Yesterday's Gone (Season 5): Episodes 25-30 (49 page)

But as we were writing the story, it just didn’t feel right — at all.

Luca didn’t WANT to become the main bad guy. While he’d suffered at the hands of bullies, and had a few rough spots, it hadn’t changed his core. And in fact, the alien inside him responded as much to his kindness as anything — preventing Rose’s Darkness from carrying out
It’s
plan.

When we decided that Luca wasn’t going to be the main bad guy, and Desmond was instead, we briefly considered killing Luca off. However, we had plans for him in the sixth season. Paola wasn’t so lucky. 

Given where the story was going, and what she (and her mother) had already endured, it felt like we’d be cheating if she
had
made it out of this season alive.

It was tough killing her. She was a resilient kid and we particularly loved writing the scenes with her and Boricio. 

I think the only regret in killing her now is that we didn’t give her more point of view chapters. We considered upping her chapter counts this season but thought that doing so might give away our plan to kill her off. We’ve all seen the TV shows where a secondary character is killed off and you can see it a mile away because all of a sudden that character starts getting plenty of screen time.

We didn’t want to telegraph Paola’s death.

I admit to quite a bit of glee when we planned this out. First pretending to kill her when Desmond hid her away. And then we returned her to Mary, only to have her die almost out of the blue during their escape.

George R.R. Martin has nothing on us when it comes to killing main characters! 

All of this is to say that we love our characters, and hope that it shows — even when we kill them off. 

And here’s the thing about readers’ opinions: remember how I said that some people thought Mary was too weak, Brent was too whiney, and Boricio had been neutered? Well, they’re perfectly entitled to think those things. There
are no
perfect characters, just as there are no perfect people.

Our characters are all flawed in some way, just like us.

These are as much your characters as they are ours. And we’re honored that you care enough about the people in our world to develop strong feelings — good and bad.

We hope you enjoyed this season as much as we did writing it. Thank you for continuing this journey and inviting us into your lives — it’s an honor that continues to humble us.

We can’t wait to show you what’s in store in the final season, which you’ll see early next year.

As always, thank you for reading,

Dave (and Sean)

October 4, 2014

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Yesterday’s Gone: Seasons One - Five

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ForNevermore: Season One

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Season Three Coming Soon

Z 2134 - Z 2136

Monstrous

//STANDALONE BOOKS//

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Dark Crossings: The Collection

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The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Spread the Word

We thank you for reading our book. 

You’ve already rocketed to the top of our
Favorite People In The World
List, currently populated by J.J. Abrams, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Craig Ferguson, and whoever first thought to put cookies in ice cream (someone give that person a Nobel Prize!)

But there’s one more thing we’d appreciate if you have a few minutes…

If you enjoyed this story, or even if you kinda liked it, please
LEAVE A REVIEW TODAY.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OC9097O/

WHY REVIEWS MATTER

We hate begging you like an NPR pledge drive, but we’re new writers, still making our name. In today’s publishing world, with so many great writers out there trying to get noticed, reviews are one of the primary ways writers free themselves from obscurity. 

We would both write no matter what, even if we only had five readers. And we have. Dave wrote for years while working graveyard at a gas station, dreaming of a day he’d have people wandering the worlds of his design. Sean spent 30 years sucking movies, books and TV through a pop culture straw, thinking the entire time that he “could never do that” until the day he wondered if he could. 

We’re writers. We have stories to tell, and want to tell them to you forever. 

Our books are what we do when we get up to go to work each day. The better our books do, the better we do. The more we can write, and the more ambitious we can be. 

Will You Be a Part of Our 1%?

About 1% of people who read a book review it. 

Some people don’t like leaving reviews. 

Some people don’t realize how much it matters to a modern author. 

Some people have never left a review and have no idea what to say.

Some people never even consider it. 

Most people don’t have time. 

If you can’t leave a review for whatever reason, or even if you don’t want to, we totally understand. We are thrilled you’re reading, and appreciate the time you spend in our worlds. 

But if you do, please know that you’re part of that 1% who really drive us to get noticed, since we know you want to see a
What Would Boricio Do?
Show on HBO as much as we would. 

The biggest challenge for indie authors is finding an audience. Word-of-mouth and reviews at Amazon, Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Goodreads, and similar sites can make all the difference in the world between whether a new reader will find and buy our books.

If you have a few minutes, you will make a
huge difference
in how our story as indie writers continues to unfold. It doesn’t have to be long, just honest. Three sentences saying why you liked the season will read like pages of thank-you to us. 

Click here
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to leave a review at Amazon. 

Thank you for reading,

Sean Platt & David Wright

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sean Platt
is a speaker, founder of Sterling & Stone, co-host of the Self-Publishing Podcast, and author of more than five-million words of published fiction. Together with co-authors David Wright and Johnny B. Truant, Sean has written the series
Yesterdays Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, Available Darkness, Dark Crossings, Unicorn Western, The Beam, Namaste, Robot Proletariat, Cursed, Greens, Space Shuttle,
and
Everyone Gets Divorced
, the traditionally published titles,
Z2134
and
Monstrous,
and the standalone novels,
Axis of Aaron, Crash,
and
Threshold.
Sean also co-wrote the how-to indie book,
Write. Publish. Repeat,
writes for children under the name Guy Incognito. Sean lives with his wife and children in Austin, Texas, and has more than his share of nose. Follow him on Twitter
@seanplatt
.

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David W. Wright
is the co-author of the
Yesterday’s Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, Available Darkness, Z 2134,
and
Monstrous
series as well as the
Dark Crossings
collections of short stories. He’s also a sometimes cartoonist. 

He co-hosts
The Self Publishing Podcast
and
Better Off Undead
podcasts with author Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt. Both podcasts are chock full of foul language, can go wildly off-topic, and should not be listened to by anyone. 

David lives on the east coast with his wife, his 7-year old son, and the world’s most pooping-est cat.

He writes about Collective Inkwell stuff at:
http://www.collectiveinkwell.com

 
He blogs about himself, creativity, pop culture, and other stuff at:
http://DavidwWright.com

Connect with David at:

[email protected]

http://twitter.com/thedavidwwright

http://facebook.com/CollectiveInkwellPublishing

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