Monday, September 17, 2012

Wow

Now then... THAT was a tour.

And it's all over. I've been home for a few days in between, but the fact is this tour has been going on since August 5th, and it ended September 15th. Last night I was walking around my garden, looking up at the stars, and the thought hit me: it's over. It's done.

Sure, sure, I have other things to do. I have an interview tomorrow, and signings and events in Bray, Ennis, Bangor, Belfast, Dublin and Cheltenham to come over the next few months, but essentially, that's me done for the year.

It's been a good tour. No, it's been a great tour. I got to meet so many of my Minions, both from Blogland and Facebook and the Forums and even Bebo, for God's sake. And then I got to meet so many more, those of you who don't even post comments. And then I got to meet those Minions who don't even know I have a Blog, or that there are Forums and Facebooks and Tumblrs and whatnot out there.

Already, some of you are being talked about in the corridors of Harper Collins. The tall blonde with the T-shirt in London. The hot chick in Australia, who asked me to marry her and assured me her girlfriend wouldn't mind. The readers who gaped, who froze, who hopped and skipped, who babbled and blubbered. The readers who proposed and flirted and flattered. The readers who came in costume, the readers who came with gifts... the artwork on display, the stories, the effort and dedication and the sheer talent. The massive four hour signing session in Liverpool 1, the even more massive five hour session in Bluewater...

And then all the bro-fists and the hugs and the tears from the hyperventilating teenage girls. The parents and guardians who stood in line so patiently, and who were so good-humoured. I hope you Minions thanked them for driving/escorting/waiting with you- they thoroughly deserve a hug.

It was exhausting. It was manic. It was fun. I wasn't able to take all the gifts with me on the plane, so they're being shipped over and I should have them in a few days. Once they are in my possession, I shall post some photos. Some of this stuff is astonishing.

So thank you, everyone who came out to see me and get a book signed. For some of you, it was our first time meeting. For others, we've met before. Others still, you've come to see me practically every single tour. I remember a lot of you. I know some of your names. And I love seeing you again.

And I'd love to say that now I'm going to take a holiday- but really, what are the chances of that? I've got stuff to do, and things to write, and sometime over the next month or so I'm going to have to start Skulduggery Pleasant Book 8...

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Helena Ember Sky said...

Oh. There. *sits down next to Zath but doesn't remove phone*
What's up?

Sparky Braginski said...

*she misses*

Zathract Mist said...

A lot of things.

Helena Ember Sky said...

Hm. Care to tell me any of them?

Eve the ROCK said...

*fires giant egg put of a cannon*

Helena Ember Sky said...

Okay. *puts head on Zath's shoulder* I'm bored. *pulls out phone and starts texting*

Zathract Mist said...

*mutters and stands up*

Sorry.

*goes for another walk in the forest*

Helena Ember Sky said...

*groans* You're so depressing Zath. *skips around*

Ange said...

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

TROLLIN' ALL DAY LONG YA'LL!!!!!!!!

Sparky Braginski said...

HAYLEY....

What am I....

*pushes her in the lake*

Welcome, my friend...

Zathract Mist said...

Hello, Hayley.

Helena Ember Sky said...

Hey Hail. That's what I'm going to call you by the way.

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

hi Hayley

sorry, got distracted...

Eve, a Wrathscale Naga is from World of Warcraft

Helena Ember Sky said...

MSD

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

OK Hel

Ange said...

Heyooooo!!
Sparky, get off of me and let me out now or we shall be having a very stern converastion...

*Cracks knuckles*

No worries Hel XD

Sparky Braginski said...

Uh, Hayl-

*waves*

I pushed you in, not jumped on you.

I'm up here.

All nice and dry.

Ange said...

*Jumps out, walking up to you and slapping you across the face hard*

Don't push my into lakes; It eff's up my hair. No me Gusta...

*I growl, stalking away to lie down in the sun to dry*

Helena Ember Sky said...

Hail, do you want me to dry you...?

Sparky Braginski said...

*rubs face*

Ow...

Ange said...

*pouts* Yes please Hel...

*glares at Sparky*

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

*laughs*

Helena Ember Sky said...

*stands over Hail and manipulates the water into the lake*

Sparky Braginski said...

*still rubbing face*

Be a little light-hearted...

Zathract Mist said...

*shakes head*

How do they keep doing the Death Metal vocals for an entire concert without killing themselves?

