A few other people also won for, like, other categories- including Katie Taylor in the Best Sports Book. I really really really wanted to meet her and she was RIGHT THERE in front of me but then I was called away for a photo, and then there were a few people who wanted napkins signed, and when I looked around again she was gone. Dammit. I always thought she looked so petite on screen, but in person she is physically IMPRESSIVE. Here she is with Cecelia Ahern- one of my top two favourite writer-type-people that I know.
It was a fun night- it always is- but very well behaved and restrained when compared to last year. Ah, last year... what fond, fond memories I have...
My editor Nick came over for it, so we were chatting about the Tanith novella and he reckons it needs only the barest of edits. What does that mean for you guys? It basically means it'll stay at around the 54,000 word mark and I won't have to cut anything out. Apart from, apparently, all those mentions of Tanith in a bikini. I sincerely don't see the problem. It's not like I have her running around nekkid or anything.
Ooh, maybe I should...
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*sets fire to email then throws dynamite at it*
What do you mean 'gone' insane? XD
My secret to survival (which I just figured out): Drawing, reading and watching The X Files.
*nods*
Aaah
"PING!"
EMAIL!!!
Loo craaaazy!!!!
My email is ping ping pinging away... was...
My email ismt
I'll keep that in mind for when I need it. :)
OOH! I KNOW! WE COULD HAVE A PARTY FOR MY BLOGVERSARY!
. . . No, that would require me to organise things. D:
Phaha!!!!!
Mine is in January
It isn't, Zaf? :/
When's your Blogversary, Star??
Mine is in January too. January the 22nd. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. I'VE NEVER HAD A BLOGVERSARY BEFORE!!!!
Mine is like end of January...
My birthday the 25th of January
Mine is in... May...
I have to find the exact date eventually.
I do too :/
*hums Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park*
My mum's birthday's January the 19th.
My sister's birthday is 18th of January.
Email has momentarily stopped pinging. *nods*
OH MY GOD.
1 WEEK AND 3 DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT FOR ME.
AND THEN...
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUN
HIGHSCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Star, same here.
No pinging.
Im in high school
And just as I said that, Scathio emailed . . .
I've been in high school for two years and three months.
PING PING PING PING!!!
Gah.
DEREK WHY HAVE YOU NOT POSTED?
(pleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedeadpleasedon'tbedead)
Hi Val!!
And I agree.
DEREK! WHY YOU NO POST?!!?!
He isnt dead.....he's gonna be the death of me. I dont often extremely flip but
DEREK LANDY WILL YOU JUST POST THE COVER OR GIVE US A SIGN YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE REALIZED ITS PAST THE. MIDDLE OF THE WEEK?!
Derek. Please, just please give us a sign that...
A) you know it's past the middle of the week and
B) YOU KNOW THAT IT'S PAST THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK!!
Thank you!!! I mean gawd how hard is it to type even a short comment?!
And C)YOU KNOW YOU KNOW IT'S PAST THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK!
Hi Ivy!
Exactly, Star.
Pingy ping ping indeedaring. *nods*
Indeedaring said out loud sounds a bit like i'n't 'e daring . . .
Phahaha
*laughs*
All my emails that I just read say that they were sent yesterday. Which is true because it's now Sunday.
Aaah i forgot its Sunday there
Ah, the joys of more Christmas shopping -_-
Star, I love your picture thingy!
Hi Ieni!!
The only shopping I enjoy is book shopping.
THANKS IENI! :)
AND HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would areoplanetacklehug you but I'm scared of accidentally pushing you into that burning foutain over there with a screaming innocent civilian in it. :/
Hello again, Miss Cain *hugs*
*Nods* I visited the library on the way back, to pick up a book, which is basically my version of book-shopping, because my mum won't actually let me buy any books, because she says it's a waste on money, when there's a library :(
Lets not throw people into fountains
Oh, never mind, the fountain was just blown up. *areoplanetacklehugs Ieni*
And there goes the petrol station...
*grins*
I adore libraies almost as much I do Waterstones. WHSmiths I'm still 'nnoyzigged at.
. . . I have battles of hatred with a lot of things . . .
Ah, no, the about of i's in the hi, means I'm obliged to do this:
Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar *violently ninjaeroplanetacklehugs*.
See, I'm a ninja, so my hugs have been changed. *nods*
Oh dear, I've just been aeroplanetacklehugged. I'd better run away...
Star, I'm listening to Enough. I have no idea why and I'll probably change it in a few minutes.
