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.
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«Oldest ‹Older 801 – 1000 of 4223 Newer› Newest»11 c sky... OH YEAH you like rain don't ya?!? COME TO IRELAND! we getmore than our share of it!!!!! *mutters*
It was pouring before. Now its sunny and nice (cause im in the library in ac :D)
yay!
(GUESS WHAT THE MYSTERY CREATURE IS!!)
I WANT to go to Ireland, but it's a little harder then just going :P
uh...deer?
@Skyril
I agree, i wanna go to.
@Nicole
Whats the mystery creature?
Cat!
Dog!
Penguin!
Horse!
Rhino!
Elephant!
Hippo!
Ant!
Fly!
Wasp!
ITS A CAT-DOG-PENGUIN-DEER-HORSE-RHINO-ELEPHANT-HIPPO-ANT-FLY-WASP-CAT-DRAGON-WOLF-HUMAN-THING!!!!!!!!
Lion? Oh oh is it called … a *gasps*…NICOLE!!
Kal? Lil? Still there?!?!=O
YES! IT IS!!!!!! IT IS THE THING!!!!
LOL, Nicole!
I haven't glomped you yet! :o
~glomps~
There :]
What is glomphing?
HUG ATTACK!!! observe!! *glomps*
Poor you kal!! Feel for ya!
WHAT IS GLOMPHING????
Slow blogger is really annoying :/
Sorry, Kallista
first anns blogger acts up, now kallistas? Blogger needs to knock it off and just cooperate.
Yeah, it really does!
~glares at blogger~
*attacks kals blogger with one of those feather duster yoks*
Ikr? mine was acting up, too. It was just "error" and I couldn't comment :P
And WHY CANT IT JUST STAY ON THE SAME PAGE WHEN YOU POST???!!!
and last night, mine was lagging like crazy, and i had to log out and back in several times
no clue
on a completely different topic, i have 2 questions:
1.) WHO LOVES ERAGON???
2.) what is GLOMPHING???!!!
oh dam .* says to blogger don't YOU start acting up now!!!* ha revenge of the bloggers!!!
@Sadhbh
lol
@Nicole
Glomping is like a hug attack (had the same Q you did, lol) ME (though i never did finish the book, love the movie though, lol)
Glomping is… HUG ATTACK!!! observe! *glomps*
1) ME!! It was my favorite 'til I discovered Skulduggery! :D
2) You mean glomping? That's a hug attack :]
~tackles in a hug~
@sadhbh
The book is WAY better than the movie, actually, and nothing at ALL like the book. Compared to the book, as a matter of fact, it was an utter failure...
Gotta go ina min!!
well, i wouldnt know that. When i started getting really into it (like chapter 20 or so), i lost the book, and i didnt find it till i had already started another one, then id lost my place and.... you get it the idea, lol
oh, ok Sadhbh, bye *waves*
Aw farewell, Sadhbh! ~waves madly~
Not gone yet! Oh maybe..
Oh, nevermind :P
Huph bored…
Someone died? What?
I missed Rachel. :-(
Why am I even awake?
hi ann lol
lol, Ann!
~glomps~
Good to see you! :D
hey guyz, sorry, but i have to go, ill be back in a few hours, *Waves at everyone* see you when i get back
bye guys
Aww farewell, Raven!!
~waves madly~
I'm probably going to try to sleep some more in a minute. Seriously, did somebody die?
Huh someone died?
Bye raven!
hiya Ann! *hugs*
Bye Raven!
I'm not really sure of the whole story, Ann, but I think so, yes.
Bored… bye
Aw farewell, Sadhbh!
~waves madly again~
Kinda wish chat stuff wouldn't spill over here..
Please go read my blog so I feel like it was worth the effort. Computer was being a little less than cooperative yesterday. http://fly2themoon.blogspot.com/2011/06/if-you-want-to-kiss-sky.html
Oh my goodness, that is amazing, Derek! Finally, a Skulduggery movie! Death Bringer sounds so cool, and I think my head is about to explode from the awesomeness of being able to read a chapter sometime soon. Yay!!!
We bored Sadhbh away! Aw.
