Dead Rain✔️

AFTERWORD

I don't really know how to feel about this one.

I think I put myself into kind of a weird place, narratively. And this was, I think, also a case where I was suffering from my own obsessive nature. Every author gets ideas that they should probably say no to, and a lot of them are probably better at doing just that than I am. I certainly have gotten better about it as time has gone on.

But when I got the idea for Dead Rain, even though I knew it was kind of weak, I felt the urge to do it too strongly. That urge is a strange one. I didn't necessarily feel good about writing it, I more felt bad about not writing it. Like the thought just wouldn't leave me alone, and I knew I wouldn't feel right until I got the story out.

It came because in mid-2017, I decided I wanted to relaunch The Shadow Wars on WattPad with a new profile and try to attain even some of the original fame they had gotten. (Oh what a failure that was.) And for that I felt like the time was right for some new material. Turning the prequel duology into a trilogy seemed not just correct, but unavoidable.

Ultimately, I just wanted to get Mike and Laura off-planet. Which kind of cut against the whole 'we should stay here and help people' thing. And that was another thing I was working against! The ships in orbit. Well...I won't talk about why that's a problem, because maybe you're reading this but you haven't read Necropolis 1, 2, & 3 yet. If so, you'll find out what that was about.

I had intended to have Mike and Laura run into Greg at some point, or at least someone from the main cast, and who knows? Maybe I still will. But ultimately I was satisfied with getting them to safety.

In the end, you either liked it or you didn't. I hope you did, but I'll understand if you didn't. (This is always true, actually, for everything I write.)

Now, onto the main attraction.