Yes, once First Run and its sequel are completed.

I looked on your page and saw the first half of First Run, and a spoiler from Weasel Run... but no second half of First Run and nothing aside from the spoiler. :-( Are you still planning on waiting to write some more on this one until they're done? I've been eagerly awaiting the sequel for this since the first time I read it, which has to be at least two or three years ago by now. :p

Sadly, everything was written prior to the Great Disk Crash of Doom. Then, with the frying of a pair of drives from a Silly Hardware Error, the stories were gone with the Zzzzzot! Sadness and gloom will be mine for years to come.

Aww... well, don't worry, we'll share the sadness and gloom. :-( But at least I got to read this, it really is an awesome story.

Had a brand new 2tb drive fail then had the backup fail when I started a restore, FYI never send a drive with a failed controller to "Fields Data Recovery" they attempted to force a software data recovery on a HDD with a bad controller causing physical damage to the platters removing any possibility of any data recovery.

Yay! Decimals! It does have quite a few spelling and grammar errors. The good news is that most people are too engrossed to notice them. Actually, it DID slip out of character before, but that got corrected. Also joked about in a side sketch in comments.

The only downside is that you likely won't find it in a local store. Try Amazon.com.

Glad to hear you liked it!

The book has been out for about three years now. :)

It has some differences, but is primarily the same story in Book Format (you can hold it) and "Support The Author" format. It is different enough that a number of people like the differences.

I've been known to write decently on occasion. :)

In honor of the 5th anniversary of the book, I managed to finagle a price drop on Amazon.com as well. It's no longer available to libraries or schools as a result, however it can now be acquired for $9.99.

A little teaser of things to come? Hmmm...

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Andrew stared at Serina in disbelief.
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There. A little teaser. :)

Don't love it too messily or you might have to buy another one to replace it.
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Actually... Go ahead and love it messily. XD

What? You think I was in any condition to write about the celebration mentioned in this after it happened? O.o

Dark Will was fully written and ready for pretty much everything to go. Then two drives died at once and the backup was bad. T^T

Oh Kit, I had no idea it was all lost. Do you still have the drives? I had to go through Data Recovery ... it was no fun, and fairly expensive, but there were things there that I'm glad I recovered.

That must have been heart-breaking my friend. I don't know what to say, other than I feel terrible that happened, and hope that somehow you may find peace, if no solution, and perhaps the will to carry on this magnificent story, along with so many of your others.

Sorry for all the comments, but you're writing is phenomenal, and I have to say so after each chapter! ;)

Five drive RAID5 array with compressed data. Two of the drives were killed at once (electrical damage) so the other three were recommissioned into a three-drive RAID5 array with a full secure wipe. Then I found out the backup was faulty. So there is 32% of the data, compressed, striped somewhere on two failed drives.

I do intend to re-write the rest of First Run, the e-book Special Edition of Joined, all of Production Run, and all of Dark Will.

Wow Kit, that's very unexpected. One would hope with a RAID5 array that even the need for backups would be superfluous. I'm a bit confused over First Run vs. Production Run. How do they correspond to the stories you have on SF? Might I be missing out on more chapters that are posted elsewhere? Again, very sorry for the data problems, but if it's any consolation, I have tremendous faith in that whatever you come up with, it will be even better. I hope that helps in some small way!

Never trust one method alone. RAID5 alone is great until, say, the controller harfs and writes bad data to everything, or, as in my case, two drives are destroyed at once.

First Run is the title of a different novel series' first book. Production Run is the second book. Production Run was completely lost and a good chunk of First Run was lost.

But yeah, you seem to have missed First Run: http://www.sofurry.com/view/73425
Weasel Run is an author-written fan-fic of First Run munged together with Girl Genius' author-written filler bunny, but is based in the First Run universe.

Ah! Found it and read it this afternoon. Another goodie! :) ... Seems there are some similar themes throughout your stories, but all very different and equally delightful! :D

Somewhere, a Dark Kitsune who has it in for a certain author gained two tails.

The biggest problem is the loss of the world bible. For this story universe, it was exceptionally complex and I need to rebuild the lore and not break what I have created.

