Its been a while…

This is quick, but I wanted to let you know that I am still here and still writing. No Christmas story this year. Eventually I will do one about Santa. I finished Heartbeat song. Its out everywhere. I didn’t use the song because well the way I expected the story to go would have allowed the song to appear organically at the end. To get to that end lengthened the book far longer than I liked so, it will be in Passion song.

Passion’s primary story is the three days after the massacre. You understand Lorelei’s sacrifice and the two big secrets that drive Tom. You see what a assembly funeral is and I give you more history.

What is Passion song? I discovered when writing heartbeat song and procrastinating that I needed to fix all the things I could before I leave 2007. Its a foundation for a lot of upcoming things, explanations for how things rolled out in Song of Route 91 and Song of Hope. I introduce Charity Hospital, as well as do Tyrion’s backstory. This way when you get to him is the other half of Song of Betrayal, you won’t dismiss it.

For example, Bill Clinton is not president in the Assembly reality. He never ran. Instead Alexander Graef takes his place. Similar to the Netflix show Graves only without the anger and subtext. Also Nixon knew about the Assembly. Its things like that.

Finally, I am working on a compendium of all the historical changes. I hit a wall on the amount I could remember and notes so I am documenting them. I will publish (so I can have a copy) and I think you might find it interesting. It will have some deeper explanations than the narrative will provide as well. It will only have fictional characters that interact with real people. Also events that were altered and a list of all the gate locations. A origin of the assembly will be added because I created that for another website and never followed up. I liked it.

A list of all the shows I tip the hat or shout out too will be in it, so you can get the jokes. It will be continuously updated via ebook. However, the print bound version (as my publisher does this now) probably won’t be.

Finally, thanks to Bryant street publishing and Scribd.com, I decided to submit my manuscript for the first three books together to them to be published. They offered anyone who won nanowrimo (me) to submit their 50,000 work (mine is a combined total of 86000) to be considered for publication. So I converted the piece of Midnight train song to their format, and sent it in. I will let you all know if they want more or pick it up. I would love it print published as a whole. It would connect everything better.

Cover of Heartbeat song. Hint: the archer, google that. Yes the song is relevant.

Again thanks for you reading this, buying my books and being here. Its a labor of love. I enjoy it. (final hint. that’s the old glee set front. You never saw it on the show. Merry Christmas.

Falling Ashes and shifting tides

I chose today to post this update today because like the events of 18 years ago in my story timeline I am dealing with the aftermath of the shooting. Heartbeat song is published and available at any online retailer you can name. Its available in print bound by my publisher draft 2 digital as well.

The final novel of the first group and the official fouth novel is called Passion song. It deals with Lorelei’s chose to stasis herself called ‘astheneo’. This is what happens to the bodies of the fallen Assembly members prior to them being stood in Antarctica. This book also explains why Lorelei feels the need and why in Song of Hope, Tom is moving all of society. When you read it, you will actually agree.

You will also see the reborn Charity Hospital in New Orleans, discover that not only there no Epstein in the Assembly reality (his grandfather fell off the boat and drowned on the way to the new world. So sad.), but why Taiji is the villian. It has to do with ancestry and the shogunate at the beginning of Edo period Japan. You get more of who Tyrion is, who the Cetus family is, and a reminder that Tom is his Uncle’s cousin.

You get a Virgin Islands with Japanese castles on it. The tie in to Faking it, and well as some new characters that will carry over in the second series books. Finally, you will get a keep in to Aria and why she doesnt want to be a regenerist. I expect it to be smaller than the last two.

Of course, following this is the book that comprises the second half of Song of Betrayal. That will be August 2009. I am doing a book that will revolve around the 2009 MTV music awards because its completely different in my reality.

When the Graverobber’s people blew up beyonce’s house and studio while she was on tour in Japan, it delays two things and ends one.

1. Solange loses her window which ends her career before it begins.
2. ‘I am Sasha Fierce is delayed a year. So it doesn’t get into awards that year. So it doesnt win any awards.
3. No Kanye, he died in an auto accident in 2002. So no ‘I’m going to let you finish’

In Passion Song you learn Tom is disappointed that Taylor (yes that Taylor. You didn’t know she was a Siren? Really?) doesn’t chose Siren Song as her label. So he decides to not support her but not distance her either. This will become important when Gwen starts interacting with her. So with all that, I am crafting a simialr awards show with my flow of musicians. It should take place after Homecoming song if I understand the chronology right. If not then I figure out something.

