Tomorrow, Friday, at noon, the book goes on sale.
There's actually a lot I want to say. After all, I wrapped up the last book in a bit of a hurry. Its results weren't great, but for a Coiling Dragon fanfic, they were decent enough. My editor said I shouldn't have ended it. At the time, I still had 1,400 readers following the latest chapters, and the average subscription count was 2,000. With two more rounds of recommendations, it might even have become a premium title. But I ended it anyway. It just so happened to finish around the Ghost Festival, which fit my pen name pretty well...
Still, finishing the book like that really let my editor down, especially after all the help they'd given me.
But ending it was reasonable enough. The story had always moved at a fast pace, and once the protagonist reached his final level of strength, dragging things out wouldn't have been much fun. So I ended it. And that was that.
There were a lot of things I didn't get to write in the last book, mostly because my writing wasn't good enough, so I cut quite a bit. That's just a personal issue; I won't go into it. If I have time later, I'll write some extra chapters and post them in the group whenever I get around to it.
Next, let me talk about the new book.
Honestly, this book was already struggling right from the start. It got only one round of recommendations before they stopped. My editor suggested I start a new book, since poor results meant the writing wasn't good enough. That was only natural. But I thought I'd keep trying. If it still didn't work, I'd speed things up and finish it in two months. After writing