Ah, my Minions...
As some of you are aware, KOTW was released early in some parts of the UK. Mistakes were made, I am told, and by the time news got out, it was already too late to do anything. Our official release date had been breached.
I was told all about it. I shrugged. Hey. It happens.
While this tends to mean very little for the overall sales of the book- the same amount of people are going to buy it, after all- it CAN mean that a new book doesn't get to rise as high in the book charts as it otherwise would have, and so doesn't get discussed in the media, and so more people aren't made aware of it...
For example, if a thousand people intend to buy a book the first week it's out, then a thousand sales will move it to a certain spot in the chart. But if five hundred of those people manage to buy the book a week EARLIER, then those sales are spread out over two weeks, and so it doesn't reach as high.
A breached release date can mean the difference between a best-selling book and a NUMBER ONE best-selling book, which is what all publishers are looking for.
Me personally? I'm not OVERLY bothered. Death Bringer was a number one bestseller last year in the UK and Ireland, and that's enough for me. Like I said, I wasn't too fussed at the idea that a few thousand books has been sold before the release date. So what if I didn't reach number one twice in a row? Did I really care? Nope, I didn't.
Which doesn't mean I wasn't utterly delighted by the news today that DESPITE a breached release date, KOTW is now the number one book for young adults in the UK- so thank you, Minions! (I haven't been told how we're doing in Ireland yet, so I'll hold off my extra-wide grin for THAT moment...)
The reader reaction to KOTW has been wonderful. I know a lot of you were stunned by certain events- of which you are free to talk about in the Spoiler Zone post below- and I know some of you would have quite liked to throttle me upon closing the book, so I want to thank you for investing so much of your faith and emotion in these characters. All I can say is: prepare yourself. You have, I assure you, seen NOTHING yet.
And speaking of the final installments, here's a link to a short thingy I wrote for the Tesco website...
http://booksblog.tesco.com
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'Disturb me for anything unimportant I shall use the authority I have to place you in the Gaol'
Its up until I finish the latest SP i got
Hello HARMONY!
I like your new name!
Cool, Zaf. I should make one...but I would have to spell Gaol as jail.
I had Em skype me to tell me i pronounced 'Gaol' wrong
Miniclip is addicting.
Is it now?
Huuuuh?
My proof copy? *hugs proof copy*I have it right here. C:
Along with seven Hardbacks and TEOTW c:
What is miniclip?
And have you guys seen the new Derek interview?
L., what is it the proof copy OF?
Proof copy of Skulduggery. C':
Which one? I saw one but Derek seems so popular i lose track
Thank you Kes, Have you read The Wind Singer????
The one on the website.
I have read the Wing Singer, Harmony. I have all three, but I doidn't think they were all that good.
Well, have any of you read the book, "Storm Thief"?
Quite a good book, the idea of probability storms are fascinating.
I LIKE CAPS LOCKKKK
No,Sir, I haven't. I have read "The Thief Lord" though.
You seem to have an extra few "K"'s in there.
CAPS LOCK IS EPIC!
Oh, soooo did you use Kestrels name, or did you come up with it? I really like that name......
Oh dear. It seems to be spreading, how unfortunate. Well, I'll be in quarantine if you need me.
*hides*
no infecting me
I do have extra KKKKKs, I stole them from a letter store.
CAPS LOCK FOREVER
You cannot hide from infection, only run. And hope. And wear a mask. And gloves. And a hazardous materials suit.
*has shadows ready*
infected touch me they die i dont care if im Grand Mage or not
WHOOOOOOOO
ITS SPREADING!!!!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the person you have chosen to lead you all.
Give 'em a round of applause.
Harmony, no, I had completely forgotten about that. I chose it because I wanted a pretty, yet threatening name. A Kestrel is a bird of prey.
Thanks! :)
*laughs* I remember when I made Star use extra letters and lots of capital letters by accident. That was humorous. C:
*SLOWLY APPROACHES ZAF*
THERE IS NO REASON TO BE AFRAID...
*VAL AND SKULDUGGERY APPEAR*
VAL SAY "YES, THERE IS NO REASON TO FEAR"..
*shrugs*
i barely made sense to myself but I picked Zafira because I thought it was like 'the fear' and Kerias as 'curious' as in 'the curious fear' mind you i created this on the spot
My word, all of those capital letters hurt my eyes.
