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

restraint strap around the feet and connected it to the handcuffs, locking the infected’s limbs behind them.
    Keenan turned the body over to reveal the face. Instantly, Brent felt as if someone had punched him in the chest, knocking all the breath from his body.  
    No . . . it can’t be.
    He inched closer. The face was scarred, slightly dark, but there was no doubt it was her.
    Gina!
    He looked into the elevator and saw the smaller body, face down, wearing dirty blue pajamas.
    “Ben!” he cried out and ran inside the elevator, pushing past the Guardsmen.
    Brent turned the boy over to expose the blue Stanley Train shirt covered in dirt, grime, and blood, then picked his son up and cradled him in his arms.
    “Put him down!” one of the Guardsmen commanded, putting a hand on Brent’s shoulder.
    Brent turned, “This is my family!” he said.
    Keenan held up a hand to tell the guard to stand down then turned to Brent.
    “You can’t kill them,” Brent begged Keenan, tears streaming his cheeks as he stared at his son’s face, scarred, a cruel mask of the child he once was. His eyes were closed, eyelids darkened. Nearly black. God only knew what his eyes looked like beneath the lids.
    “Please,” Brent begged. He looked up and found Keenan’s eyes. “Please,” he repeated. “We can’t bring them back to Black Island.”

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    TO BE CONTINUED . . .
    NEXT TUESDAY (JAN. 17, 2012)

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CONVERSATION WITH AUTHORS SEAN PLATT AND DAVID WRIGHT

    We’ve gotten some great feedback from readers since Season One of Yesterday’s Gone. We’ve also gotten a lot of questions from both readers and fellow writers. In January, we put out a call for questions and sat down (virtually, since Sean and I live in different states) to discuss the questions.  

    Here’s the conversation:

    WHAT INSPIRED YESTERDAY’S GONE?

    DAVID: As Sean and I watched the digital publishing revolution unfolding, we saw an opportunity to do something we’ve long wanted to do but would never have gotten a chance to do under traditional publishing — serialized fiction. As fans of Stephen King’s The Green Mile , and serialized TV like The Wire, LOST, Carnivale, Deadwood, The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and a bunch of other shows, we LOVE the whole concept of “To be continued . . .”  
    Given that traditional publishers don’t even embrace the format with proven authors , there was no way in hell they’d touch the format from a couple of unknown writers. But that’s the thing about this revolution, the power has shifted, and now writers like us can write the things we want to write.  
    Common wisdom says there’s not a huge audience for serialized fiction. But we feel that’s about to change with eBooks. We’ve gotten great response from readers for Season One , and have since heard from many writers who are planning to pursue serialization.  

    SEAN: Serialized fiction isn’t really new, it’s actually a really old way of doing things. It’s how Dickens released the majority of his work. Readers love open loops and cliffhanger endings because it gives them more to think about, pulls them deeper into the narrative, and gives them a deeper connection with the characters, as well as investment in their story. And that’s what an author wants most, for their reader to care about their story.
      I love TV. But the TV I think about when I’m not watching, are the shows that leave me asking questions and wanting answers. It’s a ridiculously fun way to watch a story, so surely it would be a ridiculously fun way to write one, too.
      And it was. Just as television shows are shot with scenes out of order, that’s how we wrote Yesterday’s Gone . Dave wrote his scenes and I wrote mine, then we went into post production together, edited into a unified story with the best possible flow.  
      We’re thrilled that it worked, both for us as writers and you as a reader, because our inspiration flies far beyond this title. Writing Yesterday’s Gone has been so much fun, and so creatively rewarding, we can’t wait to follow it up.

    WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WORLD? WHAT KEPT THESE PARTICULAR PEOPLE ALIVE?

    David: You’re gonna