Hi Kallista! I don't know why I'm here instead of sleeping.
1. Movie news is good news.
2. Wait a minute! Let us read "a sample chapter"? I mean, A sample chapter? As in "ONE"? I might have to go back and check, but didn`t you write something about "some sample chapters"? If not, you should definitely edit the entries in question because I`m sure the singular form was a mistake. A typo. Nothing to worry about. Now go and fix it, will you? Thanks =)
3. I suggest an ice pack for your eye. Or an eye patch to make you look a little bit tougher.
Ooo I will definitely, Ann! :D
One sec! Alex Night... Really glad to meet you! Like early last year I would go on this blog, stare at the comments, I didn't have google so I couldn't comment. I saw loads if yer comments! *hugs* really nice to meet you!
Aw Ann it wasn't ye I was plain bored!!
Yay, Skyril! <3
Glad it wasn't me, personally, Sadhbh.
Now I'm trying to imagine Derek with an eye patch... this is funny, you guys should try it. XD
LOL ~imagines Derek with an eyepatch~
Hmmm Very interesting! ;D
He should try it sometime for sure! Then post pictures! Yeeeeeaaah ;}
A Skulduggery movie, you say? Hmm....
*ponders this idea*
Anyway, I'm super excited for Death Bringer! WOO-HOO!
...
Ehem. Sorry about that. A bit hyper, with today being my last day of school and all...
On a final note, Derek, you DO have a weird shower.
Thalia!
~glomps~
Hi! :]
Skyril: YAY!!! ERAGON IS MY FAV BOOK EVA (followed by skulduggery and harry p and hunger games)
guys: fun internet drawing site::: SKETCHFU.COM
Really fun. I'm "wajasrocks"
Hi Skyril!
*hugs*
How're you?
Wonderful news on the film. Just been watching Kill Bill, and your fight scenes need ramping up a notch. Any good ones in the 6th?
Hi Thalia!
*glomphs*
Hi Nicole, Kallista!
*hugs*
Great to see you all! How're you?
Kallista! I learned what glomph means!
*glomphs*
*wraps in stolen purple elephant*
Here. It got boring after a while...
i am here! :D
Ha XD
@Nicole
I love Hunger Games too! :D
And there's no h in "glomp", just so you know...
@Thalia
I'm pretty good! :]
By the way, you never read and commented on a couple of my poems :P
Now I have a new one written and posted. Yay! ^.^
Anyway, how are you?
I'm good Thalia.
Can't wait till summer! Just one week away! (I get out the 17th)
GO HUNGER GAMES! GO HUNGER GAMES! GO HUNGER GAMES! :D
WELL I WANT THERE TO BE AN H!!!!!!!!
HUNGER GAMES WOOT WOOT (curse you slow blogger)
LOL Ok, Nicole!!
~takes a step back slowly~
...
rawr.
I claim this page for Nicole, Kallista, Sadhbh, Lilith, Thalia, and Ann!
Woot!
~throws purple confetti~
:]
I claim this page for Nicole, Kallista, Sadhbh, Lilith, Thalia, and Ann!
Woot!
~throws purple confetti~
:]
Aw yeah!
~does the victory dance~
Congrats Skyril!
I'll read your poems soon. I just haven't been on the blogs for the past couple days. I'm good, though!
Aw ok, Kal! See you soon! :]
Ok then, Thalia, just whenever you get a chance, of course :]
And I'm glad you're good!
Thanks skyril
*grins*
That made my day.
There is this annoying mother and kid at the computer opposite to me. They are from another country or whatever and they are trying to do reading on the computer. The mother is constantly mocking and putting the kid down. ITS REALLY ANNOYING. ...
I have to go, anyway.
:P
Bye all! (I might be on for a few more minutes)
Hmm....are a lot of people on the chat?
(no flash, on my mom's iPad)
Bye Nicole!
Menna be doom homework!!
Aw that is incredibly annoying, Nicole! :/
Farewell, Nicole!
~Waves madly~
Thanks sky!!
brb
My computer is still misbehaving. I'm going to reboot it and go back to bed for a bit.
*hugs all* See yous later.
