Just got in from training...
Every muscle aches... I may have a black eye in the morning... I desperately want to take a shower and feel normal again...
But before that, my Minions, I have decided to let you know what's been happening in the Wonderful World of the Me. On the desk before me is my editor and agent's notes on Death Bringer, which I have been reading and thinking about and then applying these changes to the manuscript. I just got off the phone to Laura, and she assures me she'll have her notes by Friday at the latest.
Which means that this latest edit of Book 6 will be sent back to my editor on Tuesday, and then we'll go through it once more quickly, and then the long process of printing can begin. (And yes, I have not forgotten my plan to let you read a sample chapter before it's published!)
In other news...
I was in London on Monday morning, meeting with Big American Studio People about possibly making the Skulduggery movie. They were hugely interesting, and very enthusiastic, and they were putting forward their view on why they'd be the best people to make the film. It's early stages yet, and I made it absolutely clear that I won't be making a decision for another few months, but it was a wonderful first meeting. Next week I'm heading over again to meet with another set of Movie People, with the same understanding that I'm not about to sign away the movie rights until I've considered every angle.
But still, it's so much fun being back in Movie Mode.
Of course, it means a lot more work for me. I thought the second half of this year would be calm, allowing me to write something non-Skulduggery. But apparently, that's not going to happen. In fact, the rest of this year is going to be jam-packed FULL of Skulduggery stuff. It's a good thing I love my job, I swear to God...
I go now. My shower calls to me. My shower is weird.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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~puts Kallista's beautiful/villainous head on a pillow~
Awwww! Seriously, Raven? That's so adorable! :]
One time Tinkerbell, out outside cat, was sitting there next to me outside. I was watching her absently as a little flying bug thingie landed on her paw. It was really small, but she noticed and looked down. Then she shook her paw slightly and it flew off. :] It was so cute!
LOL, Kallista! Bravo!
~applauds~
awwww! that sounds adorable! and it is POURING now lol, *applaudes kallista*
Well, at least it's not... hailing or something :P
Rain is cool :]
yup, and weird weather has arrived yet again, it stopped again after, what?, 5-8mins? lol
Ok, I will try to take a look! I can't make commitments to series right now. :-P
That's so odd! I'm still wondering why on earth we're having such strange weather so much this year!
lol Alright, Ann! :]
LOL! it's always the capes that cause disruption! :P
Awww I have to leave :/
Farewell, my friends!
~hugs everyone~
Good-what-ever-the-time-is!!
~waves madly~
oh ok, bye Skyril *hugs*
*waves*
Aw, everyone's animals are cute!
*applauds Kallista*
I dreamed that we took in another cat, big solid dark gray tabby. I have no idea why I'd agree to that. I think we have enough.
Im alright, just finished two exams. Yourself?
Bye Skyril! ...like 20 minutes later. *sigh*
im srry your comp isnt cooperating, ann
*hugs* night
*hugs* night Kallista
Goodnight Kallista!
im tired too, i think im gonna go to sleep, Night Ann. night alex, nice to meet you
ill be on tomorrow sometime
Hi all!
*hugs Aquila*
My internet isn't working great. I can't load this page fast enough to really talk to people, sorry. :-(
No prob.
Next time someone sees Ev, could you ask her to change her name back? I asked her to a few days ago, and she changed it back, and she said she WOULDN'T change it after I'd gone. But look, she has done... *sighs*
I have to go to school now... I'll be on tonight, bye *hugs Kallista before he leaves*
Hi/Bye Dragona!
*leaves for breakfast*
Still there, Dragona?
Oh well.
AANN!? still here?
*sigh* ach well, ill catch ya at some point...
i g2g to school now...cannae be bothered though, am so tired :(
bye peeps!
hello?
no1 is on
>:(
now i'm lonely
Anyone there?
MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im soooo lonely
Hi Guys!
hi :)
I have been thinking...
it is writen on http://www.skulduggerypleasant.com/us/ that skulduggery whas born 12/31-1906 but in the books it says that he where fighting for more than a 100 years in the war
(sorry if the spelling or the grammar where incorrect.... im from swe... thats my exuse^^)
Tessa! Still here? Probably not, it's been an hour. Longer for Scarlet, forever since Rachel and Jaffa.... :-(
Mr. Pleasant is more than 400 years old. The age thing is some arbitrary cut-off, where a website didn't think anyone could be older than 100, apparently. Then it got repeated a few places, something like that.
I am still here!
*hope y'all are still here, though*
*downs a cup of coffee*
I'll be staying online just in case someone comes online.
I have to go now... my shower calls to me too.
*walks in*
Hi all!
*arches eyebrow at Kallista*
Lol kallista - my shower's like that too.
Hi Aquila!
and anyone else who could be secretly spying on us *eyes blog corners warily*
bye Kallista!! -sigh- I just got on, too.
Uh-oh...
*looks at Kallista*
Hi Rubescent, don't think we've met.
*shakes hand*
Hey!
*gets a felt-tip and draws a new eyebrow*
Nice to meet you Aquila! :)
*grabs banana mid-air and takes large bite* Thanks, Kallista!!
*stares at her in awe*
How did you do that?
*picks up banana from the floor*
*gets the peel off*
*eats it*
haha. I have ninja skills.
(seriously, my shirt says so)
Well, if your shirt says so it's got to be true, right? ^^
*puts banana-peel on the floor*
*grins*
*waits for someone to slip on it*
*nimbly avoids slipping over banana peel* HA!
*trips over own two feet*
darn it!
*grins*
*acts like nothing happened*
*army of monkeys comes in and starts eating bananas*
0.0
*slowly backs away from them*
*blends in with monkeys*
*gobbles up bananas*
oo-oo-aa! *gives a loud monkey screech*
*coughs*
*gets a HUGE cage*
*puts it over every banana eating being*
DARN it!
*drops monkey disguise*
*draws out large welding torch from pocket*
ha-ha!
*arches eyebrow*
*puts explosives next to the cage*
Go on if you really want to...
^^
...of course you also could just ask me to let you out...
^^
*morphs into Billy-Ray Sanguine and melts through cage and floor*
*laughs creepily from below*
Oh...
*looks at floor, worried*
*changes to eagle and flys up high*
I HAD YO-GURT FOR BREAKFAST!
Yaaaaaay~
*comes back above ground, clutching Hagrid's motorbike (that once belonged to Sirius Black but we won't get into that)*
You can't escape ME! I have MAGIC POCKETS!!
0o
*flys down*
*hides behind Mar*
Hi Mar!^^
Hellooooooooooooo!
*waves*
oh hi Mar!!
*puts welding torch and magic motorbike back into pockets*
*looks innocent*
Something old,
something new,
something big,
something...
BLUE!
YES!! FIRST COMMENT ON PAGE 19!!! EPIC!!!
See you soon (so to speak) Aquila! I'll probably still be here! Don't forget to bring the key to let the monkeys out from the cage!!
The ocean!
it's old, new, big and BLUE!
NOOOOOO!
Another hint-
It's smaller on the outside, bigger on the inside.
Back!
*gives key to Rubescent*
... Tardis?
thanks Aquila!
*unlocks monkey cage* Be free my banana-eating minions!
YES! YES IT'S THE TARIDS!
YAAAAAAY AQUILA!
"I've been looking for a word, a big complicated word, but so sad, I've found it now."
"What word?"
Alive. I'm Alive."
Alive isn't sad."
It's sad when it's over,I'll always be here, but this is when we talked and even that has come to a end. There's something I didn't get to say to you."
"Goodbye."
"No, I just wanted to say hello, hello Doctor, it's so very very nice to meet you."
*looks at quoting Mar*
*arches eyebrow*
Do I have to get that?
*mumbles*
I guessed right although I never watched Doctor Who... ... ...guess it's virulent...
I've never heard of the Tardis till now. I've heard of Doctor Who, but I never watched it. (i know what the Tardis is know - I google it)
:P
Yay! I'm not the only one who doesn't watch it! ^^
*high-fives Rubescent*
"Please point your gun at me if it helps you relax"
*everyone points his or her gun at the Doctor*
"...well okay."
haha. Mar-Chu you do realize neither Aquila nor I have any idea what you are talking about?
