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Sylum Recap: What’s Been Happening This Past Week!

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Maintenance/Plug-in From Hell

 

Since last Thursday, after one of our plug-ins was updated, all notifications stopped.  Subscribers weren’t getting emails, and posts weren’t being sent to Twitter or Tumblr.

Nothing.  Natta.  Zippo.

I started personally posting it to Twitter & Tumblr hoping that would help, while researching and waiting to see what the problem was.  Come to find out the Developers of that plug-in were on vacation and wasn’t back until this Monday.

So I waited.

Waited.

*checks watch*

Posts still not going through, start noticing the message boards going crazy with the same problem.  Finally get enough info to send it to the developers directly.

So I waited.

Waited.

*checks watch*

Yeah that kinda week.

Anyway, long story short (too late) they finally got back to me and said oh it’s because the plug-in is timing out.  It times out if your website doesn’t respond in 5 seconds, you need to talk to your hosting company as it takes 20 seconds for your site to come up.

Me: Bullshit, my hosting server has always been slow it wasn’t until you updated this shit started happening.   And points to message boards I’m not the only one … you upgraded when didn’t really need to and broke something and instead of rolling it back or finding a solution you’re blaming ‘internet speed’ … yeah fuck you.

So I did what I normally do figure this out on my own.   In the end I cleared at Cache’s, got rid of the Forums … no one was using it .. and if you’re sitting there going ‘what forums?’ my point was made!  Then … wait for it.  I deactivated the plug-in counted to ten and plugged back in.  I’m not kidding.

It worked.

Well I’m hoping it truly worked we’ll see if this post gets sent out publicly.  Sends quick prayer to St. Isadore of Seville!  Note if you do get this via email, click via tumblr or twitter … leave a reply just so I know it’s working again.

A Few Things:

The ability to Like a post has been taken off, cause it doesn’t want to play with others.

As stated the Forums are gone.  I’m hoping we can get more discussions going in the RP and Coffee House Fridays.

What You’ve Missed:

As no one was getting emails and it wasn’t being publicized here’s a few highlights of Posts you may have missed:

Throwback Thursday: Demons & Angels by Timothy Quinn

Due to the recent Sylum headcanon changes concerning Sam Winchester now being Theo … no longer Meridia … both these stories needed to be looked at.  They were already on the ‘need to look at’ list considering changes in Canon from the 10th Anniversary Clan War Edition.

Secondary Note: Roads Untraveled is being worked on at the moment

Sylum: Quiet on the Set

You get to choose one scene from the Sylum Universe to be filmed.

Which scene would you choose?

Sylum Advent 2016: Check In

If you’re working on a story or artwork let me know how it’s going!!

Throwback Thursday: The Black Queen by Gil Grissom

Hotchner and his team go to Seattle to recruit a hacker and Aaron gets far more than he bargained for.

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Please for the love of my sanity – let this work!

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Sylum Maintenance: Test

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We’re having issues with getting things sent via email or posted to Twitter/Tumblr.

We’re going to be digging around in the wires, pulling things and plugging it back in.

So if things blip that would be why!

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Sylum Head Canon: *look here for a moment*

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Parts of Sylum Canon has just been erased.

Going to give it to you straight.

Clan War has been a pain in the fucking ass for a variety of reasons.

* It’s had fits and starts all the way through

* No one wanted to cooperate

* Everyone wanted their five seconds

* And a plot point in it that I’ve never liked slammed us against a wall

Add in RL work projects, burn out, and taking time off to work on the book – Clan War has been a long tedious pain in the ass.

So before I get into Sylum Canon that has been erased some back history:

I’ve never truly liked Greg has the soul of  Theo, Nico’s youngest.  When Sylum began there were a small array of characters to work with and I had no idea where at the time the ‘story’, as it was only supposed to be one, was going.   As the storyline developed and the amount of early fans that pushed the Greg/Gil pairing – Greg ended up with the Soul of Theo or at the time he was called Philipe – DO NOT ASK.

I went with it, worked with it, but was blah about it.   As the series progressed and we started into the 4th Arc, the more Greg began to disappear into the sidelines because I didn’t like the character or his role – to the point there was serious contemplation of killing him off.

Then we started on the re-writes.

On the list of things we wanted to change was Greg, after a lengthy discussion we concluded at the time that ‘it’s just to stuck as head canon for us to change it’.

And we moved on.