*returns to the lake and lies in it again*

Sparky Braginski said...

Zath, would you stop doing that?

Helena Ember Sky said...

Night everyone.

Zathract Mist said...

*mutters and climbs out again*

Zathract Mist said...

Night Hel.

Nixion Strange said...

Hi everyone

Sparky Braginski said...

Night Hel.

MSD.

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

night Hel

hi again Nix

OK Sparky

Zathract Mist said...

Okay, Sparky.

Hi, Nix.

Ange said...

*smiles* Thankyou Hel.

*Pokes tongue out at Sparky, still glaring*
Eff No. Amigo, no me gusta la forma en que están tratando a mí oa otras personas para el caso. Realmente me molesta. Estoy empezando a molestó mucho y no puedo controlarlo, sobre todo porque no tiene un filtro de trabajo entre su cerebro y su boca.

Spanish rant done...

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

*nods*
good Spanish, Hayley

Sparky Braginski said...

*scowls*

Sure, fine, sorry...

Zathract Mist said...

*frowns*

Eve the ROCK said...

Hi Hayley!! Good to see you!

Goodnight Heck! (lol by the way)

Hi Nickz!

Eve the ROCK said...

Hayley, soy demasiado perezoso para aprender a español.

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

*laughs*
Eve, Eve, Eve...

Eve the ROCK said...

HELLLOOOOOO?

...Huh. I'm still have my feet sticking out of the water.

*climbs out of lake with the help of swans and uses super-dryer*

Eve the ROCK said...

Miss, Miss, Miss!

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

*grins*
La única forma de entender everyones españoles se debe a que utilice esto:
http://translate.google.com/#ja/en/

Eve the ROCK said...

I shall celebrate the last day of Term 3 with a gust to you all.

But I think the swans ate it, so....

Eve the ROCK said...

What?! GIFT

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

HI! I'm not actually here!

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

REGALO!!!!!

Hola Val!

Eve the ROCK said...

Miss, su discurso me confunde.

Hi Val who isn't here!!! *samples blood* This blood has been around this blog for a YEAR!

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Noooooo! My blood!

*tries to get it back, but isn't here so I can't pick it up*


Aw. Dang it.

Eve the ROCK said...

TWAHAHAHA!

*stores blood in a blood-fridge*

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

*comes on*

*tackles Eve from behind*


GIMME MY BLOOD!

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

Eve, habla whos?

Val felicitaciones!
1 año entero!

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

AH! ANOTHER LANGUAGE! I AM CONFUSED!


*runs in circles and hits a wall*

Eve the ROCK said...

Never!!!!!!!!!!! *crawls away and throws small children at Val*

Eve the ROCK said...

I translated HABLA WHOS, it said "Do you speak love for sales"

:P

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

Tengo un deseo repentino de hablar otro idioma ahora ...

Eve, if that happened, then Google Translate is stupid

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

*shrieks*


SMALL CHILDREN! AHHHH!

*panics*


The barriers of Blogland have been breached! PANIC! THE DEMONS ARE COMING!


*hides*

Eve the ROCK said...

¿Vamos hablar a italiano ahora?

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

*falls over laughing*

Eve the ROCK said...

Small Child: When I gwow up, I wanna be just wike Caewan!

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

うーん、私たちは日本語を話すことができる?

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

*runs over to small child*
NO!! NO CAELAN!!

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

*hits the child with a stick*



DON'T YOU BE LIKE CAELAN! I WILL THROW YOU OFF A CLIFF AND HAVE MY EX BOYFRIEND HIT YOU WITH A BAT AND AN AXE!

Valkyrie V. - Ivy said...

Gotta go, bye!

Miss Cain; The Aussie Ninja Stalker said...

bye Val!

Unknown said...

Ew Caelan

Star Inkbright said...

HI PEOPLE!

*sings* I'm sorry,
I'm sorry,
I'm so, so, sorry,
There is not easy way to say that,
I'm sorry,
I'm sorry . . .

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, LOOK UP NICK CLEGG'S I'M SORRY SONG THINGIE.

Nick Clegg is a British political leader. At our last election nobody got enough votes so the Tories and the Lib-dems teamed up and now David Cameron (Conservative) is Prime Kinister and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) is Deputy Prime Minister. He recently gave a speech saying he was sorry about the school tuition fees, and some bright spark asked permission to turn it into a song. Permission was granted so long as all the profit went to charity . . . AND NOW IT'S EVERYEHERE, IS BEING MADE INTO A CHARITY SINGLE, AND COULD BE A NUMBER ONE.

