Good day to all.
The Ark Part 2 is fully posted and I hope you enjoyed the story.
Some of my readers used the Feedback link to let me know they didn't enjoy The Ark Part 2 as much as some of my other stories and nowhere near as much as Part 1. Unfortunately, a few of those readers indicated they intended to bail on the story. Not a problem for I had adopted a different writing style that many did not care for. Other readers let me know it was very good. One reader said he was in awe at the breadth and depth of the story. Another said he didn't see why I had laid such a broad foundation until he read the last chapter. I guess they saw something that others missed. Regardless of your opinion, I enjoyed writing the story even though it took up a lot of my time and was a lot of work.
I finished Sam's Hopping over a month ago, but waited until yesterday to start posting it. The posting interval will be once a week on Tuesdays. All six chapters of the story have been uploaded to SOL, so there is no reason to worry that part of the story will not be posted. Now I will have to focus on OE3.
As one of my readers mentioned in a feedback message, Sam's Hopping fleshes out my D-Hopping Universe. As far as hopping goes, Opening Earth is about Exploratory hopping and Sam's Hopping is about commercial hopping. Sam and Tom, the 2 main hoppers in the story will face a number of problems. At least one of which will be beyond their ability to fix. They will just have to deal with the repercussions, and that leads to an interesting series of events. I hope you enjoy the story for it was fun to write.
I asked if any of my readers preferred which of two stories I should work on when I needed a break from OE 3. The results say almost everyone wants me to work on Time Scope 2. I guess the cliffhanger that TS1 presented at the end of the story needs to be resolved far more than knowing how Carl will actually receive his revenge. I will have to work that out one of these days.
As far as Sauce for the Gander goes, you may have noticed that I don't always follow the path the earlier scenes in a story indicate as a resolution to a problem. Often something comes up that demands a different solution, I wonder why that happens. My original intent for Sauce was to have it be a standalone story, but my editor TeNderLoin convinced me to turn the story into a series.
Well that's all for now folks.