Well now... this IS interesting.
As you may or may not know, I’m heading over to Edinburgh on the 15th of August for the Book Festival. It’s a big festival, one of the best-known in the world, and I’m happy to be a part of it. Some of you from this Blog are going, and a few weeks ago one of you asked if Death Bringer would be available to buy on the day. I laughed, shook my head in a wise sort of way, and gently told the lad that no, it will not be available, and that he’d have to wait a further two weeks like everyone else. The start of September, I said, is when it will be unleashed. Not even the legendary Edinburgh Book Festival will get my publishers to change their mind about THAT.
Ahem.
And so I must backtrack, and eat my words, and announce that yes indeedy, Death Bringer will be available to buy at the Edinburgh Book Festival...!
We’re releasing it two weeks early so that the readers who attend the event can be the first to get the book signed- but there are some rules.
Rule Number One: The book will ONLY be available to buy for FOUR HOURS on the 15th. Once those four hours are up, the remaining books will be packed up and hidden away until the proper release date.
Rule Number Two: Those who DO attend and who DO buy the book must swear a solemn oath to NOT divulge ANY spoilers, not matter how much others may beg. ESPECIALLY not the twist in the middle!
Rule Number Three: Do not talk about Fight Club.
Over the next few days we’ll be putting up various things on the Skulduggery website and Forums and Facebook pages with more details about what’s going on, ticket information, things like that. For those of you who can go, the chance to get the book early is pretty cool. For those of you who can’t go... well... at least you’ll only have another two weeks to wait...
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Aw, I hate stupid viruses! Is there any kind of security that you can have search for them and get rid of them?
@pyro - this is good,
read this first
http://anaismitchell.com/hadestown/libretto.html
then listen here. start off with 'wedding song'
http://www.youtube.com/user/skitoggg#g/u
alternativley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpIEUPJof4 that entire album is sure to wake you up
Lizzy!
~glomps~
Hullo! :D
*decides to play ode to joy*
*searches for violin*
*searches some more*
*and more*
*and more*
…
Yes… I'm going to need to find that before I lose touch, Octa could help me search for it tomorrow…
What? Why won't you be able to talk to them, Kallista? Are they going on a trip or something?
Hey, Pyro, are you going on a trip or something?
I once met a girl on a writing site...who never got viruses, because she put walls and walls of fire walls, and codes, and locks, and anything else to keep viruses out.
I was envious of her.
@kal, dosen't sound like a virus, more like a mix of software and hardware screwing up.
what operating system are you using? any mac, and win7 makes it unlikely to be a virus, they've both got good built in anti-virus software
...wait what billion years WHAT?!
*grins*
Did you meet the Doctor...?
...sorry, just in that kind of mood.
@mar - REG.
i cant remember the last time i had a virus on a comp. kudos to my dad on that account...
Hi Lizzy!!!¡¡¡!!!
Will do Venice!!!
Yes, Octa and I are going to Ireland Skyril!!!
:D
@PYRO, ASK OCTA ABOUT THE POINT SYSTEM!!
*shakes pyro by the lapels*
seriously, i will make you two do it!!
Oh yeah, IRELAND! I forgot about that! Now I've become jealous again xD
awwww...no Doctor...
Cool! Your goin to Ireland!
(I wanna go to Ireland. They have bookstores in Ireland. All the bookstores here are closing)
Point system?
There once was a time when I could play Ode to Joy perfectly, without the sheet music. Ah, good times...
...course, then we found out the orchestra teacher was a LUNATIC!
REG
ask him ;)
tell him also +20p for an abandoned cinema
+30p for scary russians
+200p for boston ladies with mis-matched eyes.
mar, all the best creatives are insane REG
ALL OF TEHM
Meh.
My old violin teacher used to yell at me when I got a piece right as well as when I got it wrong.
