It's been a while since I've blogged and yes I'll do a Bronycan retrospective post later, but for now something fun.

So while working on Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress and trying to write some dialogue in my head, I realized I didn't quite know how the voices of my characters sounded like. I mean... as an author you can sortof see the scene and assign a voice to them, but it's never specific unless you internally designate it.

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Due to chapter posting delays I'm extending the AMA deadline until Friday.

Post your questions here or preferably on the actual AMA blogpost

vren55

Alternia and I have done AMA's before, so this time, I'm opening the floor for all questions of all kinds in light of Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress nearing its climax. Just leave them in the comments section of this blog post. I will take questions for four days starting now. I will stop taking questions on August 15 midnight Eastern Standard Time.

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Hey, story fans, I'm heading to Bronycan again this year and speaking at not one, not two, but THREE 1 hour panels! Everybody in Vancouver, Canada, watchout, here I come on August 19-21 at the Richmond Airport Executive Hotel. I've figured out my schedule using Sched.org so you can come and chat with me whenever about the Alternia-tive Verse, about writing, or anything in general!

Panels I'll be speaking at (all led/moderated by the awesome GaryOak)

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So, I've been doing some book reviews and recommendations of late, but now I think it's time to take a momentary break from that and plug an artist who has been doing some fanart of Princess Celestia: The Changeling Queen and its sequel Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress.

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I'm still working on the side-stories and legendarium I want to publish in the PC:TCQ Behind the Mask Short story compilation story, but for now, I'll just write this short thing.

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Wow. Princess Celestia: The Changeling Queen has 3001 likes...

Seriously wow.

I mean I know the the characters are great and all, but this is a story I couldn't get into EQD, the Royal Guard, and has been criticized heavily for style and grammar.

And you all like it.

Wow.

I WILL do something special to celebrate this, but I'm going to need some time because of school stuff, but I'd just like to say, thanks to everybody for just reading my work and liking it.

Sincerely,

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Question...

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Just to let everybody know that Plainoasis, (excellent artist btw, just see his work) has agreed to take up the job.... for free, and he's already sent some sample cover arts I VERY much like.

I seriously can't wait. Have a look at his other work. He's VERY good.

Hey all, I've got a problem.

Angelea, my regular artist who made the cover to Princess Celestia: The Changeling Queen was commissioned by me to make a coverart for Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress, a while ago... a long, long, while ago.

Unfortunately, due to personal issues and problems, she's been unable to continue after leaving a few drafts, see here:

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Zervziel and I were having a discussion about Starlight Glimmer's spell and what would happen if she used the same "Screw with the timeline" spell she used in the Season 5 finale on the Princess Celestia: The Changeling Queen timeline.

The answer? Not good, definitely not good. You see, remove Twilight, and I came up with a couple of timelines, a lot of them looking very bad. For example... we go by the Nightmare Moon Timelines:

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Cause I really need to do something silly or else I'm going to go mad (i've been editing/writing an essay all day).

Without ado, lets do this.

vren55: Hey Alternia. How's work?

Alternia: *grumble* Your story is long, complicated, and you write slower than a turtle. Work is fine I guess.

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More supplemental information for Princess Celestia: The Changeling Queen and Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress. Enjoy!

Sister, I and Belladonna have put together a summary on the history of our kind for your reference. As you well know, traditions play a key role in our society, and your knowledge of our kind’s history is understandably out of date, and I think you will find this a very welcome refresher.

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First off, Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress stuff... I will be putting out a short blog post with some lore info on the changeling queens as written from Simulacris's point of view. I'm still writing it however.

Now on to the main blog post.

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Over the years I've seen and favorited quite a lot of art. What I never expected to get when I started writing Princess Celestia: The Changeling Queen years back however, was fanart, which I've gotten quite a few.

Hence, it's time for me to recount all the fanart i've seen and show my appreciation by showing off all the talent that was for some reason, directed to a story written by little old me.

First off

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I love community, I love having fun, and I love interacting with my fans.

So here's someplace you might want to hit.

The Alternia-tive Universe Group

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I'm a bit hesitant about putting this up, but because the stuff I talked about here with good old GaryOak and Soundslikeponies at the Bronycan fanfiction panel was pretty useful, I'm just going to link it.

Yes I'm the Asian dude on the left with the Chrysalis plushie. Can you expect anything else otherwise?

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First off, the sequel is finally here!

Have a look at: Equestria's Changeling Queen and the Abyssal Empress if you got unanswered questions. Like: Will Alternia found a hive? Or how will she get along with Celestia? All and more will be answered.

Problem, I messed up.

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I made a bit of a derp.

I told/promised my Zervziel my plot editor that I would be submitting the story on saturday.

Internally I thought Saturday = Sep 6 which was Sunday, which i thought was saturday.

Basically Zerv called me out, I decided yeah, I messed up, lets get this done and finished.

So the prologue and chapter 1 are now finished and the story's off.

THIS WILL BE AWESOME. So start partying in the comments!

For you will be:

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I can't really say much about the seaquel apart from that the pre-readers are sortof on schedule and I expect them to be finished with the chapters 1-3. I'm sure the prologue and 1 will be up by Sep 6 so don't worry about that.

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