King of New York

Intro

I know I've already made you guys wait so long(9 months!!!) but I'm going to make you wait just a bit longer. This is only an author's note. Don't worry! I posted the first chapter too...

This is basically here to thank you all for sticking with me and for inspiring me to keep writing! I never planned on my other book being as long as it was and I certainly didn't ever consider a sequel, but here I am! I'm just sorry it took so long, but now it's here and I'm super excited!

For any new readers, I'm the author. My name is Anna, though some people refer to me as absolutely evil.
This book is a sequel to my other Newsies story, but you don't have to read that one to get this. I'd highly recommend it because, as a fan fiction author, I did take certain liberties when creating the characters' behaviors and relationships. Also, this is based off of a musical so unlike in a book, we don't know the back stories of any characters so I made those too and they greatly affect some of the characters in this book.

In addition, some events of the first book are brought up here so it would be nice to understand that, but it's not required. These stories cover completely different topics. But it'd be cool if you did--I think I did an alright job with the first one!

And one more thing before I let you get on with the story; I felt like I owed you guys an explanation. I can already tell you will all be saying that you understand and it's no big deal and I don't owe you anything, but I feel like I should explain myself.

I am really proud of my other story. It's the first thing I've ever really posted and I put so much time and effort into it. It built my confidence and introduced me to some really cool people on this site. I've never been more pleased or received such great support from people than when I was writing that book.

The reason this took so long is one I haven't told you about. I kept saying I had writer's block. That was true. But the writer's block was brought on by fear.

You guys all commented about how excited you were for a sequel and have said such nice things about my book and that scared me. I want to make this book just as good as the other one; I want to entertain you guys and I want to meet my new expectations for myself. I want this to live up to my other story.

I'm scared it won't. I took forever trying to think of a plot and development that would make this story good and have been working so hard to ensure it is good. Now I realize that it might not be as good as the other one, but I'm still gonna work my butt off on it and I can't spend my time worrying about what might happen. You know the saying, 'you can't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game'. So here it is.

Sorry about all that deep stuff, I just thought I should share with all of my loyal readers.

And I just wanted to apologize because literally three months ago on my spam I said that this 'should be up in the next 9 days'. That obviously didn't happen.

Anyway..... on to the story! I hope you enjoy!