It’s been a long night, roughly about 10 hours. But this 10 hours has been a new beginning of something much greater. Having to go through and design the website and having to put down everyone’s information… it’s been eye opening a bit. We have been working towards before more unmasked (separating individuals and not covering our personalities to mask as Ash – the body’s name and main alter). This project was something that I have been chomping at the bit to begin but had to get things in line first.

Seeing it all laid out and everything written… it’s tad surreal. This is the most overt we have ever been because we never wanted to make anyone uncomfortable. But in the journey of beginning new with pen names for our genres, there has been such an outpouring of support. We’ve had numerous people engage with us and our content, showing curiosity and a desire to learn more.

I wanted to get this done for us because there have been multiple points in time that one of the writers just wants to do something quick writing or just fun and then is like “where do I post?”. Now we created and A03 for the system… but it feels weird to put original works on there. Now we have a place of our own again. This time, I think that we will be keeping the website and the writings.

Going to the Sinners & Stardust changed everything. It made everything related to publishing and writing feel real again. Attainable… and most importantly: people were so excited for the small booklets we made as ARCs for Viktora pen name that we will debut.

It’s a long journey ahead… but I was able to make my mark by creating all of this for us. That makes me happier than anything.

— Serena