I thought that this was unfair but I was 8, and adults refuse to accept that 8 year olds have intelligence too,
I posted it on, the Poets of Greatness, Kallista :D
Um, don't feel pressured to read it because I know you comp is being incredibly annoying, but here's the link in case you want to :]
http://skulduggerypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/black-death-and-angel-of-light.html#comments
I don't get my private teacher. Finally I quite private lessons. Now I just have school lessons with everybody else.
But to be honest, the teacher scares me. She's all angry one time, then you turn around and she's all happy and laughy. She's lost it multiple times. It's better when other people are in the room.
...then there was Halloween, when she couldn't make it, she TRUSTED us to be RESPONSIBLE and practice QUIETLY. We couldn't do ANYTHING. Finally, a guy in a BANANA COSTUME had to go and get the GYM TEACHER.
The lady is INSANE!
She's so MEAN, then two seconds later she's in PAIN, then all HAPPY, and then MEAN AGAIN!
Yeesh.
@skyril - i had to look for its after you removed it >:(
lol, its fine. still drawing ;) any requests on clothing? im think a summery shirtdress with pumps or brown boots for Angel, and skinny jeans, t-shirt and military boots for Death
When I was 8 everything I did was apparently amusing.
@Kallista
Oh, that's alright. My computer used to be a lot slower than it is now because the internet would keep messing up, and I had the same problem :/
Maybe you could, I don't know, get the people y'all bought the comp from to come and look at it? Or perhaps call a help line?
LOL, Mar!
Your teacher sounds INSANE! xD
SHE IS INSANE!
Because of her everyone is moving to choir. The band kids are too...they get into trouble a lot, and everyone thinks choir is so easy because you don't have to learn to play anything.
We're the string family people who can't agree on anything and have a nutcase teacher.
...bah, gotta go.
*waves*
BYE!
*leaps at Pyro and hugs him*
PYRO! I want you to go RIGHT NOW, find Octa, give him a huge hug in which you squeeze him to (near) death, and say-
"Mar says Hello."
Okay?
FANTASTIC.
Aw, farewell, Mar!!
~waves madly~
*squints at kal*
oooooooh what?
awww *blows kiss* even the thought of hugs is panicking me today.
crap
its 3am here!!
*blows many kisses*
au reviour!!
Aw, farewell, Venice and good... morning?
xD
Sleep well, anyway!
Aww, I have to leave now as well, guys :/
~hugs everyone~
Farewell and good-night!
Hope you all sleep well and have a brilliant day tomorrow! :]
Anyone still here?
*hugs* Anything working better for you than blogs? I couldn't connect to chat last night, but I could try it?
Hope your computer is sorted quick. :-(
HEllo everyone! :D
UGH
:-/ I almost got that. *hugs Kal*
Hi Dan!
Hi Vivianna!
Check this out Ann (I made it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdmMliUsMO4
BRB making opening title theme video
*stumbles into Blogland*
*looks around and realises no one is there*
ah...right.
*tumbleweed spins in the distance*
*stumbles away again*
:P
Juuuuust popping in to say that I blame you for the fact that my bedroom's a mess, Derek. YOU. *Grumbles and walks downstairs to bring all my SP books up. Again*
My back. I feel sorry for it.
Also, TELLHARPERCOLLINSTOGIVEMEAJOBILLUSTRATINGSOMETHING... Actually, take that back. I need to get better *glares at hands*
LOVE AND COOKIES AND A LIVVY ON YOUR DOORSTEP *plants Olivia on your doorstep*
(Oh yeah, talking of Livvy... She's coming from Ireland to Bromley Glades with me JUST to see you. So you better not cancel that date. I will hunt you down, man... Hunt. You. Down.)
While you're on tour, you should listen to this little audio clip of an 8 year old Irish girl asking a demolition company to blow up her school XD It's so funny! http://starwake.tumblr.com/post/8253719916
Is anyone here?
Just read Mortal Coil again... LOL'd at the Princess Bride chapter! I love that movie!
Nooooo! A Monday? I'll be at work! Oh well, I can wait two weeks... though it would have been nice to get a signed copy and attend your event(s).
Have fun at the festival anyway.
