Okay FINE, so we're all waiting for the Tanith cover... It's looking like a Friday reveal right now- so long as we suffer no more delays. Believe me, once you see it you'll know it's been worth the wait. Tom's best cover. Ever.
Speaking of awesome covers, take a look at these.
Isn't that brilliant? There is literally nothing about this cover that I do not love. And there's more!
I know Suz Korb is a Blog-reader and she's commented a few times, but just take a look at these books she's written. And the titles! Pulpy, trashy, and so much FUN.
You know that old saying, never judge a book by its cover? That's not always applicable. People who judge my books by Tom's covers know exactly what they're getting- awesomeness on a page. And if a writer has enough taste to approve these covers, as Ms Korb obviously does, then that bodes very well for what's inside. From what I know, they're all available online.
Okay, I didn't actually intend to show all of these covers, but once I started I just couldn't stop.
This Blog post, by the way, is for a girl called Molly, who I met today in Forbidden Planet in Dublin. There I was, perusing the shelves, building up the stack of comics in my hand, and then I hear a "Excuse me, can I ask you a question?" from right beside me. I turn, and there stands a fifteen-year old in a really odd hat.
She was, as you can imagine, overjoyed at meeting me. We talked about her nonsensical love of all things Transformers (except the movies- she has issues with the movies) and her appreciation of Batman and how she never could get into Wonder Woman. That led to a conversation about lassoes, and then to a conversation about lassoing horses, and then to a conversation about how cowboys don't lasso horses, they just run after them when they want to catch them. Bless her, she has a small brain.
So this is a Blog post for Molly. Happy birthday Molly.
I've been watching some movies lately. I saw The Amazing Spider-Man last week. Not as bad as I'd been led to believe. I quite enjoyed it, in fact. Andrew Garfield didn't have to cry NEARLY as much as Tobey Maguire, and of course Emma Stone is just divine. I could watch her in anything.
The Dark Knight Rises is out now, of course, but I'd already seen that in the cinema. Not perfect, and some of the story just refuses to make any kind of sense, but a fitting end to the trilogy. I am in awe of Christopher Nolan's ability to generate atmosphere, and then use that atmosphere to make the audience dread what is about to happen.
I've been playing games as well. Just finished Hitman: Absolution. Awesome stuff. I want to play it again and not fire a single shot. Now that's a challenge...
I had been playing the new Assassin's Creed game, but got bored.
Dishonored, however, is a game that did not bore me. The thought and the imagination that went into building that world is staggering. Loved it.
Basically, I've been fitting as much as possible into the last few weeks because I think I've started Book 8... It's all very random at the moment, very casual, just writing a few bits and pieces, a few scenes here and there... but yeah... I think I've actually started. I had a look at the plot a few days ago, to remind myself of what's in store. I've already got it planned out to a degree- I did that a week or two after finishing KOTW- and wow. A LOT happens in this book. Like, SERIOUSLY. It's going to take a lot of planning on my part. War is like that. Complicated. Got to remember who's on who's side and where they are and when certain things take place and who's around when certain people DIE HORRIBLY.
Be warned. There will be horror. There will be slaughter. There will be betrayal and hatred and love and there WILL be blood.
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Yeah, me too. If I win that essay contest I learned about in science class then I get a free trip to Orlando. Not that I'll win
Soo *she say, jumping back to old convo* can ib your teacher?!
*says
Hmm... if you PROMISE not to kill me again... then...fine
I shall not kill you during or on the days of our lessons if i am absent, you subsitute will probably be Kestrel Lestarre OR we shall re-schedual. I need your email to do the lessons though. Mine is helloswettie.luv.dw@gmail.com (and yes i do mean 'swettie')
ok :) mi emails acbucci17@gmail.com n if u wanna email Persephone then do it thru mi email i gues..i gotta go now :( but i might b back on... c ya
Bye Jubi. Do your math homework
*tackle hugs* see ya!! :(
I have to write a sentence for each of these words. It has to make its meaning obvious.
Champertous
Indigenous
Acrimonious
Tenet
And connivance
What does champertous mean?
Am I alone?
Drip.
Drip.
Drippetty drip drop
hi...
*runs in and trips*
*shrieks* HELLO!
*Jumps back in surprise* um.. hi!
HI!!! Jubilance!! WAzUP??
Throws rock at Jubilance.
may I call you jub? jubi? lance?
Hehe
*Quickly ducks just before rock hits her* Not much I guess..
haha you can call me jubi I guess
Vectors make no sense at all. I just watched, like, four different videos and went to six websites, and IT STILL MAKES NO SENSE!
... whats a vector???
