How novel

I like that title.

I thought to use it as a blog main title but went with crime scene as I'm a lover of murder.

Murder mysteries that is.

A good murder scene just revs me up. Love to find clues. And sniff out the murderer.

But writing one is another story. Pun intended. :)

I'm a pantser. I don't plan my books out in detail. I know what the ending is and the beginning but the rest of the story just happens as I write.

I'm trying something different with the sci-fi book. I have four scenes in my head for the book. They go between the beginning and the end and I'm writing to fit them in.

Hopefully y'all will like this book better than my other books. It seems that the effort there was not successful as I didn't get much feedback or even buyers.

My dragon book is also a little bit different.

I do plan to finish the Elemental series as it has one more to go. Mortal Voice series is on hold for now but I do want to finish the two I have started.

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Quarentine

So still isolation.

The two nearest Walmarts got bare shelves but our little town market still has stuff.  Dad says it will probably be awhile before we go back to Walmart.  We bought enough we hope for two more weeks.

Finished off a chapter and started the next. But skipped two days of writing to read a book. I also downloaded some Kindle to my phone. I prefer books to Kindle but Kindle is cheaper. Well for some anyway.

But I'm getting there on the sci-fi. A little over half way through yet.

Hopefully y'all will weather all this stuff okay. Those of you with family I think will come out stronger.

Writing time

One good thing about this semi self-isolation is that I have time to write.

Not that I went anywhere much anyway. Like the one meme says I was self-isolating before. :)

But then that's different.

Voluntary vs involuntary. Really this self-isolation is not really voluntary as things have closed down and only a few places still open. More here than others.

I'm watching DVDs and writing since I'm social distancing with my parents as well. Though I see them every morning and at lunch. We live just 50 feet away from each other. Me in my trailer and them in a small house. Nice rural area. So I can go outside and not run into anyone but my parents. And the cats.

Hopefully y'all will weather this okay. I know those of you in the city have it harder. Everything closing down and stuck inside the apartment. And the buses, I don't want to get into that. If they're even running.

And hopefully by June this will just be a memory and we can have the Con. The organizers put a lot into this and I don't want that work to be in vain.

And it would be good to see y'all.

Books to come out sooner

Both my dragon book and my sci-fi book are going to come out this year.

I have already sent the dragon book in since it was already done.  The cover is done and revealed on my blog Sidereal Time.

My sci-fi book is about half way through. I hope to finish up by end of next month.
The cover for it is done and revealed on my blog Time after Time.

Both may come out before the Con. Which would be nice.

They will at least be ready by then.

I got a beautiful table sign that will be premiering at the Con.  I can't wait to show it. But if you want a sneak peek Sidereal Time has a pic of it. As does this blog  in a past entry.

Pen name

I've decided to use a pen name for my sci-fi series. I used to use it for fanfiction.

TaLeRy pronounced "tah leer ree"

There's also Challan. Though I use that name in the series for a character. I used it for a short story once when I was younger.

But TaLeRy is the first and last initial of my real name and I think it goes well with a sci-fi genre book.

Most of the time I write this book stuff on the blog corresponding to the book. My sci-fi series is on Time after Time, dragon books on Sidereal time, alliance on The alliance, and general on this blog.  Sometimes I doublicate the blog entry if it crosses into more than one book.

But I also add. So don't assume that they are the same just because the title is.

Why

It's been wandered why I call this blog a crime scene.

It's because I spend time writing here instead of on my books. The crime. & the Scene.

And because I like mysteries. Which always involve murder.

Also you finish off a book. A phrase meaning to kill.

Thus a crime scene.