From SRP author Mark Posey:
So.
We did the market this weekend. Thanks to everyone who stopped by.
Table looked good. Readers were lovely. Card reader behaved itself. Nobody knocked over the thriller display. All in all? Success.
Except for one tiny detail. I forgot to bring Assassinating Yesterday. Not “I didn’t bring enough copies.” Not “I sold out.”
No.
I forgot to order any.
Which is especially impressive considering I wrote the thing.
If you’re not familiar with Assassinating Yesterday, it’s the one where:
- A guy gets stranded twenty years in the past.
- His temporal activation switch is broken.
- He needs to find his father — a theoretical physicist — without blowing up the timeline.
- Also, there are people who would very much like him not to succeed.
You know. Light, relaxing reading.
And somehow, in the midst of market prep — labeling bins, loading totes, remembering to pack the Square reader and not forget the cash float like a rookie — I completely skipped the “bring the time-travel thriller” step.
Which got me thinking. If I can forget about it…there’s a decent chance some of you did, too. Because markets are chaos. Life is chaos. Algorithms are chaos. And unless a book is physically stacked in front of your face, it’s easy for it to drift off into the fog of “Oh right, I meant to grab that.”
So here’s your post-market nudge. If you like:
- High-stakes time travel
- Moral decisions with actual consequences
- Thrillers where the science matters
- Stories that ask what you would risk to fix the past
Then Assassinating Yesterday probably belongs on your shelf. Or your e-reader. Or both. I’m not here to judge your format choices.
The good news is you don’t need me to remember to pack it. It’s right here.
If you’ve already read it — you are clearly more organized than I am, and thank you. I hope you enjoyed it. If you meant to and forgot — congratulations. We are the same person. Let’s fix that.
Before I forget again.
— Mark