Urgent :P
http://rachelsanythinggoes.blogspot.com/2011/07/message-from-minions.html
thanks x
Im soooo annoyed!!
*Sighs in disbelief*
We live in rotherham so my parents won't take me to the edinburgh book festival to meet you and have the book sighned by the golden god, how dare they, how very dare they!!
*Fists clench*
Mr.landy,
Please will you come to rotherham or south yorkshire or some where round there please, i would definetley come.
Just popping in again to tell you that HarperCollins have forgotten to put your name on the spine of the new TFO paperback...
It would have made me lol BUT I CAN'T OPEN MY MOUTH BECAUSE I HAVE THE TOOTH PAIN FROM HELL.
*ressurects Kenspeckle* FIX IT, MAN. FIX IT.
NO WAY.
I'm gonna book tickets right now. Seriously.
Soooo...anyone here? XD
Heya, Bloggies!
Sweet Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U72ZRh4W8OU&feature=related
+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IHxG8VkiQA&feature=related
Hello, random person I've never spoken to before! How are you today?
Anybody here? I'm not sure how long I can stay, but thought I'd come anyway :]
Good, thanks. Writing Fanfiction.
Heya, Skyril!
Sarthacus!!!!
~glomps~
It's so GOOD to see you!!! :D
http://rachelsanythinggoes.blogspot.com/2011/07/message-from-minions.html#comments
:) heya guys! Check this please!
I've not spoken to you in AGES, Syril! How are you?
I'm pretty good, Sarthacus, Thanks!!
But hey, [this is the second time I've written this... stupid, bloody, blogger.... grrrrrr] I wrote a shorty story fan-fic [that's not THAT short...] about the birthday folks in July! You, of course, included! :D
So if you get a chance to read it, here's the link!
http://loonyskyril.blogspot.com/2011/07/happy-first-half-belated-birthday-nyx.html#comments
I hope I portrayed your OC well enough! [by the way, about your character, YOU NEED TO INCLUDE MORE INFO, STAT! At least, I think it would be good :P I left a comment about it on your OC too]
And by the way, would you prefer me to do a short part [part 5/8ths] about a certain character with green hair, since I created her and it will give you a bit more info [including her name] or would you rather me just include that in the next half. I personally think it would be a bit better by itself, but either way, y'all July folks w/ould prefer, I'll do it that way :]
I claim this page for Nyx Dawn, Hellboy/Israel Elysium, Sarthacus Bolt, Nicolette Croga, and Niall Montblanc!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!
Also for Good Queen Kallista! I hope your comp gets better or you can get a new one!
I claim this page for Nyx Dawn, Sarthacus Bolt, Hellboy/Israel Elysium, Nicolette Croga, and Niall Montblanc!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!
Also for Good Queen Kallista! I hope your comp starts working or you can get a new one!
I claim this page for Nyx Dawn, Sarthacus Bolt, Hellboy/Israel Elysium, Nicolette Croga, and Niall Montblanc!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!
Also for Good Queen Kallista! I hope your comp starts working better or you can get a new one!
I claim this page for Nyx Dawn, Sarthacus Bolt, Hellboy/Israel Elysium, Nicolette Croga, and Niall Montblanc!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!
Also for Good Queen Kallista! I hope your comp starts working better or you can get a new one!
~throws purple confetti all over the place~
:) Well done, Skyril! awesome Dedication!
http://rachelsanythinggoes.blogspot.com/2011/07/message-from-minions.html#comments
Check this please!!
oh and everyone's on chat :P
@Rachel
Thanks!
Except for Sarthacus, whom I do believe is still here :]
hey guys!
is everyone on the blog now?
I'm on both... kinda... ^^
DEREK LANDY!!
I have just been informed that Skulduggery Plesant was advertised on Disney.
does this mean *sob*
that Skulduggery Plesant *sob* will be a *sniff* a *sob* *whispers* disney film?
I trust you, but us on the chat had a mini-freak out when we heard.
