1) I just finished a top-to-bottom edit of Fidèle and Trois Feux. 98% of which was correcting errors, capitalizing the first letter in quoted sentences, deleting extraneous punctuation, fixing awkward phrasing, eliminating as many of my personal clichés as I could (I will live a happy life if I never type "he took a deep, steadying breath" again), clarifying ambiguous passages, and reintroducing commas after a regrettable anti-comma jihad in the initial editing phase.
Changes? Few to none. I added one very brief dream sequence to the Epilogue that somehow got dropped from draft to post; I found it in an "outtakes" document and couldn't figure out why I deleted it. Anyway, it's back where it belongs. I de-aged Rose by three years after a rigorous examination of the timeline. And there was a sequence related to pregnancy and how one tests for it - to be more specific would be a spoiler - that was intended to be a clue regarding its context, but about which I received so many complaints before the explanatory chapter had been posted that I've finally given in and fixed it. No one's characters or character arcs have changed, and the story's exactly the same.
I'm pretty sure that's it. If you find more errors, please let me know.
2) Trois Feux's rating hasn't been publicly visible for long, but the highest it received was 8.42, which I think is extraordinarily high for a story that's incomprehensible unless you've read the War, Peace, and Boning, Except Longer prequel.
Also, Trois Feux is now canon, though I'm not going to change the headnote until that declaration matters. More on that in a minute.
3) Fidèle's current rating of 8.60 is its highest, or at least that I've noticed, and again I'm immensely satisfied. Its core subject is one that immediately turns off a fair number of readers, plus it lacks aliens, the military, harems - well, okay, it kinda doesn't lack those - spaceships, Mustangs (unless you count Alejandro), apocalypses, age-coming (did I phrase that incorrectly?), high school nudity, excessive semen production - well, *sigh*, okay, I admit... - or any hint of an Alpha, save for some Greek dude that Kathryn probably had sex with while on her inaugural European holiday.
4) The story I promised before the end of 2020. Yeah, about that. It was intended to be a micro-epic, but the sex scenes were killing me. Until I realized that the sex scenes were irrelevant to the story I wanted to tell. So, distilling what was intended to be three weeks of sweaty nonsense down to about 75% of one or two reasonable-length chapters has been...interesting? Anyway, it's close. March, one hopes.
5) When I break a promise, I really, really, really break a promise. Not the one about being in touch with folks, which by this point I've completely shattered. No, the other one. The "I will never" one.
To repeat: Trois Feux is now canon.