*screams and runs*
i dont get along with the dtectives
What about private eyes? Bail bondsmen?
HEHEHEHEHEHEHE
THAT'S CLEVER ZAF. AND YOU ENDED UP WITH A REALLY COOL NAME!
I kinda have a vendetta against Skul. Or rather, my OC does. Same thing really.
Thanks Kes! I wanted something unique
SIR, SIR , SIR. WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT CAPS LOCK IS THE SUPREME LEADER OF THE UNIVERSE???
It is, that.
My name however, I have found in places after I named myself. The Kestrel part, not the LeStarre.
NO IT ISN'T! DEREK IS THE SUPREME LEADER, AND CAPS LOCK IS SECOND IN COMMAND!
Derek, is our master. We await his call to strike against his enemies.
And, I, for some reason am unable to join the MUnchkin army.
Derek, make it available to ALL minions, I BEG YOU!
HARMONY DEW IS MY 4TH NAME. I KEEP THINKING OF ONES THAT SUIT ME BETTER.
I LOVE IT WHEN THINGS ARE IN HARMONY, AND DEW IS COOL, SOOOOOOO
Its been broke.
See we are all awaiting the call. We will protect our master
My name is a semi-random collection of letters with a honorific at the front.
I have to leave. Will be back in about 45 minutes.
MY OTHER NAMES CONSIST OF VENA COIL, TRINITY GREEN, SELENA GASP AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HARMONY DEW.
Bye Kes. Oh, I seem to have been cured. Drat.
Sir, have you watched Doctor Who???
I havent been infected now i feel like i refer to vamps
gtg, be back soon
I WATCH DOCTOR WHO!!!!
I literally watched the first ever episode of Doctor Who that I have ever watched this morning. So yes, technically.
I need the next one. I watched the Daleks...*shudders* little creepy robots
I ALSO WATCH DOCTOR WHO!!!!
Hi!
Zafira, there is a simple solution to Daleks. Stairs.
Not anymore... Watch "Dalek"
No ordinary stairs, the stairs to the Philadelphia Museum. There are a LOT of steep steps on that staircase.
Yes!!! I gotta wait til tomorrow, ooh is it time for the invasion of Aussies?
POP POP AMERICANO
Daleks are annoying. I hate it hopw everyone thinks Slitheen are babyish. They're not! :(
American popcorn?
Super Mario!!!
I'm not entirely sure how this conversation is going.
Yuuuup!!!! Invasioon of the Aussies! Hello oncoming Aussies and Kiwis
In the pap pap americano song the guy looks like super Mario :)
LET US INVADE WITH MOAS!
gtg Byeeeeeee!
Bye!!!!
NIX!!!! Have trued the next part of Operation Take Over Ireland?
Bye Maya!
Yeah, uh, no, not yet.
It's just whenever I get a new idea it's kinda better than the last, so it's hard to continue my stuff
Goodbye Maya.
Awwww :( i was really looking forward to it
*smacks Derek-lizard with frying pan*
did that wake human Derek?
I'm not saying I won't continue it, I'm trying, but I'm not good with using other people's characters
Hello.
I got twenty minutes.
Damn Skulduggery Day. So tiring.
Oh, opposite for me actually. Lol. Zaf is special...i always wondered what would happen if a Necromancer was Grand Mage
Hi Luce!
Greetings, Luciana.
How're you now?
Hiya Luce
Hi.
Well, these tablets don't work very well. But I have to try to keep my mind off it. And keep my mind off sleep because it looks like I'll be doing an all nighter
Really? Before you said that you only had twenty minutes.
Hmmmm Luce did you read KOTW?
Until I have to carry on with the quiz, again.
I've got about nine hours of SP quiz to do. Thankfully I've only got about seven and a half hours left.
I read KotW on the 30th. (':
There's cover everywhere?
Nix if i hit you with a frying pan would you kill me?
Luce, okay good needed to ask you something. Ill message you on fb i rather not post to Blog for fear of the idiot reading spoilers
Yes, I would kill you
Isn't that a bit harsh? After all, he could have hit you with something like, oh, I don't know, a walking stick.
