So, yeah. Also, the introduction blog's been updated, which I normally wouldn't bother to mention but... well, I kind of noticed something as I was writing it and...

Well, I'm not going to say I'm a bloviating windbag, but... the summary for issue #6 is longer than 53% of the stories on this site. Also, I'm a bloviating windbag.

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So, I've had the next Iota Force story written for a long, long time now, but haven't been able to get it edited yet. And, well, it seems like my previous editor isn't really likely to be able to do so in the future. Completely understandable, of course - much as I love writing kid-pony-superhero stories, I can't exactly claim they're important enough to warrant disrupting a busy life, plus this next one's big even by my ridiculously long-winded standards - but pretty inconvenient.

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So, first things first: the sixth Iota Force story's getting released:

EThe Crystal Caves of Confuzzlation (Iota Force Issue #6)

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure

Iota Force descend deep beneath the Crystal Empire and must find a way to escape, fight through a gauntlet of traps - illusory, deadly and both - to bring their captor to justice. There's no backup down there - they're all alone. Or are they?

• OC
• Other
• Crystal Ponies

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However, rather than my previous habit of just saying so, joking about the awkwardness of doing so and passive-aggressively indicating how I think there should be notifications when a story gets a sequel, I thought I'd try something a bit different: a recommendation for something outside the Ponysphere.

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Yeah.

So, good news: I've finished the first draft of the sixth Iota Force story, meaning I can start getting the fifth ready for publication (I'm hoping to always be at least one story ahead of publication to both give me a buffer and so I can have a bit of distance between writing and editing a story, so i can look at it a bit more objectively).

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So... yeah. It's up.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455882/skitter-scurry-and-screech-iota-force-issue-4

*Awkward silence*

Okay then.

So, since I started publishing the Iota Force series, I've been worrying about the prospect of continuity lockout. After all, I'm hoping to make this a very long series (key word: hoping) and all the stories so far have been relatively long, something I don't see changing that much. I mean, they won't ever be Diaries of a Madman or The Chase length, but still long enough that expecting readers to be able to read through the entire series before starting on the latest story

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Since, as I observed previously, bookshelves on this site don't have an option to make them notify you when a story gets a sequel, this is to announce the release of the third Iota Force story.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/442602/iota-force-issue-3-the-treachery-of-images

So... yeah. It exists. If you want to read it, you can and if you don't, I'm sorry to bother you.

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So, here's a question: why is it that the site notifies you when a story on your favourites list has a blog post related to it, but not when it gets a sequel? That feels like something it'd be worth notifying you about. Or at least giving your the option to be notified about it.

Anyway, the second story featuring Iota Force is up. So... that's a thing you might be interested in. I think it's pretty fun, but then I am a little biased, so... yeah.

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Huh.

You know, I never really thought that this would be my first ever blog post. Nor, indeed, that I would ever have reason to make one until my stories got popular (so, probably round about the heat death of the universe, though that may be a little optimistic).

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