All through CSI: Anthology I cringed in writing Greg … don’t get me wrong I like Greg, just didn’t like him in this role.   And as Gil’s story, changed and developed through the Anthology it was obvious they had to be De-Mated as it really wasn’t working.   So I had at least got part of the problem ‘fixed’.

Cue Clan War and the never ending saga of trying to get this particular story finished, as we worked through the story – Greg was no where near the battle with Richelieu and the flow of the story had him being Turned at this moment instead of later Arcs … and again I found myself going *hmmm* death is an option.

Then something happened.

Bob tossed an idea so outrageous that it took us by surprise.   We sat at the table pulled out a box of Krispy Kreme Donuts and hashed it out, though it was working it wasn’t quite right.  Then one of his minion bunnies, obviously hyped on sugar, tossed the last idea out and suddenly it all fell into place.

The results of that new story idea changed Sylum Canon.

Basically it comes down to this.

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*Look here please*

Greg Sanders no longer has the Soul of Theodosius Scipio Meridius.   He has no ties to Nico in that regards.  He is a Chosen One who’s family has been Chosen Ones since the Ice Age.  He was raised in and out of the Manor, stayed summers through his childhood, friends with Ellis, and was encourage to follow his dreams into Science.  He’s Nico’s friend and has ties to Warrick in a past life.   But he NO longer has the soul of Theo.

And while we’re changing Head Canon!

Sam Winchester now has the Soul of Theo.

But.

But.

He’s Meridia?!  Is there not going to be a Meridia?

Yes there is a Meridia, that has not changed and you will meet Meridia, at some point.

That’s all I’m saying at the moment.

So again Sam Winchester has the Soul of Theo.  Basically his story doesn’t change, Nico will still be very happy to see his youngest boy come home.  Dean just can’t tease Sam anymore about being a girl.

Before you ask!  The CSI: Anthology series has been updated to reflect this, as a matter of fact Playing with Fire has been removed from the Archive as it’s not longer Canon.  The full series – including the two stories that were posted with the 10th Anniversary Clan War has been edited and uploaded to the Sylum Archive.

Link to CSI: Anthology

A second note!  All 10th Anniversary Clan War Stories has been moved to the Archive, they were adjusted slightly if need be and given a final edit before being posted.  All future stories will be posted to the Blog and then posted to the Archive.

Link to Clan War – 10th Anniversary Edition

All other references will be updated as we go through the rest of the series as there are a few ‘canon’ adjustments needed for a variety of reasons.  If side stories get updated first – we’ll post a Throwback Thursday to showcase these stories!

The Matrix has now been reset

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And now back to Clan War!

*headdesk*

 

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Personal Post: Promoting Nicholas J. Finch

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*Whistles*

Now that I’ve got your attention.

Yes! I am promoting my book.

I want to get the word out to as many people as possible.

Last time I checked there are actually 699 of you that subscribe to this blog, which I’m guessing is because you enjoy Sylum and the stories.   You’ve stuck with me and Sylum for 12 years, followed me from Geocities, the Yahoo Group, Livejournal and some of you are new and have made your way here via Tumblr.   You’ve enjoyed hours of entertainment, so all I’m asking is your support and help with this latest adventure.

Read the Awesome Review!

Love Bytes has also put out a New Book of the Week Poll.  If you’ve bought and read the story – click the link and vote for Conversations!  If haven’t  … read the review, buy the book, and vote in the Poll!   It ends this Friday!

Come on guys – help a General out.

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Conversations in Real Time by Nicholas J. Finch

Beginning with a series of emails sent back and forth between the UK and the USA, this novella is the story of how two men, one a Los Angeles detective and the other an Oxford research student, find themselves drawn to each other despite leading very different lives on opposite sides of the world.

Their relationship starts with a professional offer of assistance and through instant messaging, texting and phone calls they invade each others’ lonely and yet busy days, learning about themselves and slowly falling in love as they discover they both need something from the other until they finally get a meeting face to face and can get up close and personal.

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Format: Epub, Mobi, PDF, Ibook … etc

Price: .99 cents (A bargin Price)

Where:

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Itunes/Ibooks

Smashwords

Note: If you have a Kindle, you can find Mobi Format at Smashwords

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Want to keep updated on what I’m working on as Nicholas J. Finch, follow me at Tumblr or Facebook.

At the moment there are two awesome ideas that are brewing.   There are good things coming from Nicholas J. Finch.

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In the meantime … Clan War is getting wrapped up.  Stories are being prepped for Advent.  There’s a Dragon story in the works.  And at some time I may actually get some sleep.   So many bunnies so little time.  Bob has been having a field day.

