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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 4h

Totally get it, villains complicate everything. Mine keep sneaking into my life in ways I didn’t even plan for 😅 👺

Hopefully you still follow along 😀

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 5h

I loved doing the #TimeTravelAuthors October challenge, so I wanted to offer one of my own for November —
#VillainVibeVember

Post in the voice of your antagonist (published or WIP).
I’d love to hear about your villains 👀

#AmWriting #WritersOfBluesky #FictionWriting #WritingChallenge #BookSky

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 7h

D31 #TimeTravelAuthors: Character’s Choice

This one’s for Skyler. I choose Gratitude.
Gratitude to @juliebihn.bsky.social for this fun challenge.
Gratitude to those who liked my posts, and those who didn’t.
Gratitude that my story is out there now. 💜

#KeepingTime #YAfiction #Booksky #DebutAuthor

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 1d

Some days it's about celebrating the little things. Some days the big things. But it's always temporary, The Fin Whales knew that.

Today, it's #3 New release in YA Music Fiction!

Thanks for helping Keeping Time find its rhythm. 💜

#Booksky #YALit #DebutAuthor #IndieAuthor #MusicBooks #TimeTravel

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 1d

Hidden Puzzle Alert
Win a signed copy of the original print of Keeping Time!
Just solve the hidden word puzzle before anyone else does.

More info enaquinnbaker.com/keeping-time-word-puzzle/

Clues to be posted, follow #KeepingTimePuzzle to stay in the loop.
#Booksky #KeepingTime #WordPuzzle #YALit

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 2d

D29 #TimeTravelAuthors

Now she was letting herself be pulled by the current, not charting her own path. The day had started so rough, easy felt good.

#KeepingTime #FinWhales #MidnightCurrent #YAfiction #Snippet #TimeTravel #MusicAndMemory

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 4d

D27 #TimeTravelAuthors: feelings on time travel

To see bands before they blew up, time w/ young Fiona, & escape the doldrums. 🔥💜 🥳

Walking on eggshells, afraid 1 small misstep could ripple into an unintended chaos tsunami 😡☠️ 💔

#KeepingTime #YAfiction #Debut #YALit #Conflicted

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 5d

Great Sleuthing! Mid 80s in a kitchen that was aging out of its prime.

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 6d

D 25 #TimeTravelAuthors Saturday Excerpt

When things are vaguely familiar but off by a mile.

#KeepingTime #YAfiction #TimeTravel #SaturdayExcerpt #RetroVibes #1980s

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 8d

Many thanks!

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 8d

D23 Enemies #TimeTravelAuthors

I’m my own worst enemy.
I try to live with passion and drive, but sometimes I’m the one creating the biggest messes. It’s annoying, knowing the problem and the solution are both me.

#TimeTravelAuthors #KeepingTime #CharacterVoice #Introspection #YAfiction

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 8d

Just gonna say it, this is cool AF. 💜

My story was first in Teen & Young Adult Time Travel Fiction hot new releases this morning.

Heart = bursting.

#Debut #TimeTravelAuthor #YALit #IsThisReal #AmWriting

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations. It's quite the accomplishment!

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Ray Ingles @ringles.bsky.social · Apr 22

SECONDARY is now available almost everywhere books and e-books are sold!

THE MARTIAN meets THE POWER; I can comfortably promise you've 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 read a story quite like it.

books2read.com/b/mdx1Jl
Amazon: t.co/0xpU28EWiE
Sample chapters: t.co/pvZX0lxq2v

#ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #SciFi

A man wearing a lab coat and a lanyard stands centered in the image. The background is split irregularly down the middle by a lightning bolt; the man straddles the divide.

On the right, a nuclear plant by the ocean, with a barbed-wire-topped wall. Sun and scattered clouds all the way to the horizon.

On the left, clouds and rain. Strange buildings by the ocean, brightly colored. A man and a woman stand in front of them, wearing odd clothing, also brightly colored.

