I hate to do this. Life circumstances have made it really difficult to finish this story to the quality it needs to achieve. Each chapter takes me anywhere from 10-12 hours a week for me to complete, and that is generally what the lion's share of my free time is spent on.

  This month specifically, I decided that it is is time for a career change. My wife and I are expecting our first child, and being a high school teacher doesn't cut it in today's economy. I have a lot of prereqs to go ahead and do something different, and I am taking several online classes to fill in the rest of the gaps. For the month of March, I am going to be jamming out an entire online class, and the time I typically use for Anglers and Amberkin, I need to spend on this online class. However, by the month of April, that class will be done and dusted and we can continue on with our regularly scheduled programming.

  Stolen novel; please report.

  I have spent too much time writing and planning this story to let it fall by the wayside, and you can rest assured that when the month of March ends, you'll have some polished chapters ready to go. I would imagine that we will end up going to Chapter 21 or 22 for the first book in this series, and I have every intention for there to be a sequel to Derek's journey. It feels bad to take this pause, but I genuinely don't think I can finish it without the quality taking a nosedive.

  I understand how disappointing this is, but I still have big plans for the end, as well as Book 2.

  P.S. The title of Book 2 is Beholders and Bureaucrats. I have a majority of that book planned out, and if it is possible. For what it is worth, I am even more excited for that book to get going than I was for Anglers, and Anglers is my favorite story I have ever written.