Sugar Apple Fairytale - Volume 4 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD

Hello, everyone. I am Miri Mikawa.

This is the fourth volume of Sugar Apple Fairy Tale.

There are suddenly more characters since the last volume, and I have had many readers tell me that among the new characters, they particularly like Kat, which makes me happy. I find the Kat-and-Benjamin duo easy to write. They’re the easiest after Mithril, so they’re good characters.

I also occasionally hear from folk who like Keith. But maybe because of Jonas’s evil deeds, it seems like readers have remained deeply suspicious of Keith, thinking, Surely, this guy must be like that, too! (Ha-ha!) Poor fellow.

Kat and Keith didn’t have much to do in this volume, but I’ve been thinking about having them catch up with Anne and the gang at a later date.

Oh, this is sudden, but I have an announcement.

The Sugar Apple Fairy Tale website is up and running on the Beans Bunko home page.

There are videos and such introducing the series. Apparently, there will be some special projects now and then as well, and you may be able to find useful information by looking there. Try searching for Sugar Apple Official, won’t you?

And one more thing. Believe it or not, there is also a Twitter account now.

My helpers, silver sugar fairies Cornet and Dragée, have been tweeting all sorts of things for me. They’ve even posted some love letters to the characters sent in by readers. As well as promptly tweeting new announcements and more.

By the way, my manager and I burst out laughing when the fairies presented the love letter for Jonas.

So anyway, if you have some free time, please take a look at the website and Twitter account.

Well, then—

—I say this all the time, but I’m deeply grateful to my manager. I’m quite aware that I put you through a lot of trouble trying to keep my thoughts on track when I have a tendency to wander, and I apologize for that. I rely on you as the lighthouse that guides my workflow. I look forward to continuing to work with you.

Aki, you always draw beautiful and detailed illustrations for my books. I find myself sighing when you show me just the sketches for the covers. Thank you always and forever.

I always feel like these Sugar Apple Fairy Tale books are a team effort, like a four-legged race. (Is that the right number of legs?)

And most importantly, I know these books are only able to exist because there are people reading them.

It brings me great joy knowing that there are folk who appreciate them.

It’s been exactly a year since the series’s debut. The fact that I’m still able to write about Anne and Challe’s world is because of you all. Thank you so much. I’m very grateful. All right then, until next time.

Miri Mikawa