Hello, friends, readers, any fans of my work.

I'm posting this in hopes that even one person will get a notification and be encouraged to revisit my work. I haven't posted since May of 2014 and although 3 and a half years have gone by, I still think about this story almost every day. I've been entertaining the idea of becoming a freelance writer and rediscovering my passion for writing lately, and in doing so I decided to read old reviews to inspire me. What I found really touched my heart. So many of you were hoping I'd pick up this story again, and that's something I never expected to find. Although I knew that FFOL and it's sequels had a special place in my heart, over the years I'd really diminished all of the fans of the stories in my mind, thinking there weren't as many as I'd thought, it was so long ago nobody even remembers my work, and even that nobody understood the relationship I have with my works of fiction. But reading your reviews again has given me a new inspiration to continue working on what has always been so important to me.

Now, if you had asked me why FFOL was my favorite piece of fiction I'd ever written back then, I probably would have gushed about Leon and the fact that I had created a character that was supposed to resemble myself, and inserted her into a universe I couldn't get enough of. But today, and every day since I finished that last chapter, the answer is because it was the first full length novel I had ever written, and to this day I haven not devoted nearly as much time and energy into a project. I no longer obsess over the Resident Evil franchise as I once did, but I will forever love this series I have created. Emily Ryan was the first original character I had ever created, and seeing her character development throughout the years earned the story a place in my heart forever. Even now, years later I still come back to it, making tweaks here and there, hoping to one day perfect it. As you (hopefully) know, I posted an "updated version" to Fighting For Our Lives a few years ago, and it did pretty well. Well, as you don't know, I've gone over the entire thing another two times to update as I saw fit. The file on my hard drive is now called "FFOL: the update to the updated updated version".

"Why are you telling me all this?" you ask. Well, I guess I'm hoping that I still have fans out there. That the story still has fans out there. Because I want to continue it, I do. But what I also want is help, encouragement, someone who sees the value in what I have to offer with this story, and even stories to come. Even though it's been months since the last review I've gotten, I'm hoping there's someone out there willing to continue this journey with me.

On a related note, I do plan on finishing Hell or High Water. I actually had almost half of the story handwritten in a journal I've since lost, which does put me in a position where I get to exercise my creativity once again. I may or may not upload these stories to a different fanfiction website as well, such as ao3. If I decide to do so, I will include my username in the next update. And yes, there will be a next update.

Please, let me know if you've read my stories and if you'd be interested in reading the continuation of Hell or High Water, and even if you'd be interested in me uploading the newly updated version of Fighting For Our Lives, and I will be sure to post accordingly.

Thank you for your time, and reviews. I really cannot express how much they mean to me, and how much they inspire me.

See you soon,

Emily x