is writing.

Flash in the Pan has been updated across platforms with the latest chapter (billed as Episode 11 on Vella).

You can find that update across these platforms:

Kindle Vella

Patreon

Ko-Fi

Hiii!

I fell a little bit behind with updating the rewrites of Flash in the Pan with all that was going on with Amazon and everything that was going on in *gestures broadly* life.

As of today, I am all caught up with editing the already available episodes of Flash on Kindle Vella. If you have already paid for the episodes with their little coin system, you don't have to pay again and they are still open to you. Kindle Vella is US based only, I do not believe they have opened it up to any other countries (please tell me if they have), so it's not the most accessible option. However, if it's a platform you enjoy using, you can find my little story HERE.

Flash is also available via my Patreon, which is a subscription of $5 (USD) per month. My plan alongside uploading the story there is to share extras, commissioned art, etc when I am in possession of those things to share. If this is an option you'd like to utilize, you can find that HERE.

But between these two platforms is quite the difference. One is inexpensive (the coin system) and the other is accessible (as it is not US based only). I wanted to bridge these two by also utilizing Ko-Fi in a pay what you want/can manner with a minimum of $1 (USD) per month for story only. You can choose to go up in what you want to pledge but you're not obligated and I appreciate you wanting to read at all. If this is an option you'd like to utilize, you can find that HERE.

Hi. Hey. Hello.

Crawling out of my hole. Hi. I've had an interesting few weeks and they've been frustrating but, at the end of it all, I've got some things on track and I'm getting answers and, like... things are working out, it seems.

So for those who don't know (because I don't really talk about it), I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease when I was sixteen. Honestly, I kind of rejected it and I didn't really take it seriously. I was very much of the opinion that if I ignored it enough, it simply wouldn't be true. As time went on, I took my medications but then my medical care got worse and worse (I grew up in almost-rural Mississippi so specialists weren't exactly accessible to me). Finally, I'd lost my insurance when I was 26 and I didn't really understand what I was taking the medication for anymore. My doctor would spend all of five minutes with me, take my blood, up my dosage, and never explain why. I didn't have the means or the mental capacity for the bloodwork and the medication and the whole being ignored of it all. So I just stopped taking it and I stopped going to the doctor and I went back to thinking, "Hey, if I ignore this, it'll just go away."

I feel like I was doing fine, maybe, but the last couple of years it's really been in the back of my head. I don't feel well, my hair is falling out, my nails are brittle, my muscles are weak, my fatigue is at an all time high. Last year I addressed my brain fighting itself but I really needed to address my body fighting itself too and I needed to start over from scratch so that I knew the ins and outs of this all.

After a few weeks of needles and bloodwork and doctors and poking and prodding and more bloodwork, I have my second official Hashimoto's Disease diagnosis. And I'll be damned because after three days of treatment, I'm already starting to feel better but I also didn't realize how bad I was feeling?

But also starting over from scratch because I'm establishing my own medical care for the first time in my life, I'm getting told the really scary possibilities of every comorbidity I could have. And it's pretty much been suggested to me that it's not IF I develop Rheumatoid Arthritis, it's WHEN.

A three day weekend could not have come at a better time, truth be told, and I'm using this time to try to relax and actually rest but I'm also hoping to catch up on writing I've been too stretched thin to touch. I'll be working on getting Flash uploaded over at Ko-Fi. Reminder that it can always be found on Patreon and Kindle Vella.

I have requested that it be unpublished as soon as possible from their platform as I no longer wish to do business with them. The quality of their printing alone leaves so much to be desired, the quality of their customer service leaves even more and the fact that authors cannot have full control over their content is the icing on the cake.

Hi hi, everybody!

I've been having a lot of back and forth with Kindle Direct Publishing regarding Flash having a home on their platform. They are having an issue with the fact that I'm rewriting and reuploading and have blocked some of my content. It's been like pulling teeth with them, honestly, but I feel like we're coming closer to a resolution. Whether that resolution is that I leave the platform behind completely or they actually help me remains to be seen but it does feel like this frustration is about to be done which I'm very excited about.

That being said, I am continuing to upload Flash to Patreon but I understand now that some people don't really like the Patreon model. I have decided to also make Ko-Fi a home for this story.

I have set up the Ko-Fi to be a monthly membership that is essentially pay what you want/can with a minimum of $1. You can increase the amount you want to give if that's your choice but I will say that if you're going to give $4 or $5 per month, I encourage you to subscribe to the Patreon instead as it will have extras as I start to have details to share for other projects.

All chapters of Flash in the Pan that exist thus far will be uploaded to Ko-Fi for members and then it will receive updates in tandem with Patreon (and Kindle if they decide in my favor).

Well, it was uploaded Sunday? Monday? I don't know. I have lost the meaning of time.

That being said, the fourth chapter of Flash in the Pan is available now on Patreon HERE and Kindle Vella HERE.

I have hit an issue with Kindle Vella right now which is that they're telling me I've plagiarized myself and they are blocking episode 7 and onward while we go back and forth and scream at one another. Which is incredibly frustrating. I've input an appeal because episode 7 is for chapter 5 (I gotta figure out a better way to identify these).