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A Note from Bj Jones

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I had tried to get this attached to the Sylum Update Post, but technology failed and worked all the same time.  So the original Post went out to email and Social Media, but didn’t add the new part.   But the blog posted the new part.  Seriously I don’t know.  I think even the technology is having a WTF moment today.

So now I’m adding this as a separate post.

It likely needs to be one.

I’m pretty sure we’re all in shock this morning.   Many of us don’t know where to go or how to handle what the fuck just happened.  I don’t normally get political and I’m not actually going to now, but I wanted to take a moment to say a few things.

Sylum isn’t going to go away.

If there is a moment in time when Sylum is need.  It is now.

I can’t do anything to change what has happened, but I can make a welcoming place for all.

Sylum has always been about family.  Everyone on this blog is family.  You are welcome here.

I will continue writing Sylum.  I will continuing making a world we’re we can hope and dream in.

Today of all days I wish there was a Sylum Clan.  Wish for a Nicolaus Meridius.  Wish for Jed Bartlett.  For a Pius XVII.  For Ernesto.  And I think we all could use Ezio right about now.

But if all I can give you is a place of safety, security, and something to make you smile and your day hopefully a bit brighter.

That is what I’ll do.

So in Conclusion.

Sylum is Here.  We’re here to stay.

Advent is around the corner and we have a fun idea brewing for it.

Sincerely,

Bj Jones

Sylum Update: Clarification … Please Read

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Sylum Update

 

We’ve gotten some questions concerning 10th Anniversary Clan War … basically – how many more chapters?  And when will it be done?

We figured it would be easiest to post an update of where we’re at in the Grand Scheme of Sylum.

Lets be honest.

It will be done when it’s done.

Sylum as much as it feels like a full time job – isn’t actually our job.  There are moments in RL that nothing for Sylum gets done, because of work, family and social commitments.  We work hard on Sylum, but there is only so much we can work on.

Speaking of – Sylum Advent is bearing down on us, which is taking a HUGE portion of our time.

The 10th Anniversary Edition of Clan War is being worked on and it’s getting done – at this moment the chapter Clan War (not to be too confusing :D) is about 3/4 finished.   We hit a plot wall half way through it, which led to the previously announced canon changes.

Which led to edits – a time suck of epic proportions.

Family and Evolution both ended up with rough edits … just enough to update the series concerning the major canon changes mentioned. Specifically – Sam Winchester having the soul of Theo instead of Meridia.

When we finish Clan War *sends prayers up to Saint Roberto – Patron Saint of Plot Bunnies* we will fully edit Family and Evolution, along with Side Stories that will need to come inline with changes made in Clan War and the Wiki.

Do not worry.  We’ll posts announcements when we finish editing any story.  Dudes there will likely be fireworks, parties, and alcohol  involved with each successful update!

As for how many chapters are left in Clan War … normally I would point out how many chapters there were in the Original.  But with the way Bob has been working – I can say this:  as previously stated Clan War is 3/4 finished, Aftermath is the next chapter … These are guaranteed to be part of Clan War.   The rest will play out as we go.  Bob is and will always be an evil bastard.

Before the screeching begins.  No we’re not taking out Nick’s ‘Grave Danger’ moment … it’s likely to become it’s own story.  Why? Because if you noticed in the CSI Anthology series and what’s been published so far with 10th Anniversary Edition – there are a lot more connections and vampires running around Vegas … which will make that particular story more complicated.

So in conclusion.

Thank You for your continued support and sticking with us.

Please be patient with us as we can only do one thing at a time.

It will get done.

It will dammit!

As there is so much more to come.

In the meantime hold on to your hats and glasses cause wait till you see what’s coming for Advent!

The General

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Sylum Update: Evolution Arc

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Sylum Update: Evolution Arc

 

Sylum Arc: Evolution has been moved to the Sylum Archive!

During this move we did a rough edits to updated it to the new Sylum Canon of Sam Winchester having the Soul of Theo, instead of Meridia.

We also updated elements of the story to bring it inline with the Winchester Story and the death of Balthazar (since Bob had decided to change things while in the middle of writing that particular storyline!)

Any changes that will need to be made to bring Evolution inline with the changes made in the 10th Anniversary Clan War will be made once that Arc has been finished, and updates/changes are made in previous Arcs.

In the meantime!

Go read/re-read Evolution! 

Throwback Thursday: Clan Travel Brochure Video

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As we’re approaching one year since the Sylum Wiki went live.

*still has nightmares about the wiki*

Add in that this December while y’all are enjoying Advent, I’ll be in December Wiki Wiki – updating, editing, and adding characters.

Clan Travel Brochure Video

 

Also don’t forget you can download the Soundtrack of all the music featured in the Video!

 

Sylum Update: Family Arc

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Announcement:  Please READ this CAREFULLY!

 

There has been some minor edits to this story.

The first set of edits relates to the change in Sylum CANON that Sam Winchester has the soul of Nico’s youngest boy, Theo instead of Meridia.

The second set of edits relates to Hillary not being Mated to Thomas.

We’ve done this to clear up some confusion for those reading the series for the first time.  Especially as these two things were major changes in Sylum Canon.

Edits that need to be done to bring the story inline with the changes made from the 10th Anniversary Clan War will take place once Clan War is finished!  So please do not email us stating that so and so isn’t in the wiki anymore, or in Bonding you stated this and it counters this is in Family.

