User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Behold the cover!/@comment-24234841-20170623132419/@comment-24234841-20170623180659

I've been acknowledged? Well, damn, thank you.

My time this year has been primarily taken up by getting a driver's license, job, school, the like. I have a lot of freetime this summer, and I've been trying to read more and work on the first draft of my novel. I just hit 60k a few days ago, which is more words than I've ever written about anything, and I only started writing at the beginning of the month. Regardless, I'm excited to be finished so I can take a break from it for a while.

I wrote a short story a few months ago that I sent to one of those national teen literary magazines, and they sent me an email back at the end of the school year saying they were considering it as an alternate if they have more page room, which is kind of exciting. I should be hearing back from them in a few days.

Because I've been writing so much, though, I've been trying to avoid social media, and I can see now that I got your invite. So while I'm banging my head against a fucking wall, I'd like to apologize for missing your party. I'll preorder the book ASAP. I'm hyped as hell to read it.