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He wanted a time machine. She wanted an adventure. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. 
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Monday, June 2, 2025 PROGRESS REPORT. I have continued working on my unrelated, stand alone story. It's been 5 years since its start and I am hoping and crossing my fingers that I can get a first draft completed by the end of the summer. (Having time to write for approximately 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, does definitely help, as this is what I do during Summer Break.) Then do the initial revision before it goes to Betas for feedback. "The Beast," as I call it, is already surpassing the length of my longest-to-date story -- the fanfic "No Place Like Home" -- and I am still probably only 80% into the story. It will be the longest thing to date, even after revisions that may trim or adjust things. In terms of Betas, I have a list in my head of those who have Betaed before with PIT -- who will be asked to do this but may also decline -- and even a few new people who may be interested. (The most interesting one will be my own husband, who wants strict parameters via me on truly what I want for feedback.) I estimate this process of getting feedback could be 4 or 5 months because the story is LONG. And I'm fairly flexible on deadlines. So my current plan, while the Beast is being Betaed, is to pick up PIT6, blow the proverbial dust off the current work, review the notes, and then go in to write and, probably, revise or gut. How far I will get before the Beast needs my attention is anyone's guess. The Beast, getting into a form to pitch to publishers and agents, is kind of the main goal. I attended a writing seminar of sorts last March and was fortunate enough to get a conversation and feedback from one of the professional writers there. I showed the first five pages of The Beast, and I was advised to contact them when I finished it. So that is super encouraging and is also lighting a fire under me to get it done sooner than later. PIT6 needs some work to it -- I have ideas already on some parts to cut or redo -- so that will be a project in and of itself. The PIT Muse is alive and well, however. I have already done a partial outline for PIT7, after some ideas came to me this spring while mulling over that concept, and I am excited and eager to get that story written when PIT6 is done and making the rounds. I am patient; I can wait a couple years before I write out the ideas that keep coming to me every day. That's fuel for writing anything for me. Just to mention again and keep it here: In Summer 2021 I started using Instagram to show where (physically-speaking) I was writing. A fun little photo essay I do not mind opening up to the world. And Facebook does have a community for PIT/Kristen Sheley fans that I established a few years ago. I would join or check those for more regular updates from me about writing. |
Kristen Sheley was born in January 1979 in Beaverton, Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in magazine journalism, and later earned her Master of Arts in Teaching from Pacific University. She taught high school English for seven years in Northern California before eventually returning to the town of her youth. In 2012, she moved to Colorado, where she is teaching once more.
At nine, she fell in love with writing and dreamed of becoming a published novelist one day. Kristen wrote the first "Partners in Time" book on and off between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one. It was finally published in October 2002. The latest book in the series, A Change of Course, was released in the fall of 2010. She is currently working on a new book that is not related to PIT. She hopes to have it finished by 2026. In her spare time, Kristen enjoys photography, history, research, traveling, reading magazines and novels, and movies -- especially the Back to the Future films.
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