We’ve only done a very rough run through Family to change:  Sam has the soul of Theo and take out references of Hillary being Thomas’ Mate.  That’s it.  The rest will be adjusted in time.

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To read or see the adjustments:  Go to the Sylum Archive

 

 

 

Happy Birthday to the General

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So today is my Birthday!

*tosses confetti*

I’m not going to mention years, though if you subtract 2016 from 432 …. you’ll get an estimate!

What do I want for my birthday?  Besides World Peace, Sylum Manor, and a really really good Flat White?

I would like to hit 100 sales from my book, right now I’m at 58.  That means I need 42 more sales.

There are 701 of you on this blog.

You’re here because you found Sylum at some point and went oohh I like that, lets see what happens next.   Some of you are new and have wandered in via POI Afternoon Fic and probably wondering what you stumbled into!

Help a General out on their Birthday!

Buy my book.   It’s a novella and it’s only 99 cents.  I would love to hit 100 sales by the end of the year.

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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

Where:

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Itunes/Ibooks

Smashwords (If you have Kindle and need Mobi Format, you can get it at Smashwords)

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For those who’ve bought the book.  Thank You!  So what can you get the General for their birthday?? Leave a Review at the following places, even if it’s just giving it a star rating.  I’m trying to generate interest, and the more reviews the better.

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And for my gift to you … a small snippet of a Timestamp I’m working on for Advent!

 

 

As dawn approached, siblings Jacob and Evy Frye made their way across the last of the rooftops, towards their home. They were tired, worn out, drained, and exhausted. They had been chasing down a small group of Rogues, who had decided it would be bloody fun to Feed on teenagers and leave their bodies in back allies.

After the third body, the press whipped the locals into a frenzy declaring the death’s to be ‘Ripper’ style murders, which instantly got Abberline’s attention. Once it was realized that the victim’s blood had been drained from their bodies, with no visible mark, the press went overdrive and started calling the potential killer ‘Dracula’.

Neither situation was good, and no one wanted Ripper in London.

With the MacManus’s occupied at Saint Michael’s Mount, Abberline approached the other set of twins. If there was anyone, who knew London, it was them. He gave them the information, and figured it was best that they dealt with the situation, instead of the local bobbies getting in over their head.

Jake really didn’t have much faith in the local police. It didn’t matter what time period, most were corrupt bastards, especially in the East End. If they weren’t corrupt, they were too few of them to make a difference.

They hunted the bastards down for three days.

Relentlessly.

Until every single one of them was a pile of dust, swept away by the dustman as they picked up the garbage.

By the time they headed back to their home, the adrenaline was dropping, the aches were settling in, and neither were fully awake.

Jake’s landing onto the street blow, may have been a bit off.   Actually he landed perfectly, an trained Assassin, especially one who had their assed kicked by Nicolaus and Altair at one point in time, could land perfectly with one knee down, hand on ground in their sleep. Jake just kinda tilted slightly.

Evy landed behind him, a bit more graceful. She kicked his ass, sending him into the gutter, chuckling as she stepped over him, barely avoiding tripping herself and entered the building.

“Fuck you, woman.” Jake pushed himself off the ground, and followed her inside. They dragged themselves up the stairs, and into their loft.

Gear. Clothes. Weapons.

All landed on the floor, a direct path to their individual bedrooms. Jake’s top hat landed on the lamp, on the nightstand just as he face-planted into his bed. A small part of his brain thought he should take shower, but he had no energy left to even contemplate it.

Just as his eyes shut, and he was on the verge of blessed sleep …

A high pierced alarm shot through his head, waking him up.

New Fic by Bj Jones: Dissociation

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New Fanfic by Bj Jones

This is a quick announcement that there is a new Person of Interest Story in The General’s Office – click on the Fanfic Banner.

Fic: Dissociation
Summary: John’s eyes drifted closed, taking Harold’s promise with him.  His last thoughts were if this was a simulation may he never wake up from it.

While you’re there you might want to check out other POI Stories: Dragons of Interest and Desperation.

 

Sylum Sneak Peek: Watch Dog

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This is the story I’m working on at the moment … I’ve been working on it for a while.  It was supposed to come out during Seven Days *hahahahahaha* Sorry …  It was basically set to be a prequel, intro to the POI storyline into Sylum.

Then these two….

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Kneecapped their original storyline and decided they wanted a bigger, brighter, longer storyline.

So now I’m re-working Watch Dog to fit their new arc.  And just as I started to get a handle on it ….

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This got into the mix ….

REALLY!?

*sighs*

Looks at Harold and John … you two good now?

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And now for the sneak peek:

Read more“Sylum Sneak Peek: Watch Dog”

Throwback Thursday: Carry On My Wayward Son Series

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Series: Carry On My Wayward Son

Author: Bj Jones

Rating: FRAO

Summary:  Two stories.  First one deals with Sam & Dean dealing with Past Lives while hunting a Human Hunter.   The second is Sam & Dean facing Balthazar to save their father.

Author’s Note:  The third is still in the works.  John Winchester is being a stubborn asshole.

2nd Author’s Note:  It’s been edited/updated to go with new canon.

Link to Sylum Archive

 

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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*

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

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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