Diverwlngmail.Com asked David Williams:

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David Williams That’s a tough one, because I wrote several endings for When the English Fall. The first ending, written when I self-published it back in 2013, is actually a part of the novel now. Without getting too spoilery, that scene, where the leaves fall and Sadie looks to her father and says, “Oh, Dadi?” That’s where it originally ended, with those words. But that left the book at just barely more than novella length. That, and it was utterly and intentionally ambiguous. So my editors said, hey, give us some options here.

The ending of the book is one of them, and was the first one I wrote up and sent to my editor. Totally solid, and very much open-ended for a sequel. I like it. My editor liked it. My wife loved it. But years have passed, and the story kinda doesn’t end that way for me now. There is another ending I drafted—grimmer, darker, harder, and yet strangely more hopeful. That one is how it ends in my mind, and it doesn’t work for a sequel. So I’m not sure if my muse will let me write one. But I might yet. Particularly with so many folks asking so nicely. ;0)

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