Putting Together The Murder Rule….and the Fun of It!

I am nearly finished with the final edit of The Murder Rule, and, when the edit and any other info that needs to be included is complete, it will become a downloadable FREE PDF and will also become copyright registered with the Library of Congress. That way, no AI mechanism can “re-write” this novel, and hackers, beware. When a literary work is registered with the Library of Congress, one can sue to copyright violator.

Update: The Murder Rule has been finalized and registered with the Library of Congress as a published work. The finished FREE PDF novel will be uploaded soon, and the menu above will link to where it can be downloaded.

There is some Biblical scripture in The Murder Rule, but the scripture is from the copyright-free Authorized King James Version, so no copyright violation issues there.

And another thing—a couple of parts of this novel have sections of previously copyrighted manuscripts; two parts are featured in Battle of the Band, and one part, Chapter Two of Part Three of The Murder Rule is (with some changes) featured in The Prodigal Band. This is already copyrighted material I have authored in the original trilogy novels, so I will have to mention this within The Murder Rule. After all, The Murder Rule is a “spin-off” novel from The Prodigal Band Trilogy novels. But since I own the copyright to these sections (most of which were revised somewhat in The Murder Rule), no issues there.

Let me explain why I chose certain “spin-off” scenarios from the trilogy when I could have chosen other parts.

I chose the parts I chose because the parts I chose have ‘murder’ or ‘attempted murder’ scenarios. Part One is about a rock star who reneges on his ‘oath’ to serve the evil forces ruling the music industry, and who is believed, in Chapter Nine of Battle of the Band, to have committed suicide because his band did not get millions in video deals, and, further, he was a drug addict of sorts. Part Two is about a teen roadie for the prodigal band that reneges on his membership in an evil New Age cult; the teen also being a character from Battle of the Band as well as The Prodigal Band—and who survived an attempted murder while his dog did not. Part Three, which contains overtones from the present including a ‘pandemic’ and its resulting bio-weapon if you know what I mean, features a key character in all three trilogy novels, an aristocrat who ‘carouses with the peasants’ and is the prodigal band’s manager who, after hearing testimonies as to why the band accepted Christ as Lord and Savior, did so himself…and later, so did his formerly evil father, a baron and banker oligarch, a trillionaire. This ‘key figure,’ by going against the grain of the elites he was born into, was also threatened with murder.

Furthermore, while the scenarios of murder and attempted murder define the key theme of The Murder Rule, there is another key theme, spiritual as well as physical—good vs. evil. Part One isn’t just about a murdered rock star as it exposes specific evils within the music industry (evils which are far worse today then they were back in the 90s and 2000s). Part Two isn’t just about a teen prodigal band roadie caught up in pop-culture corruption and cultist New Age ideals but is also about a perspective of this evil from a fan of pop culture and a teenager, not just celebrities or insiders as with Part One. Part Three isn’t just about a band manager accepting Christ as Savior as his band and as his father did on his death bed, but is about a true insider who lived as an outsider precisely because he wanted no part in the evils of the insider agenda he knew was evil. It is also about some of this evil agenda in play within the present—the ‘pandemic’ that is still ongoing today and the ‘cure’ still being pushed today by national and world/NGO ‘stakeholders’ that is actually a tool for the genocide of humanity, incrementally. It also features the use of celebrities to, willingly or not, bully the bulk of humanity into accepting this evil.

Soon, The Murder Rule will be uploaded as a FREE PDF for download, likely sometime in early October, 2023.

Thus, while The Prodigal Band Trilogy novels headline the spiritual aspect of the good vs. evil narrative, The Murder Rule headlines the more physical aspect. A ‘manual,’ so-to-speak, I will likely finish before the end of 2023 or early 2024, will headline how all true believers can do their part in ‘making disciples of all nations’ (as Christ commanded us true believers to do in the Gospels), and why we must do this ‘mission of God.’ The work will be called Talent for a Mission, and I have mentioned this work at this site a year or so ago. While The Prodigal Band Trilogy is based on the Luke 15 Parable of the Prodigal Son, Talent for a Mission is based on the Matthew 25 Parable of the Talents, where Christ wants us true believers to be ‘good and faithful servants.’

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Author: deborahlagarde

Born on Long Island, NY, in 1952, now live in the mountains of far west Texas. Began writing fiction stories at about 8 years old with pen and loose leaf paper, and created the characters in my Prodigal Band Trilogy as a teenager. From the 70s to the 90s I created the scenario which I believe was inspired. While bringing up and home schooling my two children I continued to work on the novels and published "Battle of the Band" in 1996 and "The Prophesied Band" in 1998. Took off the next several years to complete home schooling and also working as an office manager for the local POA. In 2016, I retired, then resumed The Prodigal Band, a FREE PDF book that tells the whole story to its glorious end. Hint: I'm a true believer in Christ and I'm on a mission from God, writing to future believers, not preaching to the choir. God gave me a talent and, like the band in my books, I am using that talent for His glory, not mine (and, like me, the band is on its own journey, only fictional.) I also wrote for my college newspaper and headed up production, was a columnist in a local newspaper in the early 2000s, and wrote for and edited "Log of the Trail," the news letter for the Texas Mountain Trail Writers, and wrote for and edited it's yearly catalog of writings, "Chaos West of the Pecos." OmegaBooks is my self-publishing sole proprietorship company founded in 1995. Other jobs included teaching secondary math, health aide, office worker, assembly line work, and free-lance writing and bookkeeping,much of it while home schooling.

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