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I have posted the final versions of Chapters 3 & 4 of Through my Eyes. Again." and will continue posting the updated chapters (two at a time) over the coming weeks.

The ebook version is available on Bookapy and via my Patreon (see my home page for details).

Hi there

ebook version of Through my Eyes. Again. are now available at my Patreon. I will continue posting the updated chapters here, two at a time.

Iskander

As promised, I have started posting the final version of Through my Eyes. Again. - two chapters at a time every week. This has, I hope, eliminated the errors in English and German - and I'd like to thank the readers who have helped find and correct them.

There have been some minor changes to the early chapters, but the story remains unchanged throughout. However, what was the final chapter (19) has now blossomed into two chapters, providing much more detail about Will's life after Col and Mutti Frida disappeared.

Within the next ten days or so, I will be posting the final ebook version of TMEA to my Patreon - watch out for an announcement here, on my Patreon and Discord server.

Once again, than you for reading my writing - and particular thanks to those of you who have provided feedback and critiques: it's great to hear what people liked but it's also important to hear what people did not like. I have attempted to reply to every message I've received, but if I missed a couple in the flurry, my apologies.

Finally, there is going to be a sequel - in fact it is already underway. I will be posting beta versions of the chapters to my Patreon when thry are ready for the light of day. If you are interested, please keep an eye on my Patreon and Discord server.

Next weekend, I will be posting the revised version of Through my Eyes. Again. in multi-chapter segments (2 or more chapters a week).

Also a beta version of the revised final chapter (now two chapters) is available to patrons on my Patreon. See my home page for the link.

Iskander

I have received quite a few interesting and insightful comments about Through my Eyes. Again. since posting the final chapter. As I have already revealed, this is my first 'public' attempt at a novel (and the first novel I have ever finished) and there are very clearly some rough edges and dangling threads that require rectification. I have also had several lengthy discussions with a couple of authors whose opinion I greatly value. The upshot of this is that I am embarking on a larger and more detailed review of TMEA than just 'tidying things up'.

I am considerably rewriting the final chapter to provide more detail of what happened to Will after Col and Mutti Frida disappeared in late April 1964. This is already underway and that final chapter is probably going to end up as two chapters.

At the same time, I have two versions of chapter 1 of the sequel under way as I try to work out the best way for the story to unfold. As with TMEA, I have a beginning (well, two - a different one for each version of chapter 1) and a glimmer of an ending through the fog.

And this is a problem I will have to watch carefully, because some of the faults on TMEA are due to the story growing organically - there was almost no planning of any kind. The characters lived in my head and practically wrote the story themselves. For example, whilst Col was German from the beginning and I had a picture of him in my head, it was only during that first conversation with Will in the cedar tree that Col's true nature was revealed. Similarly, Mutti Frida's childhood in various Nazi prisons and then in Ravensbrück concentration camp was only revealed when Col told Will he also feared his father.

One of the criticisms I have received is for that final sentence - but I do not apologise for ending the book there. The more I thought about how to end, that ending was the most appropriate. At the time, I had no sequel planned and yet clearly that ending just about demands one.

And one is now growing.

I clearly have quite a lot to learn about storytelling and for this I apologise to you, my readers: you have been (are being) a tremendous help and for this I freely give thanks to all of you.

So, please keep an eye on my blog, Patreon and discord server for more news as the revision and sequel progress. I do not expect to re-post the revised version for several months, though.