It's been a while, hasn't it? I finished writing Frameshift a year and a half ago. I went on to write a now-completed web serial, Quill & Still, which is intensely civics-focused and much less of an ongoing puzzle for the reader while still expecting, and rewarding, a close read. The first book of that web serial, out of two now written, just went up on .

  You might notice that my name has changed on here! That's right, I am now here as Aaron "Pastafarian" Sofaer. I figure, you know, I care more about having my name on the spine of my novel when it's on my bookshelf than I care about my anonymity.

  BUT ANYWAY.

  I have called you all here to let you know that if Quill & Still Book One hits one hundred ratings on Amazon, I will write a bonus Frameshift chapter!

  No matter how well or how poorly Q&S does, my next project is editing and publishing Book Two of it for a 2024 release. However, good news for you all! I have already begun the work to edit Frameshift Book One, and barring major surprises it will be published in 2025 at the latest... or even 2024, if I can justify spending enough time on it. And that justification means money. And the easiest way to enable that is to give Q&S a read on Amazon, or at least rate and review it.

  The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

  You can also review it on Goodreads, and engage with / boost my promotional efforts on Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, and probably Facebook... but the single most impactful thing you can do, by a large margin, is to rate and review on Amazon.

  It's been very exciting and I'm very excited. Come help me make this a success so that I can do to Frameshift what I did to Quill & Still—multiple rounds of dev and line editing, so as to turn it into the best form of itself as a story.

  Anyway, as a parting gift, here's the cover art to Quill & Still. Art by Mattias "Baconstrap".

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