Sampson's Legacy: The Post-Apocalyptic Sequel To Legacy Of Ashes (Earth's Ashes Book 2)

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by Ric Beard


  AFTERWORD

  84

  Author’s Notes

  Sampson’s Legacy was a massive pain in my ass. When I set out to participate in my first National Novel Writing Month, I thought I had a good plan and felt a surge of energy going into the new experience.

  Note within a note:

  For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is an accountability project aimed at getting authors to sit their hinies down and finally write their novels. If you’re a writer who can’t finish anything, I’m sure it’s great, but for someone like me, who has little problem dropping my behind in the chair and writing, it might not be the best idea, unless one just seeks a challenge. You need a word count of fifty-thousand to complete NaNo, by the end of November.

  I had 84,000 by November 20th. Word count wasn’t my problem…the story was. Needless to say, my displeasure with what it turned out to be ended in an almost complete reset.

  And I’m so glad.

  Since Sampson, Bradshaw, and Ruby showed up in the second iteration and saved me from twenty more years as a data center operations lead, I’m glad for the way the process went. I love these people, and I was pretty happy with the story this time around.

  We should be thankful for our mistakes for the opportunities they provide us, to improve.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I could not have finished this book without the unyielding support of my wife and epic business partner, Emily. She has an eye for detail that baffles me, and if she wasn’t helping me edit, manage my email list, and making sure I eat, I would be dead. Okay, maybe not dead, but I’d wish I was.

  She owns as much of this story as I do and spent endless nights talking about how to make it better, for you.

  I’m also thankful to:

  Amy Teegan, for endless moral support (even when it was gruff moral support).

  Christine Niles, (because she’s Christine Niles, and you’re not). If I got into more specifics, I’d have to give you another book to read and who wants to see me drone on, anyway?

  Sean Platt, Johnny Truant, and David “Redacted” Wright, for the mentorship and friendship that helped me believe I could do this. You guys inspire me to be more like a puppy and less like an asshole. Don’t worry, it will take hold at some point.

  Tammi Labrecque, for the business sense and reminding me when to, and when not to, give a fuck.

  Tom Hansen, who has a way of getting me to keep my fake weapons shit, real.

  Nicole Montgomery, for being a constant fan, a super-positive influence, and my video buddy through trials and tribulations. Oh, and the mega edit at the end. That.

  A special thanks to Annie, for the dedicated editing of this novel and to dev editor, extraordinaire, Marielle S. Smith, for helping me see I needed to (almost) start over.

  Table of Contents

  Sampson’s Legacy

  Copyright

  Dedication

  1. Luck of the Draw

  2. Think You Could Wrap It Up?

  3. You're Late

  4. Quite the Scam

  5. Don't Shoot the Dog

  6. Industrious

  7. Are You Sick?

  8. The Shit

  9. They're Scavengers

  10. Anybody Dead?

  11. A Hell of a Greeting

  12. No Can Do

  13. They're All Dead

  14. Feisty

  15. Don't Panic

  16. All My Nagging Questions

  17. Real Keen on Her

  18. Good Girl?

  19. My Father Called Me That

  20. Testy

  21. Why I'm Using It

  22. A Second Coat of Paint

  23. Your Gratitude

  24. From the Shadows

  25. Symbolic

  26. Above Your Station

  27. Shit!

  28. Hope You Know How To Swim

  29. What's with the Fancy Glasses?

  30. Hands Off Me, Swine

  31. Lexi Shaw, For the Win

  32. Like A Grape

  33. Maw?

  34. Like An Old Cowboy Movie

  35. Steak

  36. Push Up The Timeline

  37. You Need A Nap

  38. Socially-challenged

  39. Would've Set the House on Fire

  40. Oops

  41. I Hate the World

  42. I Hope It Hurt

  43. Iterate and Optimize

  44. Should've Stayed in The City

  45. Let Mama Know

  46. What Would Lexi Do?

  47. Killing Puppies

  48. Utter Dumbfuck

  49. Self Defense

  50. Not So Tough

  51. Went South

  52. Mind Our Own Business

  53. So Much for That Idea

  54. Time to Make Some Holes

  55. Where Are My Fucking Friends?

  56. Which Way Did I Flip It?

  57. Crazy Old Coot

  58. Sonza-bitches

  59. A Pulse Gatling

  60. He’s My Brother

  61. Into A Shit Show

  62. Don’t Worry About The Lady

  63. Days Of Chivalry

  64. Looks Like a Mine

  65. Carson Got His Man

  66. He’ll Be Your Eyes

  67. Sounds Like It

  68. One Down

  69. A Lot We Could Learn

  70. Neutralized

  71. Made to Ram

  72. Coming at Us from Both Sides

  73. Floor It

  74. Women Are the Craziest

  75. Get in The Damn Truck

  76. Yo!

  77. Doers

  78. All Twerked Out

  79. Hedging Your Bets?

  80. Once A Whore…

  81. What About Ruby?

  82. She Won’t Stop

  Epilogue

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  Afterword

  Acknowledgments

 

 

 


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