dollygrand

The Bet, Save Me From Myself, and The Mouse and The Wolf news!
          
          I haven't been at 100% in weeks now, so writing has been much slower lately, and because of this, I couldn't really work much on The Bet this entire month. I really want to get it finished since I'm so close to get it done, so for now, I won't be updating Save Me From Myself, at least often =') I'll try to write an update in... 2 weeks? so you guys don't have to wait for too long, but I reallllly want to get The Bet published =') 
          
          In better news, I am very very hopeful that once I do get The Bet tossed into amazon, I can finally start working on the rewrite of The Mouse and The Wolf. I have decided not to continue writing the existing third book in the series because of it, so it will now be discontinued.  I won't be taking the old books down, don't worry. 
          
          My plan is to work on the series offline for a while, meaning I won't publish it right away until I am sure I'm comfortable and happy with how the rewrite is turning out. It's a great story, and for most parts it will stay the same so I'm not starting from scratch, but I have a lot of plans to make it much, much better :3
          
          I've also decided not to start editing another book for self-publishing until Save Me and Mouse and Wolf series are both complete, because hooooly crap, it takes a lot of time and mental power just to edit =') I also won't be continuing any other unfinished books until one of these series is done, but I am still very much planning on finishing everything I've started :3
          
          I hope you guys have had a great summer, and I promise I am working as hard and fast as I can behind the scenes even when I'm not active here :3

Hey there, I saw this AI short video, and it looks almost exactly like your novel. It feels like they may have plagiarized your book and turned it into an AI short serie. I just wanted to inform you, I’m not sure if you already know about it or not.

Hello, I know you've released Lifeless on at least one platform at some point (I think...) but I want to know where it is so I can read it because I just started reading The Life We Had and it's so good, and I know Lifeless is about Max later on in life, so... I was just wondering where I can find it. Also, I love you works. I started with ShadedSin but now Im here and it's just as good 

Hi umm do you know they are using your books to make short drama's on tt  The wolf's little mouse or something... Can't wait for the next chapter in save me from myself 

Hello again. sorry for the spam but I’m freaking out for you. Look up “The Wolf’s Little Mouse” on tiktok! I can report it honestly. But don’t want to jump the gun. 

Hello I can’t edit my previous post but there is a short drama series on tiktok that uses your book. I can’t link it but it’s on Pine Drama. if this isn’t news to you, you can delete these posts. I don’t want your work plagiarized. 

I’m not sure if you know but AI is using your book for shorts. It’s on tiktok on PineDrama and it’s called The Wolf’s Little Mouse. 

The Bet Final Edition countdown!
          
          It's so lonely to edit a book offline with no one to share the progress with, so I'll start giving updates in the comment section of this post!
          
          The big edits of the first 35 chapters are now done, and the next chapters I need to edit are "Red Dress" and "Reckless Intents" which used to be chapters 28 and 29, but since the book has grown during my edits, they are now chapters 36 and 37 :3 After these two edits, I'll add a brand new spicy scene, then continue editing the already existing chapters :3
          
          If you're interested in these progress updates, come back to this post every once in a while to see how it's going :3 I believe I need about 2 months to finish the major edits, then a little more time to go through it one more time and do the final clean up :3 Once it is done, I will publish it here, and on Amazon as physical books and eBook :3

Dropping in to give a progress update :3
          
          First, editing The Bet for publication has taken me wayyyy more time than I thought it would =') When I started the process, I naively thought that it only needs a few new chapters, a proper ending, and some detail changes. I currently have the first 33 chapters almost done with a few of them needing some polish and filling up, and so far, the story has grown by about 50k words. I still have 12 old chapters to edit, and a small handful of new chapters to add =') I believe that once it's done, it has grown almost double in size. It started with 107k words, probably ends with around 180k words so I've added a lot of new stuff all over the story :3
          
          I've also made the decision to keep At the End of Nightfall on pause ='( If this The Bet project had been much faster and simpler, I could've had time to keep working on Oliver's series, but right now I want to focus on getting The Bet done as fast as I can so it won't become one of the unfinished projects I have hanging around, especially now that I'm 3/4 way through already =') It will take me at least 2 more months to finish, but at least the finish line is getting closer :3
          
          I will also keep updating Save Me From Myself at a steady pace, with updates coming every 10-15 days, since my dream is to get the book 2 self-published before the end of the year as well :3 This is the oldest series I have that never got finished (started in 2014 I think), which is why I chose to work on it instead of Mouse and Wolf =') 
          
          I also took down some of the books I had up here and saved them as drafts, one of which is Safe Word Sunlight, but one day it will be back once I can continue writing it :3  I just can't say which year that will happen =')
          
          It is my dream to have all my books finished and published as physical books, and I will get it done one by one :3 it's not a fast process, but I do promise to keep working as hard as I can :3

Hi Dollygrand! Ik this may not be important to you, but I’ve just finished my AP LIT exam as of today! I just wanted to say that The Mouse and the Wolf has genuinely given me such an impact in how I’m able to read books and connect with characters, and I hope you feel a little happy at the fact that I was able to use your book to answer one of the short response questions, which felt with a conflict between the old and the new, wether it be values, worlds, or experiences! I was extremely happy to use your story, and it motivated me to write a whole essay about it. Thank you for writing these stories, and wish me luck on the score! (I need a 4-5 on it)