Hey, everyone. It's been a productive month for me since I started my break to edit book 1, and I'm happy to announce a few things! I've already left an update on Patreon, so I'll be reiterating some things here.

Firstly, book 1's editing is almost complete! I got the manuscript back from the editor a couple weeks ago, and over the course of November, I'll be applying the final edits before hopefully submitting it for good. This means that Lost In Translation will be returning soon! Book 2 will be releasing ten chapters early on Patreon over the course of November, and its first chapter will launch on RR on the first day of December.

After a bit of deliberation and some distancing from my first draft, I've come to a few decisions about book 1. I decided that, in the end, I wouldn't make too many changes. Most of the bigger edits will be centered around the start and end of the story to clean things up, smoothen the flow of events, and create a payoff that the ending deserved before spiraling down into my intended outcome.

This is so that people won't have to reread a significant chunk of book 1 to figure out what changed. And after my edits are fully complete and posted on RR, I'll be creating a separate chapter summarizing the changes I made for anyone who wants a quick overview of what went down over the editing process.

Thank you for reading Lost In Translation. I will be back soon!

And in the meantime, while you guys are waiting and I'm planning out how to handle the next book, how about checking out my new project? My second story, Saltworld, has been released! It's a post-apocalyptic litRPG with my own take on a system, so I hope some of you will check it out now that it's released over 30,000 words of content.

If you're interested, I'll be leaving the synopsis down below and a link to the fiction on the author's note!

Saltworld Synopsis:

August 18, 2018. Earth is at peace.

Then the sun explodes, and the world changes forever.

Sen Salazar, a third year in Dubai's renowned Belmont University, is thrust into a world where only monsters are found aplenty. Resources are dwindling, survivors are scarce, and safety is nowhere to be found. And when it's combined with an otherworldy system designed to bring out humanity's hidden potential? Sen's watched enough movies to know what to do:

Survive.

...He just has to figure out how to stop himself from turning into one of the monsters, first.