Righto, I can finally reveal the details for the A/NZ Down Under Tour. Most of the days will be taken up visiting schools, so I'm only listing the public events which will occur in the evenings and at the weekends.
For the public signings, all you have to do is turn up and I'll sign as much as possible in the time I have- but for the public events, it might be a good idea to contact the bookshop/library/whatever as soon as possible, in order to book a place.
The Ireland and UK details will be posted when I have them.
Oh, and for those of you who entered the little short story competition on the Skulduggery website, I've just read through the finalists (30 of them) and the winners will be announced before the weekend. Some truly great work in there...
August
NZ
Wellington
Thursday 9th:
The Children's Bookshop, Kilbirnie- Public Signing - 4:30 PM
Whitcoulls, Queensgate - Public Signing - 7 PM
Christchurch
Friday 10th:
The Children's Bookshop, Blenheim Rd - Public Signing - 4:30 PM
Auckland
Saturday 11th:
Appearing on Breakfast TV at 8:20 AM
Whitcoulls, Albany Mall - Public Signing - 10 AM
Paperplus Botany Town Centre - Public Signing - 1 PM
AUSTRALIA
Brisbane
Sunday 12th:
Riverbend Books- Public Event (ticketed) - 5 PM
Monday 13th:
Chermside Library - Public event - 11 AM
(CONTACT the library for bookings)
Sydney
Tuesday 14th:
Pages & Pages/ Mosman Library- Public Event- 4:30 PM
Wednesday 15th:
Virtual Author Session via Video Conference (for schools) - 11:30 AM
(To register and log in http://www.seeshareshape.com.au/share/VC/virtualexcursions.aspx?EventID=6238&SessionID=6186&ActivityID=8313 )
Shearers on Norton - Public Event - 4:30 PM
Melbourne
Thursday 16th:
Dymocks, Collins St - Public Event (ticketed) - 5:15 PM
Adelaide
Saturday 18th:
Dymocks, Rundle Mall - Public Signing - 11 AM
Cabra Dominican College - Public Event - 1 PM
(CONTACT Pages & More, Glenelg for bookings)
Perth
Monday 20th:
Aquinas College - Public Event - 6 PM
(CONTACT Dymocks Garden City for tickets)
Tuesday 21st:
South Perth Library - Public Event - 11 AM
(CONTACT Dymocks Hay Street for bookings)
John Forrest Secondary College - Public event - 6 PM
(CONTACT Dymocks Morley for bookings)
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"Where are we supposed to get all that stuff?"
"Past the bridge and over yonder... Oh look, she's awake!"
"Hello. I like that word. HELLO. Hello is a brilliant, brilliant word..." Val started rolling around in the grass. "Wheeeeeee! I'm a bowling ball!"
"Aw man. Not you too," Sparky sighed. She turned to Amanda. "Did you become this way because you ate a quapple dropple too?"
"No, I'm just AWESOME."
Val continued rolling around. She disappeared and reappeared, then started biting a tree. She started singing to herself. "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes, bum bum bum, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves..." She started glowing.
"She's glowing! And floating! Woah! VAL! YOU ARE THE QUEEN OF THE CHERRY DUMPLES!" Amanda shouted.
A huge wave of flying turtles started soaring across the sky, like a big, huge wave of... um... more turtles. A giant portal opened. Val leaped into it and pulled out the cherry dumples.
"I FOUND THEM! CLOSE THE PORTAL!"
And then the Faceless Ones started pouring through.
"We will kill you, Valkyrie, because you killed us."
"What? Since when does this have to be something serious? Can't you just, like, let the grudge go?" Val walked over and wrapped a blue and green polka-dotted scarf around one of the Faceless One's head. "Can't we just, like, get along and have a party or something?"
"MY CHERRY DUMPLES!" Master Derek cried. "I knew you would find them!" He took them from Val, then stomped on them.
Sparky stared. "We went through all that effort so you could SMASH them?"
When Derek moved his foot away Amanda lunged at the ground and started eating the smushed cherry dumples.
"It seems it is time for your reward..." Derek pulled out a giant balloon with his face on it.
"I KNEW IT!" Amanda screeched.
"Yay! BALLOON!" Val cheered. "Time for a dance party with the Faceless Ones!"
And then they all did what Val said: they had a dance party with the Faceless Ones.
And at the very end, as Sparky, Val, and Amanda were walking away, their Derek balloon popped.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The End.
Woo hoo PINEAPPLES
No reason
Val, I worry about your pointless efforts to be pointless...
haha....funny...story.....
