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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Time for my biyearly blog update. I wish this update was a bit happier, instead of vaguely about some chaos. Story related chaos, but chaos nonetheless. Please Contact Your Administrator is not going to show up on a podcast in 2026. I don't think there's much that I can say about the matter, except that it was my decision to pull it. There were some shady practices by the podcast that I wanted no part of.

The whole experience with Please Contact Your Administrator has sort of put me off most free markets. It's not the first free market that I've seen shady stuff in, but it is the first that I've had to deal with firsthand. When going through submission grinder, it is difficult to find a free market that isn't incredibly niche or doesn't have something wonky and/or shady going on with it. I don't know if I want to engage with most free markets going forward.

This gives me two choices on how to proceed with my writing. One option is that I post it all here. Any exposure I get would be through my social media, but everything would be under my control. Another option is that I wait. Currently, I cannot get paid for my writing due to UK visa rules, however I've got just over a year left on my current visa. I don't know where I'll be when that time is up, but I can hope that my circumstances will be different. If I wait, I might be able to submit to paying markets instead.

Regarding stuff I'm working on, or at least attempting to work on, I'm still plugging away at draft 2 of an urban fantasy novella, though I think it might be stretching away into novel territory. It's fun to work on at least. I'll be also going back to editing that silly scifi short story as well as that longer not so silly scifi short-ish story soon. Then I hope to write something new.

And that's it for now. Next update will probably be in the new year.