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June 28, 2017 0 comments

What’s going on

“… And I say hey-ay-ay ay-ay. Ay ay-ay ay. What’s going on?”

I’m making some learning games. (I want to talk about them so much! But I’ve gotta be a bit hush-hush until my stuff’s closer to being released.)

It’s fun, and I think the projects are coming along pretty good.

I’ll give out some free-game coupons here so ya’ll can test out the games. (It’ll be a little ticker that hands out a set number of coupons for a set amount of time.)

I’m editing “Paradigm Shift” and filling things out. I hope I’m making it better ^_^;

I’ll have free-copy coupons from Smashwords available. Plus if anyone wants a signed paperback copy, I can have some for giveaway.

What else… what else…

Once “Paradigm Shift” comes out–even though it’s not the complete version of the story–there’s an introduction to the characters from “Gulivar.” It opens things up and expands the timeline. So that’s pretty exciting ^_^

It goes:

Of Blood and Shadow universe -> Faizel universe

Faizel universe -> Gulivar universe

Faizel universe -> Paradigm Shift <-Blue Fairy

Heroes & Villains series -> Blue Fairy -> Paradigm Shift -> Heroes & Villains series

Gulivar universe -> Heroes & Villains series -> Tuesday Night -> Heroes & Villains series

Blue Fairy -> The Vastness Deep -> From Diamond to Coal -> Simon Peters universe ->

Blue Fairy -> The Vastness Deep -> From Diamond to Coal -> The Panic Pure -> Across Two Divides

I’ll make an actual chart or something. Some universes touch each other, changing the course of some stories.

Like, the Heroes & Villains universe touched the Tuesday Night universe, resulting in the foothold situation that leads to events in All That Remains.

Sometimes I just want to babble mindlessly about the plots within plots of my own stories. But I don’t want to spoil anything 🙁

The life of a sci-fi nerd is hard.

June 17, 2017 0 comments

I’m going to be releasing “Paradigm Shift: Gregor” soon

I met with a therapist, and he was a very nice person. He suggested that I submit a manuscript even if I’M not ready.

So I’ve been thinking, and I’m releasing a book–“Paradigm Shift: Gregor”.

It is not the completed version of “Paradigm Shift” that I imagine in my head, and there will be a follow-up “Paradigm Shift: Dylan” at some point, but I feel that I have to get it out there. Otherwise there will never be a version of “Paradigm Shift” in a store, abridged or otherwise.

If you’ve read any part of “Paradigm Shift”, you know that it’s set on a post-zombie apocalypse Earth where the cure created a Third childbearing gender via gamete mutation(?1). A hundred years later, Thirds rise to prominence and importance when a pandemic renders every living female sterile. Yet female Thirds are still able to impregnate women and male Thirds are still able to bear children, resulting in strict procreation laws.

The story focuses on Gregor Tierney, a Third that has been hiding his sexual organs and controlling his hormones with suppressants. Caught in a mandatory medical sweep, Gregor finds himself offered to the Duadenora Family as the mother of their next generation.

No non-con, though Gregor goes through some serious angst and his biology gets the best of him. He’s also very self-sufficient, which results in times where he might not seem very likable–especially in the face of Dylan Park’s awkward charm.

(?1. I’m not completely sure if this is the route I wanna take. I don’t know if I want to tie the mutation to sex chromosomes or anything like that. I’ve left it a bit open-ended for now. Though eventually I’m going to have to come up with some explanations. Which seems really painful.)

I think I’m currently having an epiphany.

“Paradigm Shift” is NOT the start of a new series. It’s just another standalone novel in an expanding universe.

I mean, I’ve got this scene in my head of scientists switching on their gate machine, and being sucked through to the other side. Where they are made to face the consequences of their actions and the devastation they’ve wreaked on this alternate reality.

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Yeah. Basically every story I’ve written has somehow become part of one sprawling multiverse.

And Melissa Kim is chasing Damien Prince while alternate versions of herself and Variants of Vereint are ruthlessly murdered.

February 24, 2017 0 comments

Prompts; HVU; What’s to come

PROMPTS: I know that other than my daily prompts I’ve been pretty quiet, but that’s about to change. Probably on Monday.

For some reason, though I schedule the prompts in advance, there’s been a handful of times when the prompts haven’t posted 🙁 I’ve had to login and manually hit Publish, which either means there’s a weird glitch or I’m doing something wrong. (I’m probably doing something wrong.)

Anyways, if you’re looking forward to my prompts each day, they are all scheduled to post at 7 a.m. PST. If a prompt doesn’t appear in your inbox by 7:03 a.m., there’s a good chance the scheduling failed. So either let me know on Twitter or in email or in the comments, or wait until I notice something’s wrong and post it myself. Otherwise, there should be a prompt every day.