The tagline reads, "One survivor of our timeline. And it's the wrong guy."

The blurb for SECONDARY, black on an off-yellow background:

Everybody has bad days. Jim McAllister's having one that spans two timelines.

For an anthropologist, joining the Time Eye project is a career-making dream. He's hardly above pulling strings–especially for a chance to pull photons from the Bronze Age and directly view ancient cultures. Then rogue scientists hijack the Eye, sending an engineered virus back thousands of years. Jim, the last person interfaced with the system, can only watch as reality warps around him.

Now he's the sole remnant of the old history: a conspicuous, bizarrely-dressed young man who speaks no recognizable language. Thanks to the virus, anyone with two X chromosomes is a living, and potentially lethal, taser. Men have never been a significant threat to women–quite the opposite.

To have any chance of getting home–to even survive, in a world where men's concerns have been secondary for all of recorded history–Jim will need to find allies. He'll have to apply his skills to a uniquely unfamiliar culture, where much more than the gender signifiers are radically different. He must figure out who might listen to his story. A story that's clearly impossible and deeply offensive. Plus, just as a bonus, heretical.

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 10d

D21 #TimeTravelAuthors What would I change.

If I could change the story? I’ll quote my Grandma Fiona.
When I asked if she’d change anything about the night she met my grandfather, she said, “Not one flipping thing, and not a single thing since.”

#KeepingTime #FionaQuotes #Family #YAfiction

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 10d

Working Link
tinyurl.com/2p826xbc

Keeping Time: A Sound Logic Journey

Amazon.com: Keeping Time: A Sound Logic Journey: 9798999739100: Sheil, D. P.: Books

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 10d

Some days split your life in two: before and after.
Standing outside that radio station was one.
Today’s another.

Keeping Time is live on Amazon.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p826xbc

#KeepingTime #YAfiction #DebutNovel #TimeTravelAuthors #MusicAndMemory #ReleaseDay #NewRelease

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 12d

D19 #TimeTravelAuthors Proudest Moment

Easily my proudest moment in Keeping Time: recognizing that look , that death stare, one I’d seen in another time altogether. Knowing what I had to do. And doing it. No matter who saw, or who knew.

#KeepingTime #Madison #YAFiction #CharacterArc

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 14d

D17 Life advice: #TimeTravelAuthors

Embrace the theme of Season of Love by the Fin Whales. When something special is happening in you life, enjoy it fully. Let the future worry about where it can go and where it may end.

#KeepingTime #LifeAdvice #FinWhales #MusicAndMeaning #YAFiction

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 15d

D 15 #TimeTravelAuthors

“Each chord gave shape to everything she couldn’t say out loud.”

#KeepingTime #Snippet #MusicBooks #AmWriting

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 15d

D 13 #TimeTravelAuthors

What others think of me?

Madison thinks I think I’m better than her.
Funny, she’s got the school wrapped around her finger. Don't know why she cares. I just don’t bow to the queen.

#KeepingTime #YAFiction #TeenDrama #Rivals #CharacterVoice

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 15d

D 11 #TimeTravelAuthors

1986 smelled like cassette-tape plastic and hope.
#TimeTravelAuthors #KeepingTime #1980s #RetroVibes #MusicAndMemory #TimeTravel

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 15d

D9 #TimeTravelAuthors

Favorite person? My Grandma (and don’t tell her I said that).
Fiona’s the truest, most badass person I know.

#TimeTravelAuthors #KeepingTime #YAFiction #Family #CharacterLove #GrandmaGoals

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 16d

In my time-travel adventures, I experience something outside of time altogether.
Now I finally trully understand what “ineffable” means, so don’t ask me to explain. 😉

#TimeTravelAuthors #KeepingTime #SciFiYA #TimeTravel

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Ena Quinn-Baker @enaqb.bsky.social · 16d

Why am I important to the story? Because I am the story.
I move through time, breaking things and fixing what I can.

#TimeTravelAuthors #KeepingTime #MainCharacter #TimeTravel

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