The Unskillful Thaumaturge

Postface

Hello everyone!

I'm so glad I got the opportunity to share this story with you. I've been working on Unskillful Thaumaturge-related story material for almost two years now, and it's become a crucial part of my writing adventures- a part that I'm very thankful I was able to share. The Unskillful Thaumaturge was essentially the first "real" book I ever wrote, and it seems fitting, years later, that it's finally ended up somewhere besides my Google Drive.

If you liked The Unskillful Thaumaturge, you might want to check out some of my other novels. Onions & Garlic is a full-length novel featuring new detectives Rhiannon and Sylvie as they peel off the layers of an increasingly complicated crime; Headlines & Head Wounds is a short story collection detailing their extensive investigative adventures. This isn't the end of either series, and there'll be plenty more to come for each!

An enormous thank-you to my editor Claudia, who absolutely deserves her own paragraph. Thank you for catching errors and plot holes and clunky sentences and whatever else I dropped while I was writing. If all those awful problems were the online analogue of a heap of crumpled papers in the wastebasket, you're not the garbage truck. You're the recycling. (In other words, thank you, but phrased weirdly, especially for you to fix.)

I'd like to wrap up by thanking some of my supporters. Big thank-you, as always, to my Discord mods V and Biohatzard, and a shout-out to the other authors of the "writing hub": MajaDB, Printiel, Jimcifer, Mikhail, and Mayon, whose work you can find on my reading list. Big thank you to Maja for getting me interested in publishing on Wattpad- I wouldn't be here without you. Congratulations to the many readers who earned sneak peeks after activity on my server: ceiling, SnowHikari, CatBagel, elena, and walrus letter-bearer at the Rolf level; MajaDB, Bush, Conflux, Nyx and Kodek at the Galena level; Holmes, Rock Nerd, and The God of Chaos at the Dakota level; Quicksilver, who made it to Lillian; and the incredible V, Biohatzard, and Maridel, who somehow achieved the incredibly active rank of Ashley. And, last but not least, thank you to everyone else who's supported me on the Discord. You guys are still my entire social life.

If you'd like updates on my other projects, please remember to check my NaNoWriMo page (https://nanowrimo.org/participants/autumnlin). You can also join the Autumn Lin Writing Discord for exclusive sneak peeks, trivia and character information, places to chat about theories and conjectures, and a thriving community. Here's the link: https://discord.gg/JqPU87kxAZ.

Please remember to go back and vote (if you haven't already), and share this story with your friends so I can get more readers! I hope you enjoyed reading The Unskillful Thaumaturge as much as I enjoyed writing it- and rest assured that I won't leave you hanging for too long...

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