The Series That Wouldn’t Die
An update from inside Revenge of the Past
After a hiatus too common to count, it’s time to finally turn on the light in the room everyone keeps glancing at and then pretending not to see.
Yes, you’ve read that correctly: this is a state-of-affairs update on Revenge of the Past.
I’ve joked more than once that my absences are “a bit of a hiatus.” The truth is less cute. I’ve announced things, pushed them back, delayed them, wandered off into other worlds, and, from the outside, it may have looked like some projects simply evaporated.
For Revenge of the Past, the series that marked the beginning of my writing journey, that feeling is especially strong. And at the center of that sensation stands one title, like a door that’s been promised to open a dozen times:
Drops of Blood.
The Ghost Called Drops of Blood
Let’s speak plainly.
The number of times I’ve said that Drops of Blood, the long-delayed fifth entry, was “right around the corner” has become embarrassing even to me. That corner, it seems, kept walking away.
So why has this book been delayed so much?
The simplest answer is this: I moved on.
The complicated part: I didn’t move on cleanly.
Over the last several years, almost every aspect of my life has changed; politically, educationally, professionally, and, most of all, personally. The version of me who first sketched Drops of Blood in early 2021 is not the same person staring at it now.
If I look back at what the book was imagined to be back then, it isn’t just a “slightly different draft.” It’s a completely different creature. The story has been torn apart and reassembled so many times it feels like a crime scene of its own.
In a twisted way, Drops of Blood is four different books living inside one:
the planned version of 2021,
the aspired version of 2022,
the diabolical version of 2023,
and the refined version of 2024.
All four shadows are still in the room. All four want to be the one that survives.
A Series That Follows Me
Throughout all this, Revenge of the Past never really left. It followed me like a shadow along the walls of my life; never loud, but never gone. Every new project, every new responsibility, every personal shift… it was there, waiting in the periphery.
Sometimes, it felt like a reminder:
“You still haven’t finished me.”
Other times, it felt like something more unsettling:
“I’m not finished with you.”
This series has always been about psychological torture, about the ways the past doesn’t just haunt you; it reshapes you. It’s fitting, then, that the series itself has done exactly that to its author.
Originally, the main Revenge of the Past series was mapped as a ten-book behemoth: novellas and novels, prequels and “futurequels,” all tucked into the twisted architecture of this universe. I had a chart. I had cycles. I had structures that looked neat on paper and menacing in my head.
But as I changed, the series changed with me. The original blueprint began to feel less like a plan and more like a cage. So I broke it.
Where We Stand Now
So, where are we today?
First: Drops of Blood is still planned. It hasn’t been scrapped, buried, or quietly killed off. It’s very much alive; perhaps too alive for its own good.
I am committing it to a year:
2026.
I know. You’ve heard promises before. All I can say is that this time, I’m putting it in writing with a clearer head and a leaner, more focused plan for the series as a whole.
Here is the new shape of the main series:
Book 5 – Drops of Blood
Planned for 2026. A pivotal turn in the saga.Book 6 – [Title under wraps… for now]
This will follow relatively quickly after Book 5 and will conclude the second story cycle, just as Same As It Never Was (Book 3) closed the first cycle back in 2020.Book 7 – The Final Entry
The grand conclusion of the main line. Seven books in total. The end of the main Revenge of the Past saga.
Not ten.
Seven.
Because sometimes, to keep a story sharp, you don’t stretch it, you tighten it.
The Casefiles Continue
Alongside the main storyline, the Revenge of the Past: Casefiles subseries will continue to snake through the cracks.
Two more Casefiles are planned. One of them, you already know:
A Trail of Madness – announced, and very much in line with the darker, more mature, more unhinged corners of this universe.
Casefiles are the side doors of this world, the places where smaller stories hold the same level of brutality and tension but in different rooms. They don’t replace the main series; they deepen it. They add scars to a body that was already bleeding.
A Series That Won’t Let Go
Is this the definitive, unchangeable roadmap for Revenge of the Past?
No. Because if this series has taught me anything, it’s that plans are a starting point, not a contract. Life shifts. Stories shift with it. But for the first time in a long while, I feel confident in this direction. It feels honest. It feels sharp. It feels like something that can actually be finished, and deserves to be.
This series marked the beginning of my writing journey. It shaped how I see storytelling, trauma, memory, and consequence. I owe it more than an open ending and unfinished promises.
I owe it closure.
And I owe you that as well.
An Invitation Back into the Dark
To those of you who have followed this series from the beginning, through Dead Man’s Switch, Code Zero, Same As It Never Was, He Saved Us, and beyond, I know some of you may have drifted away. Hiatuses do that. Delays stretch patience thin. Algorithms bury what doesn’t shout every day.
If you’re still here, even quietly, I’m inviting you back.
And to readers around the world who may be hearing of Revenge of the Past for the first time: the doors are still open. Step inside, if you dare.
There are dark hallways waiting.
There are traps built not just of steel, but of guilt.
There are sins of the past that don’t stay buried, no matter how deep you dig.
This world has followed me for years. Now, I’m turning back to face it properly, and to finally walk it to its end.
If you choose to come with me, I’ll be glad to have you at my side.
The past isn’t done with us yet.