Thank you for reading Murder in Heliopolis!

I hope you enjoyed this solarpunk mystery, and that you’ll keep an eye out for the second part of the story, Devils in the Ruins. Once I have a decent number of chapters written for it, I’ll be sharing it as a new volume, so stay tuned by following this fiction to be notified when a new chapter comes out!

In the meantime, I’d like to thank all of my readers for giving this book a chance and reading it through, and I’d also like to thank all the readers who chipped in in the comments with their thoughts, suggestions, and questions in the comments.

What’s the plan for this story moving forward?

I’ll be doing some revision and edits in the future, so if there’s anything you want to point out, please don’t be shy to drop by the comments and let me know. As I write this, I’ve already started doing the proofreading and editing for the story.

One of the areas I want to focus on will be the solarpunk theme of the story. As the story progresses, you may have found that it starts off jam-packed with solarpunk worldbuilding, but that that decreases with each new chapter. The reason for that was that I was writing this on a day-to-day basis. I had no backlog, and I wrote it specifically for NaNoWriMo / RR Writathon back in Nov/Dec 2021. Now that the story itself has come to a close, I’d like to go back and add some more worldbuilding that fits with the fascinating solarpunk theme of the book.

Why isn’t this fiction marked complete?

You might have noticed that I’ve changed up the organization of this fiction so that it uses volumes! Murder in Heliopolis, was meant to be a standalone written just for Writathon/NaNo 2021, but I’m interested in continuing the story and seeing how I can wrap it up. Since Devils in the Ruins is the next part, I figured it would make more sense to group it together with Murder in Heliopolis using the volumes feature.

When will Devils in the Ruins be released?

I am still plotting Devils in the Ruins and would like to have some kind of backlog before I start sharing it, so it may take some time before the sequel is ready to start being published. In the meantime, I will be editing Murder in Heliopolis whenever I get the chance.

I will also keep updating this fiction with a set of worldbuilding pages – entries that give readers a little more information about various concepts, tech, and ideas in the story (like, for example, the Rinvestigator and the heligoth movement). I hope that you will enjoy these extra bits and pieces!

(If you have any requests, don't hesitate let me know in the comments.)

These entries will probably be shared less often than my usual chapter schedule. Moreover, while I can’t make any promises, I might also share some illustrations (making use of my amateur digital art skillz) now and then.

How many books are going to be in this series?

Originally, Murder in Heliopolis was meant to be a standalone mystery novel. I guess I bit off more than I could chew with the greater PATET & Devils in the Ruins plot line! So, I have begun working on Devils in the Ruins, which is the sequel that will hopefully bring the story to a close.

I want to read more! What are some of your other works?

Take a look at the post-chapter author note, which also includes the links to a range of other works you can find and check out!