Lol.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Hey guys.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Is anybody here?

Star Inkbright said...

I AM!

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Hey star

Star Inkbright said...

Hey Eden.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

So how are you?

Star Inkbright said...

Good. It's Friday. :)

You?

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Great, it's Friday
*hums TGIF*

Star Inkbright said...

Fridays are awesome. :)

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I know, I always stay up till about 5 in the morning and sleep in till 10

Star Inkbright said...

I don't; I like waking up early. :)

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Me two, but I wake up and read over books.

Star Inkbright said...

I usually wake up, go and have breakfast, then get back into bed and read or come here. Mornings in Blogland is when the Aussies are on. Nighttime is when the Americans are on, and afternoons are as boring as pears.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I can't go on Blogland at home because we don't have Internet, I can only go on when I'm at my Dad's.

Star Inkbright said...

Oh. Okay.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Yeah but I'm at my Dad's now so I'll have Internet till about 2 o'clock tomorrow.

Star Inkbright said...

Cool. :)

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Yeah it's quite cool.

Star Inkbright said...

Mmh. How're you?

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Fine we had beginning of year mass, we all got out 35 minutes early.

Star Inkbright said...

. . . What's year mass?

Uilliam Kinsella said...

It's a mass we have ( we're a catholic school) at the beginning of the year * thinks how self explanatory it is*

Star Inkbright said...

Ah. Okay. Because year could mean year group. *shrugs*

My school isn't for a particular religion. We were a State school, but we recently became an academy coz the goverment was being stupid (when is it not?) and was making tons of schools into academies . . .

We've got an upgrade to our computers, a new logo, and are going to get new uniform toatch the logo. Everyone hates it all. The logo is rubbish and Windows 7 is making all our computers go slow and they keep failing. Which is annoying, like, when the teacher has got a lesson planned that needs them. Or when the library system goes off. Or anything.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Our secondary school is called a college we have over head projectors in all the classrooms.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

There's about seven hundred in the school.

Star Inkbright said...

We do as well! Nearly all the teachers use powerpoints in the lesson. SO, the computers going off would be BAD.

Our school is a secondary school and a sixth form college.

Star Inkbright said...

We have . . . *drumroll* Nearly 2000. :)

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Okay, we don't really have a proper college in county Wexford.
We do have IT Carlow though, my mom is taking a bachelors in business there.
It's a night course.

Star Inkbright said...

*sighs* And once again, I'll look like an idiot, but - what's IT Carlow?

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Carlow institute of technology, it's a college for unemployed people or adults who are like thirty.
It's basically a night school.

Star Inkbright said...

Oh, okay. :)

Uilliam Kinsella said...

It wasn't a stupid question,
Anyway Wexford is called the model county because we had good farming and fishing industries and we even had a metal working factory that made farm implements and it even made Michael Collins bike but we never got a proper college so then places like Naas and Galway advanced while we just slowly declined.

Star Inkbright said...

Ah.

My nearest city, Hull, is generally seen as being not too good a place, but us outlying vilkages are generally seen as being posher. Especially my villages, because we have one of the primary schools that has been rated outstanding fuve times in a row and our villages has expensive houses (on account of there being a good school). Often when I say where I live people think I'm posh and it's so irritating. All the expensive houses mean is that we live in a smaller one than we would do if I lived in North Ferriby or somewhere, okay? And I went to the primary school for three and a half years (we only moved here five years ago), and I don't like it. It thinks it's better than everywhere else. It always tries to do things like having tons of days were people have to come dressed a certain way that are original and show we do more things than everywhere else, but it just stressed the parents out. And they recently started doing everything electronicly - my nrother and sister still go to the school, so I know - but the computer systems totally fail so none of the parents know what's going on when, and they pay the dinner money but the system doesn't record it so they have to pay again . . .

Star Inkbright said...

*villages

*village

*village

*stresses

*brother

*facepalm* Damn typos.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

That doesn't happen in my old school because it wasn't large enough to get a canteen.
In my new school they have lockers and a canteen and I went to what was considered a good school but it wasn't posh, Irish national schools are generally very sporty and have a good few extra curriculars. But anyway we had to drive generally 6 to 7 kilometres to school.
My house isn't in an area that's considered posh but it is quite big, we built on my Dads farm in a field that has a magnificent view of the Slaney river.
My dad lives in the farm house ( the house he grew up in) while we live in the house we had built when my little brother was built.

