@naiya-dyani They are fairly similar though there are distinctions like the ones mentioned. Those were mainly formed later as we focused on where we wanted to go.
How everything happened is a bit of a long story. But the basics are that Reagan was the owner. And had just got married and was really busy. And Josiah helped run things for a bit, but in the end it didn’t work out because they both had slightly differing visions. So they decided it would be best to implement the different visions separately. So Josiah got up the plan for Story Embers and since Reagan was very busy with life, he kept up Kingdom Pen until Story Embers was running, then put it on hiatus until he could actually devote the time it deserved to it.
It will be interesting to see where things go from here though since he’s been back on. 😉 Kingdom Pen was where I found my best friends and, well, pretty much all my friends. I’m not sure what I’d have done as a younger writer without it, and then with Story Embers afterward.