Better get back to the quiz. I'll be here, but distant. You can also e-mall me, if you like. C:
* hits Sir with frying pan*
oopsie
I'd say good luck, but I don't believe in such things.
What quiz?!
Why ignore me?!
Listen now Zafira, I have a hypothetical question for you. If today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently?
ESPECIALLY if by doing something different, it WOULDN'T be your last day on earth.
Do you follow my logic?
I wouldnt hit you, i'd hug Derek
Good work.
Quiz on SP on my page on fb.
QUIZ!!!!
Quiz, but not test?
Sharky! No! It is Sharky!
A quiz about SP.
It's how I started in this fandom. :3
My Minion friend has her bday soon. I know what to get her, PWF
Or am I what you really think I am?
Perhaps, despite after all this time, I have been deceiving you, and I am actually an absolute cad.
I have returned!
I never really wanted a fb before, but this blog is kinda making me want one.
Lol i have an rp page
What is rp?
Roleplay
Cool. Is it like a separate website, or is it in fb?
Its in facebook. Its for SP
Interesting. Thankfully, I am immune to most forms of social communication.
Lol you sound like Derek
'Derek only talks to real people when he has to'
Damn it. I am only 11, so my parents won't let me join. It is hard enough for me to hide this from them.
Well, that is SORT of true, Zafira.
And you have my condolences, Kestrel. But your parents must have your best interests in mind.
I never really wanted to join until now. Dosnt see the point. I still dont, just want to see all these SP pages.
Do the books ever give Skuls adress
Im 14 i joined at 11 then parents found out. They shrugged. They know I am on the Blog. Cuz they think talking to Derek will have a positive influence.
Well, sunlight is the best disinfectant, so looks like they're not going to be bitter.
Well, see, it's not the blog really, it's the email. I might tell them when I turn 12, and say that I just made it, but I really don't want them to make me delete it.
Should I join fb? I mean, my parents don't have it so it'd be difficult for them to find out...
Yes but ill teach you the trick. Do not post pics of yourself, dont use your real name
Sharky, please don't eat me!
I can't make any of these decisions for you, you've got to go with your innate sense of right and wrong. Shame I was born without one.
Obviously. I wouldn't do that even if I joined with permission. Should I use Kestrel, or something else?
I can't get fb, my cousins have it and my uncle is a police officer!
Listen now Death Rose, why on earth would I eat you? I mean, I don't think that I have any access to an oven powerful enough to cook human enough to taste good.
You can use your taken name
Yeah, Sir. I have no sense of guilt. I could probably murder someone and not feel guilty. That's why I'm asking you guys.
Alright. I shall go make one.
Uh, but you have teeth and there is the volcano over there!
*Gestures to the volcano*
WHAT AM I DOING???)
Kestrel...
Things are a lot more complicated than that. Perhaps you've remained relatively remorseless with the things you've done in life, but murder is something I wouldn't ever want to do.
At least, not without a really good recipe.
Excuse me, my inner cynical sense of humor kicked in for a moment.
*Backs away slowly, keeping eye contact*
I'm gonna use a different name, because quite a bit comes up when I google Kestrel LeStarre
Hi, I'M BACK!!!!
Actually, I'm not gonna do it. Anything else I would, but something as big as fb, they would notice.
Hello there Harmony.
And goodbye.
I'm afraid it is time to depart, friends. May we meet again.
Bye Sharky! Please don't look up any good recipes for serial killers!
Bye Sir
If you read KOTW read the post, if you havent comment what you think might happen. If you read KOTW POST SPOULER WARNINGS
http://randomnthingsthatdomatter.blogspot.com/2012/09/kingdom-of-wicked.html
Bye Sir!
Guys, how do you delete blogs?
I almost read the post! Do you WANT me to get the KATANAS out?
I warned you!!! I WARNED YOU it even says before the part
*hides*
I read the warning and then stopped. But now there are even more places to resist.
Just that post has KOTW rest my Blog is safe
Same with this one.
Goood xD
WbD
Lol.
What's up?
Not much watching videos
Man is not one but two he is evil and good and he walks the fine line we'd all cross if we could
Bed yaaay
?
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
And the scum of the Earth inhabit it
And it's name is London
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
And it's filled with people who are filled with sh**
and it's name is London!
