PWOFalcon

Hello everyone, I want to give a quick update. Thank you for your patience as I complete Volume 5. I am very close, I am 50% done with the final drafts/final touches so I should be starting publishing soon (probably early next month). Patreon members will get first release, so please visit there and see other member-only benefits (I am currently halfway through publishing my very first short story, which I wrote 9 years ago, which inspired me to do WotW). 
          	
          	  
          	 
          	
          	One of the other reasons I do not have a solid release date is that, as stated before, I am working behind the scenes on other details for Ad Astra. Before releasing the volume, I want to finalize my maps of the Nevali Region and the Aldrida Continent. People have asked me to create a reference book with some world-building details (factions, terms, religion, etc.). To do this, it will require some time, and between the two volumes would be best.
          	
          	As I stated before, the next few volumes will be a new book. The reason, to avoid 200+ book parts like in WotW to make it easier for new readers to engage. The first four volumes were the first collection, with V5-7 or 8 will be part of Collection 2. This is a little roadmap:
          	
          	Volume 5: Dual Alliances 
          	- With the Americans entrenching themselves against a non-stop enemy, the key to success isn't only the force of arms, but bringing different groups together. One a all-mighty powerful Empire and another, birth from the victory at Salva.
          	
          	Volume 6: The Triple Path
          	Volume 7: Fall of Ellaqua

BlueFlash51

@BlueFlash51 @PWOFalcon I meant "can't wait".
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BlueFlash51

@PWOFalcon  I personally can wait for the references and the new volume.
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PWOFalcon

Hello everyone, I want to give a quick update. Thank you for your patience as I complete Volume 5. I am very close, I am 50% done with the final drafts/final touches so I should be starting publishing soon (probably early next month). Patreon members will get first release, so please visit there and see other member-only benefits (I am currently halfway through publishing my very first short story, which I wrote 9 years ago, which inspired me to do WotW). 
          
            
           
          
          One of the other reasons I do not have a solid release date is that, as stated before, I am working behind the scenes on other details for Ad Astra. Before releasing the volume, I want to finalize my maps of the Nevali Region and the Aldrida Continent. People have asked me to create a reference book with some world-building details (factions, terms, religion, etc.). To do this, it will require some time, and between the two volumes would be best.
          
          As I stated before, the next few volumes will be a new book. The reason, to avoid 200+ book parts like in WotW to make it easier for new readers to engage. The first four volumes were the first collection, with V5-7 or 8 will be part of Collection 2. This is a little roadmap:
          
          Volume 5: Dual Alliances 
          - With the Americans entrenching themselves against a non-stop enemy, the key to success isn't only the force of arms, but bringing different groups together. One a all-mighty powerful Empire and another, birth from the victory at Salva.
          
          Volume 6: The Triple Path
          Volume 7: Fall of Ellaqua

BlueFlash51

@BlueFlash51 @PWOFalcon I meant "can't wait".
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BlueFlash51

@PWOFalcon  I personally can wait for the references and the new volume.
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PWOFalcon

Hello everyone, final chapter for Volume 4 is out. I hope you enjoy. At the end of the chapter are author notes explaining what happens now. 
          
          Cliff notes, I am not done with V5 yet but I am also close. I also want to get a few other things done, like organizing a small factbook and finalizing my map. There will be a short gap between volumes, I expect no later by the end of the month. 
          
          Chapter 24, V4: 
          
          /1557129353-ad-astra-the-alagore-war-aa-v4-salva-chapter-24 
          
          patreon.com/FalconBookWork 
          

Bye_Bye_Bye_423

@PWOFalcon 
            
            Hey Author, your story is absolute peak!!!
            
            Well... only in the second. The first goes to First Light of a New Age. Best ModernxFantasy stories I've seen here in this platform!  
            
            Check it out for a little!
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PWOFalcon

@Bye_Bye_Bye_423 thank you  
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PWOFalcon

@The_Typical_Weed thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. I think you people will like the next few volumes. A lot of ideas that been cooking starting to fruit
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PWOFalcon

Hello everyone, cext week will be the final chapter for the volume, gearing up for Volume 5. 
          
          As a reminder, there I will be starting a new book (I call a Collection) for these new volumes (V5-8 or 9). I am also still finalizing V5, so there will be a delay before I upload it. There are also a couple of behind-the-scenes things I like to get done, like finalizing a map, some public lore information that I have had no time to do. I will give everyone a update exactly when. 
          
