Yesterday's Gone: Season Three (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER)

it. Or in some cases, both.
    Long story short, most readers we spoke with thought that the only person to make it back to Earth was Luca, now transformed by the vial. While many readers said they liked the ending as it was, we didn’t like that the ending was so ambiguous.
    If people are confused at the end of this season, we didn’t do our job.
    Additionally, some readers felt that there wasn’t much closure to the first half of the series. It’s one thing to leave people hanging on a cliffhanger, which we love to do, but this was not that. We wanted to deliver satisfying endings to several storylines and failed to do so because we over-thought the ending and scrapped out original idea out of fear of dragging things out.
    In other words…

We screwed up.

    While I think we did a good job of delivering answers to most of the questions we’d put forth at the start of the series, we didn’t write a good ending.
    So Sean and I got back to work, writing the original endings we’d talked about, and hired an editor last minute to proofread the nearly 2,500 words.
    Unfortunately, I don’t know of a quick, easy way to ensure that you can download a new version of Episode 18. So we created a new REVISED Episode 18 (what you’re reading now). We’re making that episode FREE on Amazon for five days, so everyone will have a chance to download a new version at no cost. If we could make it free longer, we would. But we only get five days.
    In uploading the new book, I believe we’ll have to take down the original book so as not to violate Amazon’s KDP Select terms. We don’t want to double dip with the same book twice. I believe that Amazon will keep the original sales page up, along with whatever reviews we received. I’m fine with that. I don’t want to whitewash our reviews, as they (and you who write them) help us see what we’re doing right and when we’ve gone wrong.
    Additionally, we’ll have the new ending in the Season Three Compilation. And we’ll be putting the ending on our website at http://collectiveinkwell.com/season-three-new-ending where you can either read it there or download a separate .mobi file of just the ending. We’re also emailing everyone on our newsletter list to let our Goners know that the new ending is available and how to get it.
    We’re so grateful to be in the age of digital publishing, where we can make this right within a few days — something we never could have done with print publishing.

    So to everyone who hated the original ending or were confused by it, we apologize. We spend hundreds of hours on each episode trying to tell the best story we can, and hate letting you down.
    We hope you’ve found this revised edition, and that it delivers the ending we should have written the first time. You deserve the best ending we can give you.
    And I think that in the end, this screwup may have even led to an even better, well, ending. We hope you love it as much as we do.

    In closing, Thank you…
    We’re grateful to those who let us know of the confusion and unsatisfying ending.
    Thank you also to everyone who loved the episode as-is, and to all who have followed us on this adventure during the past year!

    Thank you for reading,
    David Wright

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: Sean Platt

    Hard to believe it’s been a full year since Dave and I first decided we wanted to write a serial. Actually, it’s been nearly four years since we first decided we wanted to write a serial, and more than three since we first tried. It’s been one year since we took our first giant step toward getting it right with Yesterday’s Gone .
    Late last summer, with the possibilities now present with ePublishing, we decided we wanted to give the serialized fiction model a go. We were coming off of several years worth of blogging, a mind numbing online sport which requires a relentless sort of write-your-face-off mentality to do it at all, let alone do it well.
    In addition to blogging, I was ghostwriting a lot; writing approximately forty-two million words per month, or at least that’s how many words it felt like as my best friend and wife, Cindy, rubbed the knots from my fingers each weekend.
    Despite the brutality of the pace, I never really minded it. Loved it, actually.
    I like writing fast because I feel like it’s too easy to let your ideas linger otherwise. I don’t believe that creativity is finite, or something that can be used up. That well is bottomless. We live each day, and that