Drake R. Todd

Hi Drake, 
          I am not affiliated with official wattpad or related sites whatsoever. 
          I'm simply an enthusiastic reader and an aspiring book reviewer.
          I am also currently running a book contest for specifically lgbt+ stories and I think one of your books might make a good addition as a participant. If you're curious and want to know me, here is the link or alternatively, you can find the book on my profile.  
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/327974584-stdelicate-awards-2022

Hello everyone! I never intended to be gone this long, but life, you know. Anyway, I am mostly coming on here to say that I am going to be moving everything to Amazon self-publishing. I appreciate the small audience I gained here, and I am going to keep up the one-shots I have published on here (unless they become part of a larger narrative), and there will be previews of books that will be moved. For those of you who are interested, for now, they will be in e-book format until I have the time to fully convert them to physical books. I will probably post up another announcement when they have been made into physical copies as well, as well as when others have been published as e-books. Wattpad just isn't going to work for me since I have no intention of writing solely romance (although I do have plans for an LGBT+ fantasy romance, as well as some romance mixed into existing work), which this site is heavily skewed toward.
          
          Thank you guys for the support, and I will continue writing, just not on here.

Okay, I know I haven’t been as active as I’ve wanted to be the last month, but I got a new job and have been busier than anticipated. Being a working parent doesn’t leave much time in the day. BUT things are still coming, they’re just gonna come at a slower rate than usual, which means I will also spend more time with them to make sure I do not have to go back to edit them again. (Not saying it won’t happen, just trying to prevent it as much as possible.) The edits for The Stolen Ground will also start coming, as well as some major changes to the end (because I changed my other mind on that), hopefully this weekend when I have time off. So be on the look out for those. 
          
          As always, thank you for your continued patience. 

The final chapter of The Stolen Ground is up! I am going to start editing it here soon, and then get to work on the extended version of Hero Killer (which will only be put up once the entire thing is done) and the sequel to The Stolen Ground. I will also continue working on Like Glass, and I’ve got a few other things in the pipeline that I will have time to work on now. 

Hey y’all! I finally published an update for Like Glass, which I know some of you have been waiting for, so go check that if you’re interested. 
          
          Also, my Etsy shop is running a sale for the holidays; 25% off everything, so check that out if you want some wax melts or candles for the holidays. The link is at the bottom of my bio since I cannot post a link in an announcement on the app for some reason. 
          
          As always, thank you guys for your patience with my weird update schedule. 

Holy crap, it took so much longer to get the next chapter of The Stolen Ground out than I intended! I had an idea for it that ended up feeling out of place when I had it written out and I had to completely redo it, and ended up fusing what was going to be two chapters into one. So that ended up being more work than I originally thought it was going to be. 
          
          Anyway, one more chapter and this one will be complete. I am still going to go back and edit it, and add things in that I realized too late I had just not planned properly for. So, be on the lookout for the soon-to-come final chapter and the updates. 
          
          Thank you guys so much for your patience!

I’m back and actually going to be active again. My car broke down so I can’t go anywhere anyway. 
          
          Anyways, Tale Teller Awards is having a surprise round for those interested. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/271092381?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=DrakeRTodd&wp_originator=Twd3wreC%2FeFyin%2BEVPI3g61cROUkTeUBGj7X1ZcQMM7HmD%2F77UEJ%2Fhs1U7V5JietIcAviHIt0fTXvHvy%2BwCjxBES5kg28zBF2YPSbtiT4rs0Wt927RNq6waAaUcfsI%2Ft

Oh my God, life! I meant to do so many updates this month and start editing things this month, but nope. Literally the next day after I posted my last announcement, I got sick for like a week and a half-ish (not rona, just a particularly bad and persistent cold made worse by the lack of air quality and my asthma), then when I finally got to feeling slightly better, I started, and my period is always terrible so I felt terrible again for another week. And then, AND THEN, once THAT finally passed…my internet went out for 2 days! Seriously, screw this month. My internet just came back up a few hours ago right when I had decided to just Disney movie it up for the night, and I just now was like “maybe I should post a quick update since I haven’t done anything on Wattpad most of July”. And now it is storming so I’m hoping I don’t lose my damn WiFi again. Anyway, this is a long, ranty way of saying that I am going to at least try to get an update on The Stolen Ground out either tomorrow or the day after. Thank y’all for being patient.

Okay, so an update on things. 
          
          First off, I just finished with the first short story in the anthology, A Galaxy of Stories. I tried my hand at a sweet little romance, so check it out if you're interested. But that is also probably gonna be the last new-ish thing from me for a while, as I am going to shift focus back to The Stolen Ground in order to finish and edit that.
          
          Second, Beast has been unpublished. I had been thinking about it for a while, and that is going to eventually get a complete rewrite before being republished. The original plan was for it to semi-follow the original Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, but that fairy tale doesn't have a whole lot going on (for those of you don't know, the Beast literally asks Beauty to marry him at dinner every night, then nearly dies when she goes to visit her family, that's it, not a lot to work with in order to follow that original story), so I am going to just start over with that with an idea that I came up with the other day. Hopefully, that works out better.
          
          Third, I believe I said this in my last update, but I'm going to be editing The Last Day On Earth, too, but I've also decided to rewrite it a bit and make Darkness In The Sky almost kind of separate from it. Not entirely, many of the characters will remain, but I cannot get it to go anywhere as is. For those of you reading The Galaxy Series, I apologize, but that's going to be a bit longer. I will most likely be unpublishing what I have written of Darkness In The Sky in order for it to be rewritten, so just be on the lookout for updates to The Last Day On Earth (which I will announce when they happen too), and for that to come back at a later date.
          
          That is it for now. Thank you. :)

Does anyone else hate fireworks? I do. Both my toddler and my anxiety can’t sleep through them. I wish I still lived in BFE during this time of year. Ugh