An Adventurer's Guide to the Jungles of Time and Space
In 1997 Mike Dooley shared a long, rambling manuscript called, The Time-Space Continuum (TSC) with world renowned editor, Eleanor Friede (of Jonathon Livingston Seagull fame, she was the one person who saw its potential when Richard Bach was receiving rejection slips for it from everyone else). Sitting with Eleanor in her Virginia living room, absorbing her praise while in a state of shock and delight, Dooley was told that his book needed a hook. Something to make it sellable, memorable, totally unique.Coming from a legend, this request would be sufficient to give any writer a block, and for months, Dooley was no exception. Then one afternoon on his back porch, self-sequestered until... until he found his hook, suddenly, after hours of literally writhing in pain, it came. And not just as a trickle, but it gushed, in the form of a little introductory story to set the stage for the comparatively dry material of TSC that would follow.Two problems: First, by then Eleanor had moved on to other projects and had lost all interest in the project, and second, the new little story clearly outshone the manuscript it was preparing the reader for. Accordingly, Dooley released Lost in Space, a standalone book, self-published title.20,000 copies were sold, and Lost in Space generated a bit of a cult following. TSC was shelved, before ultimately being reworked to become the core of Dooley s year 2001 audio program, Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams, ultimately becoming its own book in 2009, debuting as #7 on the New York Times bestseller list, and including a rewrite of Lost in Space as its intro and epilogue, titled, An Adventurers Guide to the Jungles of Time and Space, the very story now contained in this collector s softback edition. --From the Publisher