Zoe

Happy Valentine's Day! I surprisingly still exist, and I'm celebrating this Hallmark holiday with my cats as my valentines, so that's how my day is going.
          
          As for the actual reason I'm making an announcement, Darkness Wears Her Crown is officially complete today! Yeah, I forgot to make announcements almost every week I was posting it, but that's okay, because this is really the only one that matters. 
          
          I don't know if I'll post anything to Wattpad after this. I am SO bad at responding to comments and replies and literally anything, so I'm practically invisible anyway. If I have another book I don't want collecting dust in my drafts, or I decide to participate in ONC in the future, maybe you guys will see me. But - I will hopefully be able to actually keep my New Year's resolution of catching up on my Wattpad reads! WE WILL SEE!
          
          Thank you all for your support! If you want to catch up on DWHC now that it's done, this is the prime time to. :)
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/387578585-darkness-wears-her-crown

Hey guys! No update for DWHC this week if you didn't notice, as I was sick (my once in a millenia sickness) and also traveled to NYC to see Leslie Odom Jr. on Hamilton. My weekend was very busy so I wasn't able to edit a chapter to post, but we should be back to regularly scheduled programming next week - and we are getting relatively close to the end!

Hi guys!! I know I’ve been kind of silent on Wattpad (god am I bad at keeping it updated outside of my stories), but I’ve been slowly chugging along with updates for Darkness Wears Her Crown. That’s not what this announcement is for, though… it’s something MUCH more exciting!
          
          I’m published! Nothing fancy like a novel, but a sci-fi horror short story of mine is featured in the latest edition of Novellum Magazine, an up and coming literary magazine. My story, The Heart Bleeds Oil, explores an AI who decides she wants to feel emotions like humans do. It’s quite the trip, if I do say so myself. 
          
          You can pick up a copy of the magazine at https://www.novellummagazine.com/; it’s $20 USD for a physical copy, and $6 for an online copy. Thanks so much to everyone that’s supported me, both in DWHC, this venture, and others—it means the world to me, and now I can call myself an ✨officially published author.✨
          

Hi! Yes, we’re always hiring. The hiring book isn’t checked super often since we get most of our applications via Discord, and it’s easy for notifications to get buried, but let us know if you’ve applied and we’ll take a look :-)

Hello let's support each other 

Happy Pride Month, everyone!! Grateful for all the brave folks, past and present, who made this month possible. Let’s keep pushing for love, always!
          
          Of course, it's the perfect time for me to increase the gay-ness of Darkness Wears Her Crown as Celvene and Melantha finally get some alone time ;) MESSY SLOW-BURN SAPPHICS FOR THE WIN!!
          
          If you're interested in supporting some queer books, I have a reading list that I'll hopefully be adding onto throughout the month full of different LGBTQ+ books, either written by a queer author or including queer characters:
          https://www.wattpad.com/reading-list/1282426409

Holy moly, I can't wait for another amazing chapter of Darkness Wears Her Crown by THE ZOE ALAMORT!!!

Hey guys! For anyone following Darkness Wears Her Crown, you might’ve noticed I didn’t post a chapter on Friday. This is a chapter I have to write from scratch and the schedule just worked out very poorly with me starting my job and having to write that (among other complications) lol. So, this week will be skipped, but it should be ready to go for next week!
          
          But, that being said, I’ll be pushing update dates back to Saturdays, same time, I think. This’ll give me Friday night to do anything I need to do, and a few more potential hours of writing and/or editing that’s needed that I might not be able to do on weekdays.
          
          And on a related note, DWHC passed the 8 Chapter Challenge! No idea if that’ll lead to anything, but it was my first time participating and it was a lot of fun, so it’s a victory regardless in my eyes!

SO, after radio silence from my last announcement, I ended up scrapping my ONC novella lol. I still love the idea, and I might try to write it in the future, but I've had so many different life events happen recently that I'm barely spending any time on Wattpad, and I didn't have much interest in continuing the book at that moment. I hate making myself write things I don't want to, as it helps me burn out way faster, so I knew it was safer to just drop it.
          
          As for life updates and why I've been so quiet on here, as I said, a lot has happened. I accepted a new job working for a pretty big company in a corporate office (rip my free time, all sucked up by the commute lol) that'll start in a week, and a close, lifelong friend unfortunately passed away a few weeks ago, and it's been difficult navigating that. I've also been working through a new WIP and editing some short stories. Within the next few months, I should be featured in a new Greykin Press anthology book that'll be published online. My current WIP is an idea I've been dying to work on for a while and so far, I think it's my best work yet. I started at the beginning of March and I'm around 3/4 of the way through right now - 65k words out of 80-90k! So I've had my hands VERY full recently, along with other life commitments, which leaves little time for Wattpad. I swear I'm planning to uphold my promise of reading more WP stories this year! I'll be spending 2 hours on a train every day so maybe I'll be able to catch up then :-)
          
          As for Darkness Wears Her Crown, I'm still updating weekly! We're up to Chapter 14 and the last chapter heavily features the BEST character of all time (tied with a character from my WIP, at least), Oriel! They're my fav and if you're reading the story I hope you enjoy them as well!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/387578585-darkness-wears-her-crown
          
          Thanks for your support! <3

I can't believe the great Zoe Alamort added one of my stories to their FAVORITES LIST! I MUST BE DREAMING THANKS SO MUCH ❤️