Everyone is saying "we are not fools!" all at once, but it really sounds like "We are not food!"
Yeah!
Dannyboy!
"Dannyboy to the doctor, Dannyboy to the Doctor! Give 'em hell Dannyboy!"
Yeah, I know~
I think she might just love it too much to stop...
*looks at Mar curiously*
oh dear... :D
Yeah! The pirates!
...eh...freaky lizard people. Or, rather, freaky lizard lady.
"Devils run, where a good man goes to war."
ooookkkayy. *backs away from Mar slowly*
*sees freaky lizard lady behind me*
Aaah! I don't even know what that thing IS!!!
"Ewwwww, kissing and crying. I-I-I'll be back later."
*pushs lizard thing in the cage*
*holds door closed till Rubescent locked it*
*looks at it*
...neither do I...
"Hello...Hello, uh, baby."
LOL
The Doctor speaks baby.
*starts quoting song she's listening to as to combat Mar-Chu's quotes*
"badababadababa-a - so one day you found her crying, coiled up on the dirty ground"
"keep your feet on the ground, when your head's in the clouds"
WEll, I should go.
I think I'm on the verge of breakthrough for writer block.
...and I probably just jinxed it...
*pokes Mar*
Either go or stay, but I'll start quoting Lord of the Rings to combat you and Rubescent if you two continue like this... ^^
*puts Lord of the Rings CD on*
YAY! Paramore!!! "if it's not real you can't hold it in your hand, you can't feel it in your heart"
"Go get your shovel, and we'll dig a deep hole, to bury the castle, bury the castle"
Good luck combating writer's block, Mar-Chu! I totally understand!
*stops quoting song for Aquila's sake*
*sighs in relieve*
*listens to LOTR*
What? I'm only practicing my English...
*whistles innocently*
what do you have the book on CD or the soundtrack?
The book...
42 hours...
...
^^
wow!! Have you ever finished it?
Erm... no... not yet...
It's kinda difficult, because I can't do much whilst listening to it... I have to concentrate. ^^
But I'm kinda proud I manage to write with you whilst listening... ^^
Hi again Kallista!
*pokes back*
0o
Hey!
*follows her*
Hello Kallista!!
Lol, you two are mad.
Noo... we're completly sane...
Aren't we, Kallista?
^^
hahaha. ya......
...
...
no.
don't worry, though, I'm equally crazy!!! :P
Oh, good... ^^
*continues hunting Kallista to return the poke*
0o
I DON'T!
*whispers to Ruby*
In case you don't know it: It's actually Kallista who loves noogies...
*thinks about what Kallista just told her*
hmmm....
*hides in corner waiting to noogie-ambush Aquila*
0o
*mumbles*
*gets a helmet*
Hehe...
*sees Kallista* hmmm... Is that so, Aquila?
*gives Kallista mega noogie*
haha!
:D
*roasts marshmallows over glowing Kallista*
*Laughs out loud so hard my brain starts squirting brain juice*
oww... my brain...
*brain juice attracts lightning*
falls down, equally crispy as Kallista.
*gets gumboots*
Just in case... ^^
ewww.... Kallista, that was MY brain juice... go drink some of Aquila's...
:P
... I prefer my head unopened, thanks.
well, there are certain types of vampires that drink brain juice. They have these really long fangs that pierce the skull... They leave your head relatively unopened. ("relatively" compared to, say, cracking your skull open.)
...*gets stronger helmet and a cross*
*reads Kallista's thoughts*
*hides behind Aquila*
on second thought... *gets fire hose and sprays down Kallista*
*goes back to hiding behind Aquila*
*hides Ruby*
thank you, Aquila.
You're welcome.
*distracts Kallista with some left over bananas*
*hopes the bananas'll work*
*draws out giant shield from magic pockets*
Quick, Aquila! Behind me!
