I should have announced this yesterday, to be honest, but I was in Swindon, in England, doing writerly things like chatting to 600 people, signing all their books, and then travelling on to the WH Smith head office and signing 500 copies of LSODM, so you'll forgive me if I was a tad... distracted.
But, without further ado, to those who have not yet heard, the title of the short story collection out next summer is...
Armageddon-Outta-Here.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
I swear to god, I never thought Harper Collins would agree to this. My first instinct was to call it Tales of the Dead Men, but that wouldn't have been accurate because there'd probably only be one or two stories featuring the Dead Men — not enough to warrant a title.
Harper came back with The World of Skulduggery Pleasant, which is, let's face it, a title far too boring to exist.
I suggested Armageddon-Outta-Here as a joke, expecting everyone to dismiss it. But the more I thought about it, the more I said it in my head, the more I loved it. And suddenly I became determined to be the writer who has a book with THAT title.
Amusingly, Harper Collins agreed. And I couldn't be happier.
And if that wasn't awesome enough, we should actually have a cover reveal early next month for you to gawp at. Could I BE any nicer to you?
No. The answer is no.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2401 – 2600 of 4956 Newer› Newest»Night Star! *cuddles*
I feel like I'm looking though a cloud
Everything's so foggy
Note to self- NEVER do your homework without breaks
Ever
You'll die.
Well...
Hmm.
*sips tea*
So I asked my mom about an hour ago to put my dinner in the oven, because I've barely eaten at all today. And when I come down, I ask "is it almost ready"
My mom jumps. "Oh shit" she says.
Me: *thinks* did she leave it in too long? Oh god the house is going to burn down
Turns out she forgot to put it in... So I get to wait another hour. But I got a granola bar, so it's cool.
But I'm watching Merlin
I got the houseofhades early from this weird store
GUYS I LIVE NEAR A PLACE CALLED "LA BAGUETTE
DEAR LORD. OMGG
Hey Nev-
Er... Cool?
Hai.
This store has strange books,5huge rooms of books.
Its funny bc reasons
Huh. Alrighty then :)
Whizzzzzzzzz
My sister and I were playing this fun game where you say the opposite of what the other person just said. Ish. Sort of.
~My brother and you didn't work this tedious life-and-death situation there you don't say the same as what the same person never said a very long time ago. Perfectly. Exactly.
I left my guitar pick in the guitar
~You're right. Your guitar is in your guitar you have no choice over this.
Low
~High
Hi(gh)
~Bye
#ChaseForBook9
That sounds confusing
It was more amusing than confusing.
Technically I'm only here for four minutes, and then I have to work more on this bio lab I didn't finish from earlier, so msd.
#ChaseForBook9
Okay Fabi :/
*collapses face-first into ground* hiph
Hi Snoe
'elloph
*nods*
*sits up* it's 22 degrees C... meeeh
Er, I'm not sure what that is in Fahrenheit...
But that's fairly warm, yeah?
*nods* yeah
71.6 in fahrenheit...
Well that isn't too shoddy. I remember that it was 40C over the last summer here...
It was smoldering
not really that warm i guess... but... when you think that i've gotten used to 14 Cº (57.2 Fº) it's rather annoying...
same here... normally around this time of year it peeks at... 20? today it's supposed to reach 30... *sigh*
Ew, that sucks :/
Winter storms for the next few months for me
:o
i always forget about the whole "earth-on-a-tilt-so-different-seasons-for-different-countries" thing
#NorthernHemisphereRepresent
#SouthernHemisphereRepresent
#TasmaniaRepresent
#Murica
#Dead
#WritingNameless
#MakingDollsInSewing
Awesome! :D
I KNOW!
Holy crap my story just got unexpectedly violent..
XD lol
cucurri!! cucurri!!
You say lol??
YOU HAVE NO IDEA
g2g, BIAAA
Bye!
Bai Snow
THAT NAME IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Kila!
I finished my Nameless short if anyone wants to read?
Hi Adra!
((They didnt have Dominos back in the 1800's
*pokes Kila*
Thoughts of me writing some kinda behind the scenes of Ravel and Zaf when they're together in private? PG rated I promise
Er, well- I'm indifferent. I'm still a Jafira shipper, remember?
