As for those who cursed me for drawing it out so long, all I can say is... "heh." It amuses me to torture you, have you not learned this yet?
Over the coming weeks and months you'll be finding out a lot more about Demon Road, but I figured I'd answer a few questions now.
For starters, this is NOT the cover.
This is just a nifty holding image we give out so that people can pre-order if they want to. Hence the following link: http://www.pages01.net/harpercollinspublishersltd/DerekLandy-DemonRoad/
The ACTUAL cover, and the new cover artist, will be revealed in due time.
The release date is, as you can see, the 27th of August. Yesterday we said the 28th, but we figured out a way to get it to you a day earlier, and we took it.
Demon Road is both the name of the first book AND the name of the overall trilogy.
It WILL be a trilogy.
The books will be released 6 months apart. This is the way the publishing industry is going, to be honest — especially for children's books/YA. It's a hectic, bruising schedule, which will mean I'm gonna be overworked for the rest of the year, but hey... I'm quite looking forward to it, actually. I always felt bizarrely guilty for making you wait a year between Skulduggery books, so I'm going to see if this way is better.
Ah yes, and it will be Young Adult as well. There's nothing in it (yet) that is amazingly inappropriate for younger readers — maybe a word or two, slipping into older territory — but it's just the overall feel of the thing.
I'm TRYING to write shorter books. I was aiming for a Dark Days length, roughly 80,000 words. I have to write three of these books this year, and I can't have them spiralling out of control like Skulduggery did. I'm currently at 91,000 words. Hopefully I won't go above 100,000, which is roughly where Mortal Coil was. Hopefully.
Right now, I've only signed a contract with Harper Collins UK, which will publish the books in Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and Canada. Over the next while, I'll be signing with foreign language publishers also — but for most of them, I'll need to show them the finished book. Harper UK trust me enough to sign a contract with what they've already seen of the book as I'm writing it.
There is absolutely no reason why we shouldn't be published in America as well.
Oh, and yes, I will be touring with Demon Road, but it's far too early to say where.
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@Adam no idea..)
*nods*
If anything goes wrong, you get Claire out, then you get us both out. Okay? Claire then us. Promise me you won't try jump in front of me..?
Onwa: *watches*
Oh . . . it doesn't make me feel bad, it just makes me hesitant to mention it in case people take it personally.
I reason that if people wanted me to read what they were saying, they'd put it in a form I can read . . . ? I know one of the reasons Lantern liked talking in code was because nobody could read it.
Hmmm. I would be trying to AVOID gettinv a ticket if it were my school. So I don't know how to help you, sorry. :(
They're making me bookshelves . . .
Made a new blog post. It's not directed at anyone, really.
This reminds me of DT in year eight.
*bounces*
Kas... :(
Hey, Seirsha...
*deletes rest of message*
How are you?
(I'm okay.)
Good. :)
Are you doing anything interesting?
(No.)
:/
Okay. Wanna rp or talk about anything?
I don't mind.
(hello? is it me youre looking for?
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile)
Do you have any rp ideas?
Hello, Chloe.
(*huggles*
hello awesomenaut)
*is hugged*
Hello.
(Hi Chloe.)
(*glomps Seir* hey Sis!)
I can roleplay Kaladin woth you if you want. :P
That might get slightly confusing though. Then I'd know three versions of him . . .
It's just I'm not very good at roleplaying and he's easy for me to roleplay because I know him.
(Mmm not really. Kay-Tanya?)
(Hey.)
(hey Star!)
Gah, I feel... I can't smile. I can't feel happy. Or sad. Or anything. I don't even know what's wrong. Yesterday, something changed. And I broke. And now I can't feel. I can't feel anything. I can't feel anyone. There's nobody...
But I can cry. Yeah, I can definitely do that.
((If Star plays Kaladin I claim Shallan or Lift))
((*huggles Tia*))
I couldn't roleplay Shallan. She'd be far too hard. Her insides don't match her outsides. :P
(hey Kessie!
*huggles Kas* im sorry)
No, I don't mean rhat - I mean her insides don't match her insides. :P
Kaladin is easy.
((@Stararar: Yeah, that's why I gave myself the option of Lift :P))
((Hey Chloe!))
Hell. I missed Kas's commemt, somehow . . .
Just keeo on going, Kas. All things pass. Just keep on going, amd it'll come back. :)
((Actually, strike that, I want Vin. Or Nightblood.))