Hey, Sarthacus, if you're still there, could you try to go the chat [which I think you know about....] because Kallista can't come onto the blog right now
Here's the link!
http://xat.com/web_gear/chat/go_large.php?id=146341296
http://rachelsanythinggoes.blogspot.com/2011/07/message-from-minions.html#comments
:P
more messages needed for Derek!
A posted mine, Rachel, and will spread the word whenever I can! :D
Thanks for the message Skyril!
Tis a nice length! :) thanks :P
Great! Thanks, Rach! :D
Aw, I really have to go now :/
Someone needs to use this comp!
I will probably come back later, so I hope to see y'all!
Bye Skyril!
I have to go now. Night guys!
bye Skyril!! and D!! :P
Night Dragona!
I guess I'll leave now, too. ^^
Night all!
Night Aquila!!
night aquila
...ever tried to go to sleep and then someone randomly starts a huge firework? 0o
Not to mention the echos... it took about five seconds till they were gone... 0o
Anyway, now I'm awake again. :P
lol hi again
Eh, anyone mind reading and commenting? Only if you have the time course...
http://sadhbhsskulfanfic.blogspot.com/2011/07/me-skulduggery-fan-fic-part-1.html
Agh. Why do I have to be in America?
i g2g, ill be on tomorrow sometime *waves* bye all
So that you're closer to me.
Just to those freaking out about the disney thing- Disney produced Pirates of the Caribbean, and Disney films are almost always of good quality so Skulduggery would be in good hands
DERKEK! I have found a mistake in playing with fire and it is not the one mentioned b4 about the hiberian house! However I will not metion it now as there is a highly unlikely chance u will read this, but i will nxt time u blog which i hope will be soon as school starts again 2moro after the holidays NNNNNNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!! and i really need something 2 make me laugh ;)
Hi all!!!¡¡¡!!!
Just here to say goodbye everyone!!!
Hello Ireland!!!
:D
Bye Pyro and Octa! Have fun! And record all your adventures to share with us when you get home!
Goodbye Pyro and Octa!
And since already wished you fun, I'll wish you a safe return. :P
*Ann
...how did I miss out on a whole word? 0o
Good morning, Aquila!
Good morning, Ann!
Long time not seen...
How are you?
...
*shrugs*
*walks off*
Sorry Aquila! I can't even remember why I wandered off just then. :-( Sorry I missed you.
*has walked in again a few minutes ago*
It's fine...
I already thought you're angry or something...
Glad I was wrong. ^^
*yawns* Morning...
Good morning Isabella!
Oh no! I'm just easily distracted. Family is around needing me, and I had email to write, and I was thinking about goat stuff. I don't have enough brain, basically. :-D
How are you, Aquila?
Good morning, Isabella. How are you?
*pokes Ann*
You don't have not enough brain, you have too many things to do. ^^
I'm alright. *shrugs*
I'm just about fine. How are you?
Well, I don't have enough brain for all the things I want to do... Or enough energy, either. I am inadequate for my own purposes. :-P
Just all right? *hugs Aquila*
*hugs Isabella too*
I'm... nearly dry after my shower. I should probably get dressed or something.
I need to go *Hugs everyone* Byeeee
*hugs both back*
Bye Isabella!
Bye Isabella!
*wonders where Aquila went*
I can't get up, because I have a cat on me.
I'm here, I just didn't really have something to say...
Ha. Convinced cat to leave by attempting to trim her toenails.
Hmm. Doesn't work to have two quiet types together! At least not online. We need a chatty person to be a conversation catalyst.
I can be chatty when I'm all happy, but right now... *shrugs*
What's wrong?
Sorry, went to get clothes and then 15 other things happened.
Hi Dragona!
Hi Dragona!
It's nothing to worry about, Ann. ^^
Good. Hope you're feeling better soon, though. *hugs*
I need to go take care of family and animals and all. Have a great day, you two!
*hugs back*
Bye Ann!
Has anyone read Divergent by Veronica Roth? It's brilliant, and Veronica Roth is HOT!