Bye Ann!
*hugs*
Yeah, of course Kallista. I just switched to my computer, so I have flash now.
*comes in*
*looks at top of page*
awww! thanks skyril! :D
I want a talking shower!
same naratsukiko! :P
:P:P:P
G2G
Bye~
Oi Kallista, you here?
Sorry i couldn't get back to you earlier, we had a HUGE thunderstorm and the power is out. I'm on my dads comp, which runs on emergency power, but i can barly see the keyboard
im back
anyone on?
am i a loner?
:( i think i am ):
No I'm here, but I have to go...
ok, bye nicole
I'm really sad cause I had all these pics (about 600) of San D and then I accidentally deleted them. My brother managed to get about 400-500 back, but only 290 are good.
I need a hug.
(good as in they aren't messed up)
im sorry about that *hugs*
Hey, Master Derek, a great friend of ours that used to come on here and actually whose fan-fic you read, name being Lenka Sweet aka Jodi Harte, has been badly discouraged by teachers criticizing her writing and whatnot. If you could possibly say something to encourage her, even something small, to her in one of your blog posts, we minions would Extremely appreciate it and give you imaginary lollipops :D
Pretty please?
That's Lenka Sweet.
:]
hi skyril
Hello again, Raven! :]
anything new?
New poem :P
What about you? :]
cool, nothing new here
Has the weather straightened out? It has here! but it IS a new day and not International Day pf Peculiar Weather so...
yea, weather is back to normal, well, as normal as it can get, its supposed to be in the 70s all weekend and we were supposed to get more rain but it moved north
Kallista you still here?
It probably got the memo that it was no longer International Day of Peculiar Weather ;}
one can only hope
Alex! :D
~glomps~
We're both on here and the chat :]
SO have you ever written any fan-fic or stories or anything? :]
ive written a ton of stories (none of them either complete or any good, lol) but no fan-fic
Ah I bet some of them are pretty cool! :D
You should make a blog!
Yes, I think you should ;-}
Look at my new post if you want. Geez. So happy :D
idk, with all the bad luck ppl have been having with it, doesn't seem like a good idea atm
LOL I Will! :] Looking forward to it!
And yes, so happy ^.^
It's hard not to be when hanging out with awesome friends! :3
Bad luck? What do you mean by that, Raven?
Anns posts wouldnt save, it wouldnt even load for Kallista, i dont even wanna think about what it might do to me, lol
brb
hi kallista
Hey kallista :)
I'm back! :3
That's fantastic, Alex!!
Glad you think so :D
Oo supper!
I'll still be here but commenting slower
I don't really know much about that stuff, Alex, is it fun? :D
And by, not knowing much, I mean none :P
Ahh, yeah its really fun, but then again, im playing around with music i really enjoy listening to, soo..
Im just getting the basics down pat though, once ive mastered the fundamentals, i can mess around and have more fun with it :D
That's so awesome :D
Haha, well, ill try, its not for everyone though, alot of people just see it as playing different tracks in time with each other, but yeah...
Im really enjoying it.
When's your next lesson? :]
Woah! Sorry for the late reply! xD
yes im here
Ahh next lesson is next week, sorry for slow im just getting music, umm i should be back but i have to go do something so i may not be back for the rest of the day, but ill wait for you so i can say goodbye :)
Hello again!
hi ann
Heya, Ann!
~glomps~ :]
hey skyril
ok kallista
I announce I'm here then wander off. Heh. How are you all?
*passes out hugs like candy*
Well, Alex, we decided to name June 8th [yesterday] National Day of Peculiar Weather :P
Did you have odd weather at all yesterday?
Ooo huuuugs! :3 And I'm pretty good :] How about you?
im good, how are you, ann?
Little hot. Mentally listing all the stuff I have to do, then pretending I don't have to do anything cause it's too much. Pretty typical. :-P
Not really, its kind of the same old cold and dreary here :P
LOL I've done something like that before, Ann xP
im not going to be commenting as much, dinner just got here :D Yay!!
lol well at least it doesn't have spontaneous tornadoes, right? That would be bad peculiar :P
lol Ok, Raven! I like dinner ;-}
that would be a bad peculiar, im happy with spontanious rain. i LOVE dinner!