A line between two points. I think
Im confused
o... I knew that... sorta
To me, Vector just registers to me as the bad guy in Despicable Me...
I don't understand any more than you do, Zaf. It's a trigonometry thing.
Val, I love that movie!
Im not in trig so that helps xD
Valkyrie, haha yea! I forgot about that... i love that movie tho :)
Oh dear. Andra, don't go promising my services to people!
Yeah, too late. You're already her substitute teacher for when she can't teach Jubi
Sevpie, I can't cal you Sevpie anymore! Meany.
You can still call me Sevpie.
I'll probably change it back, I keep forgetting that it's me
hahaha! ur mi new substitute! xP
Aah
Jubi, I can't sub if I don't give you my email!
Professor Vector is the Astronomy teacher in Harry Potter. I'm pretty sure
Thrust, yes, that's true.
Arithmancy
Kestrel, its up 2 u... :{
Arithmancy, Astronomy, whatever.
Jubi, let me put it this way: Andra was nice before she met me.
And I don't even know what I'm supposed to be training you in...
I'm pretty sure you're training her to fight.
o.. haha NVM THEN
lol
Astronomy is Sinistra.
I looked those up..
But...*evil grin* You should ask Nix...
Sevpie! Change your name back! What is YOUR discipline?
Gaah i gtg bed
You learn to fight by doing this a lot:
*throws Thrust in volcano*
heh heh heh... i'm good..
and Persephone.. you cud just, like, put seventh magpie in parenthesis like u did with Persephone Grief before
BYe Zaf! brb
Kestrel, I can turn invisible. Totally invisible, not like that fail who tried to escape from Skulduggery and turned his clothes invisible.
Bye Zaf!
Oh, cool!
I swear to the Golden God, if you don't change your name back, I WILL call you Pomegranate.
Oh.. Sorry, nevermind. Ignore the bottom line of that comment.
Why were you so insistent that I change my name?
Hello?
Hellp
hi!
Sorry.
Because... The Seventh Magpie is clever, and... I keep forgetting who you are.
What's wrong, Thrust?
Hello Thrust.
Oh, I decided something. The Seventh Magpie is my assassin ninja code-name
haha wooow... IM SHAKING! ;)
Awesome. *ninjaaeroplanetacklehugs* everybody. Wait. Am I allowed to do that? Is it copyrighted?
I feel like it's copyrighted. You might need to come up with something else
Seeing as I'm not a ninja aeroplane. Dammit.
I meant to say hello.
How ironic.
I actually did need help at the time..
Hear me now
Feel my pleas!
There is no more time for
APOLOGIES
Are you ready to be-gin
Your trip to the other side?
DEATH is an old friend of mine!
*has Deify, Old Friend, and Down With the Sickness stuck in my head*
I don't LIKE Down With the Sickness...
Thrust, why did you need help?
All my devotion betrayed
I am no longer afraid
I was too blinded to see
How much you've stolen from me
You want to know why I feel so horrified?
I've let my innocence die
You want to know why I can't be pacified?
You made me bury something
I won't be sleeping tonight
I only wanted a blessing made
Now I've been labeled a renegade
It seems so clear now what I must do
You're no immortal
I won't let them
Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man
You want to know why it seems the passion's died?
We've all been living this lie
You want to know why my will's been fortified?
You've made me hunger again
Good luck sleeping tonight
I only wanted a blessing made
Now I've been labeled a renegade
It seems so clear now what I must do
You're no immortal
I won't let them
Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man
All my devotion betrayed
I am no longer afraid
I was too blinded to see
How much you've stolen from me
Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man
HI! sory i dissapeared... I was doin laundry... meh
BECAWWZ AHM CWAAAYZZZZEEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!!
Okay, I must go wonder.
I must go eat cereal.
Thrust, I thought that was taken for granted...
Jubi, I'm "asleep"
Adios, Thrust!
Vale!
Aloha!
Shalom!
Kestrel, haha! My parents think i'm doin HW... which i am...
I'm...not. Obviously.
Did you get the email from Luciana?
um.... *Checking...*
no... but i dont rly kno her so... :{
Hats your email? I'll forward it to you.
Got it! :) thanks!!
Np
She wants it sent to as many people as possible, anyway.
haha coolio!
is it just us again...?
Seems like it. And I can't go on my laptop yet, either...
Bleah. I can't share my email, I don't have permission. I'll ask eventually. Forward it to me Jubi!
Bye guys, I have to go
http://m.wikihow.com/Kick-Down-a-Door
Bye Sevpie!
OK persephone!
Kestrel, that link is hilarious!
