Sylvia Norcroft

Hello, your monthly digest of my endeavours is here!
          
          ☺ So, what's new here?
          ♥ A Bet On Hearts - the book is again trending in its obscure tags, hooray! I've recently noticed a shift in views, which makes me utterly happy! 
          
          Also, maybe it's bad news for some, but the story will finish on the 1st of June, because, erm, chapter 30 somehow went out of my hands and beyond what I had initially planned. I had to split it into two parts for a better reading experience (believe me, the original length surpassed 6.2k words).
          
          Note, that the EPILOGUE chapter is going to be the last, the book will be marked as complete afterwards. Yes, this means I've got the rest of the chapters scheduled already.
          
          Can't believe I've got 3 books under my belt now!
          
          ♥ In Magician's Embrace & Bewitching The Recluse - I'm in awe that both books have thus far surpassed 5k views each! It is much more than I anticipated, frankly speaking, I expected the attention to die out somewhere at the 1k mark.
          
          Hopefully, I will live to see 10k there!
          
          ☺ What about the immediate future?
          ♥ Well, I certainly plan to work on book 3 in the Price Saga silently for the next few months but also give reads and comments where they are due.
          
          Your girl is also starting a new job in just 5 days! Hence, I'm moving to another city in a few days, meaning my hands will and won't be free at the same time, mainly due to my pursuit of a new living place. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
          
          That's it for now, see ya later!
          
          Xx
          
          Sylvia

Hello, hello!
          A monthly mandatory update is here as two of my books are nearing their conclusion.
          
          ☺ So what's the current status?
          ♦ A Bet On Hearts - this one lost rankings, sadly, due to the new system WP put in place. Of course, I wrote a ticket to support and now I'm waiting in a queue I presume to be as huge as the oceans there are. It also makes me consider to crosspost this book on another platform, but we shall see.
          
          I'm editing chapter 25 today, which puts us to 5 more weeks of uploads after 13.4. (Saturday is the usual release day), yet be aware that I'm also currently looking for a job, so it could get pushback. However, I don't see the book ongoing later than the end of July 2024.
          
          ♦ Bewitching The Recluse - the book concludes on 23.4. with the release of a second epilogue featuring the main hero and important side characters of book 3, along with the Author's Note.
          
          ♦ In Magician's Embrace - the book has been accepted for the Romance Reads 2024 contest run by @Romance and I'm hopeful to get lauded there, so keep ya fingers crossed!
          
          ☺ When will the new book drop?
          Oh my, that's quite tricky to say, because the Price Saga is a passion project where I deliver only my 110%. This means I won't start releasing before I have 50% of the book written and figured out the second half of the story. 
          
          So, an optimistic scenario would be the 1st chapter drop around the end of August/beginning of September.
          
          The pessimistic scenario is the end of October/beginning of November.
          
          ☺ Will there be more standalone books in the future?
          ♦ Certainly! But not before the Price Saga finishes with book 4 being the last. I've managed 2 books at once for the past months and the experience has been so daunting that I do not plan to do it anymore, lol.
          
          The next standalone, however, will feature older MCs, Victorian-era and filth. He is a starchy Duke and an archaeologist, she is an American heiress and an author of lewd novels. 
          
          
          So that's it for now, see ya in a month!
          
          Xx

Hi y'all,
          As you may have noticed, I updated In Magician's Embrace which now boasts an increase in spiciness! The story arc remains unchanged. Hence, I provided below the list of changes, so if you already gave it a read, you can check for the new content and read whatever catches your eye.
          
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          Added - new part within the text
          Prolonging - added at the end of the old chapter
          Rewritten - changed language, actions, lines, content itself
          
          FOREWORD: Added historical context, TWs
          0: Added interactions Daniel-Rose; Daniel-Felix
          12: Added inter. re: Joan Thistlewaite; Felix-Conrad
          19: Added inter. Felix-Daniel; spice-Daniel
          21: Prolonging the chapter: a para about Arden; Eliza thinking of Daniel's possible misconduct
          23: Whole New Chapter, Daniel learns the truth about Joan
          28: Prolonging the chapter: inter. Felix-Conrad
          30: Prolonging the chapter: inter. Aileen-Bella
          33: Added inter. John-Daniel; prolong. spice-Eliza
          34: Added & rewritten 70% of chapter: spice aftermath; inter. Daniel-Eliza; Arden-twins
          38: Added spice Eliza-Magician
          39: Whole New Chapter, spice-Eliza
          40: Added 90% of chapter, inter. Daniel-Felix; Arden-Lorraine; Eliza-Lorraine
          41: Rewritten: 50% chapter, new spice-Eliza
          44: Rewritten: 80% chapter
          50: Prolonging the chapter by 50%
          EP2: Prolonging the chapter by 50%, inter. Bella-Lorraine

Hello!
          Just a quick update - my book In Magician's Embrace won an award by @TheAmbys! It's a shock, but it's also a profound happiness that my writing makes sense, is liked and well perceived! 
          