Star Inkbright said...

Awesome!

My old old school (that is, the primary school I was in before we moved house) had a canteen that was a building at the end of the playground. My old school (the primary school I was in until I moved up to secondary) just had a kitchen cinnected onto the small hall and we ate in the small hall. We had two halls. A big hall where we had assembly (called the big hall), and a small hall where we ate lunch (called the small hall). We could do PE in either hall.

In my current school, we have a small canteen at one end of the school and a large one at the otjer end. What's annoying is that year ten and above always get let into the large canteen first while we Y7-Y9s sit in our queue and wait for them to all get their lunch before they let us in. :(

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Well in my school ( secondary school) we have a canteen and a few vending machines around the school but anyway in the canteen if you don't get in reasonably early you can be waiting twenty minutes to be served, so I usually get the pot noodles in the tuck,so if someone in my class is nearly at the front of the line I give them the money and ask me to get the pot noodles.

Star Inkbright said...

Cool arrangement. Me and my little group of friends wait in the queue togwther and then eat our lunch in the lunch hall together, because we're girls and we hang round in groups like that. :P

*thinks* Whoops. I lied. We have three canteens, I forgot . . . The year sevens have one, and they get their own lunch hall all to themselves and everything. I remember we could wait in the queue, get our lunch and eat it all in the space of fifteen minutes. Ah, good days . . .

Year eights, year nines, year tens and year elevens share the other two like I said. I'm not sure what the sixth formers do for lunch. They have, like, their own sixth form area.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Yep it's a sweet arrangement, sure if they're paying for it all you have to do is ask for it take then give them back the change.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I know * straightens tie on impeccably dashing suit*

Star Inkbright said...

*nods* You always have to make sure ties are straught. Otherwise they are evil. :)

(Because the opposite of straight os crooked . . . ? Crooks are crooked, that's why they're call crooks, and crooks are evil too, so crooked ties are evil.)

Star Inkbright said...

*straight

*is

NOM Ominous said...

Dont ask for lifts from people with no nose.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Okay that involved a lot of explaining and it was a bit complicated,
As everyone knows the best things in life are simple like:
Eden = totally awesome, mind blowingly smart and lets not forget, drop dead good looking in a suit.
*grins*

Star Inkbright said...

Hi Thrust!

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Hey Thrust, who do you that doesn't have a nose and how do they smell *hopes Thrust says "terrible"*

Star Inkbright said...

Even when that suit is covered in ink? *blasts ink at Eden*

Uilliam Kinsella said...

* looks at suit * this was Italian! * glares at Ink*
I will be sending you the bill.

Star Inkbright said...

Are you sure tou didn't mean beak? There arem't many birds I know that live un Italy and have bills. Unsurprising really, seeing as I have no idea what birds do or do not live in Italy.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Ha ha ha, well YOU won't be laughing when you see what an Italian suit cost.

Star Inkbright said...

*you

*aren't

*in

I hate making typos. :( Damn my phone.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Mwahaha * holds device that makes typos appear on screens * I'm an evil genius.

Star Inkbright said...

Who do you think you are, Artemis Fowl? *snatches at typo-making device*

NOM Ominous said...

HAHAHA I saw the im sorry thing, ink!

Star Inkbright said...

*glares at bedside light* It was on, then it flickered a bit and went off. It stayed off for,a few minutes, and has now mysteriously come on again. Stupid light.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Nuh huh you're not getting my device * shakes it too high for Star to reach*

Star Inkbright said...

Yay! :)

It was all over the news today in England. And yesterday, I think. I bet the person who thought of it is over the moon. :)

Uilliam Kinsella said...

What are you talking about star the story about Nick Clegg or something?

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I mean song

NOM Ominous said...

Epic first, eden

Star Inkbright said...

Yup. :)

I could tell you all about what my mum thinks of Britain's politics, but you's get bored, so . . .

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Why thank you,* straightens tie on new suit*
You like the suit Star?
You paid for it.

NOM Ominous said...

*sleeps in banana*

Anonymous said...

Hello?

Star Inkbright said...

It's wonderful, Eden. *false smile*

*jumps for the typo-making device*

Anonymous said...