Omg, memories of me and my friends reading Mr. Men books in Waterstones and them getting 'annoyed' at me, because I was standing in WHSmith's reading S.P XD
Im amazed i slept to 9:26am
I like library's. But I prefer having my own books.
My mum has given up convincing me to stop buying the same books. (by the same books I mean different editions).
I need another bookcase...
OH GOD I'M BECOMING A PYROMANIAC. D: *sets fire to a blade or two of grass that escaped the Great Setting-Fire-To of the petrol station*
AHHH ANOTHER EMAIL.
Ah, yes, that email may or may not have been from me.
Phahaha!!!!
Is that longer or short than usual?
I woke up at about 9:30 or something today, but it was really weird, because I was in my dream and then I heard my mum's voice, but it was kinda distant, so I said to the people in my dream that it didn't matter and the burglary wasn't real and I had to go now and said bye and then I woke up properly.
Ah, I changed the music :)
What does pyromanic mean...?
Ah, I've got an email to reply to as well.
I found the whole A Series Of Unfortunate Events at Dymocks today in a collectors edition box. It was $200 for it.
Another thing to add to the Christmas list...
PING!!
Ninjaaeroplanetacklehug? SO COOL.
*offers everyone a chocolate or three* Better eat them quick before I set fire to them . . . *runs back onto email to set fire to more shops* I SEE A RYMONS THAT IS LACKING FLAMES.
Oooooh pyromaniac....Em called me one
Pyromania is an obsessive desire to set fire to things. I'm certain Nix has it. XD
*gets email* PING!!!!
And I forgot to say; YAY!
:( WHY YOU TELL ME NO MORE, CAIN????
OH WELL I STILL HAVE BLOGLAND. :) *sets fire to lake*
*laughs*
i can explode stuff
Wait, wait, does that mean Adele is a pyromanic? Seeing as she like to set fire to rain...?
*likes
STAR!! I MEAN NO MORE SETTING FIRE TO THE CHOCOLATES!!
EVERYTHING ELSE BURNS!!!
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sets fire to the forest* *set fire to another part of teh forest* *leaps beack onto email to continue this game of fire* Do you not use bellagaunt13 no more, Zaf?
I use it why?
Have you checked it recently? Because my email is telling me that you should have access to our almost 100-email long convo that was first about waging war on email and deviated to me and Cain setting fire to things . . .
BLAME ZATH!!!!!! HE TOLD US TO BURN EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!
*skips around striking matches and throwing them to the ground, setting fire to whatever is nearby*
I am reading xD
LET IT ALL BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURN!!!!!!!!!!
*grins evilly*
*laughs and explodes stuff*
I can explode Ireland if thats what it takes to get Derek
*ponders over it*
Leave Ireland... For now.
hey guys ! :)
Heya Mel
did I hear exploding Ireland...?
HI MELICA!!!! *sets fire to grass in front of Melica as a welcome* I've mostly calmed down now. *nods*
*sets fire to Ireland*
FIRE!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!
AHHHH. It's odd having my new old profile pic on here and my old new profile pic on email. CONFUSINGGGGGGGGGGG.
Agh, sorry I disappeared. Christmas presents :/
*explodes Ireland*
*sets fire to the fire*
Hi Mel!!
OK, let's all blow up every petrol station in Ireland at the same time. We all know what it will equal...
*grins evilly*
Oh, dear. Everything's really violent here...I'd better stay well back...
It's not exactly violent. More fire-y.
WB IENI!!!
OOH DO IT! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT!
We made email on Scathio's phone break coz we talked so much. *laughs*
*starts palnting bombs in petrol stations all over Ireland*
I think we might get that cover...MARCH TO DUBLIN!!!!!
*helps plant bombs all over Ireland at the petrol stations AND near car parks AND near oil tankers*
I appear to be the the most normal person in this firey chaos....
Omg, you're exploding Ireland?
And know I know why the world was supposed to end in 2012.
*Runs away to Mars*
Cool!! We are the end of the world!!!
The very firery end.
Ooo...it's a marsian.
*waves to marsian*
well if we explode Ireland then the water will shift sinking places which creates natural disasters which will all end in no more than 23 days :) YAY!
Mars? Good choice. Don't go to the moon, I just set fire to a nuclear bomb there.
FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*helps with planting bombs*
Wow.
I'm suddenly very hungry.
Im eating fizzy strawberry laces :)
Need to disappear (again.)
Sorry for being so distant today :/
I'M EATING FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE! I'M A FIRE EATER!
