The word "trinity" sounds too pretty. No matter what you stick to it, it still sounds nice.

Dark Trinity? Must be about a witches coven
Hell's Trinity? I think I saw that on a porno

instead, how's about...

"For Whom the Scripture tolls"

I put eye, because I bet blood is taken

Eye of the Antichrist
Caligo Deus
Caster of Souls / Soul Caster
Rapiemur

I'm far from an expert in Catholicism, but I do believe they teach in rapture like we do (we all have different names for it) which implies "...Christ in the flesh..." is technically implausible.

Question: How have believers reacted to the ideas for the new series so far?

Question: What is the planned release order between this and [G a l a x y T a l e s]?

How's the protagonist/s shaping up?

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'twas battery-drive... 9V if I recall correctly (Because D-Cells would slip off my rigging and the 9V was squarer)... may have been one of those giant 6V. I had built a lab supply but I recall I wasn't using it for some reason - probably because the cheap potentiometer would adjust/spike wildly from just a little hand motion.

Couldn't tell you the year or the generation of transistor to save the life of me. I did own vacuum tubes but not the slightest idea how to wire them up.

The noise was a hiss. I remember you had to crank the volume in source just to hear music over the hiss. I did start soldering in there figuring there was play in the contacts of the breadboard. Then I remember switching to that other board (sorry, I don't know the name but it's really thin and the holes go all the way through and there's copper ringlets around them so you can just join things up with a dollop of solder. It was on this second board I was able to get anything more than static.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 … son-babies

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When I was in HS I set out to build a transistor stereo amplifier for the final project in Shop class. I found some circuit patterns from who knows where, got the pats (We used to have RadioShack in this country back then) and set to work. 3 weeks and much frustration later I had built what I think is the world's first "noise-adding stereo deamplifierr". Teacher gave me an A which sorta tells you the extent of the bell curve and the calibre of the competing projects

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I once lost a parsnip on a bus. I've wondered all these years what the finder of said tuber thought. Like Holy Cow, it's a parsnip! Or was it more like wtf is that??

Nope you're on rule #11 and about to finish that so you can get back to writing

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That chapter I spent the last 12 weeks working on? I've just deleted it. Better idea now. That old sh*t is dead, never coming back.

Do any of you do that?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/ … ars-SpaceX
He's sending his car to Mars. Can you get more epic?

You don't need to restrict yourself to making humans genderless if you don't want and/or it makes the story more difficult to write. I mean we can tell animal genders - the presence of mammary glands being the at-a-glance giveaway. Even without that, many species give away their genders readily (chickens, peacocks, swordtails, tarantulas etc).

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That's literally and figuratively the name. "The Shred Group". A place where reviews can be meaner than anything I've ever come up with

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The new shred group... Whose function is clearly to punish one particular member would appear to be quite debilitating.  No one to see your posts... Can't see others... It'd be hard to survive long in there. Hard not to fade away...

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*Bzzt!*

That's actually do-able if you can find the images and stat them

There will be other crews to pick from when I'm done

I'm trying to figure out a point-buy system to allow people to build their own crew (I mean tng had two doctors) so that people can customize their entries.

Unfortunately, Star Trek Enterprise and Discovery didn't make the cut, as I've never seen them and wouldn't be able to judge. If there are volunteer judges, I will add them. I plan to include non-ST series on a "would-like" basis such as a Luke-Leia-Han_Chewie team, And a Sinclair-Delenn-G-Kar-Garibaldi team. Sadly, I was disinterested in Firefly but a team of that is feasible - just don't expect fair judging.

This contest should be ready early to mid spring

I thought I'd drop a teaser about this. It will be crew-vs-crew.
http://kwan.skyfire.ca/images/ContestPreview.jpg

*Also, may I request you delete my name from your above post to help keep the Google-Monster from here?

No active marketing occurring at this time, but when there is, it's [K w a n] doing it, which is why I'm a little hard to find. Just Google her name plus her home town (H i l l v a l e) or some other identifier for Google to latch onto, and you should find her fb, her G+, her blog and other goodies.

Marketing is down to the occasional passive "I'm still here" post. Will spin it back up once Book 4 (K i m b e r l y) is around 6 months from the press (So, probably October).

Yes, I live in Hamilton. No, that address Google gives you is wrong. I don't know where that's cached from but I'd hardly want it to update to current, so I'm ok with it as is

I'm not sure either the original title nor the new will snag your target market.

I wouldn't worry too much about the target market... they will find you if you market right.

There is a market for every story - just need to find it. Tolkien ate 20ish editors telling him there was no market. Look at where he is now. Hmm. Ok he's dead ,so terrible example, but if he was alive, he'd shout something like "Those movies are terrible!"

I'll eventually build this into a contest

Wasn't me. You guys had a poltergeist

*bzzt!*

Don't give them a day together or there'll be world conquest or something