Then it's a matter of finding the time in life to do it.
Two references to enjoy regarding time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOksW_NabEk

I understand completely, you created something amazing and attempting to revisit it won't be something you could ever take lightly. I'm sure it's something that you have considered at times as well and given that it's been twelve years since you published the final chapter I imagine that it's something you've determined is unlikely ever to be.

That all said, I'm sure you have a life outside of writing as well that has undoubtedly changed in such an extensive time, and as that jellybean life points out, sadly little time to spend on the things you enjoy. While still I hope at some point you do decide to revisit this universe, I recognize that this is quite likely something that is now behind you and we have to be content with the conclusion to the original work that you have provided us with. Thank you.

About 6-8 years ago I had two hard drives fail simultaneously and the backup was faulty as well. That destroyed two and a half books worth of First Run and its successors, as well as the sequel to Joined and about 790,000 words of short stories. Five years of writing and two world bibles, over a million words (which is over 10 novel-length books) completely gone.

Now I have full time work and enough haters that I don't enable voting on new stories. Recent cancer removal. Supporting my family. All the things. I really want to write. Lack of time and lack of inspiration and support make that less likely to happen. T^T

I've considered dabbling in writing commissions in the meantime, but the "going rates" in the fandom are less than minimum wage and normal rates for written work in the industry are unpalatable to fans. There is even a lack of creator nummies lately (which for most creators are in the form of substantive positive comments from folks who are positive about the work, but patronage is also an excellent motivator). My patronage is currently in a state where a high quality story gets me under $5 per hour for the writing, and with my current day job salary and work load, it's not productive to try to write a lot to try to jump start patronage.

So I'm hoping to get the drive and inspiration back. It's not abandoned, just very, very late.

After reading through Mind and Body again today I pieced together what had happened with your data from your various comments over the years. That's a terrible thing to experience. I've had data loss before and done the same as you and relied on a backup prior to finding out it too was faulty and as a result lost photos that will now never be recovered, but on a far smaller scale than what you experienced.

I know the internet is a cesspool of people who like to shit on others' abilities for no reason aside from entertainment and jealousy, but you write the highest quality fiction that I've ever seen from any fandom author. Try not to let them under your skin. I am unaware of how the voting system works on SF, do you see disabling votes as a way to help your work be seen?

Commissions are a way to make money off of your writing, but you may find if you haven't already, that it could feel difficult to be as personally interested if you feel like you're being forced to write a piece. (maybe that's just me though). I saw in your journals that you have a per-piece Patreon set up but I don't see it mentioned anywhere on your profile (unless I'm blind), it may help your income generation if people are able to locate it easier and pitch in and few bucks. It may not be a lot, but everything helps I'm sure!

I'll be honest, I haven't read a lot of your work aside from Mind and Body, but I did over the course of today and I'm equally impressed with the others that I've read. There's something to be said for having clear progression, well thought out scenes, in character dialogue, tastefully placed sex scenes that serve as more of a bonus to an already amazing story-line, and plenty of imagery to induce immersion but not to the point where it distracts from the story.

I was extremely happy to read that you appear to be making a full recovery from your cancer scare, it's incredible that we've gone from cancer effectively being treated as a death sentence to having so many forms curable in recent years.

The jump of surprise when accidentally putting a PATA rive into a SATA hotbay as the PSU popped and died. The frantic diagnosing and repairs. The sinking feeling as two drives showed up dead on the array. The relief at the backup drive being in good shape and growing relief as array initialization processed successfully and the backup restored without a hiccup. The worry when the user profile was broken, but that's fixable... right? The rising sense of dread when the user profile directory was completely empty, no hide nor hair of the writing. The sweating as I reviewed the backup logs and found the culprit. The racing mind putting the facts together. And the shattering realization when I came to the conclusion that I was utterly fucked.

*Sheds a tear* It still hurts to recall the incident. ... Notably I lost a few tens of thousands of photos too, but those were not nearly as important.

