User blog:Atarumaster88/Ataru's blog is dead? Nope, Chuck FEsta!

Hope all of you had a Happy and FEstive New Year! Even you, Brandon.

Educational aside, did you know that "festa" is actually a word meaning "a feast, festival, or holiday." ? Me neither, but it fits! The reason this blog has laid dormant for so long is that I was simply preoccupied with a number of things that weren't really newsworthy. It can be argued that they still aren't. However, I'll talk about some of them anyway and deal with the snarky comments below.

For one, I re-released Smuggler and updated a few more of those blasted EGTFE entries at the end of 2012. I'd like to thank my betareader and Brandon Rhea for their help with improving the second Force Exile novel, and if you haven't read it yet, then you have no idea about some of that awful dialogue that used to be there. Let's keep it that way, eh? Since 2012 is gone and we're into 2013, let's talk about the new stuff.

Now, I was supposed to work on more EGTFE entries and I was supposed to start working on rewriting the novel most desperately in need of a rework out of the entire series, Force Exile III. Neither of those have happened recently, because, well, they just weren't as interesting as what I was actually working on. And what is that?

My last novel, the finale to a six-novel series that I can't believe I've spent this much time into. I've been writing Force Exile VI: Prodigal. While I can claim that I actually started writing some of the scenes in 2009 when I was working on FE V, only now am I really working studiously on the novel. It's coming along nicely, to the point where I feel comfortable announcing that some of it will be ready for release in February 2013.

Sometime in February, I will release the first three segments of the novel onto this wiki, along with making the actual novel page look a little better. As for EGTFE, FE III, and the rest of it, I make no promises. My creative energy is pretty focused on completing this book, and I hope you guys are even remotely as excited about it as I am. Just think, the sooner I finish the series, the fewer cheesy blog posts with terrible puns will be posted!

Until next time, I will leave you with this cover image that Solus made for the novel. I'll leave a comment here when the upload starts, so don't be a stranger! Atarumaster88  ( Talk page ) 04:37, January 9, 2013 (UTC)