Probably you guys saw this coming, and I apologize that I've been absent for so long. I've been doing a lot of introspection and some hard thinking, and I've come to the following conclusions:

  While I've loved writing Dungeon Man Sam, I think I made some critical mistakes both in the storytelling and in the way I released it out into the wild that are making it extremely difficult for me to continue writing it right now, both from a craft perspective and from a business perspective. And so I need to put this series aside for a while. Several months at least.

  This isn't the end for Sam. I am absolutely going to come back and finish this story, because I think it deserves to be finished (and I can't just leave it on the cliffhangers that I did, that would suck hard). But I need to put it on pause while I focus on building myself as a professional author instead of the 'just playing around with it' author that I've been to this point.

  You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

  And again, I both thank you guys for reading, and I apologize that it's come to this point. It's a hard decision for me to make, but at the end of the day I think this is what needs to happen to get me where I need to be as an author.

  But this doesn't mean that I'm stopping writing. I've already got another series in the works, one that I plan to start posting in a few months as soon as book 1 is finished. And this one I'll be writing with all the lessons I learned from Sam in the front of my mind, so I'm expecting it to work out much, much better on all fronts.

  Thanks for coming along, and I'll see y'all when I start back up again. I'll send another post here when I start posting the next story, just in case you guys are interested.

  See you in the funny papers

  -Ben