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This is Kell again.

Since you were all helpful beyond words (I mean it, seriously. I'm not being sarcastic here) with my previous request, I have one more.

I was able to find a mage who would produce my books, and she won't charge me all of my worldly possessions for it. However, I have encountered two problems.

Problem number one,
I must tell her how many copies I want her to make. Which would be easy to answer if I could just have made as many as fits in the amount of money I have. Thing is, I don't want to spend everything only to end with a box of books sitting under my bed and gathering dust.
I was talking to one of the bookshops, and they asked me how many people I expect to buy it. I had no idea what to tell them. So what do you think?

Problem number two,
I had to take out one of the stories. The reasons behind are quite sensitive and complicated, but I decided not to publish it. Which means I now have four and am one story short of a whole book. Here are the ones that I have:

1. Two werewolves from packs divided by a generational feud try to make things work for them in spite of their families being mortal enemies.

2. A noble lady getting invited to a Fey masquerade ball and meeting a handsome lord in a rose maze who steals her heart. Only that after the ball ends, she still doesn't know who he is and how to find him. She tries nevertheless.

3. A young magical researcher of untold wisdom and beauty, who on one of her research trips gets lost in a dark forest and finds an injured being she thinks to be a minor spirit of nature. The spirit turns out to be an exiled queen of her own realm that fled from her traitorous sister, who gravely injured her.

4. A young prince turned into a frog by a jealous princess who he was supposed to marry but turned down because he did not love her. Saved by a mysterious assassin sent by his own parents, who think their son is dead and the frog-headed monster is terrorizing their country.

Any ideas what should go as the last one? I'm aiming for a consistent theme here, though I'm not sure if I'm getting it through.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kell.

Hey, everybody. My name's Jack, and I think I should probably start this thing out with an apology and a warning.

This is probably going to get long, and I can almost guarantee most of you won't find it interesting at all. To be perfectly transparent, I think it's a pretty safe bet that if you have even the slightest disinterest in reading stories that are completely irrelevant to you, you're going to want to go ahead and magically mute this message. Seriously, this is about to be the definition of 'too long, didn't read'. Sorry for cluttering your heads-up display, I'm not really sure of a better way to make this thing opt-in.

This post is intended for people who are bored, or curious, or maybe just really, really desperate for something to read while sitting on the toilet.

Back home, I used to run a blog. For those of you from worlds that don't have blogs, it's basically like a diary or a journal entry that you post in a public space for strangers to read, and then make really judgmental comments about. I'm not selling the premise very well, but trust me when I say there's something reassuring about putting your story into the public domain. Writers probably get different things out of it, but for me, it's nice to have a sort of "reality check-point". For reasons I won't bore you with, there are times in my life where I question my memories, or the nature of my reality. Having other people in the world who can remember something with me, or who can shed some light on what happened, has literally saved my life once or twice. It was my therapist's idea. Sort of.

The thing is, my blog posts aren't actually about me exactly. They're about the truly bizarre, absolutely balls-out insane things that happen around me, or things that I get to see, whether I like it or not. Usually not.

Lately, it's mostly been the latter.

I think most (if not all) of us have been granted gifts by the singularity. I'm pretty sure mine have just been taking little things that already happened to me back home and amping them up about a thousand times. I've been seeing people's memories. I don't have a lot of control over it, it just sort of... happens. A lot of the time they're boring, inane things. People brushing their teeth, eating, waiting in line, stuff like that. One truly horrific memory of somebody beating somebody else half to death with what looked like a Hitachi magic wand, but I didn't see who exactly that one came from and I think I'm happier not knowing. Those aren't the ones I want to talk about, though.

Today, I want to talk about the ocean.

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