Well, no need to waste your worries on me. You should waste them on these people. *starts stomping on little tree peoples*
The snail slimed over the bridge and to the west
You will be fine for 31 minutes. You will be dead in 32 minutes.
"I would throw up, but he's not even worth the puke."
... what?
Nix, just... ignore it..
Oooookay...
Ha, I commented on this Key of Awesome video about summer, and I said "It's winter where I live... I hate you all."
23 thumbs up
im eating cereal.
im eating cereal.
bye Nix!
do you see what they did on pottermore?
THEY CONCEALED THE HOURGLASSES!!!
i dont go on pottermore......
*gasp*
*gasp*
all i know is that its something about harry potter. i think......
Viola Fang.
*yawns* im so tired *yawns again*
They're moving to book 2 soon
I'm a Hufflepuff on Pottermore and absolutely everywhere. My older bro is a Ravenclaw, I bet my little brother would be too, damn he's so smart :/
*gasps* i just found out that i forgotten how to do LONG DIVISION!!
I never learned
Long division?
ME too.
I HATE long division. I never use it. Wait, that's the one where you do all the crazy subtraction and carrying stuff, right?
I think..
Has anyone seen fright night (2011)?
brb
Nup
I haven't seen it
Well. see it.
That's the one about vampires right? It looks funny
That's a bit bossy, Phoenix. I'll see it when and if I want to
Yes, It's funny.
I wasn't talking to you EvE,
back!
had to sit through a painful 5 mins of lecture about long division.
Oh, okay.
whee.
So, can I no longer call you Flame?
March Hare.
You call me March hare.
Yokay Hairy
What?
Hm?
why March Hare, Phoenix?
I dono.
I like March Hares.
I'm confused now.
'bout what?
'bout what?
im gonna go.
Bye.
Bye Hairy!
bye Hare!
bbs
K Fire!
Wow... my comment on youtube has got 40 thumbs up, and I put it up today...
on which youtube video, Nix?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdrD2-RlrOM&feature=channel&list=UL
Now it has 44...
On an unrelated note
OWWWWWWW!!! MY JAW!
Hm?
Your JAW now?
My jaw's been hurting all week. Only now it really hurts
mine's starting to hurt right now.
Your jaw hurts?
What about my jaw? I had wisdom teeth pulled out this week. Where's my sympathy lol
*hands sympathy over to Emerald*
Hi!
hi Em!
Afternoon fellow minions.
I am getting a great ego boost from NJ, the awesome comments he is leaving on my page are boosting my confidence.
Why can't you guys do that. NJ is now my new best friend lol
I did that...
*sniffs and shuffles into the corner [no, not the shuffle dance])
You didn't boost my ego at all lol
I'm only messing Nix. I appreciate all comments whether ye boost my ego or not
be back soon
Bye!
i gtg. i'll come back in the morning. if i can wake up and not skip Saturday like usual......
BYE!!!!
Derek??? I'm DYING to know about the winners!
What a lovely movie.
Moral of story: stalk people who do bad things and then shoot them
???
My comment (which now as 51 thumbs up) is no longer in that bit where it shows the comments with thumbs up. Darn it
You said something about it not being winter in Australia?
I mean summer
It was a song about summer, and I said it's not winter where I live... I hate you all, and it somehow got 51 thumbs up...
I mean it is winter where I live
Hi Kal!
I think all but me and Eve are gone...
And it's 11 at night for me, so...
I am one step behind all the time, but I find most people lag behind at one point or another
Hopefully. Awkward time and day though
Probably will be one next year, or the year after
I'm not having much luck writing recently...
A lot can happen in a year...
Hmm
Hi Willow!
*grins*
EM!!!! Im awake finally!!!
Hi Zaf!
Hiya everyone...
Kallista are you in the same time zone as me? Cuz its 9:48am
Hi Kal! *Hugs*
*sighs*
if you guys want Derek just ask. I got plenty of ninja penguins!
Derek dont make me get out my ninja penguins!!! *casually speaking with English accent*
Yay!!!! Someone in mu timezone...
Now if Emerald comes I can continue my plan to capture the bloody Sanctuary Agent
I'll join in on any plans, as long as I get to fight
Welll Nix
See I'm working for the American High Priest and he needs me to get a Sanctuary Agent to errs interogate. This way we can take over Ireland....before Derek stops us...
I'm sorry for not really being here but I'm writing.
I don't work well with Sanctuary's, but I am willing to help... for a fee
Im a Necromancer so you would be helping the Temple in the east coast. The west coast Temple...not so much
East, West
These people all hate me either way. Necromacers never got over that time I raided the temple and started killing...