@Kes: XD I see.
*hugs Kas gently*
(Im rewatching the anime kyo kara maoh!
its brill XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2Vla1dQZA
skip to 7:00)
((Tia, you're going to be okay. I know it doesn't feel like it, but I promise you, you're going to be okay.)))
Have anyone. Just, Kaladin is mine. :P
*smiles a bit*
*hugs everyone gently*
*chokes*
. . .
Damn, that sounded creepy.
*mine to roleplay, ish
*hugs Kas :(*
((@Saoirse: ...?))
(why are you choking sis? *does the Heimlich manoeuvre*)
My mum choked on a chip once and almost died.
I'm glad she didn't die.
(I choked once because I laughed whilst drinking milk
I almost died)
I'm glad you didn't die, too. :)
(awww thanks Starry. im glad your mum didn't die too)
:)
*hugs Seirsha tightly*
(Kyoo kara maoh is a funny anime
its about a boy called yuri. yuri saves his classmate from bullies, but the bullies give him a swirlie. the toilet gobbled yuri up and takes him to another world, where he is the demon king because he has black hair and eyes. the ex demon queen, lady Celie has three sons. the eldest, Gwendal, the middle, conrart and the youngest, wolfram. Yuri slaps wolfram when he insults yuri's mother, not knowing that that is the traditional way of proposing in the demon kingdom XD they are engaged XD and wolfram claims hes not into guys, yet he gets real jealous if he thinks yuri Is flirting X)
I- I'm fine. *swallows and hugs Kas tightly*
(whats up Sis?)
(did you find out its steak and bj day?
I was horrified when I found out it exists)
*Tanya massages Kayleigh's head*
Mmm...
(*huggles* you are not a creature)
(wassup Star?)
Ummm . . . my siblings are in my bed trying to kill each other. :P
What's up over in Wales? :)
(right...
nothing much
I can hea my mum screaming
rygbi is on)
*hugs Jaimie* You're not a creature, you're a person, a damn good one!
All I seem to do is grow
Grow up
Grow taller
Grow tired
Grow apart
Grow sad
Grow lonely
Grow distant
Grow cold
Funny how once upon a time that's all I wanted.
To grow.
Yeah..
Funny how it ain't so funny the way that's turned out..
(N- nothing Inky.)
*sighs*
:) Yes, she is.
No one in my family watches rugby . . .
(really sis... *huggles Jai jai)
(im more of a footie fan)
(hehe gunter is making a potion and gwendal enters. the fumes make them both high XD)
I used to think we were like Anna and Elsa..
Sisters who'd be distant but we're closer after that..
She'd be Elsa, obviously, cause she was perfect..
I'd be Anna cause clumsy and younger..
Yeah..
But I don't remember the ending when Anna and Elsa fell out with each other and were no longer friends or sisters..
Must've missed that part..
My brother likes football . . .
:( Not everything ends with true love and a happy ending . . .
*hugs Jai*
I'll always be here for you. We don't have to be distant, lonely, growing apart.
(I am back.)
Bethany: Claire then us... Got it...
Ember: We need a distraction, they're looking our way.
Claire: No problem. *she quickly pokes her head around the corner, knocking over a weapon rack with her telekinesis* *she sheaths her sword, drawing her silenced pistol and shooting the four guards in the head whilst they are distracted*
I noticed Star.
A happy ending would've been nice though..
I slept too much and now I'm sleepy..
@Jai *sighs deeply* you've gotta start talking. Trying to fix your friendship.
Yeah. Sorry. I have a habit of stqting the obvious. :P
:/ Happy endongs are always nice . . . but aren't usually realistic.
(Hi Soph..)
*pulls Claire close again*
Onwa: *frowns*
*mumbles*
Allow the child some free rein, she's not your b*tch.
(@Kas I can't work miracles.)
@Kas: Sometimes, it doesn't work, and it's less painful to stop trying . . . sometimes, things just don't happen.
(*hugs Jai*
@Inky Mmm...)
(I have to go now
be back soon
or tomorrow)
(Bye Chloe..
Sorry..)
:( Fours, Inky.
(*cuddles Jaimie tightly* You are not a creature.)
Claire: *she turns to Onwa, making her fingers bend back the wrong way, simultaneously lifting Liliana's dagger out of its sheath, pressing it against Onwa's neck without moving her hands from by her side* You are the only bitch around here.