 

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Personal Post: Review of Conversations in Real Time

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Quick Announcement!

When Barnes & Noble posted the book a few weeks back, they kinda forgot to add: the synopsis, about the author, and generally everything about the book.

It’s been fixed!!

So once again, you can find Conversations in Real Time at Barnes & Noble – this time with all the relevant information!!  So if you went and checked out earlier and wondered why it was pretty much blank, this would be why.   Take a second look, now that it’s complete!

I want thank everyone who’s bought the book, please if you enjoyed the story – please leave a review or rate it on where you bought it from – it will help get the word out to other readers.

If you don’t have a Nook and are interested in the book you can find it at these locations:

Kobo

Itunes/Ibooks

Smashwords – (Has Mobi format for those with Kindles)

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Now for the really cool announcement!  Love Bytes did a review of the book!  Check it out Here!!

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Second cool announcement!! I’ve added a section under General’s Office for my Published works.

 

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Sylum Clan War: Inspiration

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This particular chapter of Clan War has been a problem child.

Between Bob.  Bob 2.  Everyone who is in the damn Chapter.  Bob.  Bob 2.  Warrick.  Bob.  Bob 2.  Nick.  Bob. Bob 2.  It’s been one of those pain in the ass chapters that is never ending and mocks you – all at the same time.

Oh and there was Bob.  Bob 2.

 

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Personal Post: Thank You!

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I would like to send out a big Thank You for those who’ve supported me on this new endeavor into Published Fiction.

It means a lot to me, more than I can actually say.

If you’ve bought the book, please if you can leave a review/rate it.  It will help showcase the book and story, to other readers.

If your still interested in buying it

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Format: Epub, Mobi, PDF, Ibook … etc

Price: .99 cents (It’s a steal!!)

Where:

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Itunes/Ibooks

Smashwords

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Again – Thank You so much!  You guys rock.

And now to go face off with Bob who’s been an asshole for the past few days.  Yes you Bob … yeah you know what you’ve done.

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Sylum Story: Re-work in Progress

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It’s been one of those things, I knew with all the additions and updates this particular series would have to be looked at.

I’ve been avoiding it – for obvious reasons.

Due to a weekend of OMG  Bob REALLY!  It would seem now is the time.  As these changes will need to be shown for other stories.

And I’m not going to mention a certain character who inserted himself into storyline where he didn’t belong … and for once I’m not actually talk about Reese *snorts*.

No panic!  The originals are not being removed – they’ll stay in the Archive until this is done.

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Lately with Bob off on a tear.

And working on putting all the story threads into the right places to set up future events.

I feel like ….

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Announcement from Bj Jones – I’m Published!

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If you’re wondering what this image is.

It’s the cover to my book.

Yes, I actually did it.  I took the leap into Published Fiction.

I will say it hasn’t been easy.  There’s been a lot of blood, sweat and tears.  There’s been frustrations and joy.  But in the end from the support of those who love me and God’s Blessed Grace … here it is:

Conversations in Real Time by Nicholas J. Finch (I’m pretty sure y’all can figure out where the penname came from)

Beginning with a series of emails sent back and forth between the UK and the USA, this novella is the story of how two men, one a Los Angeles detective and the other an Oxford research student, find themselves drawn to each other despite leading very different lives on opposite sides of the world.

Their relationship starts with a professional offer of assistance and through instant messaging, texting and phone calls they invade each others’ lonely and yet busy days, learning about themselves and slowly falling in love as they discover they both need something from the other until they finally get a meeting face to face and can get up close and personal.

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Format: Epub, Mobi, PDF, Ibook … etc

Price: .99 cents (It’s a steal!!)

Where:

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Itunes/Ibooks

Smashwords

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There are over 600 of you that follow this blog, and I know there are much more of you that follow Sylum.   I’m pretty sure y’all came here because you enjoyed the story, the universe that was created.  I’m hoping you will now follow me into this new world and help support me in this endeavor.   There isn’t a lot of Gay Fiction in the real world, so help me get this book out there.  Get it seen.  Spread the love.

To keep updated on what my next project will be follow the tumblr for Nicholas J. Finch

Now don’t panic.  This doesn’t mean I’ve stopped working on Sylum or other projects *pointedly looks at Dragon Reese*.  I’m not giving up on my Vampires – it’s Sylum that got me writing and has led me down this long adventurous path.  Nico’s story is far from finished.  I’ll keep writing Sylum until I die, and even past that, knowing Bob and his ability to get what he wants.

 

 

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