I'm listening to I'm the Doctor.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I could tell you all my Grandad thinks about Irish politics but you wouldn't get bored, you'd probably think he was very pro Irish, anti English and a wee bit racist.

NOM Ominous said...

mY SUIT IS TOO SMALL FOR ME SO MY PET HANGER WEARS IT.

NOM Ominous said...

HI PHEONIX! i'M LISTENING TO EPIC MUSIC.

Anonymous said...

Do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Hi Phoenix, howya?

Star Inkbright said...

Hi Gandalf!

*picks up the banana and shakes Thrust out of it* Oi. By order of the Banana Lord's second in command, it is decreed that bananas must not be used for resting in. Sleeping, unfortunately, is a form of resting.

Anonymous said...

Hi Everyone!

Anonymous said...

I AM TALKING!

Anonymous said...

GANDALF!

*hugs*

NOM Ominous said...

I COULD TELL YOU ABOUT MY SWEATER AND IT WOULDNT TAKE TOO LONG, SO YOU WOULDN'T GET SO BORED...
IF I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE POLITICS ROUND ME, YOU MAY GET WORRIED.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Hey Kes, and Thrust I don't know much about Canada or you for that matter, so educate me.

Anonymous said...

Could just stay still for a moment, because I AM TALKING!!!


DOCTOR WHO IS AWESOME.

Anonymous said...

Thrust, sweaters are boring. Skeletons in suits on the other hand...

Anonymous said...

Hello Eden!

NOM Ominous said...

OUCH! I LOVED THAT BANANA, STAR!
*GETS READY TO THROW BANANA, THEN EATS IT INSTEAD*
*THROWS COCONUT AT STAR*

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't get bored by politics. I'm weird that way.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Thrust! Get on to talking about yourself and Canada.

Anonymous said...

During science today I had three of my Skulduggery books on the table. One I was lending to someone and the other two I was reading. We were measuring the volume of irregular objects by putting water in a graduated cylinder and then dropping the object in it. And the IDIOT OF A TEACHER put the graduated cylinder, which holds WATER on TOP of my BOOKS!!!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, Thrust. Politics are cool!

Unlike science teachers...*mutters angrily*

Anonymous said...

TONIGHT! Just remember who's standing in your way, and then! AND THEN! Do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first.

Anonymous said...

What? I'm confused...

Star Inkbright said...

HI KEZ!

My parents used to be Lib-dem supporters. Now my mum's in favour of Labour and I think my dad has to be an anarchist, seeing as he totally believes in the 'power corrupts' thing, doesn't want anyone that I know of to be in charge, and once had a debate with me about Gone and tried to explain how none of the kids in the FAYZ actually needed a leader, which is quite impressive as he's never read the books. He mostly convinced me he was right, as well. :)

Anonymous said...

Where are you from Star?And an anarchist...? That's weird.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Well Kes, he could've put the book in the water.
Thrust, politics are cool, anyone who doesn't care about politics may just where a shirt that says I don't care if monkeys govern me.

Anonymous said...

I'm struggling to decide who's better: David Tennant, Matt Smith, or Christopher Eccleston. I've seen too few episodes to be able to tell...

Anonymous said...

Gotta go.

Anonymous said...

Eden, yes, but that stack of 3 books had cost me over 50 dollars.

Anonymous said...

By GANDALF!

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Bye Phoenix, and Kes * mouth gapes open * 50 DOLLARS!!!

Anonymous said...

Eden, it was mostly shipping fees, but still. And I had an Amazon giftcard which I used, so most of it wasn't REAL money.

Star Inkbright said...

ENGLAND! The land of the crazy people who are obsessed with queues and scared of sunlight compared to the continental people. :)

*shrugs* He never said he was an anarchist or anything. It's just a conclusuon I drew. Next I'll draw a hat.

Anonymous said...

I like hats. Hats are cool.

I have had this brilliant idea. For Christmas I am going to ask for a model skeleton. Then I will buy it a suit and a hat and gloves. Although I doubt I'll have enough money for it.

Anonymous said...

wbd, homework.

Star Inkbright said...

Fifty American dollars??? That's . . . Erm . . . *thinks* About £30!!!!

. . . Well, when I put it that way, it doesn't look QUITE so much, but still.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Yes I believe we can all agree that English politics and politicians are crazy.

Star Inkbright said...

Okay Kez.

Anonymous said...

All politicians are crazy.