Thisis what I do in my spare time...(read about it, not actually do it) last night it was picking locks.
http://m.wikihow.com/Open-a-Door-with-a-Credit-Card
I have to go, but I like how right under how to open a door w/ a credit card it has an ad for getting a card
You don't have to call me Kestrel, y'know.
Kes or Kessie will work just fine. Or K. Or LeS. Or Trellis.(Do not ask)
Vale, Sevpie! Bonum fortunam!
OK! :) i'll jst callu Kessie i guess... :3
That seems to be the preferred one. I actually have a teacher calling me Kessie...
Derek's door is cash only, so he can't use credit cards...
I could, though. I know my dad can.
haha, well its a cool nickname :)
VVVVVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!
*tacklehugs*
hi!
I actually know HOW to pick a lock. I'm not sure if I actually CAN though.
Val, he's going to read this and wonder why he didn't try ant of these things...
http://m.wikihow.com/Make-a-Padlock-Shim
It is impossible to pick a lock with a credit card in my house.
ALL THE DOORS ARE MADE WRONG!!!
uh... now I must disappear sort of again.
doors are for people with no imagination :D
Thrust, that would mean they were made correctly...
I remember your teleporting arm!
Bye Thrust!
Jubi, speaking of which, I covered my entire hand with quotes today. 'Twas fun.
haha cool! like what?
*laughs* Oh my God, this Animal Farm movie is AWFUL XD
isnt there a book called animal farm??
Yeah, and the book was terrible too!
Yes. By George Orwell.
OHMIGOD, Jubi, have you or Sevpie read the book Hogfather?
I loved 1984 by him though. Seriously depressing.
*laughs at the movie's terribleness*
I started heading Hogfather, then Sevpie gave me the SP books n i read those n nevr finished Hogfather... but Sevpie read Hogfather... she actually recommended it 2 me, n i was like 60 pages in, then I finally accepted her requests for me to read SP. (She'd been tellin me to read them for nearly 2 years....)
Ah.
OhmiGoldenGodHogfather is HILARIOUS@
*OhmiGoldenGod Hogfather is HILARIOUS
Farmer: The animal rebellion could spread to all the farms! You've done enough.
*silence*
Mrs. Jones: *starts sobbing*
Farmer: Oh, shut uuuuuuuuuuup!
haha yea it was really good... I should prbly finish reading it ...
Val, WHAT?
This movie sounds....Interesting...
Yeah, let's go with that...
It's so bad it's HILARIOUS.
I mean, Old Major ended up getting shot by Jones instead of natural causes, but when the animals invade the farm house, they find Old Major's head in the cupboard...
I started laughing so hard I kind of lost it there...
..... OK!......*awkwardly trying to go along w/ it...*
Trust me, it was hilarious
Haha yea i was jking :) it sounds RLY corny....
Oh dear. I am making my Blogger profile, I finally figured out how to switch from Google +!
It is.
Why is it not showing my favourite books?
Never mind, fixed.
*is obsessively watching lyric videos*
*is still laughing*
*laughs particularly hard when Napoleon pees on Snowball's plans*
*really confused but ignores it...*
*laughs with V-* Wait, WHAT?!
... I think Napoleon peed on Snowball's plans... (According to Val....)
Yes, but...WHAT?!
just go along with it...
MIDNIGHT!
I have to go, bye!
gah! me 2! CRAP... MIDNIGHT??!?! *sigh* BYE!
... The people are leaving
*skipping around in circles*
Oh, how they're leaving
They're leaving
Oh how they're leaving
To wherever they may go
Oh how they're leaving
They're leaving...
*skips away*
I had to leave for a little while, but now I'm back...ish....
Val! Hi how are you?
I'm good! Just finishing this stupid movie, as I had to leave earlier to get a Christmas tree at a Top Foods...
Cool. My Christmas tree is up all year-it's plastic. Just the opposite of Val, Melissa, Desmond, and Alice.
I had to get a slightly short one this year... It's not as fun as a big one :/
But short is good. It means that it can hide in places where big ones can't. Plus, it's less dangerous than the razor sharp ones from the Doctor Who Christmas episodes.
There's a store called Hobby Lobby, and they have Christmas trees there that have spinning stands. Me and my friend Amanda literally fled when we saw them.
There! Just made up my taken name! Whoop!
That's hilarious! I would have done the exact same thing. It must have been scary.
Gotta go, bye!
*throws Ninjabread cookies at everyone*
Bye SPD!
Sorry, I was busy....
Down with the Sickness is Zath's favourite, I think, Kes. O_O
AND NOW YOU GOT DEIFY STUCK IN MY HEAD. :P
Morning
Hello?
Hi Luce!
Oddly enough, I liked the Animal Farm movie far more than the book.
