Finished!
Anomaly: Tug of War, Substack Edition, is now fully staged.
At midnight on April 14th, the season finale of Anomaly: Tug of War will be released on Substack, completing a journey that began in August of last year when Amazon first announced the end of Kindle Vella. The already-written premier episodes of Season 3, and my readers from Kindle Vella who have hopefully followed me here, have waited three months for the saga to continue so that you folks here on Substack can enjoy Season 3 in the context of the other two.
On Kindle Vella, the Anomaly Saga maintained positions as top two clean reads and top 20 Science Fiction reads for most of the time they were there. Season 2 of Anomaly, Tug of War, carried a crown as one of the top faved stories on Kindle Vella for nearly the entire six months leading to the final end of that reader platform, even as I searched for a new home for the story and released all of Season 1 and the first five episodes of Season 2 here on Substack. My records show that Amazon paid me roughly $3,000 in royalties and bonuses from Anomaly in 2024, by far the height of Anomaly’s Kindle Vella journey.
Now, that journey has ended as I move the story forward into the world premier of Season three. I had to shelve the Google Docs file for it in my scramble to move to Substack. Now, I can pick it up where I left off. Since only 10% of Season three is currently written, those releases will come to you at a much slower pace. The plan will be to release all 52 episodes of Season Three over the course of 2025 with the finale on December 31st.
A table of contents for Tug of War will follow this post in a couple of days so that you can see all of the episode links together in one place, and that TOC will then sit alongside the table of contents for Anomaly: Survival on my main Substack page.
Of course, Anomaly requires a paid subscription to read beyond the first five episodes of any season. Please don’t consider that bad news, since a paid subscription only costs $5 per month and contains loads of heart-pounding content for the money. During the later weeks of April and the first weeks of May, you will see the first 5 episodes of Season 3 for free before the rest of it hides behind the paywall.
Sometime in late spring or early summer, I’ll be able to release the cover art here for Season 3, so watch for that.
Enjoy!