And Star, 50 dollars is a lot for an 11 year old girl. I would have punched him so hard if it had spilled...

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Well of course to an 11 year old person.

Anonymous said...

Yes. Which is me.

Star Inkbright said...

I know. It's thirty quid in English money and that would be a lot for my sister, who's eleven nect month. It would be a lot for me as well. I'm fourteen and four days. :) But gift cards don't really count, like you said . . . Still a lot though. But the three Hunger Games from Waterstones in paperback was twenty quid, so . . .

Anonymous said...

I got the three Hunger Games plus the pin for 25 dollars. But it was my mum's money. She wanted to read them as well, so she got them for me.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Well I haven't got any books online, so I haven't gone through this problem.

Star Inkbright said...

That's cheaper than me. But Amazon IS cheap.

Anonymous said...

Amazon is amazing.

Star Inkbright said...

I know!

Anonymous said...

It gave me 4-7+ TEOTW+my UK copies of 1-3

I am eternally grateful.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

I don't know if it's amazing or not because I've only been given dogs hardship setting up an amazon account.

Star Inkbright said...

It gave me SP books 1-6 (got them for my birthday) and Gone books 1-3.

Anonymous said...

I haven't read Gone. What are they about?

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Neither have I.

Star Inkbright said...

They are about a place in California where a dome (twenty miles in diameter) springs up over a small town and the surronding area. Inside the dome, all the adults have disappeared. There are only the kids under fifteen left. Naturally, chaos follows. Especially when mutations pop up.

Mary Contrary said...

Hm.
Derek - Just a little wonder - When you first thought up Fletcher, And, more specifically, his hair, how did you picture it?
What I mean to say is, when you say it sticks up in every direction, is that meant in a sort-of-short-haired-ness, or all the way to Justin Pierre's crazy epicality atop of his head?

It was just a thought, but I've never really been sure of how stick-y-up-y Fletcher's hair IS.

Star Inkbright said...

They're awesome. Bit dark, though. They have a violence and cruelty warning on the back. :)

My profile pic has the title of the third Gone book shown as it is on the cover.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

So it's like under the dome by Stephen King except it takes a childs perspective and there are no adults.

Anonymous said...

So kinda like Shade's Children by Garth Nix. There is no dome, but everyone over 14 disappears and there are a bunch of mutations.

Star Inkbright said...

Several kids, actually. Well, more than several. And after a while, I'd say that mentally, a lot of them cease to be children.

Never read Under The Dome, but people have compared Gone to Stephen King's work.

Also, within the dome there's a boarding school for rich troubled kids, which adds some nasty characters into the equation. :P

Anonymous said...

ooh...Who's it by?

Anonymous said...

I gtg, bye!

Star Inkbright said...

Never read that either. But Garth Nix had to be coping. Gone is too awesome to be a copy.

And, mutations in the form of talking coyotes and special powers. Not giving away any major spoilers here, btw.

Star Inkbright said...

*copying

Michael Grant.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Yeah who's it by?
Bye Kessie.
Oh yeah I still have to dedicate, so I'm going to dedicate to one of my best friends on Blogland, someone who told me that she wasn't coming on again because she keeps annoying people, the person I am dedicating to is Death Rose.

Star Inkbright said...

:(

I would email her and tell her that some of them Slytherins get annoyed by nearly everyone.and not to worry about them, but I don't have her email address.

Sparky, Flame, Zath, Nix, Lynxia and Luciana are all Slytherins on Pottermore, I think.

Star Inkbright said...

Not that she really annoyed Sparky. And Flame wasn't even involved. But still.

Uilliam Kinsella said...

Yeah well anyway she got upset and emailed me.

Star Inkbright said...

:(

I hate this whole thing. Luciana and Death both got really upset by it and I can't tell either of them I'm on their side coz I would feel terrible about the other one.

Star Inkbright said...

Argh. Gtg, sorry! Fours!

Zanida Laufeydottir Queen of Asgard (Zafira Kerias) said...

I think i need POSITVE thing

Liike in my Honors English class we wrote a fight scene and we could get creative and graphic and random, I had Scapegrace and Thrasher end up getting in, someone kicked Scapegrace's head like a soccer call (errs football for the UK peoples) and Thasher ran after him sobbing, it was quite fun. Then Elder Miranda had Snape and muttant bunnies. Elder Serpina had muttant ninja cats that choke you with glowing noodles

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