It was really funny hearing a professor rave about how some student theses get downloaded 600 times by 600 different people and be like "that's a lot of people interested in your work!!" Meanwhile I sit here with the super cringey Bakugou fanfic I wrote at freshly 14 that has over 100k reads. Yeah, sorry professor, but I think I'm winning somehow
Anyway lol I talked with a coworker earlier today who is also a creative writing major and was published in the same journal that I was, and I told him about how my mom is spreading printed copies like it's Covid and is even trying to get it featured at the local library in my hometown! His response? "Tell your mom I said thanks for the free promoting!! Appreciate it :)" I couldn't stop laughing lol
He also talked to me about publishing actual books and stuff since he's getting his memoir published in a couple weeks and has been trying really hard to get the school to offer a course on how to, y'know, PUBLISH STUFF because apparently they didn't think of that as a necessity, so he told me in the meantime to keep in touch with him so he can help me with the publishing process since he's learned it all now :> Y'all might be seeing a book from me in the near future!! How exciting!!!!
Anyway, I hope you all are doing well. I'll try to write some more over the summer in my free time, but no promises. I plan to update Sinners next, as I've already begun working on a chapter for it. Thank you all for being so patient with me!!!