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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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From Carpathians 2... About halfway into the first draft over here.

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December 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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A little Carpathians II fun this morning. This is from the prologue. I'm about 75K words into the first draft, for those curious, so this is definitely happening. In less than 20 years this time.

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December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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From Moonfall today. And, for your latest going-wide PSA, I can offer this: it's a slog for sure.

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December 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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From Starfall - taking it back to the beginning this morning.

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December 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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From Carpathians 2. Not sure if I've shared part of this already, but this is where we meet AJ as a POV character for the first time.

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December 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Happy Caturday! From Carpathians 2 today.

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December 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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From Sunfall. The going wide experiment continues. There is, I will just say, a lot to learn...

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December 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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From Sunfall, which is, I am happy to announce, wide at last! Solved my verification issue on Google (not that hard in the end; helps to know what they're looking for). Next up: the BookBub advertising ecosystem... friend or foe? Stay tuned!

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December 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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From Carpathians 2 today, as I have nothing substantive to say about going wide, other than that so far... I have not.

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December 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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From Moonfall. In other news... Google still doesn't know who I am. Sigh.

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December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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From Monfall.

A depressing lack of updates from the going-wide experiment, as I am stuck in Google Play account verification hell. Alas. We can solve translation and create AI agents, but not evidently figure out who wrote their own book.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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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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Exclusive Interview: "Carpathians" Author Paul A. Dixon \ In which he talks about this hard science fiction novel.
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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