Hi Shadow Rider- Divergent IS brilliant, isn't it? And as for the hotness of Miss Roth, I'm sure I haven't noticed...!
Blubber- school is starting back already?? Eeeep, that's not cool. Here in Ireland, schools aren't back until the start of September...! So come on- what's the mistake in PWF??
Oh cool! Hello Golden God!
MASTER DEREK!!
Hi!
MASTER DEREK!!
Apparantly, I MIGHT be able to come to Dublin some time this week (though I have no idea when...) And I would REALLY like to meet you!
And... You'd like to meet me, right? Your little minion who likes oranges?
Um... So, please reply if you're in Dublin then, because it would be amaazing you are.
Your Loyal minion,
Me.
P.S. Please.
P.P.S. Thankyou.
*places a bowl of oranges on a table as an offering to the Golden God.*
...You DO like oranges, right?
Good morning, Mr. Landy! *waves*
*runs away into the distance, her hair blowing happily in the wind*
*Stops running, turns and waves madly*
*continues with the running thing*
*films Taia in slo-mo*
Dinner's done! Bye!
:D Heya!!
if u aint seen it please check this!
http://rachelsanythinggoes.blogspot.com/2011/07/message-from-minions.html?showComment=1312111574237#c6604478532330913001
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What... what is that? Is that a guy with a gun?
Hello?
Hi Sadhbh!
Hi Aquila?
Any craic?
Who's on chat?
?
SORRY!
I know that'd a horrible excuse, but I completly forgot you...
*looks REALLY ashamed*
2 weeks is like an eternity.....
MASTER DEREK!!
Apparantly, I MIGHT be able to come to Dublin some time this week (though I have no idea when...) And I would REALLY like to meet you!
And... You'd like to meet me, right? Your little minion who likes oranges?
Um... So, please reply if you're in Dublin then, because it would be amaazing you are.
Your Loyal minion,
Me.
P.S. Please/Thanks.
*Places another bowl of oranges on the table*
And will you get your butt somewhere near Huddersfield! Preferably in it :D
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
*Attempts to make her comment more noticeable*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
*apologises for spamming (and possibly for misspelling 'apologises)*
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*walks away, satisfied*
Guys!!
http://rachelsanythinggoes.blogspot.com/2011/07/message-from-minions.html?showComment=1312111574237
:P my plan for the edinburgh thing...please read!
I have to go now. Night guys!
hello is anyone here?
night dragona!
they havn't released any info! so unfair
Im gonna swim right to Edingburg. Scotland is in the Northsea, isn't it? It has to, or i'll loose my way... Okay, seriously, im realy jealous of every single one of you guys who can go. You're so damn lucky. When we normal People can buy it, you'll already have read it.
i gtg now byee everyone!!
bye ayesha
hi morgana
Hi^^ What your doing up so late? (That means, wherever you are. Here in Germany its 22:52. ;)
im in america its only 3pm here lol
how r u?
Tired, bit i have to finish a fanfiction. ;) And u?
im good
hii again everyone!!
hi ayesha, how r you?
hi raven! *hugs* im alright! how are you?
*hugs* im good :)
any1 on?
i g2g, ill be on tomorrow sometime *waves* bye all
Somebody say something. I want to be entertained while I'm having breakfast!
*tickles blog*
Ann! You still there?
I am! Hi Skyril!
Hiya, Ann!
~glomps~
~puts a duck on her head~
Aw, cute! *pets duck*
*feeds it crackers*
How are you?
~watches with wide eyes as cracker crumbs fall into Ann's hair~
... I'm alright, thanks :]
How about you? Have you been reading anything good lately?
Hey guys ^^ I'm dead.
I would have to have been reading to have read anything good. :-P Actually reading TFO to the kids at bedtime, but not counting that since I already read it. And Rubescent Sun posted a story a few days ago that I liked, partly because it was a short one-off and didn't require any commitment on my part. XD
Hi Lizzy! How would you like your remains taken care of? Embalmed? Mummified? Cremated? Buried? Re-animated? Are you re-animated already? Are you a zombie or a vampire?
