Hey folks. One hell of a ride. 105.000 words from start to finish, which makes it the longest thing I've written by far, even if cutting a useless subplot dropped the word count below my original goal of 120,000.

Chapter 35 marks the end of Speedrunner as it is being uploaded to RRL. As I mentioned in one of my previous comments, the full book on Amazon will have an additional epilogue chapter involving Silver when it goes live on Friday.

So where is the story going from here? Well, good news and bad news.

Lets start with the bad:

Bad news the first, because of issues with editors, illness and stupid needle eating cats, the final chapters have come up later than intended. I'd hoped to have them up for about 3-4 days, but as it stands I have to pull down nearly the entire story as of tomorrow at 5:00 to be in compliance with Amazon's policy. This kinda sucks, so get it while it is hot.

Bad news the second, I'm taking time off! Now, don't freak out. Time off is basically from today until the 1st or 2nd of July. I won't be completely taking it off, there will be some outlining done for book two, and some marketing and other junk, but the earliest the prologue of book 2 will land would be the 2nd or the 3rd of next month. Sorry!

Now the good news.

Good news the first, I'm going to get to spend the week playing diablo 3's new necromancer rather than working on my tendonitis.

Good news the second, I'm going to be starting a patreon this week. This is good news for people who want early chapters and for you crazies who want to throw extra money at me.

Good news the third, I'll be accepting offers for anyone who wants to beta edit the next book. I normally work through a professional editor, but considering how many problems I have had this month... ick.

Good news the fourth, The order for book two's cover art is going to be going out sometime this weekend, which, awesome. It will be replacing the book one cover art for the RRL version as soon as it arrives.

Good news the fifth, In addition to book two I am working on a Silver centric short story (say that five times fast) that should release at some point before book two. It'll be kindle unlimited and dirt cheap besides, but it is a story I want to write.

Good news the sixth, I'll be keeping a pretty similar or slightly faster pace for book two. So book two should take roughly a month to a month and a half from start to finish.

See, good news outweighs the bad.

I do want to thank everyone who has read this far through my story, it means a lot to have people this interested in something you've written and making sure you guys didn't have to wait too long did help me keep a decent pace between new chapters.

That said, I'm going to end this with a plug for my book.

Pre-order sales have been good, but it kind of goes without saying that they can always do better.

I want to keep writing books in this series, and the series that I have planned when this one is done, but I do need to be able to afford it. $5 from you is a lot of help for me, as is each and every one of you who grab the book on KU and read it through to the epilogue. I've got 130 positive reviews on this story, if every one of you gave me a quick amazon review it would set me on a good pace to be abl to afford to write new stories for a long time coming.

Anyways, thank you guys and gals, from the bottom of my heart. Looking forward to book two.