Yeah but you realize Zaf and Javier can't get along past friends? Like anything more they get too angry. Zaf can't trust him
My Japanese teacher is funnehhhh
I still find it so cool that you take Japanese
*nods* IT IS FUN!!! have done for... 4 (?) years.
Meh I'm thinking insanly
*disappears*
Bye Snow! *hugs*
*points to what Fabi said* Yeah, before you knew that Derek had you set up with Ravel, you were kinda on the line, because I remember the:
"Stay?"
"Always"
things... WHILE Zaf was simultaneously in love with Niccolo.
but before Nic, she actally was with Javier. but afterward, you made her fall for Nic, and then for Ravel.
And I personally still ship her with Javier.
FABI
Could you please read my Nameless? It's really short
the lonely angel...
Adra's past is so dark...
That was really well-written, though, and I felt the...bleakness of it.
I don't really think that's the best word, but I have to go to dinner now, and can't think of a better one. Maybe later.
#ChaseForBook9
running...
*sighs and sits back*
*rolls around*
FABI READ IT *yays*
*huggles* THANK YOU!
And okay- *waves*
I cant fucking stand my entire fucking family. I mean I'm standing there and my mom asks me to do something and I ask a simple fucking question and I get screamed at like I'm lazy and when i ask what else they need done I get reduced to tears. And my mom wants my school pants and once again something is wrong with them even though she washed them a thousand times and so I said as soon as i put my clothes down and my dad's screaming at me how he's oh so sorry he inconvienced me and now im fucking sobbing, way to ruin my fucking night
people in my class trust me unquestionably because i am "smart".
example:
we were doing a quiz thing that was a class vs class thing. anyway, a question was "what is the first chapter in the bible called?" and i said as a joke "how to die" and they believed me and wrote it down...
i was literally rolling on the ground laughing...
*hugs zaf* family is annoying. it's their job. but sometimes.... you feel the only way to stop the annoyance s to escape... *thinks*
I get cursed everytime I do something if it isn't perfect. If I don't do what they deem perfect. You know when I got a callback for the show I'm in now my parents didnt fucking care they found something I did wrong in my life and yelled at me. I didn't even get a congrats. When I got the part I didn't even get so much of a good job I tell them and instead my dad complained he had to drive me from pracice but yet the momet I don't do a club they complain I don't do anything. Sorry I just am done and reduced to tears
And I'm done ranting. Sorry. I need to do something to calm down
*hugs*
So howabout them Yankees?
Yankees? Oh gods *smiles* Well....
KIDDING
I'M KIDDING
*holds her hands out before she rants*
I HATE SPORTS IT WAS A FILLER PLEASE DOn\N'T
I only watch Nascar thats it so no worries
Praise be
I only watch...
Merlin
and my fandoms
And occasionally (okay, I lied, a TON) discovery/travel channel shows they are SOOOO GOOD)
Hey hey.
Hey Sparky
And Adra yeah I watch Doctor Who thats it
Sparky1 *hugs*
Hello.
Hi Shadows *waves*
And I know, Zaf
Hello Shadows
I kind of love "Try" be P!nk...
Ah its pretty cool yes
You gotta get up and try, try, try...
#ChaseForBook9
SEE
Fabi knows it
Whenever I hear I i want to both cry
And cry
I know!!! Oh my gods
Fabi
Fabi help
I made a picture
lemme send it to you HELP
What the---
Oh dear.
#ChaseForBook9
I
CAN'T
I have a huge Julius Caesar test tomorrow
Help
my brain is melting out of my ears
I don't think I'll ever be able to use that name again without that image popping into my head.
#ChaseForBook9
Gtg, sorry!
#ChaseForBook9
Hey, it took effort to draw that!
You're welcome
Actually
Sorry if I ruined it...
*facepalm* I swear, I should just turn off the internet and sit in a corner tonight.
Bye Fabi
Hello!
((((heyyy))))
((How are you guyzzzz))
((I'm alive btw just so you know))
((I have another seven hours in... Three hours!))
((Normally when I get to Dubai Google throws a hissy fit and doesn't let me log in, but I guess today's a good day!!))
((I'm alive, and nobody's even here to celebrate with me!))
Hello?
#ChaseForBook9
((FABWEEE))
((Hi Ember!))
