Only Em can complete the final instruction. If I couldn’t give you one truly awesome, I’d rather not give you one at all, and I hope you understand.Summary from Goodreads: “You have to kill him.” Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. And I do genuinely apologize to everyone who was looking forward to ALL OUR YESTERDAYS #2 and hope you’ll forgive me for not being able to follow through with an awesome sequel. I just want to thank you all for being so patient with me, for not getting mad at me for ignoring your many tweets and asks about the sequel, and for sticking with me for this long. ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, its characters, and you all are too important to me to ruin with a book that I don’t feel is the best book I can write. But, at the end of the day, I would rather let you down with no sequel than with a bad sequel. I feel like I’ve let down a tremendous number of people during this process, from my agent to my editor to my publisher, but the idea of letting you guys down is the worst. This has been one of the hardest experiences of my life, on a lot of different levels. So, there will be no sequel to ALL OUR YESTERDAYS. It turns out my sequel idea – as much as I did and do love it – just wasn’t meant to be a book, no matter how hard I tried to mash it into book form. Throughout the process I worked with people much smarter and more talented than me, and we all had faith up until the end that it could be fixed.īut it couldn’t. No matter what I changed, the book just wouldn’t come together.

Neither did version #3, another rewrite, or version #4.

But then my second draft, which was a big enough change to be considered a rewrite, also didn’t work.

But that’s okay, because all first drafts are terrible. I gave that idea to my publisher, and they loved it and asked me to write it. I was happy for ALL OUR YESTERDAYS to remain a single, self-contained book, but I had an idea for a sequel that I really liked and thought would make a great bookend to the story. When I sold ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, it was as a standalone with series potential. So… I guess I’ll just start at the beginning. I’ve been writing this post in my head for a couple of months now, but I’m still not sure how to start it.

All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill