Thursday, July 24, 2025

About Iterating

We're still finalizing the cover for our fourth title, which is an iterative process of vision and revision, some things the same, some things not. Our author Roy Blomstrom wrote an entire book about the process, in fact.





In THE ITERATIONS OF CAROLINE, high school teacher David Williamson almost, but doesn't, run into himself in a mirror. After that, he experiences the same locations--in North America, from Thunder Bay to the west Coast, then down to Santa Monica, and home along Route 66--in different universes.


Along the way, he meets up not only with a woman named Caroline but also a former student, Bernie. In David's original world, Bernie was a brilliant and kind but socially awkward genius. When next David searches for him, Bernie has cracked quantum computing and can explain--or try to--what David is experiencing.


"Bottom line," Bernie said, his voice kind, "you've been experiencing some very strange things. For some reason, you travel among some individual universes of the multiverse. All that's real. I don't doubt you for a second. I know how the quantum computer works, though I don't know how this works.


"But I can tell you.... In the multiverse everything that can happen, everything that is possible, happens somewhere. It's not probable that pigs can fly, but somewhere in the multiverse, pigs have big wings and fly. If it's possible, it's out there, and you may end up visiting one of those places, so be ready for anything."


Luckily, David was ready for anything. And survived to tell the tale. As with our other titles, THE ITERATIONS OF CAROLINE is available online in print and ebook formats.