The tldr version is this: this year (aiming for October) I will be self publishing Middle of the Night as an original novel!! Yay!
The bad news: I'll be deleting the original fanfic version. I know that sounds very scary but please read this post and don't jump to any conclusions. I will give you a LOT of heads up on the actual deletion date!
more under the cut:
As many if you know, I've been working on getting motn published. I couldn't get a traditional publisher (literally just because of how the market is right now) so I made the decision to self publish. Again, yay! Even as I was writing the fic, Bruce Wayne and the reader really started taking on a life of their own. The reader, in particular. It started to feel less like a fanfiction the farther I got into it, and it turned into something wonderful.
The novel itself is like 95% done, and then my wonderful amazing friend who did the fanart cover back in 2022 is doing this cover as well! During that time I'll be doing all the admin stuff etc etc before publishing.
However, I've made the difficult decision to get rid of the original fic version. The novel is very very similar. It has all the scenes you love in the fic, but has been completely reworked to be, in my opinion, a thousand times better. There's just no Batman stuff in it. But trust me, if you've read and loved the fic, you'll love the "original" version. Seriously, you will!
Please note I will be keeping the sequel, movie tie-in fic shadows in the night posted! I also will be doing a novella likely early next year with all of motn's added oneshots: which means they will be going away as well. That's not set in stone, however, and I will update you on that!
That being said, you can still download the fic version of middle of the night from ao3 here
If you need instructions on how to download from ao3, here is a very handy tumblr tutorial
Feel free to download and save the fic to your hearts content. I'm going to download it as well before the re-release and will have it on hand for anyone who needs it!
Again, I know this will be pretty upsetting to those of you who are big fans of middle of the night. But seriously, seriously the original novel has all the things you love in it, I swear! Please give it a chance.
I'll be making more posts as I choose a release date, have a cover, and all of that fun stuff. Please, please bear with me. This is going to be such a good thing!
Here's a sneak peek at the next chapter! I've been writing like an absolute fool so that there hopefully won't be such a long wait on the next chapter.
“What’s he coming over here for?” I gritted my teeth and moved my lips as little as possible to disguise my words. Within seconds, he was in earshot, roar of the ocean be damned. I opened my book and made a weak pass at legitimate reading until the sound of his feet scuffing against the wet sand was unable to be ignored.
“Hello,” he greeted with a smile that didn’t totally meet his eyes. “It’s a nice day for surfing, isn’t it?”
“That it is,” I shielded my eyes and put on my best Southern Belle smile that said I’m just a lil’ lady. Be nice to me, won’t cha’? Either he didn’t buy it, or he had some Southern Belle trauma.
“I haven’t seen you around here before,” he said, then sat down in the sand only a foot or so away. Too close for comfort. “I’m Sam. Sam Uley.”
“Collins Walker,” I reciprocated, extending my hand to shake his. His fingers looked completely normal, but as my hand wrapped around his, the feverish temperature made me pull away early. “I moved here a couple months ago. Are you the welcoming committee?”
He laughed, the fake smile finally reaching his eyes.
“No, but I—,” he paused, that same smile fading so quickly that my own mouth turned down in a frown. His nostrils flared out as he took a deep breath, and his eyes flashed from their casual friendliness into a cold stare. He looked like a different person in the matter of two seconds.
“I have to go,” he hastily sprang to his feet and jogged off in the direction the other guys had run off to only a few minutes ago. We watched him disappear with the rest, then turned to give each other identical questioning looks.
“That was weird,” I commented. Off in the distance, at the very tip of the cliff outlined by light blue sky and blue-black water, stood three figures. They simultaneously launched themselves off into perfect swan dives, landing in the ocean without so much as a splash.
Chapter 6 of Liminal is now posted on Wattpad! It will be posted to FFN and AO3 later today. Thank you to everyone that's still hanging in there with me like a hair in a biscuit <3
If you found me from my Twilight fanfiction Liminal, then hi!
I’m sorry that I haven’t updated in a few weeks. I do have a chapter in the works that is nearly done. As much as I enjoy writing this story, there are a few things in my personal life that really need my time right now, so I’m not as consistent as I want to be. I hope everyone can understand and will continue to support my story. If not, that’s okay, too.