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Paul Dixon
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By day: Mild-mannered climate geek working to decarbonize the power grid.
By night: SF&F Author of Carpathians and more!

Links:
Owlskirk: https://a.co/d/5DE3Nq8
Carpathians: https://a.co/d/6lYc08V
Starfall: https://a.co/d/hR5yHbL
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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · May 15
From Sunfall, which is available at last! This completes the Ethereal Cycle. It began as a pandemic project, a way to write down the stories my daughter and I told walking in the woods.

Now it's a finished trilogy. Wild.

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Vibes. This from Sunfall. Today's going-wide update: still trying to convince the Google Play Books Team that I actually, y'know, wrote these things.

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November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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From Sunfall. The going wide experience rolls on. Today: getting rejected by Google Play because I haven't adequately proved I wrote... my own novels. Alas. (I'm told this is fixable, but still frustrating - plan for delays is my best advice)

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November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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From Sunfall.

In today's going wide adventure, we learn that Vellum apparently no longer supports section breaks for purposes of creating sample files. There's a couple of hours of my life I'd like back.

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November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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From Sunfall - going wide preparations continuing. Bleh. So many forms to fill and so much meta-data to configure...

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November 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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From Sunfall. It's going wide month! So much metadata to configure... so many platforms...

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November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Okay #WIPSnips: a bit of news on the Ethereal Cycle: I'm going wide! This will mark my first indie-published departure from the closed Amazon ecosystem. We shall see how we go here.

This is from Sunfall.

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November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Okay #WIPSnips throwback Sunday it is. This is the opening of a short story called "Necrotopia", which I wrote a long time ago and have always meant to return to and novelize someday.

Someday....!

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November 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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From Carpathians II. I'm pretty sure these two aren't going to get anywhere, engaging in theological debates...

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November 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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From Carpathians II. This is Anne Johnston, aka AJ, aka Anahita Jonestown, captain of the Accipiter.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This is fun: an online interview I did with Paul Semel around the Carpathians release.

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November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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From Carpathians II. Little flashback to the not so good ol days...

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November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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From Carpathians II. This one probably won't make a heck of a lot of sense without context, but such is the way of #WIPSnips!

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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Vibes today. From Carpathians II. Lunchtime marooned on an alien moon...

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November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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From Carpathians II. Feyis, telling stories again...

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November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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This is from Carpathians II, as promised. Kester doing Kester things, math and brooding mostly.

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November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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From Carpathians II - start of chapter 7, the reappearance of the ever-popular Feyis...

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November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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From Carpathians, as no great instances of "movement" thus far in the sequel. Not sure what that means exactly. Hopefully, it's not that thing where the characters just stand around talking to each other all the time. You know what I mean...

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November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Okay #WIPSnips - you're making me reach deep into the bag for this one! This is from Return to Moreau, which is a novella included in the Owlskirk collection.

P.S. This did make me think of Philip K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth", which I recommend..

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November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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More from our good friend Dr. Herecic. This is the start of Chapter 21 (!) - the first draft of Carpathians 2 rumbles along...

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November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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From Carpathians II. For those of you familiar, yup this is our old friend Dr. Herecic, back and with his own POV in the sequel. Which should be... interesting.

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November 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Okay, I promised as much from the Carpathians sequel as I could, so here we go. That said, without context, these snippets may make less sense than ever...

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November 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Little late with this one. From Sunfall. Feliz Dia de los Muertos! (All Saints Day here in Spain)

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November 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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As promised, turning to Carpathians II! Will try to post as much as I can from the sequel going forward, which is very much in progress.

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October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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From Sunfall (I mean - "spell"? How can I not?)

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October 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Vibes today, from Sunfall. This series definitely gets a little more adult as it goes, once the parents get involved...

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October 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM