It has been an honor, a challenge and an opportunity to learn for me this past contest. Unfortunately, I have to cut off the campaign here, with 45 days ahead of us. I do not think I am ready to publish this tale for multiple reasons and I wanted to tell every one of you exactly why.

First off, life gets in the way. I know it will happen. All the time. But for the past months now, I have not been able to make any major progress on the book, let alone the series. And right now, a new chapter of my life is about to start, in 10 days exactly and until I get situated with the changes, I will have to postpone the book as well as a few of my other projects. By the time I can return, the campaign will have most likely run out. So I prefer pull back now and being frank about it rather than let it die out and not being honest with you all.

Next, at the point I am now, I don’t think publishing REB1RTH now would give it justice. The tale in itself is still a bit too young to my liking. Since day 5 of the contest, I started wondering if I should pull out of the contest but I decided to do as much as I could before the end of the contest and act then. But here we are and my thoughts have not changed.

What will happen with the book you ask? The book (and myself) are returning to the benches. I have a lot to learn to make this series the best it can be and I intend to make it through at some point. Here’s how the next few months will go for me, book wise.

Late July - Mid/Late August

 Getting my foot in my new situation. Things will be changing a lot for a while. Until then, I will be putting every creative project on hiatus.

 Mid/Late August - Late September

 The Hiatus is lifted. Work starts again on my projects. REB1RTH is continued (hopefully the initial draft is completed before the next step.)

October

 The National Novel Writing Month creeps in and I start gathering my stuff for it. Depending on the situation, I might take a small breather from creative during October or focus on other creative projects for the time being as November will be filled with writing.

November

 NaNoWriMo starts and ends that month. Whether I am starting the draft of the second book of the Stratos Saga or another book (nicknamed Bloodblossom) will depend on the state of REB1RTH and how I feel about the setting of the second tome.

Start of December - January

 Depending on what I started in November, I might be going for an Encore, completing the draft of the book of November or returning to REB1RTH for the first major run-through.

During all these steps, I will try my hardest to come by to you guys once in a while for an update. The page might had reverted to a Draft, but in my heart, it will still be on the doorstep, waiting for the door to open in front of it.

That is all I have for you guys today. Until the next time I update this page, please keep an eye out for the book and I will see you all next update.