True confession.
I am a Star Wars geek.
Any time that any episode of the Star Wars movies is on TV, it is turned on. It doesn’t necessarily mean I am watching it closely. In fact, I’m probably not. But having it playing in the background is like spending time with an old friend. Just the company is nice.
Back in the day when these movies were playing in the theatres, we eagerly awaited the arrival of the second movie- The Empire Strikes Back at the time. Waited. Waited. Waited. Finally it was out and we crowded to the theatres. We sat on the edges of our seats as the story played out, and just as things were coming to a peak of tension….
…the movie stopped.
It didn’t end, because nothing was resolved. It just stopped. Right in the middle. I was SOOOOOOOOOOOO frustrated!!!! I was angry. I’m still angry, actually. I remain so embittered about that theatre experience that when The Empire Strikes Back is on my TV, I ignore it as much as possible.
Take that George Lucas!
These guys apparently know my pain. Check out this awesome video of How Empire Strikes Back Should Have Ended… (Thanks Kelsey!)
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Shawn L. Bird 
sorry! September 10, 2011
Tags: awakening dreams, awakening power, frustration, George LUcas, Grace Awakening, postaday2011, review., The Empire Strikes Back, writing
I just received my first ‘low’ review of Grace Awakening: a 3/5.
I feel so badly!
Not for my ego, because I have no argument with any of the points raised. No. I feel badly because this poor reader felt at the end of Book One: Awakening Dreams that she was left hanging in the air. She was irritated.
Oh dear. When I read her review, I recognised the feeling only too well. After all, I wrote about it here in the blog just yesterday.
She felt I’d given her The Empire Strikes Back.
Darn.
I wrote Grace Awakening as a single story in one six month period. When we decided that it would be better as two books, because of the two settings and character groups, the one thing I kept repeating to my editor was, “I don’t want anyone to have that Empire Strikes Back feeling!” We edited and added to fine tune the story arc with that specific goal in mind.
I feel terrible. I know I’m getting lots of great reviews from readers who are satisfied with the ending. They know there is more to come and some mysteries need to remain to connect the series. I still feel badly to have frustrated someone. I really do know how that feels. I hate it!
So if you’re a reader who felt there wasn’t enough resolution for you at the end of Grace Awakening Dreams, I promise you’ll be happier at the end of Grace Awakening Power. Grace’s loose ends are all tied up there. We’re going somewhere else for books three and four,so I am not going to torture you for years as you wait for books to come out. ;-P
In the meantime, please accept my apology about your frustration.
George Lucas never gave me an apology, and I’m still ticked off about it.
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PS.
When Lintusen releases the paper version in a few months, we’re going to include both books one and two in an omni-bus. I am wondering what people think about having both e-books combined as one e-book as well, perhaps offered for 50c less than buying them separately? That means you’d be able to buy the first for 99c, as you can now. The second book is being released at $2.99, so both are $3.98. The omnibus of both books would be something like $3.49. It’d be kind of a 50c reward for people who already know they are going to want both because they’ve heard great things. What do you think? If you have an opinion about this idea, leave me a comment!
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