Yesterdays Gone: SEASON TWO (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER) (Yesterday's Gone)

series in the future, or any series, we’d never close the door completely.

    MATT: Do you have a finale already conceived for the series? Or is the serialized storytelling truly serial in that there is an indefinite end poin t?

    SEAN: We know when it will end and approximately how it will end. It’s serialized in spirit, not necessarily in fact. We don’t want to tire our readers or bore ourselves. There are too many stories to write. Our road is clear, but we’re not sure exactly how we’ll cover the distance in between.

    DAVID: I know what will happen to a few key characters. I’m waiting for the others to show me their endings. There IS an end-point to this series, though. But there’s also a lot more to happen between now and then!

    MATT: Is serialized fiction turning out the way you had hoped and dreamed it would? How about for your readers; is the reader response what you were hoping it would be?

    SEAN: It’s been exactly as I hoped, and I CANNOT wait to get started on Season Three. June 19 seems so close, yet so far away! Reader response blows me away, and I can’t wait to kick the story harder in the balls for the third season. The reader response makes me want to impress them more. Least we can do to say thank you for all the support.

    DAVID: Sean was always more optimistic than I was. I was afraid people might not want to wait for the story to be continued. I knew I loved the format, and hoped that others would, but I couldn’t be certain until we put the story out there and found out.
    And response is turning out even better than I’d hoped! Even more impressive, is the number of people who are rooting for us to succeed! These are people who are connecting with us through this story. They’re buying our books, telling their friends, writing to us, and leaving reviews. In doing so, our readers have made our writing dreams a reality. We’re humbled and thankful for how readers have responded.  
    Thank you!

    MATT: If you could start over from the very beginning of Yesterday's Gone , including the pilot , what would you do differently?

    SEAN: I would remove some of Luca’s infantile language. That’s one of the only things some readers have questioned, and understandably so. I’ve seen a few comments about how the author must not know any 8 year olds and that Luca must be slow. My son is Luca’s age, and my daughter is two years older. My son, Ethan, is extremely bright. But he turns small when he’s sad or scared. And if his world went away, he would be terrified enough to see the world in terms of “terrible scary.” Knowing what I know now, I would spend more time developing the thought that he was feeling infantile, not slow.  

    DAVID: Like I said earlier, we didn’t really give much thought to opening sequences before this season. This is even more evident in Episode One, which quite frankly, opens up pretty damned slow for a post-apocalyptic book.
    While we’ve drawn a large audience, I can’t help but think that the slow open is not representative of the overall series, and we likely lost some readers in the opening pages. I’d love to go back and just change the beginning of Episode One a bit, just to bring the action in earlier, set up the stakes right away.  
    In fact, I might just do it in the next few weeks. I won’t change anything which affects the timeline or history, just the opening sequence. If I do it, I’ll leave a note in the Author’s Notes to indicate what I did, in case anyone is re-reading it and thinking they lost their mind, “This isn’t how it originally opened!”
    Other than that, I love how the series is playing out. I can’t wait to take what we’ve learned with Yesterday’s Gone and bring it to Young Adult paranormal genre with ForNevermore next week!  

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FORNEVERMORE
    THE NEXT SERIAL THRILLER FROM SEAN PLATT & DAVID W. WRIGHT

    From the writers of the groundbreaking post-apocalyptic serial Yesterday’s Gone, comes a dark new fantasy horror serial, ForNevermore.
    All 17 year old Noella Snow ever wanted was a normal life.  
    But normal died with her mother, minutes after she was born. Then again when her father was murdered before her eyes on her seventh birthday. Now she spends her days in quiet misery, an outcast at school, harboring a secret crush on her best friend, Sam.
    Noella’s only happiness lies in her dreams, in a world where her father still lives and Dante, a mysterious stranger with a deadly touch, guards