((Glad to hear you're alive))
#ChaseForBook9
Sup.. :)
((Me too! How was the college thing?))
Hello Vultus!
Noisy... Very noisy.
I am eating cake now, though, so it can't have been that bad.
#ChaseForBook9
((Gatherings of people either lecturing or boasting normally are.))
((What kind of cake?))
((I'm boarding in ten minutes... URGH...))
((Yup...))
((Fudge cake, with stuff on it. [Points to profile picture]))
#ChaseForBook9
((Blah. I generally like airplane rides, but the longest one I've been on (in my memory) was five hours, so my memories of airplanes are probably more pleasant. Traveling as far as you do, though, must be tiring.))
#ChaseForBook9
Mine was ten hours...
Hi Adra [hugs]
I haven't been off the continent in fourteen years, so...
#ChaseForBook9
Hi
It's er... Interesting
I msd. The only reasonI came back is because I couldn't sleep
Looking at the screen probably doesn't help
Well, good luck...
[Waves to Ember, who is probably gone now]
#ChaseForBook9
*huggles all* hi
Hi Snow [hugs]
#ChaseForBook9
hey fab. how're you?
I'm okay...
Trying to think of people I missed on the name-project. I'm limiting it to people I've met for now...
#ChaseForBook9
*nods* sounds... fun...
Actually it sort of is, in a way... It's sort of...calming...to channel my energy into a project.
#ChaseForBook9
:) okay...
*sits against a tree*
did you read the weird example of people in my class trusting me whole-heartedly?
Yeah...
#ChaseForBook9
*shakes head* i- i dont know whyyyy!
hellppppppp. why must people be so stupid that they don't realize i am joking??
oh, and a girl in my class is pretty sure she's pregnant! i mean, for gods sake, she's 13!!
[Shrugs]
#ChaseForBook9
I don't really have anything to comment. I don't know the people of whom you speak.
#ChaseForBook9
yeah, sorry.... i just needed to get that out. *shrugs*
Better than silence, I suppose.
[Is trying to decide if I should repost my RP and continue it and stuff or if I should wait for Saph's opinion, because she might have good advice]
#ChaseForBook9
hmm...
I think maybe I'll write what happened with Sandra and Janis...
Wbd.
#ChaseForBook9
Or I could always write a ded...
#ChaseForBook9
k
*shrugs*
either or
I dedicate this page to the words that too often escape me
To buttercream frosting
And to everything that makes you the beautiful person you are.
There.
#ChaseForBook9
hear hear.
*hugs fab*
[Hugs Snow]
#ChaseForBook9
wbd, watching doctor who stuffs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwZdahlutk
cute <3
Can't watch it now, sorry!
[Writes furiously]
#ChaseForBook9
Can't watch it now, sorry!
[Writes furiously]
#ChaseForBook9
*shrugs*
*watches more videos*
I'm sorry...
#ChaseForBook9
naw, it's fine! *huggles fabi* i'm in a hugging mood
Sandra blinked. That had been a very odd dream indeed.
The first thing she noticed upon waking was the fact that three heavyset men were standing over her and one was about to stab her in the neck. A quick twist of his wrist put a stop to that. The knife went clattering to the floor, and then the room was filled with sirens. Sandra felt something hit her, something heavy. Fists pounded at her, and then they were gone. There was a face, the brown-haired woman visible for a moment before she crumpled to the floor.
Sandra blinked, her vision blurry. "J-J-J..."
She blacked out.
#ChaseForBook9
[hugs Snow]
#ChaseForBook9
g2g fab. sorry if i miss anything. maybe e-mail me some of the bit i miss? *hugs* bye
@Fabi: !!!!!!!
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SUSPENSE!
#ChaseForBookNine
Hello, anyways.
Not here long, because I have to go to school soon . . . :/
#ChaseForBookNine
THERE WERE SO LITTLE COMMENTS TODAY.
I wake up and we're still on the same page and I'm like WHAT IS THIS MADNESS because usually there's at least two pages to read through . . .
#ChaseForBookNine
wtf
I'm reading back over my French that Miss have marked for me, and I clicked on a comment and it said "You are contradicting yourself!" and I read what I'd written, and I said that we have a small garden but the garden was large and I was just like WHAT ON EARTH. :P I don't know what the HELL happens on the way to my fingers from my brain, sometimes . . . *facepalm*
#CHaseForBookNine
*facepalms at the stupid errors I've made in this* Dammit, this is just embarrassing . . .
