@tmburgie Thank you! I'm glad you like it. Yeah, there are a ton of good writers and very devoted readers on here. This site gave me the motivation to take the outline for "Taraquin" that had been sitting on my computer for like 5 years and actually write the story. That's pretty awesome you're almost done with yours. I'll definitely check out your cut chapter. I'd like to publish mine so I could grab a hard copy of my book and throw it out a window for all the trouble it's given me. lol So who are you publishing through? I'm still editing Taraquin, but I'm currently looking for Literary Agents and Publishers that will take the time out of their busy schedules to give my book a shot. I figured if I already had a good following, it might entice interest from big publishers, but so far all I've gotten is the small companies wanting me to pay a crap load of money to publish. I'm not sure how they think that's a good deal when anyone can publish through Createspace for free. I'm holding out and will use that as a last resort though.