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I’m going to the 2017 Solar Celebration in Madras, Oregon => http://www.2017solarcelebration.com <= to see the solar eclipse on August 21st. From what I understand, we’re going to be able to view the eclipse for a full two (2!) minutes.

It’s a once in a lifetime event.

Some dude said the next solar eclipse visible from America will be in 98 years. I don’t know if that number’s accurate, but I do know the next one isn’t for decades. So having this chance to see it from different locations in the continental US is amazing.

So I’m going to be in Madras, Oregon.

I’m going to see the eclipse.

I’ve been considering getting a vendor license, but it’s a lot of money.

I mean, this is a once-in-a-lifetime festival. I have no idea what to expect.

Plus I have no idea whose going. It could very well end up being my group alone in a field while a sad wanna-fest peters on in the background.

So while the thought of setting up a table and making a mini-fortune while sharing my artwork makes me lick my lips, I’ve gotta weigh the reality that I’m broke.

A vapor-fest would devastate things.

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To be honest, I think seeing more people mentioning plans to visit the 2017 Solar Celebration festival would make me feel better. But it almost seems as though people aren’t clamoring to see the eclipse.

So weird.

Anyways, expect some eclipse mania.

-xoxo

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“… 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.)

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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.

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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.

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Let them eat cake…

I skimmed this => http://qz.com/1015011/supreme-court-cases-if-the-court-decides-cake-baking-is-free-speech-it-will-affect-far-more-than-same-sex-weddings/ <= article from Quartz. And ugh.

The long title is “If the US Supreme Court decides cake baking is free speech, it will affect more than gay weddings” – and the article is all about how the US Supreme Court is hearing the case of  Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

Which sounds like a fight you might be behind — “Fuck the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Small businesses forever!” — except the cake shop is owned by assholes and I hope they lose. Plus, civil rights are a big deal and everyone should 100% support them.

Because the cake shop says that while they SELL cakes and cookies to LGBTQ customers as they are required to by law, they should not have to bake specialty cakes for them, ESPECIALLY wedding cakes.

Which, you know, whatever. A wedding is a recent legal construct crafted so men can keep women as chattel. That or it’s a beautiful lifetime event that one cake shop should not be allowed to ruin, so fuck them, take your business elsewhere, and leave them a review mentioning the lack of service.

“I went to Crappy Anti-Humanity Cakeshop and they gave me a cake covered in frosting dicks” should never happen.

Neither should “I went to Crappy Anti-Humanity Cakeshop and they went on-and-on-and-on about how my lifestyle choices are against God. So I told them to suck a dick and went to Dairy Queen.”

You know why? Because if you have a business and you want to sell to the public, you should put on your Customer Satisfaction hat, not your hateful Dangerously Unbalanced Religious Zealot hat.

Otherwise, shut down your storefront. Lock your doors. Cover your head with a purple blanket. And wait for the moon men to come take you away.

It is almost 2020. You don’t want hindsight to show that your business failed not because of a lack on the customers’ part but because of a moral failing on your own.

Out of all the people that PROUDLY protested the desegregation of schools… how many of them are seen as heroes now? And how many are viewed with the contempt of our modern society?

Something to think on.

~Pax

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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.

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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.)

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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.