First off, a giveaway featuring strong women in sci fi and fantasy. Also, a horror short story collection that I contributed too is looking for Arc Readers (which means you got to review if you read).

It’s finally here. The end of the series. Time Burrito 5 will be the last book (I think). I always thought to myself that Time Burrito will be my 72-book series. If I ever run out of ideas, I could just write another Time Burrito novel. With time travel, there is pretty much a never-ending supply of plot ideas. Look how long Dr. Who has been running, not to mention all the books in the universe. Pretty much a Time Lord in TARDIS or Burrito Vendor and Physicist can have limitless adventures.

But then I wrote Time Burrito 4, and I realized that Pete and Clara went through their emotional journeys. SPOILER ALERT (at least up to book 4), Pete earned his respect in the cooking community and found the love of his life. Clara earned respect in the Physics community and found the love of her life, lost the love of her life, found the love of her life again in a different body, and they saved the world again.

After that book, I realized that I wrote myself into a corner. I promised another book with a teaser ending, and didn’t have an emotional plotline for our characters to go through. Well, I kinda found one for Clara and one for Pete that make’s Time Burrito 5 work. What’s with this emotional plotline anyway? The Doctor doesn’t have to have an emotional epiphany every episode?

Yes, true, characters don’t always need to be going through some things or sorting something out, but I enjoy my characters having complex inner lives even though they may be in a novel with a cat on a flying space burrito on the cover. As a writer, I enjoy exploring people who aren’t perfect, but do the best with what they have if they are the hero and make poor choices based on fallacies if they are a villain. Because TB4 (that’s how they are named on my computer) had explored that inner life, I didn’t think I had any more to write.

I realize now that I’m just not a 72-book series writer. I enjoy beginning, middles, and ends too much to keep churning out books with the same characters. Misfits of Carnt will probably turn out to be my longest series only because there are so many characters but there definitely is an end in mind, I just have to get there. Not to mention, writers never really run out of ideas. For every book I’ve published, there are maybe about 7-10 that are only just a few sentences in an ideas folder, a few pages because I had to write it, or in one case I got through the first 1/3 before abandoning it. The point is that I’ll never run out of ideas. So, I just don’t have the time to write another Time Burrito novel because I’m bored.

That’s why I said Book 5 is the last one, maybe. Perhaps one day, I get the Time Burrito bug, and I just must write another one. Or maybe Time Burrito becomes a Tubi original (see book for joke), and I do write a couple more books because suddenly there is hot demand for Time Burrito novels. I will never say never, but I can say that I’m way more interested in finishing Office Maxi and Misfits of Carnt right now, so I completed the series in Book 5.

It will not end on a cliff hanger. There is no promise to write another one. And I feel that if you enjoy the series, it’s the best one. It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever written.

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