Invasion of the Dead (Book 3): Escape (32 page)
Authors Note
You made it. I hope it was worth the effort. I am grateful for your time, and interest, knowing how far you’ve come. I’m sorry about the cliffhanger, but I avoided them in the first two books so thought it was about time… I wrote at the end of book two about my plans to take the story away from this group of characters. More on that in a moment.
This book was a tale of two parts. I finished a short, haphazard first draft in record time. But there it sat for almost a month as I climbed Mount Daunting, knowing how much work I still had to do, how many plot holes, meaningless characters, and ridiculous scenes still existed. I wondered how the hell I was going to get the novel into an acceptable state to carry on the story. I realized around the third week of October that if I didn’t get to work on a serious basis, I would miss my early December editing deadline and Christmas publishing date.
Thankfully, I got there. As challenging as it was, I had fun, and the more I read and reread the story, cutting, adding and polishing, the better I felt about it. I
could
take a shambling mess and turn it into something respectable.
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Now, onto the fourth book …
At the end of Survival I said I’d be switching to another location to follow a different “group” of survivors for the following three books. Hmmm… seems kind of mean given the cliffhanger for this book. I’ve got to think seriously about how I proceed here. At the very least I think I will tie up the fate of our intrepid group at the beginning of the next book.
I’ve also had another idea, which happens from time to time when I shake my head hard enough.
I
know what happens, but if anyone is interested, e-mail me about how you think the group will get out of the situation. Will the boat even turn around? Will anyone perish? What will happen in the next scene? Just a couple of lines about what might happen. The closest will receive a signed (or not, if you choose) paperback copy of the next book. I’ll release the winner on my website after the new book comes out or maybe as a teaser beforehand.
For now, I need to finish a couple of books separate to this series, but I’ll make an effort to get book four out as fast as possible.
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So before my author’s note becomes a novel of its own, I’ll wrap it up.
Thanks for reading,
Owen
Melbourne, Australia, December 2014.
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