Greetings everyone.

Yes, you read that right, I am indeed still alive and have been writing too, albeit more slowly than I'd like but life happens.

A few of my followers here may remember I joined three years ago to upload my first novel: Of Warm Tea and Cookies Volume I, a slice of life and romantic story of the adventures of a deer couple and their friends in their college.

It was a short venture given the fact that although the background, the bottom, the stories themselves weren't bad, the clumsy way I presented it was an absolute mess. Shifting attention and perspective and horribly formulated dialogues for the characters. Thanks to all the comments and support and reviews I got back then I decided to do what's best and make a better version of it, to improve it, to make it again from scratch because as my passion project it deserves to be good, to be better.

Funnily enough I made it to said college the following year and even crazily enough (although knowing myself it's kinda normal for weird things to happen to me all the time) I ended up meeting people very very similar to some of my characters so that's nifty. As I study 5 road hours away from home, the few times I travel back home or come to stay here I usually take the time to pull out my laptop and write my way, enjoying the landscape and music I love to inspire me.

I've developed a better method now, writing in my native language (primarily to flex my archaic lexicon) and then translate them to English and make a few little changes here and there to make it nicer.

So far it's been working nicely. I've been way busier than before of course so it's been a little hard for me to keep up with my older rhythm (specially since I've also devoted a bunch of my free time to going out to activities with friends or the recording and releasing of my first album which I'll share here too soon) and so it's definitely my fault not to dedicate enough time for it but at least I'm half way in so I'll hopefully have it ready by the end of the year if all goes well to re-release it on the roughly three years mark since the original first release.

Thanks a lot to the people that have been here with me for this time, your patience, your support, your comments, your interests. I know there could have been a chance where I didn't take the criticism as a good sign and I may have stopped entirely, but the good side of me won. The smart and emotional side of me saw the opportunity and chose to take it. It's been a long journey and continues to be so, and so will be for a long time too, but it's worth it. Specially now that thanks to the friends I've made along the way I got plenty of drawings of my characters and whatnot.

The only important difference is that I've changed the orders of appearance of some of the characters to make a more verosimile chronology and I've replaced some characters too to maintain a better continuity and sense.

Also as a little gift, I've written a sort of spin-off story that I may as well turn into a chapter on following books after volume I. I'm half way through the translation and I will try to have it uploaded this weekend so you can let me know what you think and improvements to make for the original book itself.

Once again, thanks a lot for taking the time to read my silly ramblings and to stick with me in this art that I love the most, and I hope to see you all soon.

-P