I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (LN) - Volume 1 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

Hello, my name is Yuu Tanaka. I would like to thank you for buying this book, first time readers and long-time fans alike. If you bought this on the internet, please recommend it to your friends. If you’re reading this in the bookstore, take it to the register and buy it! Why wait?

The revised manuscript for this novel was initially posted on the website Shousetsuka ni Narou (Let’s Be Novelists). I didn’t expect it to be published when I first wrote the story. I even joked to my friend, “I’ll sign a copy for you if I get published.”

Well, the website is called Let’s Be Novelists, so I had an inkling of expectation. Becoming a novelist is my dream and I’ve worked very hard at it. I had tried once before but it didn’t go very well. That’s when I found Let’s Be Novelists.

I didn’t need to get published for people to begin reading my work. I thought it’d be good practice since I’d be able to get feedback on my writing. That was all I had in mind when I first posted to the site. I didn’t have that many readers for a while, and I was just doing it as a hobby. I’d read the comments people left behind on my stories and I’d be sad or happy depending on what they said. There were even times I got depressed if the comment was particularly harsh.

At some point, I started gaining more readers and began climbing the charts. That was when I first started thinking, “Hey, maybe…”

Then I got published. I wasn’t confident enough to say something like, “Now I’m a real novelist!” but it made me certain enough to continue writing. I’m really glad I posted my work on Let’s Be Novelists.

A final word of gratitude for now.

I would like to thank Micro Magazine for looking at my crude work and giving it an award. I would also like to thank my Editor, I-san, for being so patient with me in the writing process. I am forever in your debt. Thank you Llo for making Fran insanely cute; I feel faint every time I see her.

Thank you to Let’s Be Novelists for publishing this book.

Thank you to my friends and family for being with me when times got hard.

Thank you to everyone involved in the publishing process.

And thank you to my readers who have been with me since this novel was on the internet. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

See you in Volume 2.

Thanks for reading!