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Hey everyone, just checking in with some big announcements!

I mentioned a while back that I have the goal of being a published author.

My current hub is Wattpad.com, Twitter, and Instagram, and my debut novel project “The Hitman’s Guide To Dating your Target” is available for free on Wattpad. 
It’s a m|m romantic science-fantasy thriller. All the details are available here:

www.wattpad.com/user/joellecha…

I’d absolutely love it if you could check it out, leave a vote, or comment! (Comments literally make me melt every time I see them)

Chapters update very frequently and I’ll be keeping in touch with you all through my journey. As a ‘baby author’ I’m still new to everything, trying to grow my platform and share my work with as many people as I can is much harder in the professional writing field.

Since my goal is to submit my current project to the Watty Awards in July, My second novel, which is an inspired adaptation of ‘Ominous, is planned to be released on Wattpad this winter! I hope you all are looking forward to it!

Of course, none of this would be possible if it weren’t for you all here on DeviantArt. Your continued support, reads, and wonderful comments have pulled me out of the dark and helped me find my calling. You have my eternal gratitude and love.

See you through the screen!

~MidnightRainbowFire
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Hey, ya'll! It's been a while. I've been offline for the most part, handing some very important things in my life, my depressive episodes, the challenges that come with being 20 (plot twist: more than I'd anticipated), and most important of all my novels!
As many of you know, I am an aspiring author. My dream is to write and publish my own original novels, and writing fanfics on DeviantArt was just the beginning. I learned so much and experienced immense love and support from this community. Though I've grown and changed over the years since my first fanfics, this place and my watchers hold a very special place in my heart. I'll never erase or forget what I've created on here. Immortals, Free Me, and Ominous have paved the way for me to accomplish my dreams.
Although I'm not currently an active member of the CreepyPasta fandom like I was, I still owe so much to the community, and I want a piece of that to shine through as I continue with my career. A monument to my fanfic family.

A people have been asking about Ominous, understandably so, because its a bit... incomplete. I mentioned a few months back that I wouldn't be taking on any new Creepypasta x Reader projects, and that's still true. I don't like leaving unfinished projects lying around, but there is a very specific reason that Ominous hasn't been updated.
I may have mildly eluded to this in the past but,

I have solid plans to adapt Ominous into a standalone original novel.

What that basically means is: I love the concept of Ominous, the characters and the overall aesthetic is something I still vibe with.
I will be taking key plot and story elements from Ominous and recreating them into an original novel.
Of course, the novel won't be a "CreepyPasta novel" or just a published copy-paste of the current story (People have done this before, but I'm only interested in traditionally publishing original stories)
The novel's title will be different as well, not 'Ominous'
Character names will be changed, and some characterization/backstory will be recreated for the sake of copyright and originality.
The characters inspired by Jeff, Eyeless Jack, and other non-original characters will remain but have different names (Names will have a similar sound to the inspiration character, ex: "Jeff The Killer" is changed to "Jason Keller", "Everett Jackson" is inspired by "Eyeless Jack")
The reader POV is replaced with the 1st person POV of a named female protagonist with her own original backstory.
The romance plot will remain with some notable tweaks to create a healthy relationship between the characters. The captive element is still there, however, Jason (Jeff) plays more of a 'villain with a good heart' role instead of a sinister/psychotic one.

If you've read Ominous, you will most definitely see the references and homages to the original fanfic source. It is intentional on my part. I was excited to place those small easter eggs in the story especially for you guys who have followed the story since the beginning.
So because of this endeavor, I didn't see it productive to update Ominous in its raw, fanfic form, when I'm busy writing its inspired novel counterpart. The narratives would clash awkwardly while I try to distinguish which story elements go to what story, next thing y'know my editor and god forbid, the publishing agency, will see I accidentally called the novel love-interest "Jeff", instead of "Jason", and then also notice that they both oddly have long hair and facial scarification. Hahah...

But don't worry! Ominous will remain on here, I'm not deleting it.