Anywho, if you want any help, it'll cost ya
I HAVE SPARKLY HAIR :D
I cant....make choices...if I dont get Em...I'll prolly be dead.
*has shadows ready*
come out come out where ever you are, Em this Necromancer is waiting
You want to kidnap Em?
Hmm... slightly unethical, but then again, I don't have any ethics
You either want my help or not? Maybe Em will make me an offer...
Meh fine ok whats your fee?
Hmm... Maybe I should have thought this through...
Okay, so you hope to take over Ireland? I want land, and plenty of it. A third of Ireland
Nix, you will not have a third of Ireland. You might choose the third I'm in. I don't want to be ruled over. I won't be ruled over. Won't. Won't Won't.
You're going to be ruled over anyway, the only difference is... well, me
Fine but I get where Derek lives
*grins*
You've got a deal. And don't even think of double crossing me
Nix, me and my sparkly hair won't be ruled over.
Fine by me. And poor Derek. I would laugh if he's reading this thinking of my insanity
*pokes a tree*
*rolls eyes*
Willow, I'll give you your own little bit of land to rule over. Happy?
FYI, this land will be about the size of a town
Ok! I still get wherever Derek lives
Hey, I'm really sorry to ask, and refuse all you want, but can I make this into a story?
Uno??
1??
YAY. I'll have the town I live in then.I can rule over Rose and Komodo.
Uh... Kal, you're not first...
PINEAPPLE
So, Zaf, can I turn this into a story?
First I WIN!!!!!!
Ded!!!!
1. To taking over Ireland MUHAHAHAHA
2. Derek hopefully he doesnt try to stop us
3. CATS!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Emerald the agent I want captured
5. Necromancy
Yes Nix you may
Yay!
Can I have your OC?
YOU CALL THIS BEFORE THE WEEKEND, DEREK? DO YOU??? Gaeltacht on Sunday :)
Sure Kal. I need an OC though
This is where most of my stories, including this one when it's out, are
http://readthismortals.blogspot.com.au/
This one is for a fan-fic series, if Derek allows, it will be published. We're planing to be persistent, and please don't shot down my dream right now
http://mistandnixseries.blogspot.com.au/
Hi Darquesse!
Ok
Name: Zafira Kerias
Age: appears 24 (is like...older way older
Appearence: Long blaxk hair tall has armour she wears to battle other then that she wears Necromancer robes but has clothes she bought from Ghastly under (black as well)
Magic: Necromancy
Weapon: Scythe from dead Cleaver, and a knife
Personality: never gives up, violent when needed, can be real nice to others if she likes you
Occupation: Grand Mage of America by sheer luck
History: works secretly helping the Temple in the east coast try to take over Ireland. Nobody in the Sanctuary knows not even her Elders. Is believed to be trying to get Dreylan Scarab out of prison again before he croaks, her own parents were arrested and tried for war crimes in the war.
Nix, can I be in it, too? Pleaseeeeee?
Yep Willow!
Could I have an OC?
Np Nix
Meh that was long. I should just put that in my notes on the iPad
http://willowstorm.blogspot.ie/2012/05/my-oc.html
K Kal
Thanks Willow
Dodo fruit salad
BTW, for anyone wanting to know about the competition, the winners are up on the official site now. Congratulations to all winners!
WINNERS ARE UP?!
THAT MEANS I DIDN'T WIN
*moment of sadness*
CONGRADULATIONS THOSE WHO WON!!
What- SOME OF THEM ARE OVER 500
THAT IS SO UNFAIR!
All I can say is...
CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS!!!!
If any of you are on....
JOE WON. *screams*
GAAAAAAAH. JOE IS AMAZING.
Despite the poor punctuation and spelling.
NOW HE NEEDS TO GET ONLINE SO I CAN KILL HIM WITH INTERNET HUGS.
Hi Luce!
Who's Joe?
HELLO!
Joe as in Le Gang member that's like family to me, despite never having met him, Joe.
ONE OF THEM IS 581, NOT COUTIUNG THE OPENING THING DEREK PUT UP
OVER 600 WORDS!
I REFUSE TO READ SOME OF THEM BECAUSE OF LACK OF COMMAS.
Some of them are good, though.
.....
Sadistica won!!!! Sry but she has like the exact last name as me!!!!!
Niw I feel happier!!!!! *grins*
last nane in real life....
Wrong spelling annoys me way too much. >.<
I can't spell.
Sadistica Tortura *grins*
that makes me happy. Even if I never got to submit. Still my last name muhahahahahaha!!!!!
