Many thanks to everyone who has read, reviewed, favorited, or followed Past Imperfect and its sequel Present Imperfect, which are complete. I've just published the third and final installment of this time turning trilogy, Future Imperfect.

I initially started writing Past Imperfect because I wasn't working on my novel and hoped that having reviews to spur me along would get me back in the swing of daily writing again. Did it ever! I nearly did NaNoWriMo with this story, writing more than 40,000 words in less than a month, and the momentum carried over to my original fiction. Happily, I am now finished with the first draft of the novel I had stalled out on before starting to write here.

One unexpected reward that came from writing Past Imperfect was making two writer friends who started as beta readers on this site (they read mine and I read theirs) but have since become critique partners for our original fiction as well. Both turtlewexler and Fragilereality are wonderful writers and their stories will not disappoint.

Thank you to all who share your writing here, both those whose writing is already polished and lovely, and those who are just beginning the writer's journey and using this site to hone their craft.

For anyone who has been discouraged by negative reviews here, I have a suggestion: read the one star Amazon reviews of a novel you loved. Every work of fiction, no matter how marvelous, is going to have a few malcontented souls throwing rocks at the author. So carry on and keep writing!