Hi everybody! I'm 100% positive nobody remembers me, but just in case anyone forgot to forget me, I've risen from the ashes to ask a small favor.

Ever since I parted ways with , I've been working on my own original novel, Welcome to Eva's House. Let me give you the gist... *cue the Professor Layton "The Story So Far Music" music* (Of course I'm still in love with Professor Layton.)

Welcome to Eva's house, where no one leaves quite the same as they arrived...if they leave at all.

Fifth-graders Maxwell Smith and Eva Byrdlime, he a charming athlete and she a bookish misfit, neither have nor want anything to do with one another...that is, until Max's mother pressures him to pay Eva's house a visit and try to befriend her. Amongst the maddness of the house-from the Ferris wheel in the backyard to the obnoxious talking spider to the looming threat of Eva's over-controlling mother who strictly forbids "outsiders"-Maxwell not only grows closer to Eva, but finds himself in a kinship he's never had with anyone. But Eva's house finds a way of drawing dark things out of all who enter it, and a voice in Maxwell's mind telling him to stay is becoming more and more impossible to distinguish from his own thoughts...

Years later, an older Maxwell Smith writes to a young author, AC Lenore, and recounts to her the day that changed his life forever. His flippant demeanor and jarring method of storytelling make it difficult to tell if he's telling the truth or just saying whatever he believes will keep Lenore reading. Did he ever truly make it out of Eva's house, or is he just trying to drag Lenore in with him?

A modern take on the myth of Persephone, Welcome to Eva's House also draws inspiration from Gothic and Romantic classics, such as Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights. It won a Silver Key in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2019.

Yep, I've been busy. Have you ever realized that you love classic Victorian novels but hate reading them? Welcome to Eva's House was written with the idea of capturing all the thrilling ideologies they capture with none of the foreign English. If creepy Alice-in-Wonderlandisms, genderbends of the Gothic formula, unreliable narrators, Evil Neverland, and psychological thrillers are your thing, step right up, baby. I spent four years writing, rewriting, putting it through to mentor figures in the literary field, researching, and getting out of my comfort zone to find people that could help me in a very long and enlightening emotional journey that reached a climax with me meeting Veronica Roth and her saying, "Oh, your teacher told me about you! Didn't you win the..uh… Silver...? Key! Silver Key!" ;) (That was an attempt at ethos. Did it work?) My entire teenage years were lived just for you, so you could have this story.

If you'd like to read this Veronica Roth-approved (sorta) magnum opus of mine, please check it out with this link:

Welcome to House #wattpad my. /mJcWLcbeBY

If you don't want to read it, just the fact that you're reading this means a lot to me. Thanks a lot for braving my thirteen-year-old self and keeping up with me. And I'm glad you're still on the Professor Layton tag!

If you do want to read it, then I'm forever indebted to you. It's a big part of my heart and soul, and I'm glad to share it.

Thanks again for reading this. Have a wonderful day, and I hope to catch you on the other side!

Love, Talexx