The End of a Good Thing...
As some of you may have heard in the forums last week, the author team has taken a look at the current two story release per week set up. We have found that it just isn't working the way we hoped and have discussed some options on a release schedule going forward that will better enable us to balance both sustainability and allow for greater activity on site. For some reason, the authors thought it would be wise to let you all know the news as soon as possible... transparency and all that... but they didn't really go into all the details. So, going forward for the moment, we will no longer be doing a "two story Monday" release system. I know this is disappointing to many of you, but the truth is; the pace isn't really fair to the authors.
So... for today, the March 13 release will be Part 3 of Elrod's Kayda 10: "There's No Place Like Poe" and from E. E. Nalley, we have Part 2 of "The Bear, the Bitch, and Everything." We hope you will enjoy these... wait... what?
Oh... I see. We said that we were discontinuing the Two story Monday release schedule and then promptly release two stories on a Monday. Well, I suppose I'll explain where the confusion lies, there. See, we've discovered that the authors are generally producing stories at a rate where even with two releases per week; we are accumulating a larger and larger queue of pieces waiting for release. Even at two stories per week, our current 'waiting' pile is at about FIFTEEN weeks. That means a story completed next week might not get seen by readers until JULY! So... completely unfair to the authors who await feedback before moving on to bigger and better things.
As a result, moving forward we are adopting a system of THREE stories released per week. Two of these will continue to occur on Monday evening. A third story will be made available each Friday afternoon. I'm going to tentatively say at 14:00 PST. That'll give you four days to read the Monday content and a weekend to finish up and check out the Friday release. If we continue to average out with 20k word releases, this should result in 50-75% of a novel's worth of content per week... 1-2 novels per month.
We hope this exciting news comes as a salve to sooth your disappointment that we are dropping the Two Story Monday release schedule and replacing it with a more sustainable one. In the meantime, enjoy the content from Elrod and E.E. ... we'll see you back on Friday for the next release! Don't forget to leave a comment or a forums post for your authors, thanking them for all the hard work.
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Created2017-03-13
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Last modified2017-03-13
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I'd like to ask if there is a new part of Whisper coming up soon.
Listening hard, but haven't heard a Whisper for ages either.
gratitude and respect for the talent and dedication off these writers!
Butt; I am greedy and a voracious reader who quickly
devours lesser novels in a day. lol
Really thank you all for you efforts whatever your doing
to bring us the Whateley universe.
Shame on you (and we love you for it)!
Yes!!!!! Wooohooo!!!!! So happy to hear that. I have enjoyed all the stories on here and since I read so quickly. It's been frustrating waiting for the next story to be posted. So THANK YOU to you and all the authors take care and God Bless.
I think I'm like Alisa28, and I have a huge need for more stories...
I love to read the new stories.. and I'm great-full that there is a new group of author to take over the mantel of the universe..
Ok, I read the end of a good thing -> I read that it's the end of the two stories on Mondey (even if living in the GMT+1 time zone they usually get relised so late at night that is effectively two stories on Tuesday), that the current schedule is unfair to the authors and there are problems with the queue -> I think: "The End of a Good Thing..." + Queue Problems = "Queue dying up, we go back to one story a week" -> ....No, the Queue is about to explode, so we also have a story on Friday -> The End of a Good Thing... The Beginning of an Even Better One, cheers..... yet I'm slightly mad (Queen reference), it was a good prank, and an awesome news, but that was Evil....
Beside, it's not "The End of a Good Thing..." we still get two stories on Mondey, we ALSO get one on Friday, so it's "More Goodness" or "Pushing the Envelope"
Anyway, I'm happy... if a bit irked (so yes, you got me there, and I can't even complain, good job).
The only worry I have, is that I'll never get caught up at that pace. TwT;
A small issue in the grand scheme of things though. Keep on writing!
In my opinion the best solution would be a more fluid release schedule where you release a story every day or two when you have about 30 stories lined up (15 weeks in advance times two releases a week). But you could also just release one story a week if the authors need more time.
I also think you should balance a bit more between the different Gens. I was kind of... displeased when you didn't upload anything Gen 2 related from mid September to i think February. I've actually forgotten who some of our main characters are or how they look.
Or... to summarize... we've been doing this a while... trust us, k?
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