CAIN, PUSH THE BUTTON BEFORE I COME AND PUSH IT WITH YOUR FACE!!!! (AF quotes rock XD)
:( That's okay, Ieni.
I know that I have asked this before to some people but Im being peer pressured so - if you got asked would you like an SP movie to be made?... ... ? ... ? :D
The other recipants of this email chain are telling us off now. :/
WHOOPS.
. . . On the whole, no . . .
WHO THE HELL SET FIRE TO IRELAND. OWN UP. COME ON.
hey mara well it was kinda all of us...
Ahhhh, well, Star, we'll continue our fire rampage here.
*runs away*
*pushes button*
*Ireland blows up*
*thrusts button into Star's hand*
*points at Star*
STAR BLEW UP IRELAND!!!
*waves*
Hi Mara!!
*growls* I had to wake up early and drive up to Dublin FROM TIPPERARY to quench the fire. That is a FIVE HOUR DRIVE.
AND I AM TIRED.
OMG I WAS MEANT TO BE DOING HOMEWORK TODAY, BUT THEN . . . FFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEEEE .. .
*is laughing irl*
*glares at Miss Cain* DON'T LIE. LYING IS NOT GOOD FOR THE SOUL.
*would be laughing out loud irl if it wasn't 1:34am*
its not lying , its merely acting ...
Star did it!!
Nà maith liom tú. Tá fearg orm agus tá mé tÃrseach.
BUT IT WAS STAR WHO STARTED IT!!
IT STARTED OUT BY SETTING FIRE TO EMAIL AND IT'S WARRIORS AND THEN WE MOVED ON TO IRELAND!!!
yeah I only speak english and scottish...
Mel, tis lying I'm afraid.
WELL GO EXPLOAD AMERICA OR SOMETHING! *hmphs*
im not even really sure what I was defending but I just wanted to be a part of it...
and exploding america would take SOOOO long...
BUT STAR DID START IT!!!!!!!
I AGREE.
EXPLODING AMERICA WOULD TAKE TOO LONG.
AND I'M HUNGRY IRL AND IT'S 1:38AM.
its dinner time here... which reminds me...
Mel - exploading Ireland will take longer... Cause I'll attack you all.
Cain - YOU HELPED.
*yawns*
I gotta go sleep now.
BYE ALL!!!
P.S. STAR DID IT!!!!
*disappears*
Bye Cain, and you start it...
*started
NOOOOOOO, ZATH STARTE IT!!! HE TOLD ME TO BURN EVERYTHING, SO I WAS OBEYING, AND CAINE JOINED IN, AND IT MOVED FROM SETTING FIRE TO THINGS TO EXPLODING IRELAND . . .
BLAME ZATHHHHHHH. :)
Now now Star, Zathy wouldn't do that... ;)
she probably would...but thats not the point!
Msd...
*shakes head* Not Zaf, as in Zafira Kerias. Zath, as in Zathract Mist. He used to be a regular Bloglandian. No he's . . . uh . . . not. We were talking to him on email. HE SHALL BE OUR SCAPEGOAT. *grins evilly*
I find it so odd how Caine and Kes are the same age as my little sister. :/
*Cain
Not Caine. Caine's my age. But mentally older. *nods*
WAT?!? I kewl with it I just always wanted to do that (again)
. . . Actuallu, he's my age for nearly all the first book., then he's older . . .
WAT????pad.
Uh, Star? I'm the same age as Kessie...
Why, how old you?
Me and Kessie first met each other on Wattpad... :) *smiles goofily*
I'm 12... *cough*13nextAugustwhichisn'tthatyoung*cough*
*scowls* Then Kes had a birthdsy without telling me, coz last I checked she was eleven.
Cain's in year six so I'm assuming she isn't twelve yet . . .
MYSISTER'SELEVENANDINYEARSIXTOOIT'SFREAKYD:
14 nearly 15! Ok I give up, i blame Derek's frolicing in meadows....WHERE IS THE BLOODY COVER?'
I'm fourteen. :( Fifteen next September. Which is ages away. :)
Well, I'm a few months older than her. Maybe she hasn't turned 12 yet.
ALL THE REGS ARE GETTING YOUNGERRRRRRR. D:
OMG I WANT TO BE 14 YOU LUCKY DUCKLING.
She could be twelve.
Either way, she'd be a school year above my sister if they lived in the same country. *nods*
Is that a bad thing? :o
Ah. So I'd be in Kessie's class.