#ChaseForBookNine
Armageddon-Outta-Here? Really? Can't laugh now, but that's probably the coolest, funniest title out there. Good one, Derek!
PS: later tonight, maybe, I'm making a post on my stories blog. Be on the look out. See ya then!
Gar, hate double comments. Sorry! Bye!
ONE OF MY FIGMA'S CAME TODAY :D
But I'm not allowed it until Christmas... :(
I'm not here, but, BEST. TITLE. EVER.
LAV WAS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
*misses her*
Hello, people! Wbd, homework.
#ChaseForBookNine
@Kes: Ikr??? :)
Even though you aren't here. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Btw - WHAT IS THIS MADNESS???
Soon, we'll've been on the same page for 24 hours!!!!
Do you know how RARE that is???
#ChaseForBookNine
Umf.
It's starting to get harder to think of people I missed, besides people I haven't actually met.
[Wonders whether to include people I haven't actually met]
[Decides that would be weird for me and probably them, too]
[Doesn't really want to go back and do everyone who ever commented once, either, because I have to draw a line somewhere]
Ah. I haven't done one for Regan yet.
[Does one for Regan]
That was quick.
[Tries to think of other people who I've talked to who haven't commented in ages]
#ChaseForBook9
*hugs Lantern* :) Hello.
I put 'Qu'est-ce tu vas faire' into Google Translate as half of a sentence, and it came up with "What you gonna do."
O_O
That's a bit . . . informal? :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Yeah, it is.
Hi Star! Wbveryd because I actually have a break. :-)
[Contemplates putting Hunter and Ez in the name project]
[Remembers it would be weird to do people I haven't met]
[Might do it anyway]
#ChaseForBook9
OH MY GOSH I just found a website that conjugates verbs for you I LOVE YOU.
#ChaseForBookNine
"[Contemplates putting Hunter and Ez in the name project]
[Remembers it would be weird to do people I haven't met]"
*laughs* XD
You can if you want, but don't feel you have to . . . :)
Lol, this morning Hunter kept talking to me, and then I'd keep starting to reply . . . :P Or I'd start saying Ez's reply or his comment. It was a little awkward. XD
#ChaseForBookNine
I might, because I'm running out of names...
I should do Mycroft, as well...
I imagine it would be.
#ChaseForBook9
You don't have to do them. :)
I'm looking forward to seeing your finished name project. :)
. . . I'm also looking forward to seeing my finished homework, so I should stop procrastinating. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Okay. :-)
#ChaseForBook9
Would Ez want her name to say Ez or Ezmeralda?
#ChaseForBook9
Ezmeralda. But she's fine with Ez. Although she'd say she isn't.
. . .
As a pretty honest person myself, this whole pretending game my characters play is rather baffling to me. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
Or maybe she'd say she was fine with it. It would depend on the circumstances and other contributing factors.
#ChaseForBookNine
Okay. :-)
#ChaseForBook9
Sorry. :P I'm not being very helpful . . . :/
HEYYYYY today this girl who I don't see enough for her to me in my definition of friend (it's quite strict) but she's really nice and stuffs was on Coolmath in form and she clicked on a game labelled the hardest game ever and it said at the top, you know the space where the website chats to you, something like "It can be completed, but I haven't done it, so don't ask me for tips. :-)" and I went FABI FACE! and then Hunter when "Who's Fabi?" and I was about to reply but I started doing it aloud and I was like whoops. XD
But anyway. Fabi smiley face! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
*went
But it should have been *was like
I mean, they're both grammatically incorrect, but . . . :P
#ChaseForBookNine
ONE DIRECTION WON BEST POP IN THE EMAS
I'M ONLY WATCHING IT NOW BUT THEY JUST OH MY GOSH
and miley cyrus what are you wearing
i mean you're rlly cool and all but why
XD
:-)
#ChaseForBook9
Hai all
@Mara: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! :)
Urgh. Miley Cyrus tries to get fame by being, for want of a better word, a slut (sorry, it's the one everyone uses so when I start saying this I'm generally quoting them), and what I find really disgusting is how easily she's able to do that. I'm ashamed of us as a people. -_- I mean . . . now she's being slutty, EVERYONE'S talking about her, even if I've never actually heard any positive things said about her in this talking (Other than people saying she was a slut and one girl saying she wasn't, and loads of people going "What actually happened to her? She was a nice person!" (at these comments, I often say that sluts can be nice people too. :P)), people are still talking about her, aren't they? Now she's being a slut, she's everywhere.
