To my 'Our Second Chance is called Amphibia' fans
Hello, you wonderful people
As some of you may remember, I am a writer, both online and in real life. For years, I’ve been struggling to try and publish a book I wrote fifteen years ago, a fantasy with a lot of humor. I almost managed to get it published once, but the arrival of COVID and the result closure of my publishing house forced me back to square one.
Now, however, after countless editing and rewriting, I am finally close to having my own work published once again. By the 5 of March, I’ll have my book published again in Italian; and if things go well, I plan to have it translated and published in English too in the future.
Some of you may see it as good news, and it is, all things considered.
However, there is quite a downside on this: as you can imagine, the period before the launch of my book is going to be extremely frenetic, and I’ll have a lot of work to make sure it’s organized as best as I can, that the book’s promotion spreads as much as I can and that as many people as possible get acquainted with my stories and writing, hopefully to purchase them.
Long story short, my days before, during and after the launch of the book are going to be packed with work, and I’ll probably be unable to divide my focus into anything else. That, sadly, includes my own fanfictions.
Believe me, there is nothing that I hate more than to put the story on hold, and to force you to yet another wait. I love you; I cherish you; I treasure you from the bottom of my heart. When I started writing this fic, I never believed it would get the appreciation and following it eventually did. There were days I was saddened, seeing how much little feedback I had got; there were days I felt like my writing wasn’t even being noticed, days when I seriously considered dropping this story and trying to forget it, as I was forced to do many times in the past.
But I didn’t. Even as I felt lonelier than ever, I pushed on. Whenever I saw someone leave a kudo, I smiled, because it meant there was someone out there, who genuinely liked what I wrote. And whenever someone left me a comment, I tried to answer them, to show my appreciation for the time and effort they took to let me know their opinion on my work.
Slowly, day after day, update after update, my story gained following and interest, more people came to read it, some leaving me kudos that made me smile, and comments I tried to reply. Even now, after so much time since I started publishing this fic, I smile of genuine happiness whenever someone leaves me a kudo, or whenever someone sends me a comment for me to read and reply.
You are my greatest treasure, the things that give my life happiness and pride, the reason why I still push myself harder each day to improve my own writing. It was you that, when I wept, made me smile again; when I felt depressed, brought back my joy; when I felt like giving up, that gave me the strength to keep going forward.
And now, I have to disappoint you again, because I’m unable to keep working on my fics and on my book’s launch at the same time.
I hate to do this. I don’t want to do this, but I must, at least until my own schedule clears up and I’ll be able to resume writing.
Sadly, my own experience while managing three fics at the same time, trying to fit my writing time fit amid work, sleep and other issues, plus dealing with whatever may happen, taught me that I can’t keep my work going for the time being, at risk of downgrade the quality of my writing to a level way lower than the one I demand from my stories. And to me, it would be a disappointment toward you much worse than simply stopping.
Whenever I write, I strive to write at best of my capabilities, to try and improve each time, to learn as much as I can so each new update can be better than the one before. It doesn’t matter to me if I’m writing a book or an online story, I treasure my writers and want to give them the best I can do and offer.
This is what I wanted to say.
That said, if you still want to support me and show your appreciation for my work, you can. Recently I have added, on my AO3 profile, the link to both my Discord server and my Instagram account; on the latter, you can find way more content related to my stories and works; on the former, you can contact me directly and ask me questions about my stories, you can suggest me ideas for scenes, characters or other works, and you can find a friendly space where you can chat with other fans of my works and their universes, share your own stuff and so on.
I still want to thank all of you who had time and patience to listen to my apologies and to my explanations. I’m sorry for this, and I promise I’m doing everything I can so I can resume my own fanfiction updating as soon as I can.
And…should Fate assist me and get my book translated in English, I truly hope you’ll be able to keep following me and my writing path in the future.