There are a LOT of published, popular novels that were originally fanfictions, or whose authors started as fanfic writers.
So it's not uncommon for fanfictions to be recreated into original novels. Thank god, cause for a good year I thought I was being too ambitious and risky. I'd mentioned before that Ominous was loosely based on Beauty and The Beast, so its kind of an adaptation- of an adaptation. Anyway, I'm excited and want to give this story my all.

The unpublished draft of the story will be posted in updates on Wattpad sometime this year until it is published into a polished physical novel and e-book. These things do take time though, plus, I'm working on my author website, another novel entirely --which is almost finished drafting--, and I have to go through the arduous editing process and hiring beta readers and such for both. They won't be in officially published form this year. But the title and cover art concept will be announced soon! (I haven't decided if 'Free Me' will be adapted into a novel yet)
I will keep you all updated over this process! When things go down, you'll be the first to know! And I'm gonna dedicate the story to you all, my DeviantArt family, on the first inside page of the published book! Because I love you guys!

Thank you all so much for your continued support over the years! My gratitude is beyond measure!

See you through the screen!
    ~MidnightRainbowFire
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Heyo guys! Sorry I've been gone for so long. I've been handling some super important stuff in my life over these past few months (updates on that in a different post coming soon cause what I'm about to say here deserves its own post) After I logged on here I saw something amazing...


SOMEBODY MADE A COMIC/MANGA OF "FREE ME"

A user by the name of DeborahComics has blessed my entire year with their wonderful adaptation of my story.
If you're reading this, thank you so much. Words cannot express my gratitude. You are simply amazing.

Every fanfic writer and author dreams of fanworks and art being created from their stories. This is honestly a dream come true for me and my heart is full of hope for the future of my career as an aspiring author. The amount of love I have been shown from this community is immeasurable. This is such a huge deal to me. I just broke down and cried tears of joy, something I haven't done in a long time.

Check out the comic here, and send them some love!!
(sta.sh is giving me an error with the links, but you can find the comic on their page)


See you through the screen!

  ~MidnightRainbowFire
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Hello everyone! Sorry for not being active, I’ve been making preparations to move houses and its a LOT of work. 
I have some bad news though... someone has once again stolen Immortals and posted it on Quotev without my permission. A big thank you to the lovely user ReedyDanielle for bringing this issue to my attention.

www.quotev.com/story/7607117/I…

If you guys could help me report this it would be a great help! If anyone has further information please let me know!

0fd787ae-6cef-4680-a5d2-b7b736ed5f56 by MidnightRainbowFire

To report this user, please provide a link to the original Immortals story from my gallery so that the administration of Quotev will know that I am the original author. You all have my permission to act on my behalf to report this user.

UPDATE! NEW THEFT!
A DeviantArt user by the name of MidnightRainDolphin (I mean c’mon, MidnightRainbowFire? MidnightRainDolphin? Sure.) Anyway, they have taken Immortals and plagiarized it via paraphrasing. If you make a comparison it’s clearly taken from my story but shuffled around to make it seem like it was original, it’s a poor copy.  I do not know how old this user is, or if they know their actions are wrong. I’m not starting a witchhunt either, but if you could politely, POLITELY, remind this user that taking someone else work and rewording it is still stealing. It would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you buttercup234 for bringing this to much attention.

Ill be be back online soon with new story updates! Thank you so much for your patience!


~Midnight

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Ominous News!

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Chapter 9 of Ominous is currently in the works. Thank you for your patience.
Later chapters will require me to do a bit of research into the U.S. legal system so there may be a slight delay between chapters or new updates. I want this story to be as accurate as possible so I'm not just pulling things out of my ass that don't add up. It won't be 100% true to life, but also not so horribly far-fetched it ruins the immersion of the story.

Also for anyone who was wondering, yes, Ominous is a modern (albeit twisted) adaptation of Beauty and The Beast. I didn't realize it until recently but it gave me further ideas for the story, and yes, this story is one that I will be adapting to novel form for Wattpad eventually (likely with more chapters than the fanfiction version because of changes), and yes, other creepypasta characters will be joining the story quite soon. I'll keep you all posted!

Thanks!
~MidnightRainbowFire
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