Hey folks! I figured this would be the easiest way to reach most of you so here we are. I just wanted to touch on a few things and ask you all a few questions. Plus some cool announcements!

Firstly, I wanted to know if you all care to hear about the progress of this story and any upcoming projects. For example, if I'm going to be behind one week, how would you like to learn about that? I could do a few things but I'm not sure how effective they'd be so I'm asking you all. I could put announcements and updates in episode descriptions but I realize that most people rarely read past the first two lines and that wouldn't help for situations that are more time sensitive - like delays. I could use Tapas creator page but I know that people rarely check that too and I'd rather not ping you guys and clutter your inboxes with announcements. I could start a twitter account but that comes with a chance of me also just posting personal stuff that some people may not care about. Finally, I could just make these announcement posts every once in a while to update you all, but I'd rather not fill my story with these cause it can break the flow of reading and I don't like that.

Thus, I'm leaving it to you all! If you like the story and want to be updated regularly about it, how do you want me to do it? Just drop a comment below if you'd like.

"OK, but what else would you post aside from just updates? And you said there'd be announcements in this!" Yes, I did! Aside from story and progress updates, I'd use these channels to announce things like these:

I've decided that at 25 subscribers I'll start uploading some of my past work on off days! Other short stories, my D&D back stories (they're all pretty good too), and anything I want to write in the future that isn't TCC. So if you want more stuff from me: share with your friends! Like! Comment! Anything you can do to get the word out really would help me a lot. Knowing that people are reading and enjoying my work is really big for me and helps motivate to keep writing.

Also! LymeThyme and I are thinking about starting a podcast! Crazy right? I don't want to give too much away about what it is at the moment, so if you want to hear more about it in the future and know when it comes out: let me know how you want to hear about it and about other future projects!

Thanks so much if you actually read this whole thing! If you didn't well... Either you don't know this is here or you skipped to the bottom so go back up and read it! You're all amazing and thank you so much for sticking through this with me.

Always aiming higher - Bigdogsteve