Perhaps, to a degree. The votes are the 1-5 stars thing. While it's nice to have the majority of my work be at five stars, that hasn't stopped rating-bombers from making concerted efforts to kill that. It's a fuzzy feeling for me, but honestly the rating system is not a good indication of quality on this site. It's been historically possible to find typo-laden walls of text rated five stars for example. Getting exposure is achieved via Faves, especially within 48 hours of posting. While there are many folks who would click stars but never fave or comment even if there are no stars to click on, the lack of stars to click entices a few extra potential faves and also requires comments to give feedback rather than unhelpful star-clicking.

There's never any issue about being forced for commissions. If I don't think I can do it justice, I don't take the commission. I'm a legal business in that aspect after all. There is more of an issue in the fact that the "perceived fair rate" for written commissions is something along the lines of $2-5 per thousand words, with some relatively good authors charging as much as $15-25 per thousand words, often with volume discounts (less cost per thousand at higher word counts). The largest of those examples puts that at 2.5 cents per word. To put that into perspective, when the writer is not blind-submitting material and has no royalties expected, the standard rates for work expected to be published (for profit for the buyer of the work) start at ten cents per word and average around 35 cents per word, and for personal use only runs around five to ten cents per word. So in the writing world as a whole, royalty-free paid fiction writers generally expect to make $50-100 per thousand words, not the $2-10 that furry written work commissioners expect to pay.

On the line of Patreon, you're correct. If it's not easy to find, nobody will sign up. Mind you, even if it is easy to find, people might not sign up. Currently the primary location for the Patreon links are the footers at the bottom of most stories. Like the light blue one at the bottom of this one and the fancy grey ones at the bottom of newer stories. It could do with more exposure. Not full frontal though, as I don't want to be annoyingly in peoples' faces with it. I detest ads and I know others do too. The Patreon is currently in "One charge only, and only on months that Something Happened" mode, which is a manual thing on my part. The downside is that I am unwilling to withhold things from non-patrons and the logistics behind (and side effects of) early release for patrons means there are very few reward options for me to provide.

Welcome to joining the world beyond "Joined". The combined universe stuff has a lot of stuff woven into it (pun intended and clear if you have read that much) and there are numerous extra stories as well. I've always been curious about what leads people to read only "Joined" or one or two stories in general and not peruse the rest of my work. Perhaps you can provide insight into that. ^.^

This was a slow-moving skin cancer in what would be considered very early stage. Cut out the broken piece and as long as it didn't get anywhere else, it's fine.

That's actually terrible that the hardware didn't have some kind of protection in place for such a simple user error.

I see what you mean about no stars encouraging meaningful comment on your work, when you put it that way it makes a lot of sense, actually sounds like a really good move as generally trolls don't feel like putting in the effort beyond the single click.

I'm glad to hear that you ensure you only take work that you enjoy and appreciate, I feel like a lot of people get caught up in 'I need to monetize this and give people what they want' and only end up feeling stressed and underperforming as a result. It's also sad that most people refuse to recognize the value of an author's time just because they think 'it's just fandom work'.

I'll be honest, I never saw that Patreon links in the footers, perhaps something about the contrast, but maybe it could be that I'm just unobservative and didn't really read them in the first place. I don't think too many people would be bothered if you threw a little 'If you feel like supporting me to help bring you more stories here's my Patreon link' at the bottom of your profile, in the end it's very unobstrusive and at least people will be more likely to see it if they're genuinely interested in your work. If they don't care they'll just read one story and leave, never to be bothered by your little bit of promotion. If they do care about reading more of your work then there's a likelyhood that they may be interested in pitching in coffee money to help you bring them more content like they love to see and that visible link on your profile may encourage them, or even let them know that you have that option available to them.

Why did I, four years ago when I first found your work, only read 'Joined' and not your other work? Well, I think in my case it was a mentality that a lot of fandom authors have one good piece and that's about it, so I tended to just read something that caught my eye and move on with life. another factor was often that I was seeking out a very specific genre and didn't like taking risks. Your writing however was something that I remembered even after not really visiting this site for years, and so I had to seek it out again. I was once again sad when it ended but I had a different mentality about it. This time I did decide to visit your other works and honestly it's made me feel less like I MUST ONLY see more 'Joined', and simply that I really want to see more of your writing (but don't get me wrong, I'd still love to see you continue 'Joined'). None of your works feel quite the same, but there's always a high level of care put into every one as I've described previously. And you're clearly aware of that considering that you do not want to continue a series until you have a 'world bible' in place that sets boundaries and connections where they're needed and provide you guidance on what can be written to ensure it's all 'canon' (for lack of a better word).