Third series is Gwen as Jem and the Holograms. Three books 2010-2016. That last book will reveal the Dakou Anastatis of Lorelei: her tearful ressurection. Yes, Lorelei purposely doesn’t tell her sister for a reason that will be revealed in Passion Song.

I don’t have a projected about of books in total yet. Since Passion Song will be 8, it could be 16 when I am finished. It could be 21. I don’t know. Well that’s it. #Honor911 talk soon.

It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.

The blood rimmed tide flows

No day shall erase April 12th 2007 from the memory of time

April 12: This is a somber day. A day of reflection. You look within and recount what effects this day wrought and hope you overcame it and grew from it. You stand in vigil and talk of those you knew and how they affect you. You weep and mourn as time heals.

So do you remember what this day represents? Of course not, because here, in our reality, nothing happened. The next closest horrific event is Virginia Tech shooting on April 16th. Yet in the Assembly reality, today is the day of the Taft High Massacre, 12 years ago. 12 people died and 70 were wounded. Two were killed by Coach Delamorte and 10 by John Jay Rinch. He also was blamed for the three IEDs that went off in the school injuring 70 students and exaerbating the panic that had already consumed the school and the city.

Ex Titan John Jay Rinch sentenced to death – CNN

I created this years ago to fill in some missing holes in the narrative when I was writing Song of Betrayal. Its raw, dirty and not well done. I never really cleaned it up because I never planned on publishing it. But some else changed that. More on that a bit later.

The reason for this post today is this would be the final day for the Assembly characters on their birth earth. Its the day the ‘repairer of the breach’ prophecy is fulfilled and the day all those assembly that had fallen rise again, to help build the new world. Its also the end of the story arc and the end of the series.

While I have no issues with doing stories on the new world, I won’t until I am finished with the rest of the series. This world is far more interesting than our own because things continue to move a bit differently. Like Brady-American (watch the last Tycoon on Amazon. Its actually good.) or the Redlanders (also watch Tiderlanders which I have talked about). Having a group that can change the forces of fate makes for an interesting world.

So about that other thing. It turns out that Archive Of Our Own is up for a Hugo award. First, what is a Hugo Award?  The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. Its the literary equivalent of the Oscar. Not every author gets nominated and its a very prestegious thing to get. It means all your hard work and vision is noticed and honors by peers.

Like those celebrities who say when they walk the red carpet that ‘Its enough to be nominated.’ Its that level of OMG.

So 2019 Hugo award nominees: http://www.thehugoawards.org/2019/04/2019-hugo-award-1944-retro-hugo-award-finalists/#more-3388

Best Related Work

• Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
• Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, by Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street Books)
• The Hobbit Duology (documentary in three parts), written and edited by Lindsay Ellis and Angelina Meehan (YouTube)
• An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, by Jo Walton (Tor)
• http://www.mexicanxinitiative.com: The Mexicanx Initiative Experience at Worldcon 76 (Julia Rios, Libia Brenda, Pablo Defendini, John Picacio)
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, by Ursula K. Le Guin with David Naimon (Tin House Books)

So what does this have to do with me and the Assembly storyline? Well, I am apart of Archive of Our Own.  This is explains how. Archive of Our Own is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009. As of 2019, Archive of Our Own hosted 4.7 million works in over 32,000 fandoms.

So my love for FakingIt! and the choice to create Amy’s Journal entries along with the written finale added me to the list. Since I incorporated them into my reality this tangentally means that my works are being recognized. This is spectatular.

Thunderclap’s works on Archive of Our Own

So for me this when from a somber day that I posted on my calender to remind myself to stop collecting news reports for novel use to a minicelebration that I never expected would happen. So as for Faking It! I did what I promised. I included Karma and Amy into Song of Hope. Amy has the larger part being that she happens to be a near twin of Lorelei. They both will have a greater part in the final novel of the series

When I post the list of novels, I called the most recent one ‘the widening breach’ I wasn’t aware that this is a name of a current scholarly work on race relations and genetics so I changed the title to ‘Song of Hope’. Gwen sings in it so yes, it qualifies.