Im a reg im not younger im like really 15 January 25th...cant wait AND its a Friday
19 days until I turn 14! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D
*claps* HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY TO MEL! YAAAAY! :D
awww thankyou! :D
I WANT TO BE THIRTEEN. I LIKED BEING THIRTEEN. AND IF I CAN@T BE THIRTEEN, I WANNA BE TWELVE. AND IF I CAN'T BE TWELVE, I WANT TO BE FOURTEEN. AND IF I CAN'T BE FOURTEEN, I WANT TO BE ELEVEN. AND IF I CAN'T BE ELEVN, I WANT TO BE FIFTEEN. AND IF I CAN'T BE FIFTEEN, I WANT TO BE SIXTEEN. AND IF I CAN'T BE SIXTEEN . . . *thinks* I WANT TO BE SEVENTEEN. AND IF I CAN'T BE SEVENTEEN, I WANT TO BE EIGHTEEN. AND IF I CAN'T BE EIGHTEEN, I WANT TO BE NINETEEN. AND IF I CAN'T BE NINETEEN, I WANT TO BE TEN.
Younger than ten is . . . Too young . . .
*hugs* No problemo! :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOON MEL! :)
Bbs, dinner.
*laughs* Star, seems like you want to be younger than 20 and older than 10 :)
Brb dinner x
Haha, mum said I can stay longer x how're you Mel?
*hums*
Ow. My foot. :/
Im good , Im so glad my time of being 13 is soon to be over it was getting old (he he he) how are you?
TECNOLOGIC IS AWESOME.
... Cool.
Haha, I'm fine. Being 12 is booooring... :/
is it? why? :D
Because it's just boring :P I can't go to discos with my friends or anything.
DED.
I dedicate to our different ages and how awesome all the Bloglandians are.
Derek, I ded to hopefully you showing us the new Tanith cover soon.
i can, and trust me its not all it seems... I can but I dont for some reason...
Mara he better I mean c'mon if its not ready comment? I mean he said definetly! So like, can we least get a comment to give us a sign? Gawd I feel like my Mom
Mel - Hmm. Okay, I'll take that advice. Thanks :)
Zaf - I know! :O Derek c'mon!
*tilts head at Mara* I didn't think of it like that. BUT, YES, I DO. :)
I'd rather be in my twenties than be younger than ten though. *nods*
Yeah, me too. *nods* being younger means being treated like a child and that is a big no-no in Maraland.
I just don't want to be that innocent and unaware. I like my mind as it is now.
I prefer not innocent...
Ok if he doesnt post soon....Im exploding Dublin
ZAF DON'T YOU DARE.
if you do that then wont you make things worst? and also CAN I HELP???!?!?!?!?!?!!???
*laughs*
I CAN HELP!!!
I was talking about setting fire to things all dinner. *nods*
OMG STAR AND ME COULD RUN AROUND SETTING FIRE TO STUFF! right thats a plan. :D
If I'm not careful my family'll think I'm a pyromaniac. O_O
I've been running around setting fire to stuff afternoon. But the more, the better. :) :)
I was advised to stop. :( but yeah its fun and adictive so why not start again? *answers to self* precisely...
*sets fire to shoe shop*
I've now lsitened to every song in Indestructible . . .
This is a sad moment . . .
*cries*
I have to draw a page of a comic book in art. Um, a made-up comic book. I'm doing four images. One of them has to use forshortening.
ANy idea which SP scenen I could use? Something involving Skulduggery and Valkyrie, please, I can draw them easier. They're on the book covers.
*sets fire to furniture shop*
*screams* *runs around in circles*
*Walks into Blogland*
Wow, it's pretty cold here, I think I'll go put the radiators on...
OR *FLAME APPEARS* we could use this flame...
COLD??? WITH ALL THIS FIRE???
My sister reminded me at dinner that I have my flamethrower that I got from Eve. *picks up flamethrower loving*
. . . :/ That just made me feel like Drake with his gun . . .
*walks down street blasting fire at shops*
Uh-oh. Now I feel like Zil. *scrowls*
IS THERE ONE EVIL VILLAIN FROM GONE I DO NOT FEEL LIKE???
Caine! Penny! The Darkness!
Shut up! It was a rhetorocal question!
I don't know. I think it's just me. I get extremely cold at night, it'd be funny if it wasn't so annoying.
How is everyone?
*cries* *runs around Dublin*
I'm annoyed. At myself. Becuase I have done NOTHING today except type.
What Dublin? *looks at Mara running around a pile of ash*
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