Trivia / Can't Go Home Again

• Bonus Material: Beyond some small tidbits of trivia and backstory from Mable's blog, Begin Prompt In 3, 2, 1 contains a few Home series omakes as part of its' collection, as well as three related prompts that acted as a stealth preview to Going Home In a Box and were later integrated in it.
• Line to God: Mable, author of the Home series, has a Tumblr blog here, where she regularly answers questions about the series and shares fan art of it.
• Schedule Slip:
  • Per Mable's own words, her goal has always been to publish a chapter per week. Between her other works and, above all, life, however, it's not uncommon for a new chapter to take longer, with the longest a chapter ever took being a whole month.
  • Going Home In a Box suffered massively from this: per Mable's own calculation, had a chapter been published each week, it was supposed to wrap up by November of 2023. When that date came, Going Home In a Box was barely three quarters of the way done, with the last seven chapters published over a span of four whole months and the following four over a span of three months.
• Spoiled by the Cast List: An interesting case, atleast for readers on Archive Of Our Own: the character tags are regularly updated as characters appear, thus Averting the trope for those who read along the update schedule, but playing it straight for those who binge-read afterwards.
• Trolling Creator: Mable loves trolling her audience and pulling fast ones on them, teasing them openly with tidbits and breadcrumbs before pulling the rug from right underneath them. She also seemingly loves Red Herrings with how many of them are sprinkled through-out the Home series, with the drawer from Almost Feels Like Home having caused chaos amongst readers. Whenever asked about it, Mable either plays it coyly or pretends to act dumb.
• What Could Have Been: There were rumours of a Spanish translation of Can't Go Home Again by the hands of Spanish-speaking readers, but years down the line, the only trace of it is a mention in the Author's Notes.
• Word of Gay: Although partially shown by the series itself, a post on Mable's Tumblr blog clarifies several characters' sexualities or lack of thereof.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Can't Go Home Again makes it far, far more explicit in this regard due to its' "conceived-as-a-short-story-that-blew-up" nature, but Mable tries to incorporate elements from various entries of the FNaF franchise as they're released. A clear example is Cassie's appearance in Going Home In a Box, whose first chapter was released well before any additional content for Security Breach was even announced.