I’m not guaranteeing that the prompts will be happening until December 31. But there’s a good chance that’s what’s happening.

HVU: What is this mysterious “HVU” I hear you not ask? Well, HVU stands for “Heroes & Villains Universe”, and it is an in-browser game I’m making.

At this point, you can choose whether you’re a “Hero” or a “Villain”, and you can pick out your costumed name. You can choose gender pronoun, hair color and length, eye color, height, and build.

You are stuck with a default character of either Lorelai, Leon, Kelsey, Kramer, or Riddle. The default character is randomly assigned. So, just like in real life, you’re “born” with a name you may or may not like.

HVU bridges the events in the Heroes & Villains books, filling in the gaps. Plus there’s side-stories, bonus content for Patreon patrons, and unlock codes for extra stuff.

The game isn’t ready for the public yet, but I’ll be posting a link here on Monday so ya’ll can try it out before everybody else.

Harper Kingsley presents Heroes & Villains Universe
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WHAT’S TO COME: Well, I’m putting out my prompts, I’m putting out HVU, I’m working on Tuesday Night, I’m working on a few short stories, and once that novel bridge is built, there’ll be ATR. And if HVU is successful, I’ll be porting the game to Ren’py.

Any codes or bonuses earned in the browser version WILL carry over to the Ren’py version. So if anyone buys a code bundle or something, everything you get will transfer over. (The same codes will work in the browser and Ren’py versions.)

And of course, a Ren’py game is going to be more robust and more capable of different actions. As it is, the browser version of HVU has had me pulling out my hair for all the things it can’t do. (OMG, I’ve crashed my shit like 10 times trying to get this game to do the impossible.) For now, I’m settling for a fun game-story experience and my browser games are going to be simple text-based things.

Expect free game codes to be peppered through future posts. You should be able to type the code name into the search box and find any codes you’re missing. For example, “Code Aleph” was introduced a couple of weeks ago and might prove useful on Monday. Just saying.

Anyways, I’mma go outside with my dog and scribble in my notebook for a while.

Have a great day.

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December 31, 2016 0 comments

late night/early morning

My birthday is in a couple of days, so I’m pre-scheduling a whole month of posts. I guess it’s kind of a “Hey, I’m alive!” type of deal. But whatever.

I’m pecking away at “All That Remains”, but I keep having to change stuff as I add details to “Tuesday Night”, “Blue Fairy”, and the Supergroup series. I did not realize how difficult it was to get so many groups of superheroes, supervillains, and normal people in one place at one time.

I would like to blame the difficulty on the fact that multiple characters are on different worlds from each other and the Heroes & Villains world, but geez. There’s groups of people on the same planet I’m having a hard time getting to the story meet-up climax.

Characters so far:
Vereint Georges//Darkstar
Warrick Tobias//Blue Ice
Caspian Dukes
Blue Star//Bluestar
Melissa Kim//Blue Devil//Blue Fairy
Sunfire
Teen Steel
Sonic Pulse
Jackblade
Saint Kloude

I want everything to be tightly wound together plot-wise. I don’t want anyone to be left scratching their head wondering where the deus ex machina came from.

I’m trying to match up my various story outlines so once I push “All That Remains” through, I should be able to bring the other people into the plot riding in on their own stories.

Sunfire/Teen Steel slash is what’s currently happening in “Tuesday Night”, along with foiling a Zarplaxian invasion and mass murder. I kind of see Seth as a parallel to Vereint, though with a bit less power and a lot less crazy; though the less crazy thing probably has to do with the disparity in their power levels. (Those with Charm metabilities are being classified as highly susceptible to psychotic behavior when using those abilities. Kanon-Darkstar is his Earth’s poster child for Charm-abuse.)

In the Supergroup universe, Ashley discovers she’s got a weird sister, kills a bunch of supposedly dead people, averts an apocalypse, and marries her superhero boyfriend. She’s still very me-me-me and maybe a bit unlikable(?) but I’m hoping she becomes a better person. It’s not like I’ve never killed off a main character before.

Melissa Kim is traveling the multiverse, attempting to stop a madman from killing all of the alternate versions of Vereint Georges. She begins calling all those not-Vereint’s “variants” and keeps her attention focused on her task. She’s so focused she doesn’t notice the ripples she’s leaving in the various timelines; the changes she’s making.

Identified Variants:
Simon Peters
William Neely
Charlemagne
Faizel
Lovely Splendour
Ashley Valentine
Ares, God of War (Universe A)
Gregor Tierney

Anyways, expect prompts, excerpts, and chapters all through January.

Until tomorrow, goodnight to you. Goodnight to me.

~Peace, love, joy