          If you are interested in supporting me and whish to see extra content, please check out my Patreon as you can get to see behind the scenes work, old none related stories I written, art commissions first. Thank you :) 
          
          /1555066648-ad-astra-the-alagore-war-aa-v4-salva-chapter-23 
          patreon.com/FalconBookWork
          

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DreamlandOutreach

Hi there! I’m a manager for an event hosted in the Dreamland Community Discord server called 抖阴社区 That Sentence. I just wanted to let you know that your book was used for this event where players are given the blurb of a book and try to guess its real first sentence. They’ll write what they think could be the opening line, and then everyone guesses which one is real.
          
          Only the first sentence of your story and its blurb are shared, and everything stays within the game.
          
          If you’d like to see what people came up with or just check it out, you’re more than welcome to join the server! I can provide the link, if you like. 
          
          No pressure at all — I just wanted to be transparent and let you know!
          
          - Cait
          

PWOFalcon

Hello @everyone, Chapter 21, V4 is out (Chapter 23,V4). For Patreon, next week will be the final chapter. 
          
          As a reminder, this is the final few chapters for his book. I will be starting a new collection book for the next set of volumes V5 to 8 or 9. I am still working on V5 but getting close to completing. It will be called Dual Alliance. 
          
          
          Chapter 23: 
           
          
          Ad Astra Art Book:
          /story/389132806-ad-astra-art-book 
          
          patreon.com/FalconBookWork
          

PWOFalcon

Hello everyone, Chapter 19, V4 is out, (Chapter 21, V4 for Patreon). We have reached the final stretch for the volume and this collection. I will make a separate post about it, but I will be started a new book for V5-8 or 9. 
          
          /1546452931-ad-astra-the-alagore-war-aa-v4-salva-chapter-19 
          
          I also uploaded a new art commission to Ad Astra Art Book, check it out!
          /1545609700-ad-astra-art-book-civilian-clothed-natilite
          
          patreon.com/FalconBookWork
          

limirj

Hey bro. Just wanted to give a critique of mine, ik your planning on taking it slow with the story but is there any way you can speed things up just a little bit. Cuz like, were 70 chapters in bro and the war is still at a stalemate in salva and earth doesn't even know about the war. 
          
          The story is starting to feel a bit dragged out, while it's not too bad if u don't think about too much but if u do you'll realize that earth has to take out the whole damn moon to get rid of the bad guys and their still stuck at salva. 
          
          I get what ur trying to do having this as like a long term project that gets dragged out for a few years but damn 70 chapters in and practically nothing has changed in the war front 
          
          (I get that theirs sum behind the scenes stuff going on and this critique is a little ironic since the latest chapter 18 is looking to be a plotpoint but damn bro)
          
          Love u bro

PWOFalcon

@limirj I think you will
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limirj

@limirj looking forward to v5 bro
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PWOFalcon

@limirj Thank you for your feedback, and I am sorry that is how you feel and thank you for posting your critique. I can say with full honesty that I was not intentionally dragging things out. Everything is what I wanted to say, being characters/plots/cultural/politics/military struggles/POVs, not to drag things out but because I find them interesting and depth. I am not saying I didn't have a few pacing issues (I am not happy with how V3 turned out, but don't know how else to install Assiaya/Ryder as leader). 
            
            For the first book of Ad Astra (Volume 4 is the final, and I will start a new book with V5-7 or 8). I always intended for the first Collection (Prolog-V4) to focus more on the beginning aspects of the isekai. Most people ignore this and go straight to D-Day (and I understand why). I wanted to show that this was a new world, that the US isn't the big dog. That fish out of water feeling, showing a bit of what it was like when I was growing up (not having GPS, forced to use physical maps if we had them XD, which we always didn't) This would have been the only time I could ever do what I did in the story because it would be to late, showing how much we rely on modern Earth infrastructure and without it, it reshapes how we can fight. 
            
            My goal was to make this point where the US earned the right to be here. The earn their allies, the love of the native people (that are there), and show all factions on Alagore that a new power has arrived on the moon. Not the Gate way (where everyone on Falmart simp for JDSF). This moment is going to be a major change in the state of Alagore. 
            
            As I said and you noted, Volume 4 is coming to a end. We have entered the final battle and this will be the end of this phase. Most of the foundation that I have been building in these last few volumes will allow the story to go further. 
            
            Thank you, I hope you continue to enjoy the story.
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