Premise for THE VASE

One of the points I made in my queries for THE VASE is that there is a completely unique and original idea incorporated in the storyline. But I have never said just what it is in my blog. So now that a contract is signed, and THE VASE is on the road to publication I will reveal just what is so original and unique about it.

My novel, THE VASE, features actual video recordings from antiquity! But how can that be, you may ask, since the technology of making recordings wasn't invented until the late 1800s, right?

Well, that’s right. Thomas Edison managed to record sound onto tin foil wrapped around a spinning cylinder. People my age remember our first experiences with like devices as spinning vinyl discs we called records. But spinning technology is nothing new. Potters make vases by spinning clay on what they call a throwing wheel, and it's been done since way back when. And a lot of those vases have grooves encircling them. Yeah, grooves like in vinyl disks.

Since the technology involves electromagnetic fluctuation, powered by electricity, does that mean in ancient times, it wasn't available? Certainly not, as we all know that Benjamin Franklin proved that electricity is a natural occurrence, and scientists also know that electromagnetic fluctuation is another natural phenomenon. With the greatest source of electromagnetism being the sun, and since magnetic storms have bombarded earth throughout history, my story includes a natural recording of events onto spinning vases during periods of unusual solar activity that penetrated our atmosphere.

It begins with the accidental release of an ancient recording during an unusual geomagnetic storm focused over the Middle East. Imagine the history that could be recorded onto spinning ceramic vases throughout time. It's the idea a few publishers found intriguing, and now Virtual Tales has bought in. Look for THE VASE soon.