So I commissioned a relatively large project that fans of Magic of the Heart might like to see.

In Hocus Pocus and Magic of the Heart, many different fields of magic were discussed in detail at Celestia's Academy for Gifted Unicorns, and each one was attributed to one of the Zodiac signs. There were also enough unicorn characters that every field of magic had (at least) one character that was especially good with it.

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THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MAGIC OF THE HEART. DON'T READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE BOOK.

It's been about a week now since I posted the conclusion of Magic of the Heart, so today I thought I'd do something fun and give you a window into some of the behind-the-scenes development that went into writing a novel of that length and detail, as well as some fun facts about the characters you might not have realized based on the story alone.

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Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I wrote a little something over on deviantArt called "Shipping and Handling", that was later migrated to fimfiction by popular request.

Now it's 2021, and the tale I set out to tell ten years ago has come to a close, and its story-universe and readerbase have both grown bigger than I ever expected.

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I'm moving the release dates of the final chapter and epilogue up, slightly.

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If you've been reading "Magic of the Heart", it's the moment you've all been waiting for.

On the recent blog post I made, I received unanimous votes to release the finale and the epilogue separately, so that's what I'm going to do.

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At the time of this post, the final chapter of Magic of the Heart is 75% written.

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The next chapter I'll be publishing is not only the end of my latest novel. It's the end of the whole trilogy. The trilogy I started in 2011.
There may be additional short stories set in this universe featuring some of its characters, but this is definitely the last novel in this chronology.

Because of this, I'm making sure that every single important character's story is adequately concluded in the upcoming release. And as I'm working more and more on that, I'm realizing something.

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The New Year is almost here. Here's hoping 2021 turns out at least a little better than 2020 has.

So picture this: It's New Year's Day. Some of you may have stayed up late, to celebrate at midnight. Many of you will have off from work or school. Maybe you'll be looking for something to pass the time while you relax on that first morning of the new year.

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Hey guys.

I know it's been a long delay, but I've finally got a release date for the next chapter.

Chapter 18 of "Magic of the Heart" is coming a week from today! That's Sunday, November 22nd, in case you're not reading this post right away.

Thanks for your patience and stay tuned as we dive into the story's finale!

~PRB

This is sort of both a progress report and a chance to ramble about some of the ups and downs of writing fanfics.

Right now, I've got three chapters left to publish in my latest novel, Magic of the Heart. It's been a month now since I last posted a chapter, and to be brutally honest, it's probably going to be at least a month more before the next one reaches the public eye.

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We're starting to approach the end of the novel I've been writing for the last year or so.
And I'm running into the same sort of thing that seems to happen with every novel I write: the closer I get to the end of the book, the longer the chapters seem to get.

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Time for a little update on the status of the novel.

After consulting with my editors, who have had a chance to see further ahead in "Magic of the Heart" than the regular readers have, I've decided to make a change to the tags, just to make sure I'm covering all my bases.

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So, I figured I was going to have to do this.

The gap between the latest chapter of Magic of the Heart and the release of the next one is a little longer than usual. The good news is, as of now I can give a date for the next chapter release. It's July 18th, one month from today.

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The draft of "Magic of the Heart" is falling considerably behind schedule.

Reasons for this include, but are not limited to:
-I work an essential job, which is getting progressively more insane as this virus crisis goes on.
-I've had less motivation to write the last few weeks compared to recent months, probably because of crisis-related stress.

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To be fair, I have already mentioned several times that this was going to happen eventually.

For the last seven months or so, I've been managing to keep my latest novel on a consistent release schedule. I've published 11 of the 20 chapters on that schedule. More than half! That's not bad.

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For the last six months, I've been slowly posting Magic of the Heart, the final installment of the trilogy that began with Shipping and Handling.

A new chapter was released two days ago. With the release of Chapter 10, the story is now halfway done!
For those of you who are following along, what do you think? I hope most of you will be sticking around for the second half.

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Hey everypony,

In the last four months, I've released the first seven chapters (nearly 100,000 words!) of my latest novel, Magic of the Heart. I hope those of you who have chosen to follow along are enjoying it so far!

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Last week, I made a blog post giving people a chance to submit a unicorn OC to make a small appearance in "Magic of the Heart". I received ten entries from my readers, and assigned each one a number based on the order they commented.

Then, I ran a random number generator set to select a number in that range, and the number it gave me was 2.

That means the second submission I received is the winner, which was:

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Let's do something fun!

I need an incidental unicorn for a certain upcoming scene in my currently ongoing novel, "Magic of the Heart." This character will only appear in a single scene, and will not have any real influence on the overall plot. I could make up some throwaway OC for the role, but I thought maybe I'd do a little raffle thing instead.

This character is going to be a student at Celestia's Academy for Gifted Unicorns, which means two things:
-They need to be a unicorn.

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So, as a bunch of you have noticed by now, Magic of the Heart, the final installment of the Shipping and Handling trilogy, has begun. So far there's a prologue and two chapters available to read.

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