Hello my dark readers. By reading the title I'm certain you all know what this is. I know this year has been… slow and difficult, to say the least, with my writing and again I am sorry for that. In fact, on my resolution I did have that I would invest more time in my writing and I plan to keep that strong till the year's end.

For all who have followed me since the beginning I can't thank you enough and for all who have just discovered me this year I welcome you all and hope to be a good author in your eyes. I'm also sorry for not posting anything lately; in actuality, I had a Christmas story I wanted to post after two years of making it but I stopped because, 1. I had no time to truly finish it because it was really, really long. And 2. It was my birthday on Christmas and I was getting distracted from my work and family. It wasn't really a great Christmas/birthday for me, but I did enjoy a good rest afterwards.

I also hope you lot had a happy holiday as well and I wish you all a happy New Year's Eve. Please be safe and stay warm, and I hope that 2018 will be better for you all. In honesty, odd years were never really good to me and most of my best memories came when I was in even years, so I hope 2018 will grant me lucky stars again because I'll be honest 2017 really was an extremely tense year for me.

That's about all I needed to say, chapter 17 is in the making and almost done now thinking about it. Editing the giant chapter will take a while but it should be in full swing next month. Happy new year to my dark family and I will see you all next year in 2018!

Forever yours - FT