Why are we letting this happen? Why are we like this?
And people say that she can sing well enough without being a slut and that she doesn't need to be to be famous (which I'm not denying), but . . . she's got a lot more fame through being a slut than she has through good singing.
And that's just disgusting.
In a perfect world, fame in the music industry would be distributed according to talent. However, perfect worlds would be boring. However, it's still irritating. :P
I hope I didn't offend anybody. Like I said, I need a better word than 'slut', and sluts can be nice people too, and Miley Cyrus can sing well as well. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Hi Nevyar! :)
#ChaseForBookNine
First is coming up.
See, I'm warning people. I'm nice. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Next.
I guess I'll take this moment, then
To remind you all
Of how much you mean to me
It's really nice to have a place here
It's really nice to know you all
Thank you
Thank you for being you
#ChaseForBook9
I got first, you know.
You can come out of hiding. :-)
#ChaseForBook9
*hugs Lantern* That's beautiful. :)
I was going to take first, then dinner happened . . . And I'm glad you took it, because that was lovely. :)
*hugs*
#ChaseForBookNine
JE NE SAIS PAS. *glares at French*
It's not the French I don't know. What I don't know is what I did at my house last week! :P
#ChaseForBookNine
[hugs Stararararawr]
#ChaseForBook9
Ooh.
I shall be a nice lying deceiving person and say I baked cake with my awesome friend Fabi. :)
. . . And my awesome friend Fabi is good at baking, so even though I am not it was a magnificent cake. :)
*goes off to write that in French*
#ChaseForBookNine
awesome US slang (great) familier génial, super interj
US slang?????
We use that word at least as much as they do!!!!
. . . If you measure in percentages; they have much more people!
#ChaseForBookNine
*familier
#ChaseForBookNine
[hugs Stararararawr again and gives her a piece of cake]
#ChaseForBook9
Hullo! How are you all?
Blake: Hey! What he said.
Perhaps the word originated its current meaning here and it just spread?
#ChaseForBook9
Hi Rhydian! [Gives cake]
#ChaseForBook9
Hi Rhydian! :)
@Lantern: Probably. :) :) :) It's a word that could be like that. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
Hi Fabi! Thanks for the cake :)
Hi Star!
Btw why do you kerp calling Fabi/Moss Lantern?
Fabi is your Taken Name Moss?
*je mange le gateau*
*c'est gateau bon*
*et Fabi est super*
*oui*
#ChaseForBookNine
@Rhydian: Because I'm awesome. :)
. . . Parce que je suis super. :)
. . . And because I just decided to. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
English please Miss Inkbright
My taken name is Moss, but my character is Fabi, and people call me Fabi, so...
Star calls me Lantern because she doesn't want to call me the wrong name, because she's nice. :-P
#ChaseForBook9
*finishes cake* J'AI MANGÉ LE GATEAU!!!!!
I CAN SPEAK IN PAST TENSE!!!
*runs around screaming* *runs into wall*
*ow*
walls are not good
#ChaseForBookNine
@Rhydian: Sorry. :P
#ChaseForBookNine
. . . oh.
It's LA gateau, isn't it?
*facepalm*
*hugs Lantern* :) :) :) Thanks. :)
#ChaseForBookNine
MY HEART LITERALLY JUST STOPPED!!!!!!!!!! (DROPPED MY PHONE) I AM NIW FREAKING OUT COZ IM UNSURE IF ITS BROKE OR NOT!!!!!!
'*has to leave now*
*leave*
*might bbl*
*fours* :(
#ChaseForBookNine
Bye Star!
[Has to leave as well]
[Dropped my phone the other day an it was fine]
[Hopes Rhyd's is too]
[Bye, sorry!]
#ChaseForBook9
Bye Moss!
Holy shit that test killed me
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