Yay dinner! How can you be having dinner, when you went to bed later than I did and I'm only just having breakfast?
Yes, me too! Even spontaneous hail as long as it's not very big! :]
lol, Ann! Timezones are funny things :P
@Skyril
i agree
@Ann
im cool like that lol
I feel bad for the horsess when it hails. :-(
I think summer may have finally started here, though, so maybe we're done with hail for the year.
yea, but hail is still better than tornados
Oh yeah, poor horses :/
But I'm not so sure about that! Yesterday it hailed here and it was hot out! It does that every once in a while. Just weird weather! Then about 5 minutes later, the rain/hail went away and it was sunshiny! xD
@ Skyril - her schedule is BIZARRE. Even more so than mine. :D
By the way, where do you live, Ann? I've been wondering for a while and keep forgetting to ask.
thats why yesterday was the offical National Weird Weather Day
Yup!
...and that is impressively weird weather, Skyril.
California, north of center, west of the Sierras and east of the central valley. Ever been here?
Tell kallista i said bye when she gets back, take care everyone! :D
LOL yes, indeed!
Ahh lol, nope! Never been to California, actually!
Bye Alex!
Aw ok, Alex!!
~hugs~
Nice seeing you!
Farewell!
~waves madly~
Well, tell your parents that a trip out here would be very educational, and they should bring you if they don't want to stunt your mental growth. :-D
LOL, Ann! I told them and they laughed and said "We'll have to think about that!" and my dad said "I love north California!"
Oh LOLOL. I didn't think you'd actually say that! Your parents are cool. :-)
Haha! I couldn't pass up an opportunity to say something like that to them ;-}
And yes, they're pretty fun :]
Yay! Welcome back, Kallista!
~throws purple confetti~
hi kallista
Hey, Ann, I haven't seen Leona for a while! What's she up to?
its ok, im eating too and listening to music lol
Hi Kallista!
Leona is at karate today. She got a laptop for her birthday and spends most of her day holed up in her room with the computer. I have no idea what she's doing. She reads here sometimes, usually over my shoulder when she feels sociable, but she feels like she's missed too much to come back. She can be a little neurotic... pretty much the same way I am. :-P
Mostly awesome... some ways they're not so awesome, but mostly they're pretty good :]
Oooh how are they not so awesome?
Aw she shouldn't! You can really step into the blogs anytime! :] Well let her know we miss her ^.^
And she's probably plotting world domination. :]
And she has all her plans on her laptop in code. She's probably been waiting for a laptop for ages so she can begin writing out her plans of it.
See, I know that, but I know how she feels, too. I'll try to get her to come back.
Kal, you mean Lenka? That would be great if Derek said something to her.
Well... ~shrugs~ It's hard to explain, Ann, but for one thing, they don't really trust me a whole lot.... I mean they trust me somewhat.... But for instance, they won't let me have a cellphone even though I'm fifteen, sixteen in September, and really have practically no friends except for the ones I've got online, and, you know, I don't have their phone numbers! So I'd really just be using the phone to call them or my brothers or something like that, but they still won't give it to me. And there are other reasons too, but it's hard to explain. ~shrugs again~
World domination, huh... That would be interesting, a world with Leona in charge.
You realize she'd force everyone to be vegetarian, right?
It would be!
:D
LOL Noooooooooo!!!
How can I possibly give up MEAT!?!?!
Juicy, yummy, chewy, delicious MEAT!!
Pulchritudinous, prodigious, magnificent MEAT!
....
I like meat.....
Aw, Ann, I just saw your comment on "Fireflies" :D Thank you!!
~hugs~
lol yeah, but I won't! They're not planning on surprising me that, I'm certain. xP
Cell phones, so weird. When I was a kid my parents made me carry around two dimes in case I needed to call.
Maybe a cell is too expensive? I'd like Leona to have one - she does, actually, but it's not paid right now - just so she can call us if she needs to. If she wants to call people from home she can use the landline. Actually, she has to use the landline, there's no cell service here.
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