Afterword

Afterword

 

NICE TO MEET YOU ALL. To those of you who have read my novel online, nice to see you in print—my name is Shoji Goji. As an ultra-amateur author, I gave into temptation and tried writing a book without even knowing what an ellipsis was…which turned out to be important. At first, I thought this was all a scam, but then my editor talked to me over the phone, and I actually grinned with self-satisfaction?! I wrote way too many pages, and my editor tried to tempt me by saying, “Since nobody knows who you are, readers would much prefer an illustrated message by booota-sama.” I went ahead and did this anyway, but I’m definitely not going to push things any further. As an amateur who had never written anything like a novel before, I was super grateful to have an ultra-famous artist like booota-sama make wonderful drawings and agree to so many unreasonable demands (from my editor, of course!) To those who met the most unfortunate fate of having to edit over 500,000 characters (any problems were obviously my editor’s fault, you see), and to everyone at OVL Publishing who went through with publishing my novel in spite of everyone that advised them against it (you guys worked your butts off), thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I started writing this with the assumption that no one would ever read it. It’s only thanks to everyone who read my work online that it became a real book, so thank you for joining me on this journey.

Along the same vein, I went on countless digressions in writing this book, so if you enjoy it, it would bring me no small amount of joy if you kept reading my work.