Hello everyone, it’s me, Maw_Worm, the apparent writer of Remark Of Ruin.

First off, wanted to announce that I now have a full time job! While this is generally a really good thing, it also means I’ve had less time to polish this latest chapter, which is currently set to be the penultimate chapter of Book 1 (that may change, but more than anything I want to get this book wrapped up sooner rather than later.)

So, expect the next chapter This Wednesday or Thursday and the final chapter Saturday or Sunday.

The good news is that, now that I have a job that pays well, I don’t have to worry about or treat Remark as a source of income. I’m not gonna be doing a paywall or making any chapters Patreon exclusive, or even running a Patreon anymore. Any side chapters will be freely available to read on my discord. That way this can continue being primarily a creative pursuit first and foremost and not something I’m trying to make money off of.

Which brings us to Book 2.

So I won’t lie, I’ve been second guessing myself a lot lately about Book 1 and whether I jumped the gun in releasing it. I thought I had a good backlog, but I didn’t realize how much of it would end up having to be heavily edited the week of release (some of it was early draft shit I had never taken out, other stuff just kind of sucked to read and didn’t make sense tonally) It is strange to go from writing something that only you and a small group of friends see to something that is public and readable by anyone. I’m still adjusting to it. Weirdly in some ways it’s far more isolating.

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The amount of people on RR I bump into who know and actively read Remark constantly surprises me. But like, as someone who has only written short stories for a niche horror website and weird fiction for herself before this, having a serial people experience chapter by chapter has added a whole new dimension to writing.

That dimension is a constant fear I will lose sight of why I’m writing this and what makes it interesting.

Which is why I don’t want to rush Book 2. Too much of Book 1 became something I wrote by the seat of my pants, and trying to juggle that while also setting up shoutout swaps and getting way too fucking obsessed with metrics was not great. I want to make sure I have beta readers that will catch the typos and errors the first few chapters of Book 1 were plagued with, as well as having more feedback from people who know these characters and the vibe. I already have a full time editor and proofreader who rules and is awesome, but they’re not always available and I don’t want to overburden them.

Basically, I want to write the entirety of Book 2 in this small bubble, fully edited and as close to the finished product as I can get, before I start posting it. To do that, I’m gonna need eyes.

I wanna hear from you (yes, you) specifically. What do you think of this world? Where do you think this is going? What do you like about it? What keeps you reading? What do you hate? Why do you think Tremble is like that? The people who have reached out or written reviews have all been wonderful and it means a lot that you all find something worthwhile here.

I view Remark as a beacon. This book is (at times, shamelessly) filled with my influences and everything I think is cool and/or horrifying. If you’re enjoying it so far, we probably have a lot in common. And if you’re writing something similar you want me to see, by all means please share it! I’ll probably fucking love it!

So, if you want to beta read, or if you just wanna say hi and talk about why 2003 is objectively the best broadcast year for Adult Swim, you can friend me on discord under the name mawiscool (all lowercase, no spaces) hope to hear from you!