LOL, hi Ann ^^ *glomps* I'm already a vampire, don't you see my name? :P I'm only dead in the sense that I'm dead tired. I just finished up Appleseed ^^
Hiya, Lizzy!
~glomps~
Nice to meet the reanimated you!
~shakes hand~
@Ann
LOL yeah, well, I know the feeling of not having to commit one's self. That's why I think if I ever write a book and get it published, it will be a singular thing or I will have already written the rest of the books. :P
Hey SKyril! *glomps*
Wow, two in a row, Lizzy?
Kallista!
~glomps~
Hiya!!
~sprinkles cracker crumbs in her hair so that she looks the latest fashion~
Wouldn't want to look unfashionable, you know :P LOL
Awesome-sauce! I hope she enjoys being in America! Where is she here?
KALLLLLISTAAAAAAAAAA *super mega glomps* hi!
@Skyril. Yup, Appleseeds are over the weekend. Two 20 hour work days
WOW!
How are you even sitting?? I think I would have fallen over xP
OH, I'm so used to you the vampireness doesn't register anymore. XD
Long day crawling on the ground shooting stuff, then? *hugs*
I think everyone should publish their fics in a book when they're done - not for profit, obviously - so I can carry them with me to a secret place and hide out until I've read them all! This chapter at a time thing is frustrating. Kind of like the one book at a time with a year in between thing is frustrating. :-P
LOL Good idea, Ann! We'll have to see if Master Derek thinks that would be a good idea once he's finished all nine of his books :D
HI KALLISTA! So glad you are able to comment! How is Quinn? Where is she?
Not even crawling , just standing x.x and walking. All. Day. Long.
~gives Lizzy a large bite of cake to give her some energy~
@Kallista
No problem!
~salutes~
Massachusetts [wow I cannot believe I spelled that right on first try] huh? I've never been up there! I wonder what it's like :D
Hey, i got something i want to show you guys, gimme a sec while i take and upload pictures
I've been there! I almost drowned in a lake in MA when I was 4 or so. Good times...
I know this is kinda random, but it's my weird mind's train of thought.
Y'see I was thinking about how I gave Lizzy a bite of cake, and I was thinking what it would be like if we were actually all together, but then I thought that I probably WOULDN'T have cake because we would have planned this get together and wouldn't have endless supplies of chocolate cake. SO then I was thinking about us all getting togeth and that that could possibly happen if Master Derek came to the United States and I got all excited and remembered all the hours of sleep I've missed out on just imagining it....
SO PLEASE COME TO THE USA, MASTER DEREK LANDY, OH GOLDEN ONE!!!!!
*seconds Skyril's suggestion*
We will give you cake!
Wow, Ann! I'm glad it didn't happen, and you're alright! Next time we see Quin we should wanr her about drowning in lakes...
I really had cake today ^^ it was my cousin's 11 birthday so my mum and aunt got cake all set up and everyone on the line had a bit of cake during afternoon break ^^ It was yummy :D
~disguises myself as Master Derek's favorite minion~
~thirds Skyril's suggestion~
AND CHEESE!
Awesome-sauce, Lizzy! Break for some cake! Brilliant!
Yeah!
*still needs to learn to make cheese*
I've been promising Master Derek some cheese if he came to the USA since, well, a very long time, anyway :P
Close to the beginning!
How he could refuse that promise of cheese is beyond me!
By the way, Master Derek, you still have not informed us of what kinds of cheese you like. Also, do you like spicy food?? I LOVE spicy, cajun food, but I know a lot of people don't. I like spicy cheese too! We went to the Whole Foods Market today and got this DELICIOUS salsa jack cheese! Yummy
Hey guys, can you look at what i just posted? i made some jewelry and would like to know what you think of it ^^
http://skulfanfic.blogspot.com/2011/07/spent-bullet-casing-jewelry.html
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