Oh, wait, maybe that's because the book SUCKED.
At least in the movie the evil pigs died.
Hello, Nix!
Did you get the e-mail I sent to as many people as e-mail's I could remember?
NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIX! Hi!
HI SAVIOUR! I'mstillcallingyouthatScáthjustsaying.
Why am I starting to end up on my phone every morning? '~'
EVIL PEOPLE.
*looks at Ivy* You were already here. Inky Winky no have to hi you.
Whatever. HI IVY!
*looks at Star* I'm practically always here, on account of the fact that I'd make a wonderful stalker.
HI STAR!
You can't be always here. Not uess you were a robot; then you wouldn't need to sleep or go to school. :)
WHICH IS WHY YOU SAID PRACTICALLY. Yes, stupid Star . . .
Well, I come on at two in the morning until I pass out again, and I stalk you all if I'm on a computer at school, so...
Star, I just found out there's a Christmas song called The Holly and the Ivy, and my initial though was, "Who's stalking me and Star?!"
You didn't know that song? O_O
There's a song called Deck The Hulls With Bows Of Holly (tra la la la la, lala la la) and my mum usually sings it with my sister's name instead of Holly. :P
My mum called me Holly because of this book she had called The Holly and the Ivy about a girl called Ivy and a doll called Holly. *nods*
People used to ask me if I was born at Christmas. Nope, September.
Msd - school.
But, fingers crossed, we'll get sent home... Snow in Sheffield might stop teachers from getting to school...! :D
The holly and the ivy
When they are both full grown
Something something trees in the wood
The holly bears the crown . . .
YEAH I BEAR THE CROWN. I'M THE QUEEN AND YOU ALL HAVE TO OOBBEEYY MMEE! *sits on throne regally*
:)
OUR SCHOOL WON'T BE CLOSED UNLESS WE HAVE SNOW LIKE IN 2010 AGAIN. :(
FOURS SAVIOUR!!!
I think it's And of all the trees in the wood . . .
*arrives back with sparkling clean teeth*
AHHHH!!! MY TEETH ARE SPARKLING! THEY'RE DIAMONDS! :/ *rubs finger across teeth* OH NO NOW PEOPLE WILL CHASE AFTER ME AND TRY TO STEAL THEM AND . . .
*looks down at finger* Oh. Phew. 'Sjust glitter. :)
*sets fire to glitter*
WHERE DID YOU ALL GO??? O_O
YOU AREN'T MY QUEEN! I REBEL AGAINST YOU!
NOOOOOOO! REBELS! *cries*
The holly and the ivy
Were always arguing
The holly was the queen
And the ivy rebelled 'gainst her . . .
GOOD MORNING GOOD AFTERNOON GOOD EVENING GOOD WHATEVER-MAKES-SENSE-IN-YOUR-TIME-ZONE.
Hello??
hello
EM!!!!
*HUGSSSSS*
God there's a greeting and a half lol
Hi lol
*jumps up and down*
YOU'RE AWAKE! YOU'RE AWAKE! YOU'RE AWAKE! YOU'RE AWAKE! YOU'RE AWAKE! YOU'RE AWAKE! YOU'RE AWAKE! YOU'RE AWAKE!
But I'm pretty sure you've been awake for a while.
Yes lol this is my 3rd day of being back in reality lol
...HE SLAPPED NADIR...
Listening to my new KOTW audiobook, so I might type random things :D
I like that reader but I prefer Rupert Degas, he read the first four books...
Hmmm I could listen to that man all day...
I only have one audiobook.
Which is KOTW.
wbd.
God your missing out... you don't know Skulduggery until you hear Rupert Degas talk...
You're making me really want to buy them now...
If I could send you mine I could...
You won't regret it, once you hear Rupert reading Skulduggery's part, you'll fall in love.
*laughs*
Randomly typing SP related stuff to my friend.
Who hasn't read SP. XD
War...? Well that sounds like it has the potential to be ever so slightly epic...
Chase hasn't...
He got halfway through the first book before his kids robbed it to read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NculBsDne_0&list=PL0B5B14AECD46AB5A
Miss Cain, there's a bit of The Faceless Ones Audio book with Rupert Degas...
Fall in love as he reads Skulduggery Pleasant.
THANKS EM!!!
*falls in love with Rupert Degas' voice*
HE EVEN DOES VALKYRIE WELL!!!!
Derek or someone could you please make this happen it would be awesome.
HOW DO YOU BECOME A WRITER FOR DOCTOR WHO?
DEREK YOU SHOULD FIND OUT AND WRITE AN EPISODE OR TWO OR SOMETHING.
IT WOULD BE SUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOMEHOT.
PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
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