The story wraps up the events of the Las Vegas Night in Song of Route 91 and explains in more detail about Lorelei’s ressurection, about what a Circlemaker can do and what the ‘repairer of the breach’ is. It also gives more input into who Emmet is and who he was. I even explain how its possible for Lorelei and Amy to be mirrors. I published a couple of days ago so its available at Barnes & Noble right now for $1

Song Of Hope

With that published, I am now back to finishing Heartbeat Song. This brings me to the final topic of the night, Big Charity.

Apparently the problems with Charity Hospital were worse than I knew. Katrina simply gave LSU and the state an excuse to permanently close the hospital. The hospital had been preennially underfunded because of its age and massive bulk. LSU wasn’t interested in the hospital. It wanted something new that it could charge for, among other reasons. So a short story about how Tyrion and Emmett save Charity the night of the hurricane wouldn’t reallys ave the hospital unless the Hospital belonged to one of them.

So the simple solution is Tyrion owns it. The short story would be a burst of scenes from the twentieth century revealing how Tyrion meets the head of the Sisters of Charity and how he gets involved in Charity hospital though his purchasing the 3rd incarnation (Big Charity, the current empty building) in 1991 from Louisana DHH rather than have it go to LHCA and slowly die. LSU could continue to use the hospital to teach and study but it would have to pay for the privilege. Also, with the size of the building with proper upkeep would lock LSU out from creating another one. Especially if Charity remained free.

I never talked about where Tyrion invested and spent his wealth. This would also explain why he has such a negative attitude about the surface.

I don’t plan on doing that now because I have delayed Heartbeat song enough.

Finally I have settled on a path for Gwen’s career. It will be similar to Jem from Jem and the holograms. Song of Route 91 and Song of Hope gave me the idea that the only way Gwen could rival Taylor is if she appealed to similar audiences. That hook would similar songs and holographic shows. Ie Jem. Basically Gwen takes Katy Perry’s place only much better at writing and singing. Aria shares some of Ariana Grande’s spotlight (she does exist) and I cannonized the fact that Justin Beiber is in fact Michael Cote when I formally published Christmas circle as an ebook.

So as of right now, these celebs have changed paths.

Kanye West: died in 2002 in auto accident before career took off.

Katy Perry: Never got out of Christian Contract, continued to make christian music, never meet those who made her doubt.

Madonna: Chose to not leave Paris after first break and therefore never became the person she is here. Is famouse under real name in Europe and was killed in the attack last year (yes there are muslims attacks there too)

Justin Beiber: Revealed to Michael Cote a pedophile, using this fake identity to attract and molest pubescent girls. Was arrested, tried and sentanced to 70 yrs in federal pen. Was transfered to United States Penitentiary, Pollock (USP Pollock) minimum satellite so he could write Aria’s songs for her.

Dr. Dre: Killed in a drive by on the way home from Vanguard Junior High School in Compton, in 1976 due to gang violence. He was 11 at the time. Yes this means there are no Beats headphones in the Assembly reality. They aren’t that good anyway.

So what happens to rap and Hip-hop? they remain niche music like EDM.

Eazy-E: Eric Wright dropped out of high school in the tenth grade. Wright supported himself primarily by selling drugs, introduced to the occupation by his cousin. He was killed in a drug sale gone south in 1985. (all of this is true expect it was his cousin who died here)

Antoine Carraby: Know to us as DJ Yella, He survived his high school in Compton. However, without Dr. Dre or Jerry Heller he never entered music. Instead, he became a prolific Porn producer. (its what he actually does today. He produced over 300 films)

Lorenzo Jerald Patterson: Known as MC Ren, Patterson joined the Kelly Park Compton Crips, but left shortly after he realized there was no money in the gang. He meet Wright in the gang though so Patterson began selling dope after watching people getting paid. He died in the same drug sale Wright did. His father continues to run a barber shop.

Gerald Elliot “Jerry” Heller: Heller, who had a history of heart problems and diabetes, was driving on September 2, 1984 when he blacked out, crashed his car, and later died at a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California.  He still worked at Coast Artists, Associated Booking and the Chartwell, and opened the Heller-Fischel Agency in Beverly Hills, California which grossed $1.9 million during its first year, $3.7 million the second, $5.8 the third, and over $7 million its fourth year of operation representing rock stars the Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, and Black Oak Arkansas as well as writers at the time Carly Simon, Van Morrison, and Cat Stevens. He later bought out partner Don Fischel who went on to package independent TV productions.  However, without him, hiphop was ignored by mainstream music with was still in hair-band rock and roll era and so allowed for bands like Stanton House Band, (go watch Roadies, its really good.) and Eddie Duran to catch breaks instead.

