{"id":4237,"date":"2020-03-05T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?page_id=4237"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:53:07","slug":"the-cycle-continues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/","title":{"rendered":"The cycle continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AwakeningsT.png\" alt=\"T\" width=\"39\" height=\"65\" \/>he world ended eighteen years ago, leaving the scattered survivors to pick up the pieces of their world&#8211;a world they found utterly changed from all they had ever known.\u00a0 They survived&#8211;thrived&#8211;and carved lives for themselves in the wreckage of everything they had ever known.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new generation comes of age, rising to the challenges of the only kind of world they have ever known.\u00a0 But are they ready to face the threats, new and old, coming for those who would dare stand against them?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4252\">Start with Book Eight:\u00a0<em>Onward<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=37\">Start from the beginning.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thank you to all of my loyal readers over the years.\u00a0 You are the reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Here&#8217;s to many more years of adventures.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Awakenings<\/em>\u00a0is a fiction serial set in a post-apocalyptic United States written by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erin M. Klitzke<\/a>.\u00a0 It is wholly original fiction and is copyright Erin M. Klitzke, 2008-2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Updates every other week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The series is currently broken into two parts: <i>The Founders Cycle<\/i> (Books 1-7) and <em>The Ambrose Cycle<\/em> (currently posting).\u00a0\u00a0<em>The Founders Cycle\u00a0<\/em>began posting in April, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Find\u00a0<em>Awakenings: Book One<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Awakenings: War Drums<\/em> where ebooks are sold.\u00a0 Print editions available at Amazon (<a title=\"Book One on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Awakenings-Book-Erin-M-Klitzke\/dp\/0615631037\/ref=la_B005XMJHV8_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1348934862&amp;sr=1-2\">Book One<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-Drums-Awakenings-Book-Two\/dp\/0692286683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">War Drums<\/a>) and Barnes and Noble (<a title=\"Awakenings: Book One at Barnes and Noble\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/awakenings-erin-klitzke\/1113051408?ean=9780615631035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Book One<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/war-drums-erin-m-klitzke\/1120335486?ean=9780692286685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">War Drums<\/a>).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Copyright 2008-2025 Erin M. Klitzke. Please do not reproduce without the permission of the author.<\/p>\n<address>Contact the author @ doc (at) embklitzke (dot) com.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he world ended eighteen years ago, leaving the scattered survivors to pick up the pieces of their world&#8211;a world they found utterly changed from all they had ever known.\u00a0 They survived&#8211;thrived&#8211;and carved lives for themselves in the wreckage of everything &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1EBlN-16l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4237\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}