*hides behind Ruby*
awww... *helps Kallista up*
there you go. :)
It would be so great if there would be a movie. I wasnt in the cinema in ages. Theres nothing good. You realy have to change this.
And I really hurted my foot at the last training. That had to be said.
Hello... S- si - simaramm... uh, can I call you Sim?
Lol. Hi Simaramorgana. :D welcome to the weirdest conversation ever held in the chat rooms of Derek Landy's Blog!!
*runs back to where Aquila is hiding behind my giant shield*
sorry about your foot. :(
Hello, guys.
Can some of you come on that chat, too?
hi dragona!! ... what chat too?
Hi Dragona!
*waves from behind Ruby's shield*
"My" chat. *shrugs*
*gives link to Ruby*
http://xat.com/AquilaFelis
*Helps Kallista regain balance.* I don't want you falling, you'll get the floor all wet.
lol, kallista. just kidding. ;D
Hey Dragona!! Hey Kallista!! Hey Aquila!! and... Hello Rubescent Sunshine, I don't beleive we have met!
*offers Ruby a cookie*
Hi Taia!
thanks, Taia!!
Hiiii everyone!!
Hi Ayesha!!
*walks in* sits down* throws sweets* *falls off* *lies on ground* *sighs*
HIYA!
Hi Sadhbh!!
*catches sweets* *throws cookies back*
HI sadhbh!! *runs up to her and steals her sweets* TEEHEE! =P
Hi Sadhbh!
*waves*
Thanks taia! *stuffs face
aaah… the-the *yawn* ground so soft and comfy, so soft. Feels like in sinkin… HEY!! this isn't the ground!! It's it's.... A .... Dragons stomach! Least in still on the outside! *dragon roar*… em*sweats* I had better get up… urge all stcky!! I'm stuck.
*waves* hey…
*tickles the Dragon*
*dragon heaves* I go FLYIN! Thanks!
LOL no prob!! :D *tickles dragon again (just coz it's fun...)
sorry taia - was..IS.. on chat
Hi Kal!!
Hii kallista!!!
Hey kal!
Can you go on chat?
oh you are! same!
HIYA!!!!!
Hiyaa Bellaaa!
:-D hiya Taia and sadhbh
Hi
You bloggers are great!!! Thanks!!
*pokes her*
^^
^^
Any craic? Damn!!! I'll miss the wedding *crys*
*pokes back* =P
Hello? *sigh*
I'm a fail and a half... at nothing! :D
Hey dragona!
Ha XD
*smashes up some cookies and throws the crumbs in the air like confetti*
*catches the cookie crumbs in her mouth* yummm..!
I'll be on in 1/2 an hour - make sure yer here! I don't wanna be a loner again!! Check!!
*pushes Ayesha out of the way and eats the crumbs*
kk Sadhbh, I'll try to be here! Bye for now!!
*throws an orange after her* :D
awww! they were my cookie crumbs!!
byee sadhbh!!
Hey I'm on for ten mins! ^catches orange* *turns it into chocolate cake* na na na! I get a huge cake and ye can't some tinsy crimps XP
*get
Anyone?
*glares at cake* That was SUPPOSED to be an orange, that's why I gave you an ORANGE, otherwise, I would've given you chocolate cake instead...
I'm joking, welcome back (for like 10 mins)
Heh=p thanks!
I had better go in a min…
Naaaw im back fir good! Sorry! Tell the others? I'll give you a palace made put I'd sweets?!!
*grins and goes to tell the others*
Thank ya!!
s'okay :)
...
*eats an imaginary orange*
Hello? Dia Duit?!!
You like oranges then?!!? *Shares cake - turns tauas but into an orange flavour type of thing*
*Taia
ooh, Thankyooouuuu!!! *grins and eats orange flavour type of thing*
Aloha!
Hey octa!! They're all on chat - I can't go on there cuz on iPod and no chat... STAY HERE!!
Np taia=)
Hey Octa!!
I'll be on here too!
Hi Aquila!!
Anyone any craic?!?
Hey Taia, Aquila, Sadhbh and other assorted minions!
Brb my cat has a sire paw - need to check it
Craic being?
hii!
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