In fact, Station House will cross paths with Gwen at the 2010 grammys. I will probably incorporate this into a Roadies Fanfic and post it on AOC3, but then again this is after finishing Heartbeat Song.

O’Shea Jackson Sr.: Also known as Ice Cube. However, even though he wrote and performed Rap in High school, this got him no fame or anything else because of Eazy E not being alive. He enrolled at the Phoenix Institute of Technology in the fall of 1987 in Arizona. Being passionate about architecture, he studied architectural drafting. So without rap being anything other than street preformance art. (without Heller or Dr. Dre Music wasn’t interested in it, seeing no money to be made from it. Heller was the one who convinced them) He became an architect. He will be in Song of Vengeance as the person who designs New Taft High and other buildings. However, he balances this with an acting career he gained starting in 1991.

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor: Also known as Lorde. Thanks to the events in Homecoming Song it is revealed that Aria took the mixtape that would have lead to O’connor’s discovery. This pushes her discovery back to November 2011 when Lorde performed her original songs for the first time at the Victoria Theatre. UMG picked her up and her history continues as normal.

Harvey Weinstein: Weinstein, his brother Bob, and Corky Burger independently produced rock concerts as Harvey & Corky Productions in Buffalo through most of the 1970s. in reality. In the Assembly reality, they quickly run afoul of Emmett due their style and the fact they are in upper New York. By 1972, Emmett cuts them out and black balls them. Without the money from their concert promotion business, the brothers can’t create a small independent film distribution company named Miramax,  Instead, Brady distributes them. So any film distributed by Miramax is distributed by Brady which is owned by Siren Song. (ie Emmet across his incarnations)

In fact, Brady merges with Twentieth century Fox, becoming Brady Pictures and later Brady in 1938, so Weinstein would never had been successful regardless. He and his brother live out a life of obscurity scraping by as a Jeweler in NYC.

Finally, While Miley Cyrus does have her career (i changed my mind) certain songs arent hers any more.

Same with Selena Gomez etc. One final point to make. Donald trump is not president.

Neither is Hillary Clinton. Why? Because To help her better understand her changing political views, Professor Alan Schechter assigned Rodham to intern at the House Republican Conference and she attended the “Wellesley in Washington” summer program.^[32] Rodham was invited by moderate New York Republican Representative Charles Goodell to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller‘s late-entry campaign for the Republican nomination. Rodham attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. In the Assembly reality, Nixon knew the Assembly as was specifically asked to not to protray Rockefeller negatively and nor make racist messages. He agreed and with it Rodham didn’t leave the Republican party, didnt write a thesis on Alisky and decided to accept the invitation to work with Nelson Rockefeller when he missed being nominated. Staying on when he was tapped as Vice President, she worked with his staff.

However without a law degree, she returned to school in 1976. Also without the hatred of Nixon, she was never involved in his impeachment or viewed a bright star. So she got a degree and clerked but because of the time in Washington she missed the window with Bill. Therefore, she never returned to power or prominence. She is simply an unmarried lawyer who works in NYC.

So who is president? I havent decided. Its not going to be a common person.

Anyway, this has rambled long.  Thanks for reading. (and I do have to post the Brady American wikipedia. )

 

 

 

 

 

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Happy International Mermaid Day!

Quick update!

The order of the series is as follows:

1. Midnight Train song
2. Song of the Gyre
3. Heartbeat Song

This is the first trilogy, the beginnings trilogy. It explains how the orgins of the main characters and the current story arc of Song of the Assembly. It is set in late 2006 to late 2007.

1. Song of Betrayal
2. Song of Vengeance
3. Homecoming song

This is the elevation trilogy. This explains how Gwen got into the royal linage and her fight with Aria. It also fleshes out Tom more. It is set in 2009 to 2010.

1. Song of Route 91
2. The widening breach
3. Song of Miracles

This is the final trilogy. This explains the breach prophecy. It is set in late 2017 to April 12, 2019.

I just finished the widening breach and with complete Heartbeat song by the end of the year.

Also, I incorporated Amy and Karma (of Faking It!) into the Widening breach making the fanfiction of the series canonical.

Thanks for all you all out there.