The Budding Metalinguist

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Hello everyone!

I can't believe it's been quite this long... The Anomaly Chronicles was an extensive writing project for quite a long time, and it's become a crucial part of my writing adventures- a part that I'm very thankful I was able to share. I never thought I'd share this book with anyone, but it seems to have outvoted me. Thanks for your support.

If you liked The Budding Metalinguist, 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! Plus, I'm also working on a short story collection, Timepieces, with a style of writing I don't often exhibit anywhere else. I'd highly recommend.

Next, I'd like to smack my editor Claudia in the face with an enormous thank-you. While she'd probably respond by asking me to take the hyphen out, I wouldn't be able to do much other than hug her. She's the one responsible for pulling out all the errors, plot holes, and clunky writing that you didn't see while reading this. Her help is much appreciated.

Finally, I'd like to wrap up by thanking some of my supporters. Big thank-you, as always, to my Discord mods V, Biohazard, and Maridel, and a shout-out to the other authors of the "writing hub": MajaDB, Printiel, Jimcifer, Mikhail, V, and Maridel, 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: Keruu, ceiling, shevcat, CatBagel, elena, and Yumeko at the Rolf level; MajaDB, Bush, Conflux, Nyx, Viscountess, Karthik, walrus letter-bearer, and Kodek at the Galena level; Holmes and Rock Nerd at the Dakota level; Quicksilver and Jimcifer, who made it to Lillian; and the incredible V, Biohatzard, and Maridel, who somehow achieved the incredibly active rank of Ashley. (Huh, I keep mentioning their names.) And, last but not least, thank you to everyone else who's supported me on the Discord.

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 Budding Metalinguist as much as I enjoyed writing it- and rest assured that I won't leave you hanging for too long...