Sweeney Todd FTW!
You is leaving?
Never mind
Nope
If so, then bye!
Im staying! I got half hour now xD
Argh... Almost had first there!
Almost xD Zaf was faster
Why only half an hour? Are you being timed?
Ded!
Nooo i just got to go to bed by 11:30 mom is a pain usually by 11 i had to go but she's being nice
DED!
Ah. I had to be asleep a long time ago. That is the beauty of the iPod touch. DEDICATE!
I know Kes, I do that every night!
I pretty much do too now.
Do either of you play a musical instrument?
I play drums, a bit of guitar and I know how to play piano
I dedicate this page to...theater. Aah theater what would we do without? We wouldnt have Sweeney Todd or Jekyll and Hyde. Both musicals i recomend. Theater is just awesome! And its fun. I enjoy it so much. I mean you get to be someone you arent -hopefully. Like a killer or something. I love Jekyll and Hyde the most as the 'Facade' parts show true meaning. 'Man is not one but two are we evil or good do we walk the fine line we'd all cross if we could?' proves. Today we arent we we are. Are we truly evil or truly good? Are we 2 people or one? Are we the good sweet angel we think we are or deep down inside are we that maniac killing people. Some can pbject Hyde did good by killing the bishop as he was a perv. But the fact remains: Hyde killed peopke. Another excellent thing would be, the song in the meeting of the board. 'Just look at what happened here mix amger with a touch of fear' we are afraid of the truth. Jekyll had a point we need to control our anger. Not let it out. We are afraid therefore we are angered. So I guess I dedicate to Jekyll and Hyde as well for the many social meanings hidden beneath the insanity. Sonetimes they are right. They definetly are.
And I can sing pretty good!
I'm learning clarinet for my school band.
Cool ded, Zaf! I love theater, and have seen Sweeney Todd.
And we would only get to read Shakespeare!
Oh, I played clarinet in year 5 for a semester
Thanks I adore Sweeney Todd as well!
These are my friends see how they glisten see this one shine how he smiles in the light my friend my faithful friend
I like Shakespeare! Although the only play by him I've read is "A Midsummer Nights Dream"
Yeah, in the movie, Johnny Depp signs that
The problem with the poet oh how do you know that it's deceased?
Try the priest!
I <3 Johnny Depp
I read A Midsummer Night's Dream iver the summer for Honors, failed that test, i mean it asked stuff i never saw in the book
I didn't see the movie, but I really want to.
No no not lied at all now i never lied!
Like what kind of stuff?
The book was funny as hell though. (Although I seriously doubt that hell is funny)
I haven't, I just have Johnny Depp on my iPod!
The movie is awesome!!! I own it! :D
It was like really confusing the testl they mixed up things ect, yeah failed.
Mrs. Lovett is EPIC!
Mr. Perellis miracle hair elixir!
I loved her!!!
You barking mad? Killing a man that done you no harm?
Please comment and follow the blog!!!!
http://readthismortals.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/ideas-are-taking-over.html#comment-form
Do you know the exact shade of her hair?
Of course!
What is it then?
Yellow!
No no no, that won't do at all!
Hi Nix!
I gtg bed guys, Nix i help tomorrow
Awww...
Okay Zaf. Bye...
Bye Zaf!
Nix, I like the one with the werewolves to be honest. But my second favorite would be Operation Take Over ireland.
And no I have to go too. BYE!!
Kes?! The ideas I'm having trouble with? Seriously?
Bye Kes!
Stupid comment notification. I didn't realise that someone commented
I did!
I did!
So I saw Death. Sand Shoe
Sand Shoe?
Yeash
This is the dicription of the book I am writing now,
A young girl by the name of Emily Thompson, is given a necklace, it is average with a fluro orange jewel on it. It was a gift from her father, Jerymie Thompson. The next day, Emily's father is murdered. A man in dress shoes and a jeweled dagger threatens her and wants the necklace. The necklace has an inscription on it:
'Once we all unite, the world dies'
Hmm...
If I can give some advice, the blurb just says what happens at the begininng. You need to describe what happens without giving anything away, like she has to blah blah blah, or what will she do when she's given the choice of blah blah blah
You need to give a little more of the plot
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