Squidi 🦑

Hi everyone, I know it's been a hot minute, but I am happy to say that I have finally returned to editing "By the Hand of a Thief". Chapter 4 is now out!
          
          The updates will likely be a tad inconsistent, but it's my goal and on my 2026 bingo sheet to finish releasing the book this year. I am already working on the posters for Part 2, even though there's still a few chapters to go in Part 1. 
          
          The four year hiatus from Wattpad has been the fault of a bachelor's degree, but since I have finally gotten that degree, I would really love to return and finish the series. So I will be trying to finish the first draft of book 4 as well haha.
          
          In other news, someone wrote a wiki page on the Departed series ->  https://fanlore.org/wiki/Departed_(Ninjago_fanfiction_collection)
          Finding this absolutely made my day and has pushed me to return to the series. A huge thank you to whoever put that together. :-)

Are the .5 books like the kind you read after the whole series or in between, like should I read 1.5 before book 2?

chapter 3 of BtHoaT is here :)

There's a new chapter of BtHoaT!

made a poster lol. Turns out taking away my pressure to make it gave me motivation. Also chapter 1 of BtHoaT hath been released :)

So this may sound kind of stupid, but I've had no motivation to make a "Part 1" poster for By the Hand of a Thief, and because of that, I feel like I cannot start posting chapters. All the other books have chapter posters, so obviously this one should have one too. But if making a poster is the only thing keeping me from posting the finished book, then that's kind of stupid. 
          
          I've finally been able to start editing the chapters. I've got a lot of internal pressure to spend a lot of time on formatting BtHoaT to make it look like the other Departed novels, but again, if that's the only thing holding me back from posting chapters, then I need to ignore it. Maybe I'll come back one day to add a poster/formatting, but until then, NEW CHAPTERS COMING SOON

excited for “By hand if a thief!”

i did not realize you also wrote Family again. I love that short story! I was just reading Street Smart and also want to read about Jay's mother.

I finally got around to updating the "Seabound Review". Only 3 episodes left to cover, so hopefully I can finish that up soon.

The prologue of "By the Hand of a Thief" is out! I hope you all enjoy :)