be like to be able to create a time machine, what we might see if we could travel into the future, or be transported to the distant past. And what if it were possible to travel into our own, more recent past? Would we be able to change our present, or are we prisoners of predestination? Is fate what we make of it? In this latest title in the acclaimed 'Future Chronicles' series of speculative fiction anthologies, fourteen authors confront the question of time travel and its consequences, exploring a landscape where past, present and future all become imaginable destinations. 

Time Bound by Rysa Walker

When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago World’s Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows.

The Incredulous Life of Oedipus Poole is different from all these stories because it blends the best of Victorian London with our fascination with writers like HG Wells and characters like Sherlock Holmes by creating them as real-life and not fictional. It involves no deadly doomsday machine, just the wits of a genius man against his fabulous female enemy.