Andrew Sweet

I'm officially backing out of Wattpad. I've been thinking about it a lot. I plan to continue my serials, but I will do so on Patreon instead.  For these serials, I offer a $3/mo tier on Patreon called, appropriately, Serial Killers (see what I did there). I'll be copying each chapter by chapter over the next several months as I get time. This is a wonderful community and it's been so much fun! I hope some of you will come join me, and perhaps even join the $5/mo tier to see some of my novels.
          
          Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=104217131 (copy, paste)
          
          Thank you all so much for accepting me here!

Hi, 
          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

If you like dystopian fiction, there's an indie-author group promo going on right now that I'm a part of. A wide range of dystopian fiction available!
          
          https://books.bookfunnel.com/dystopianrevolution/i8sxb5jt65

Yay! Jupiter in Retrograde's namesake chapter is up now! In this chapter, the Artemis (main character) runs into his former high-school/college lover, only to realize that he still loves her. Okay, well, he's not that bright. So really he "realizes" that she smells good and he finds himself drawn to her and memories of old times spark here and there.
          
          But she's on to a new lover now, and he's playing the role of person who is definitely not still hung up on his ex (which you might suspect by now isn't exactly true). It takes an accident to bring them together. 
          
          This is where the story starts to "get weird." Something happens in the next chapter that's going to turn everything on its head. An isolated Scottish ski-resort trip begins a slow degeneration as Art begins to suspect that Lia has changed a lot less than she lets on!

Hey folks, remember when I was only taking a short break? Yeah that was six months ago. I'm not "back" back, but I thought I'd drop in to say that your girl Dandelion is joining my Reality Gradient series! She's going to be a core part of the female-dominated Virtual Wars series. The battle for women's rights is about to become an all-out war! 
          
          Check for book 1 -- The Firsts -- in January 2023, followed by book 2 -- Imaginary Enemies in June of the same year. Tentative date for book 4 -- Better than Dying -- October/November of 2023. I'm finished writing book 1, and 44k words into book 2.
          
          More of a Notions of Home fan? Karlen's coming too, but I'm not giving her a major part. Alisandra, however... well. She's pretty amazing and will be there in full-force.

So there's some great news! You may not be aware that I have another serial I started about the same time as Notions of Home -- a serial called Dandelion. Over the next few weeks I'll be uploading some of that series here for you all to have at it! (I originally used it as a reader magnet for my newsletter). I have to edit it so I'll be slow-rolling it week by week.
          
          That's only part of my announcement. The other part is that it's going to be included in a 6 book series called (tentatively) The Virtual Wars. This will cover the period overlapping my first trilogy (Reality Gradient) in the events leading up to the Virtual War where the models (genetically-altered clones) join forces with the consciousness-transfer humans and AIs to fight against the growing threat of the Liberti, a faux-freedom loving yet actually fascist alliance modeled after the Akton Society who nearly destroyed the world prior to Models and Citizens.
          
          That's a lot to say, and there's a lot of ground to cover there. I'll be starting up the series Dandelion again for a few months this summer. Some things will have to change in Karlen to make it fit the way I think it was always supposed to, so I'll be editing that series some as well.
          
          Bottom line? I'll be adding a new series soon and modifying the existing one. Then I'll be publishing a series and including these stories in it. Expected books in the series so far:
          1. Notions of Home
          2. Better than Dying (ties Virtual Wars firmly in with Reality Gradient ~65k words written)
          3. The Firsts (~36k words written)
          4. Dandelion (~10k words written)
          4. The Virtual Wars (working title)
          5. The Resistance (working title ~54k words written)
          7. The Escape (working title)
          
          Each will be right around 90k words (hopefully). Happy reading!

Finally uploaded the next part of Karlin's story (Notions of Home). I still plan to turn this into a novel - eventually. First, I have to get this bug out of my system. Writing a new series that's going to be space adventure/possibly morphing into space opera. Not sure yet - just started planning. But I hope to add a section a month to Karlin. It's the fastest I can do it and still effectively manage marketing of my novels! Thanks for reading :).

Whew! Bodhi Rising is doing well so far. Average 4.67 stars on Amazon and 4.67 stars on GoodReads. So far, so good, but it was a stressful month! Now that that's done, I'll be able to catch up with some reading of your Wattpad stories and continue with Notions of Home. (That said, I think doing the weekly thing was too much - I have 150k words on Libera right now and it needs to be <= 100k, so there's some serious editing in my future). 
          
          So I'm going to start back up slow with probably monthly postings for Notions. If you're curious about Bodhi Rising, it's totally different thank Notions, even though it takes place in the same Science Fiction universe. I've posted a link into Amazon below so you can read the description if you like.
          
          https://www.amazon.com/Bodhi-Rising-Reality-Gradient-Book-ebook/dp/B08SLFQCT3

It hurts my heart to take a break! I love this story, but I really am stressing out about my upcoming release, so I need to focus my energy there. But, as promised, here's the end of Part 1 of Notions of Home. For Part 2, we will get to see Bethany step up in a big way. But... that will have to start up next month! So here it is - Notions of Home, the end of Part 1: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/259359968/write/1066661423

One more episode left in Part 1 after the one I just posted. Then I'm taking a break while I get Bodhi published (part of the lag). Thanks for following so far! Here's the link:
          https://www.wattpad.com/1060614736-notions-of-home-witness