I just found Time Without on Amazon and Barnes and Noble!
At this point it’s only available for pre-order, since it won’t really be out until July. But that doesn’t make it any less exciting.
I just got word that Time Without is good to go!
Which means review copies will go out to reviewers. It won’t go on sale to the general public until mid-July.
But it also means I can let everyone see the cover, so here goes!
In case the back cover text is too small to read:
Vanessa is a strong, independent woman. Or she was, until she awoke in a world strangely changed. And when her husband and father of her children is in trouble, Vanessa realizes it is up to her to figure out what went so wrong in the world.
Vanessa’s journey takes her to the Department of Temporal Adjustment, the department tasked with handling all time travel, where she and her spunky kids go on a hilarious adventure through time—all while traveling incognito.
I awoke this morning with Forrest Gump and the whole box of chocolates philosophy floating around in my head. It wouldn’t leave me alone, until I realized I looked at the world in a slightly different way. Not as a box of chocolates, but as a road trip.
Yep.
Life is like a road trip.
At the beginning you don’t quite know what to expect. So you do the only thing you can. You get in the car and drive.
Sometimes detours take you so far out of your way you think you are hopelessly lost. Sometimes you hit a patch of road that is so full of ruts and potholes that you get a headache from hitting the roof. But there are other times the wind on your face and the beauty that surrounds you makes you so happy you can’t help but sing at the top of your lungs.
No matter what happens you keep going.
And if you get a toothache while you’re on one of those long stretches where there’s nowhere to pull over, you do what you must. You keep your hands on the wheel and keep moving.
The scenery is ever changing, and who knows what wonder that next bend might bring. Forward is the way to go.
Sometimes nature says, “Enjoy!”
This week, decorating won.
But I don’t regret it. A home should reflect the personalities of the people who live there, and the house we bought a year and a half ago did not.
Little by little we are making the changes that make our house match us. We’ve already replaced the floors and remodeled the kitchen, but we still have more to do.
I’m not really a big fan of the blah colored walls. That’ll be a project for a future time.
This last week we replaced our old living room furniture and built barn doors leading into the family room. It totally transformed the room!
I like it.
I’ve decided to make posters for the rest of my screenplays. Here’s the one for Haunt for Hire.
It’s a dramedy about a family who discover they have a connection with ghosts, and decide to use that connection.
They find out that even ghosts can be haunted.
I needed to create a picture of a blue wormhole to go along with Wormhole 276. So I opened up an image editor and began creating. Here’s the result.
The learning curve was a little steeper than I thought it would be. I guess I’m out of practice.
Want to hear a scene from one of my screenplays? I was fortunate enough to win a reading, so go ahead, have a listen.
Here’s the setup.
In a space city more than a thousand years in the future, Marvi and Jacot are left with their grandparents while their parents are out of the galaxy. The grandparents, Tink and Tank, are both successful scientists. The sister and brother have been cautioned to stay out of the labs because of danger. Jacot, who gets bored easily, decides to explore.
FAMILY BEST SCENE Screenplay – WORMHOLE 276, by Veronica R Tabares
Enjoy!
I looked outside this morning and SURPRISE!
I had no idea I’d wake up to this. I had plans. Plans that didn’t include snowy roads.
Okay, so the flakes falling from the sky are beautiful, huge, and oh-so-fluffy. Each one is a work of art.
But all that artwork destroys my plans.
Just yesterday I was chatting with a cashier at the grocery store and we both agreed we were ready for spring.
This does not look like spring.
Officer Daniels holds tight to the counter as he maneuvers around it, then staggers to the bench and plops down beside Emma. As he talks his face takes on a greenish hue, as if he is suddenly aware that his lunch no longer agrees with him.
Emma listens, her chin firm. Though a close observer might notice slight quivers that break through her iron will.
Officer Daniels raises a shaky hand toward the door. Emma stares at the hand momentarily, then nods. Emma stands slowly, throws back her shoulders, and marches out.
Officer Daniels wipes sweat from his brow as he staggers back to his high stool. He checks that no one is watching before he rests his head on the counter.
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This is an excerpt of a screenplay I’ve just begun. I’ve had the story plotted out since I first wrote the Behold the Eye trilogy oh-so-many years ago. It’s kinda funny it’s taken me this long to get to it.
Even though this is built on the same premise (dream traveling), it’s from a different time and place with new characters.