Merry Christmas, lovelies!
Merry Christmas, lovelies!
You are all truly the best readers that an author could ask for. I am so appreciative of all your love, support, and encouragement. I look forward to releasing Book 5 in 2024 and hopefully Book 1's audiobook too!
As my Christmas gift to you, here is Chapter 2 of The Fallocaust Series Book 5: Fathers of the Fallocaust Vol. 1. This was released yesterday on my patreon as an early preview and now here it is for everyone else! I’m going to attach it to the Chapter 1 preview already available on my website, so just scroll down. Click Here
Here's a bit of what I wrote on Patreon too to explain a few things you'll notice when reading since this is still a draft and I'm a masochist. For context, I'd announced a few days prior that I'd be releasing Ch 2 as a Christmas Eve gift and this first post was made at like 6PM Christmas Eve saying I needed a bit more time, and the last one, when I finally finished what was critically important to get done before release, it was like 10PM lol.
Oh and if you haven't yet, why don't you check out my patreon! I'll be doing another mailing of patreon rewards soon and I hold raffles for signed books for everyone at random times of the year too! https://www.patreon.com/quilcarter
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Hello, lovelies.
I just wanted to let you know the excerpt is coming I just need a couple more hours. I had decided when starting book 5 that Elish's POVs would be in third person, given that future events wouldn't be feasible to write if we could constantly see what was going on in Elish's head. But now that the story has developed more, I realized that I could indeed pull off an Elish POV for this current timeline. And, really, I write Elish so much better in first person.
So not only has this meant I need to go back and change Chapter 2 to reflect this (and the subsequent chapters too) but on top of that, while re-reading Chapter 2 I realized that it wasn't showing as much of the current world as I think was fair. It would work well if you're just going to keep reading, but this is going to be the last excerpt and preview for a while, so I wanted to show where they were currently living, some of the family that was there, and just a sneak peak of how life is now. In the original Chapter 2, we pretty much jump right in to Elish, Killian, and a couple other characters in a plane going to a different location. No Atlas, no where they're living.
Soooo, needless to say I've been editing a lot and today have been writing in a new beginning for Chapter 2. I don't think I'll get to switching the Elish POV from 3rd to 1st before I need to release this for Christmas Eve, but I will be finishing the new beginning, and when I release this in the FalloCult, I should have the POV changed over. Yes, I will be working on Christmas Eve and Christmas, but really, it's fine, everyone here is working because the money is so good so I was going to be spending it playing video games anyway lol.
See you all in a few hours!
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And here is what I wrote for the release, explaining a few 'draft' things you'll be seeing in the Chapter.
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(Sent at like 10PM)
Here it is! Complete with like 7 new pages added and a bit of editing to switch Elish's POV from third person to first person, but I couldn't switch it all tonight. It takes a lot more work than just changing Elish to 'I' and himself to 'myself', so it'll take some rewriting, but third person Elish will do for now.
I have literally been at this for like 10 hours, so I'm going to relax a bit and finish the rest later lol. The new 7 pages I haven't been able to look over again, but ah it'll be fine!
Enjoy and Merry Christmas guys! When the rest of the editing is done I'll switch out the file for the new one. This will also be posted in the Cult tomorrow too.
Love ya'll!
Quil Carter
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So, just be advised ahead of time eventually the POV will switch to third person but I'm actively switching it over to first.
And that's it! Have fun with your family and friends and once the Christmas stuff is all over with, unwind with a bit of Book 5. Feel free to discuss but just make sure you use spoiler tags!
Merry Christmas, lovelies!
Quil