Chances are a lot of people see it the same way I used to, they stumble upon 'Joined', read it, see that there isn't a continuance and leave, sadly not really caring who the author is. Would a sequel perhaps keep those people around? Maybe, maybe it would help them become even more familiar with how you write and want more stories in other universes, but it's more likely that they'd still dip afterwards.

I hope that as I explore more of your stories in the combined universe I can notice the little connections that you've 'woven' into them (a pun that I actually don't think I caught unless you're referring to The Ring's footnote perhaps?).

I'm glad to hear it was relatively minor and you're recovering.

Well, of course the hardware has protection against simple user error. It's not trivial to hook up a hot bay. So at that point, it's guaranteed that a PATA drive into the bay would be an advanced user error.

Mind you, most artists have a difficult time being paid appropriately as well, but written work has it worse. You can see the quality of art at a glance. It takes a lot more investment of time to see the quality of words. There has also been a slow push toward higher pay for art, which helps everybody who creates it. Much less of a case for prose. It's also not just a fandom thing to not understand the value of writing.

I'll need to add putting a Patreon link on my profile to my list of things to do, which also includes creating an "Index Page" of my stories.

I'll also have to figure out a good way of encouraging people to read more of my stuff, I suppose. The footer tries to make that a touch easier, but I also need to re-sort my stories and update the "Next" stuff in the footers. As for the world bible... it was weeks of work to calculate FTL travel speeds and logistics. T^T

Hmmmm... For the combined universe, you're going to understand the weaving better when you find out about Tails of Power stuff. I really need to get the chronological index done. O.O

Oh it is advanced error for certain, but you'd still think there might be electrical failsafes in place, fuses and the like.

This is true, there are so many writers in 'mainstream' fields that struggle to afford to put the time into it, let alone what is admittedly a fandom niche.

I just read the Tails of Power, there's a lot going on there. Is it also something that you're considering or planning to continue or is it more of a collection of explanations as to how this is all pieced together?

Lore wise, is the talk of life threads, tapestries, and energies connected to psionic energy?

Also I apologize for seemly creating more questions than answers when it comes to encouraging readers. Keep in mind you have over 1100 people watching you and your most recently published piece 'The Ring' has nearly double that in views in only four months. Unfortunately I don't think SF provides the tools to know statistics on who clicks off, who stays to read, and who looks at additional pieces, but your numbers are hardly insignificant as it is! I don't want to come off as discouraging either, because you've made a name for yourself here and judging by some of the people who I see as repetitive commenters on your works, some people follow you very closely.

Being able to say you actually published a physical copy of your work is nothing to sneer at either, that's something many 'mainstream' (I hate the term, but I use it to mean 'appealing to a 'normie' audience', again for lack of a better term) authors will never be able to brag.

Protection takes effect as a result of an overload, not before it. It only takes milliseconds of failure to kill equipment.

Tails of Power is episodic rather than serial for the most part, though the first three stories are more serial. So yes, it can have more things. It's part of the combined universe though, so you'll see ToP stuff in a lot of other stories.

Joined and its universe is 100% separate from the combined universe. There is the CU, then a number of other standalones in my stuff. Joined stands alone. First Run stands alone. Others do too.

The folders also ensure that stories end up out of post time order. A story in a series may be posted, then a different series or standlone, then back to the first series. Account Swap has a story more recent than "The Ring", but the first story in the folder is much older. This is why the index is so important.

Ah, that makes a lot more sense then as to why bringing back Joined would be such a chore. As an independent universe, there's so much unique content and many rules that you'd need to reset back in place, and hopefully feel good enough about them when it was all said and done.

I understand what you mean then by a need for an index, it would help by distinguishing separate universes and showing the chronological order that they came to be.