Yo, it's been a little while hasn't it?

I suppose we haven't spoken that much, not about real stuff, so let's have that talk.

As a lot of you know, I was and always have been an aspiring writer, using this platform to refine my skills in each aspect that I could, a lot of which acted as a kind of therapy for myself, always giving me a place to turn in order to find some sense of solace in providing all of you with something in which you could escape from reality, much like I was doing.

For the past couple of years I'd been working on my own project, my own novel that I'd wanted to continue to push myself to get right. Eventually I found motivation to return to that project during the lockdown that we all experienced in some way or another, and I eventually got it right. I sent my manuscript to a publishing house and they offered me a full contract which will go on to produce the book and distribute it worldwide.

With this being the case, I'm now looking at my options, I'm going to be focusing on developing myself in my own world and universe that I've created. This was also the reason that my name changed on this website as my pen name was always going to be what you knew me as.

There are pieces in my contract that state a conflict of interest due to a mixture of copyrighted material, and seeing as I have one of my trademarked characters appearing in some way in most of my stories, there was and always will be that grey area as my own material is only in the primary stages of production, which unfortunately means that all traces of this account will soon have to disappear.

Worry not!

I will slowly be moving this content over to the side account that I had started, under the name Metal Pen, however I do not want to give false hope or indication that I can keep the promise to continue and finish any or all of my stories, so with that being the case, I will offer someone or someones the chance to adopt my stories if they feel that they are up to the challenge of taking one of them on and doing that story justice.

I can send that person the complete copy of the story so far and even tell them what I had planned for the rest, but that will then be up to that person to do what they wish of it.

I wanted to thank all of you for the support you've shown me over the past however many years it's been since I started writing, you guys are the best.

I'll always still be here, reading and writing from the shadows, always willing to chat over the DMs.

As one final note, before I begun my endeavor to recreate my project, I did end up re-writing The Hunter and the Guardian, the first PJO story I ever penned, and I'm going to be uploading the 90K+ content over on Metal Pen, but as with the others, this was not yet finished, so this too is now up for adoption.

Much love,

D. Socrates.