          Cheers, as I'm having a glass of wine to celebrate tonight!
          
          Xx

Hi! 
          Long time no hear from me, huh? Well, I was going through a very difficult time related to my family and indulged in writing perhaps even more than before.
          
          What does it mean for y'all?
          Only good news!
          
          In regards to Bewitching The Recluse, I just concluded the draft version yesterday. That's right, the book is completed and I will slowly schedule the rest of the chapters (at the moment we are covered until 10.2.). It feels... amazing, yet as if my good friends left my house after a prolonged visit, ya know? 
          
          It also means that A Bet On Hearts is no longer on hold - I just scheduled chapter 15 for 27.1., though it is more of a filler for me to get immersed back into the story. Thrilling times await further down the line, I swear!
          
          I also decided to do a thorough edit in In Magician's Embrace to celebrate its appearance on WP - first posted on 17th March, the edit will be also applied to the book in late March. What will be new? Several brand new chapters, prolongation of the existing chapters, more spice infusion and certainly better fleshing out of our MCs and also side characters! Currently, I'm 25 chapters of 60 away from concluding the edit and can't wait to go live with it! 
          
          So that's it, see ya next month I guess!
          
          Xx

Hi, I was wondering if you would like to enter your book in my contest, The Love Song Awards? It just started and I'm trying to get as many participants as possible for each genre. All books must have romance as a sub-genre and a minimum of 10 to 15 chapters (short story is a minimum of 3 or 5,000 words). Submissions close on January 30th. Thank you! https://www.wattpad.com/story/186058982?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=EmpressPenguin&wp_originator=dn3OhBgTEOE7jx%2Bi2JV6FeW%2BzhXhDF5ph4m7J5Auq11cLik%2B6ND2BYd08TS2KxToq5qzozNDGQBv%2BS6KJklWh4lAdR5v%2F1a3NdFsXvF5Xv6fdggtZ33DAx4PKOrCKzN7

Hi all,
          
          I forgot to announce to you that I won a contest hosted by @antiheroesgalore Meet Me At Midnight with my entry Lady Kendall's Web Of Secrets: Of Deceit And Determination, ultimately earning the title of AHG Best Story Weaver 2023!
          
          It seems that the aged matron is raising attention wherever she appears...
          
          Thank you for supporting me along the way! :*
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/350780566-lady-kendall%27s-web-of-secrets-wp-contest-entry

Hi friends!
          
          Starting tonight with a bonus release, we enter a "blessed December" stage, where my book Bewitching The Recluse will be released 3x per week to speed that bish up a bit (Mon, Wed, Fri). 
          
          Worse news is that I'm doing an extensive edit within mid part as I found certain stuff not be working at all... Which pushes me doing some very bold changes, so hopefully it all works in the end. I love it already tho!
          
          This edit affects A Bet On Hearts release - there is only one chapter scheduled for tomorrow and nada written further. I'm certain I won't find time to work on it given the season and BTR rewrite, sadly! Hence for the time being, the book is going on hold.
          
          Xx

Hello, long time no announcement, heh. Just uploaded a WP contest entry called 'Ashes Of Our Love', it's just one chapter if you would like to check it out.
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/356342518-ashes-of-our-love-wp-contest-entry
          
          In other words, I'm less than 10 chapters away from completing the book 2 in the Price series, and I surpassed what could he 50% in A Bet Of Hearts.
          
          Things are going well, I'm hyperfocused on book 2 to be finished before this years end, ABOH will be finished by end of Jan 2024 I guess - we shall see.
          
          Nevertheless, I will slowly get back to reading your stories! Yay!

Hi all,
          
          if you're wondering why I haven't read your work lately, it's because I've been battling my (now) former company over my salaries (they did not pay me 2 salaries as of today) and I'm finally unemployed - never thought I'd say such a thing!
          
          But the issues are far from the end and it definitely slows all my other endeavours - for that I'm sorry! 
          
          The stuff that has been or is being released is the scheduled ones, I haven't even written a full page of text for the last week and a half... And I truly hope that this nightmare will soon be over :(
          
          Thank you, xx