One of my favorite fans, Dystop, commented about FDTN and this is what he said:
Hey Michael, I know you’re not currently updating the comic but you should still spread the word about book 1 and the webcomic. Post on some messageboards/forums and create a facebook-fangroup or something. I try to mention it on various sites and such, ofcourse.
Maybe you could post another secret document or something to let people know that FDTN is still very much an ongoing project?
He brings up a good point in that I have been silent awhile. But I thought I would address some things. I have actually been spreading the word about FDTN in a few places and we do have Facebook link on the right —–>>
The disheartening thing is that FDTN just has not had much of any real success as a book or webcomic. It’s a project that I have worked on for four years and it’s fan base is the same size today as it was years ago. Just is what it is. I have promoted it and done what I could to get the word out, but it’s not yielded too much in the results. That may sound unfair all together, but it is the truth and something I have had to spend a lot of time pondering on. I often tell myself that if FDTN was a TV show it would have been canceled the first season. But I make FDTN for myself primarily so I kept working on it. And I plan to continue work on, but I am trying to work on a project I hope will yield stronger results in helping to get a book published.
Time has become more a luxury than a normalcy lately with work and family and there’s just not enough time to juggle the two projects evenly. I want to start updating FDTN real soon, but I have to figure out how I am going to do that and when. Believe me when I say that the second book has me really excited. But so does Kevin and the Light of Destiny and that’s taken the majority of my focus as I am pursuing representation for that book and trying to start a charity around it and getting two issues done in time for my first comic convention next year.
So, I hope that answers some things. I wish I had all of the free time in the world to do this book, but I don’t. I dunno, maybe we just go to one update a month or something… But that feels a bit of a waste when you know how big all of this is going to be.
This is me poking my head in and saying, I’m thinking about all of this and still wanting to get out there with the project. We’ll see when I can though.
