Before we start, I got a buck of Sci Fi and Fantasy authors who share their books about going on journeys.

Time Burrito 5 is off the hook. It is by far one of the weirdest books I’ve ever written. When I wrote the Time Burrito novel, Amazon had this program called Kindle Scout. It was a user vote publishing deal. I didn’t win, but remember doing pretty good. I mean I got a hand typed email as to why my book wasn’t selected, instead of a form rejection letter.

Anyway, for Kindle Scout, I had to answer this question:

What is the inspiration for the story?

Here was my answer at the time: “For this story, I decided to lock up the internal critic that told me, ‘No, don't write that, that's stupid.’ I wanted to write the most ridiculous story that I possibly could. A time travel burrito story with a cat pretty much covered the stupid quota. The rest of the story just fell into place.”

I knew if I was going to end Time Burrito and write the last book, I had to go back to that original mission statement. What’s the most ridiculous story that I could possibly write? It’s been 8 years and I’m a way better writer than I was back then. I also knew that if I was going to go for absurd, I was going to have to go all in. I needed to write something so crazy that it made Time Burrito 1 look conventional.

So that’s what I did. It’s the first book where not only do the characters break the 4th wall but they kick it down. I appear as a character in my own book. Throw some Misfits of Carnt and Office Maxi characters into the story? Sure! Why not? What about all the wacky people our intrepid time traveling gang has met over the years. They’re there too!

My goal for this book was to have it read like an AI fever dream, but be completely written by a human. I wouldn’t be surprised if people do accuse me of using AI for this book because it’s just that weird. But I assure you. I wrote every word of this parody that is almost a parody of the Time Burrito series itself.

The funny thing is that I didn’t realize that this book needed to be weird until a part of the way in. When I first started writing it, the beginning was a lot like all the other novels. Introduce some sort of time travel plot, wackiness ensues, characters save the day. But I shelved it because it felt too conventional, too much like what you’ve already read, and I felt book 4 was already the best Time Burrito novel. It’s like what George Lucas must have felt when he went to make the Star Wars prequels. “How am I going to top that?” (Spoiler alert, he didn’t).

But then, I suddenly realized, this one needs to be like the first, no filters, no stops. Just a piece of comedic art. I know that I’m not going to please everyone with this book. For those of you who think, “he should have stopped at 4.” Then here’s a short short story for you.

JB and roboClara are sucked into a time portal and die. The end.

Or if that is dissatisfying, grab your copy of Time Burrito 4 and cut out the Epilogue. It’s unnecessary to the ending.

However, if you are ready for the weird, outlandish, and incredible, then stick around for Time Burrito 5. I can promise that it will be unlike anything you’ve read.

And now that I got that out of my system, I can go back to my more conventional series like Office Maxi and Misfits of Carnt.

Also, you can get all five Time Burrito books for over 50% off, and that’s only through me.

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