I'm a little...OCD with spelling...Then again, it's probably my G&T-ness..
hey
Hye Chloe!
Hello, Chloe! Long time no blogspeak!
Where'd Nix go? *looks around*
how r u?
Oh, he's there. *prods Nix*
Lynx is back, soon.
Hello, Kallista! *waves frantically*
I'm in a good mood.
*grins*
Hey does anyone have the link to chapter one? I want to see if it'll work on iPad
http://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/countdown_widget/extract.pdf
^That, Zaf?
I'M SO PROUD OF BROSEPHINE (Joe). GAAAAAAAAH. I screamed. I am so proud of him, it ain't even funny! I hoped one of Le Gang would win. I didn't especially want to win, myself. I wanted one of them to! <3
Mine was crap, anyway! :D
Ohh :'( Not a winner... Although that would have been kind of impossible seeing as I entered the wrong comp but...
Congrats those who won :)
congrats to the winners
byii now
byii now
Bye Chloe!
*Hugs Kal* His think is epica!
Bye, Chloe! :)
S'up, Nix? You're not...You..
Been but of a rough day
HELLO, KALLISTA! You can call me L/Luce/Lucy/Lu/Lucy/Lucy Anna - only Eve calls me that :3 -/ Luciana or anything else you can think of. C:
Awwh, Nix! *frowns* Does this make it better? *gives a cookie* I've been eating cookies all day. Yep, I actually ate something! XD
Not reaslly, but I appreciate the thought
It worked xD
Hmmm...What if I threw you in the lake? *grins*
No, I'm sorry
...
*pushes Luce in the lake*
*laughs*
*sends shadows towards Nix and drags him down to the lake*
Thanks, for that. No, really, thanks. I was way too warm. *lays on her back and floats, staring at the sky*
Don't you think the sky is really pretty?
*looks at the sky*
*sky is raining meteorites*
... No
I think it's pretty...*vanishes for a moment*
...
*appears in a tree*
Anyone an elemental? I'm soaked...*looks down fer soaked denim shorts and leather boots...Good job this top dries fast, eh? *laughs*
Sry Necromancer xD
I'm a bone-breaker
So, if you want a bone broken...?
O.o
Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Not my fellow Ameriminion
I'm an elemental.
*Drys Luce*
I've never broken a bone, I don't want to break one any time soon, either.
*high-fives Zaf* Whoo! Necros for the win! ;D
Kallista,
1. D'you have a nickname, by any chance?
2. Hmm...That's peculiar...
3. I really like your name! xD
*is in a nice mood, today*
THANKS, WILLOW!
Anyone want a cookie? *takes out a box of cookies* Chocolate chip! :D
*High fives L*
i know! We just are so epic!!!
Whooooo. Too cool, for life. *winks and laughs delicately*
Join the Necromancers!!!!!
*casually jumps in lake*
I'm tired
Bye!
By Nix
I shall refer to you as...Kal. At least most of the time, if that's okay anyway! :D
*laughs at Zaf*
Ooh! Look, *points at chest* it's healed. Nye is actually a genius!
BYE, NIX!
I hate Nye...it tried to dissect me once
It tried that with me, but Ravel is good at getting what he wants, apparently...Not as good as myself, he does owe me a few favours, after all...He's so much older than me, as well...*laughs*
is there anyone I can kill? I'm bored and have a little anger to let out...If not I'll get to writing my book, again..
Smurfs are cute, though.
Some people I know dressed up as Smurfs for CIN last year. C:
Hmmmm
*sits up in a tree*
smurfs!!
Children In Need. It's a day, usually around my birthday, that everyone raises money for...Well, children in need. It was on my birthday last year and we all dressed up in school. I was a ragdoll. C:
I know what I'm doing. Im going to either be Valkyrie or dress up as Zafira for Halloween. I got a dress similar to what Zafira may wear. And I got an outfit for Valkyrie xD cuz I had to dress up as Valkyrie for my Book Talk
I may dress up as Tanith for Halloween, this year...I'm blonde-kinda. And I am tall-ish. I wear little, as it is..
Yup this'll be fuuun. I was Bellatrix last Halloween....oooh what if I went as Mrs. Lovett but I need a guy to be Sweeney cuz it just makes sense
The newest mod on the chat is such a bitch. Sorry for not talking but I was telling it that it can't control me.
what about a mod? What chat? Sorry - confused.
The chat that was to make it easier for Bloglanders to talk to each other. Now of course it's full of randomers that don't know what SP is or who Derek is. And their mods.
....i dunno Darquesse
Going to get The Faceless Ones be on later
BYE, ZAF! :D
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