So one of the people who had bought a copy of Without a Hive had a printing issue where some of the words were randomly made italic. It was a problem that had cropped up before, but I had thought fixed. Apparently, this wasn't the case. It seems that the books weren't printing consistently, despite using the same PDF. Most seem to have printed just fine, but some (I'm only aware of one, though there might be more) had random italics throughout. I've been in contact with Lulu support, who

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(Or Golden Oaks Bookstore, as it's now known)

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This makes me so ridiculously happy:

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So I had some fun new this week. The Royal Canterlot Library reviewed Without a Hive! Reading it just made me so happy. The stories I've made here have been a fun hobby project, but there's something so rewarding in finding out that others have enjoyed it so much. It makes me feel like I'm doing something right.

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Before I started writing Without a Hive, I spent a lot of time in planning, thinking out what I would do. One of the first elements that came to mind was how Nictis's time as Meadow Song (Whose name I hadn't even come up with yet) would eventually end, and how. The scene in the alley, when the truth finally comes out, was the first scene I had fully worked out, and it made me think on the aftermath. Nictis would be hiding among ponies, the life he'd built up over so long having been

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So I was looking through the stats on Without a Hive for a completely unrelated reason, and happened to notice that the "Referral" graph was a lot more cluttered than it had been before. So I look through the list of referral links, and the text of one of the addresses caught my attention. So I go to look.

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