Sleepy_Ish

Just a tiny, rambling service announcement: recently, by sheer insane coincidence, I noticed that somebody had stolen my little stories and posted them on Amazon. Didn't even bother fixing the various typos ...
          	
          	I suspect that happens to a lot of stories on here. And it was honestly sheer chance I spotted mine - so I recommend keeping an eye out, though again, it was just coincidence I saw mine, so not sure how you'd best go about it aside from getting lucky (they did change title and description and cover, just none of the content).
          	
          	It was honestly surprising to myself that it actually annoyed me quite a bit, despite Amazon quickly deleting it. I didn't think I'd generally be super fussed about what people do with these (they've been gathering dust on Wattpad for years now after all), but that was so blatant and lazy and it just felt kinda offensive ...
          	
          	So I'll probably posting slightly updated versions of the stories to Kindle just to prevent this happening again, much as a joke as that feels like. 
          	
          	I might temporarily take them down on here - or not, I don't yet know whether I'll bother with updating on here as well and how I'd go about it (it's so overdue, but eh ... ). Just so nobody's surprised. Most likely though nothing will change expect they'll be elsewhere too.
          	
          	Anyway, that's all. If you're the 1 person reading this: have a good day ;)

Sleepy_Ish

Just a tiny, rambling service announcement: recently, by sheer insane coincidence, I noticed that somebody had stolen my little stories and posted them on Amazon. Didn't even bother fixing the various typos ...
          
          I suspect that happens to a lot of stories on here. And it was honestly sheer chance I spotted mine - so I recommend keeping an eye out, though again, it was just coincidence I saw mine, so not sure how you'd best go about it aside from getting lucky (they did change title and description and cover, just none of the content).
          
          It was honestly surprising to myself that it actually annoyed me quite a bit, despite Amazon quickly deleting it. I didn't think I'd generally be super fussed about what people do with these (they've been gathering dust on Wattpad for years now after all), but that was so blatant and lazy and it just felt kinda offensive ...
          
          So I'll probably posting slightly updated versions of the stories to Kindle just to prevent this happening again, much as a joke as that feels like. 
          
          I might temporarily take them down on here - or not, I don't yet know whether I'll bother with updating on here as well and how I'd go about it (it's so overdue, but eh ... ). Just so nobody's surprised. Most likely though nothing will change expect they'll be elsewhere too.
          
          Anyway, that's all. If you're the 1 person reading this: have a good day ;)

_randomknight

Hi, still waiting for the third book. Its worth the wait.

Sleepy_Ish

I briefly thought otherwise this summer but it's just not happening. It's not that I wouldn't like to, but, eh. Most of the time there's other things to concern myself with and when I get around to this it takes approximately three seconds to get stuck on something ^^;
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SerenitySerene

this is definitely something new for me. Didn't expect that i will enjoy both books so much. i've read that you've said it's unlikely for a third books few years ago. Hoping that someday we got to read the meeting between Mia, Isabel and their girlfriends.

Sleepy_Ish

Go vote! You know Chancellor Seitz would want you to ...
          ... if you're German and eligible. Obviously.
          
          With that rather unimportant message out of the way; a word on the state of Mia (and her Chancellor). Despite myself I went over the first two stories and kinda fixed them up a bit - they aren't massively different, just with less proofreading misses and some other small-ish changes (I'd rate them about 5% better and 30% less embarrassing (to me) than their current state). I'm not going to fiddle around uploading those fixes; but I did them in preparation (so to speak) for finally getting book 3 done. Which might or might not happen in the foreseeable future - I do kinda want to, but it's still more of a slog than anything enjoyable (and I still don't like the state Wattpad is in currently). Kinda crazy how muddled you can become over a really simplistic story, frankly ... 
          
          Once finished with that (let's just be optimistic, I guess) I'll just upload the improved old ones and the new one in one go; a compilation of short stories I guess? Well. That is all.

Sleepy_Ish

@Reading_For_Me Thanks for the message. 
            Yeahs, it's a bit of a mix of a things; not just a bit of a writing slump in general. It's also that there never really was any plans for the story (literally none. It wasn't planned to be an age gap romance, let alone anything poly), so it's not like there's any specific setup for continuations. But, yeah, even when I posted the stories I knew that it's a bit of a tease to end such a story on the main love interests never actually meeting, so ... 
            
            I can't really comment on the state of poly on Wattpad since it's been ages since I found anything worth reading here anyway. I'm also not sure I'd describe their relationship as entirely healthy ... well, by the standards of the story, of course it's fine, but "realistically" it'd probably be quite problematic. Luckily, it's just a story.
            But, yeah, even with published books it's a rare theme and then often just some crappy harem or something really weird. Can't say I could name a lot of good poly reading material in general.
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sexybim18

Please write another book with the chancellor please am dieing to know how their story continues am begging you.

Sleepy_Ish

@sexybim18 Thanks for the interest. Unfortunately I don't think I have the motivation right now to finish up the third book (and, yes, some bits of it are done). 
            
            For one thing, given the current political situation in the US, I feel writing about some Mary Sue politician and her weird romance is just a bit tone deaf. Political (arguably deliberate) incompetence is not "funny" anymore (well, it never really was, but it also didn't actively kill this obviously this many people...). 
            
            For another, recent changes to Wattpad make me rather uninterested in supporting the site. Free stories now basically are there as a lure to get people to the paid stories, and I don't see why I should support that with my content - when I don't even get a community out of it. 
            
            So, yeah. I'd say "maybe one day" - with how small these stories are they don't take long to write and the mood might always strike me. But don't hold your breath. I think it's unlikely at this point there'll be a third book.
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