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Slight delay in posting

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I had to take an unexpected trip this week and don't have access to the final chapter of A New Past to post. I will post sometime on Friday, once I return home.

Thanks for reading,
-Charlie

Oops...

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My apologies for the errors in chapter 65. I evidently grabbed an un-proofed version of the chapter and uploaded it. I've submitted what should be the corrected copy for immediate posting.

Thanks for reading,
-Charlie

Following Jay's Mercenary Lead

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Jay Cantrell recently launched his patreon site. If you are not familiar with his work, I highly recommend it, here or there. He was very thoughtful on how he positioned his direct sales and worked within the author guidelines for SOL, for which I applaud him. While I don't have the back catalog of material that he does, I do think if a story is started on SOL and published for free, it should remain freely available.

However, a lot of authors here work share their work for little, if any reward. I think that should change.

I came to this decision when I realized I had written over 700,000 words for "A New Past", investing considerable time in the creation, editing, follow-up, and feedback to that work. It has been personally rewarding, but the time spent writing has not put any food on the table, so to speak.

Of course, a lot of readers have stated they would gladly purchase a copy of some of my stories if they were offered for sale.

I guess this is the time to put that to the test.

I have started a patron site, but intend to follow in Jay's footsteps in a manner of speaking. You can find it using /charliefoxtrot_writer after the site name. I'm still considering if I will publish Kindle editions. For now, I'm sticking to ePub format.

A New Past will complete and be available on SOL, free as it started. However, if you are interested in a cleaner ePub version of the books, with some added features such as a complete timeline of real and fictional events, notes on my writing process, excerpts that were removed from the story, etc. you should check out my patron page. The completed work is posted there already. For SOL, the tale should complete posting over the next two weeks.

Survivors II will be posted here on SOL. If there is more beyond Survivors II, we'll just have to see.

One other story, as yet unpublished, will be going up on the parton site if I gain 100 patrons at any level.

I can state unequivocally, that any new stories in Paul's universe of 'A New Past' will only be offered through my patron site. If readers insist I return to or continue the story, they are going to have to put some level of investment into it. Sorry, but I've tried to end Paul's tale three times now. He needs a rest.

Going forward, I may offer pre-view content to regular supporters on that site, and will definitely have some titles published there that won't come to SOL in the short-term. I have appreciated the stories and most of the community here on SOL, and want to keep supporting it, so this is not goodbye.

I hope all the readers and fans I've gained here will understand and support this approach.

As always, thanks for reading.

-Charlie

Finis

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I've just finished the writing the final chapter of A New Past and have sent it off to my proof-reader for review.

I apologize for the lack of updates, but decided my time and effort was better spent on writing the story than writing updates or excuses.

Since my last posting (Chapter 59), seven chapters with one extra side-story have been written. That's approximately 79,000 words, not including the side-story.

I have also just posted a minor correction to Chapter 59, and will begin posting new material on Tuesday and Friday until the story is finished.

I may or may-not post the side story mentioned above.

I've gotten many interesting questions and feedback over the course of writing this tale, and may try to put some answers together in a future blog post, but for now, I just wanted to let all of you appreciative readers know that the story is finished, and will resume posting shortly.

Thanks for reading,

-Charlie

Earthrise

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A few readers have taken the time to write attempting to correct a line in Chapter 58; specifically, Meagan's comment, "Earthrise over that rim would be spectacular."

They state (correctly) that the Moon is tidally locked to Earth, so it always presents the same face to the planet.

However, they ignore the fact that the Moon's orbit is inclined about 5 degrees to the plane of the Earths orbit, so the position of Earth will appear to vary north and south during the orbital cycle.

Additionally, the Earth will have phases when observed from the Moon, complementary to the lunar phase as seen from Earth, so, during a new moon on Earth, it would be a "full earth" on the Moon.

With Aristarchus Base being north of the crater of the same name (approximately 24 degrees north of the lunar equator), I chose to take some poetic license and make the statement that the Earth will appear to rise and set from that location, assuming there is some obstruction from the rim sufficient to hide or partially hide the Earth from view at some point during the cycle.

If you want to learn more and see some of the inspirational material I used when writing this section, check out: https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-blogs/explore-night-bob-king/observing-earth-from-the-moon/

Thanks for reading,

-Charlie

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