Bethany: Claire...
(Bye Chloe.)
Bye, Chloe.
@Star great attitude you've got there.
(*cuddles her back*)
Onwa: *hisses, flinching*
If you'd listened you'd have heard me say you AREN'T her bitch, not that you are.
*is glaring at Claire*
Claire...stop it.. leave her to her childish comments.
*sinks down a wall* *puts head in hands*
*hugs Seirsha* :(
*cries*
Claire: I don't give a crap. Silente and Bethany actually care about me, so treat me well and want to protect me. If I was unhappy about the way they treated me, I would complain. I don't need your input, moron.
Liliana: May I have my dagger back, Claire?
Ember: *she shakes her head, collecting the guard's armour*
*keeps hugging her gently*
What's wrong?
Onwa: *glares at her more, thinking of all the ways she could make Claire pay right now*
*growls*
Don't you dare.
Onwa: *twitches a smirk*
I said, don't. You. Dare.
*growls louder, inching in front of Claire*
*shrugs*
Claire: *she aims her pistol at Onwa*
Liliana: Onwa, we are going home.
Onwa: *sighs, hearing Liliana*
No. Its okay. I'll behave..
*shifts slightly*
*mumbles an apology with extra scorn and bitterness*
@Kas: If you have to force friendship, it isn't friendship. Friendshios are formed for enjoymemt . . if it's more painful to be in them than not, the friendship is failing at its job and isn't working. Same principles as for relationships.
Maybe I seem like I'm giving uo, but I just don't want anyone to be hurt more than they have to be. If something doean't work however hard you try, you need to try something else.
My opinion . . .
That's not to say my opinion isn't more right than yours. Opinions cannot be right or wrong.
*is more right than yours
Sorry. Words. :P
Seirsha... why are you crying? What's wrong? *keeps hugging* :(
I'll be fine.
*sighs* I'll be going distant now. I still feel like I did before. Nothing's changed. Nothing will.
(I agree, Star.)
Claire: Better. *she stops bending Onwa's fingers, returning the dagger to its sheath*
Onwa: *clenches her hand into a fist before relaxing it again*
No please. Don't leave. *looks up*
(in everything -even frozen- things tend to get worse before they get better, Anna and Elsa do fall out, but in the end are probably stronger for it.-that movie is quite sad when you think about it, it's about depression and hiding everything until you break.-)
*hugs Seirsha* okay.
Thank you. *hugs tightly* I'm sorry.
You have nothing to be sorry for.
(*waves meekly at 'The Boy'*)
Liliana: One more nasty thing from you, Onwa, and we are going home. Yes?
Ember: *she dumps the pieces of armour in a pile* If you are all quite done.
*sits near Seirsha*
How are you...?
Onwa: *grunts but nods, keeping quiet, not enjoying being treated like a toddler*
Yeah. Sorry about that ember..
I don't often use the word "depressed" but I think it describes how I'm feeling right now.
How are you? Why were you crying, Seirsha?
. . .
This feels like a shop where you atep away from delicate china to avoid knocking it over, but in doing that accidentally walk backwards into more chna and knock that over . . .
I don't know.
Liliana: *she gently cuddles Onwa*
Bethany: *she fits a helmet on her head, and a chest plate on her torso*
Better to knock over china than China, hm? The first can only cut you where you touch it, but the second can cut with words!
Mmm... *hugs her again*
Msd, sorry.
*hugs* Don't be sorry. It's fine.
Onwa: *sighs, hugging her back*
*gestures for Clare, Liliana and Onwa to take the remaining armour*
Just
whatever I say I hurt someone, and if I try and help someone feel better I just make someone else feel worse, and there's just china all over the place.
Try finding more poditive endorphins, Kas . . . Exercise helps - apparently, according to my mum who's kind of literally a professional, it gives you the same release that cutting does, except, like, without the wounds.
(Eat bananas..)
Bethany: No... Silente... *her hands glow white and armour forms* *she hands the pieces to Silente* *she fits the legs of the armour in place, struggling a little because the armour is too big*
Claire: *she puts the helmet of the armour over her motorcycle helmet*
The Fool presses their forefinger on their temple.
Y'all need to stop talking about Quick Tricks to miraculously increase endorphin production and advise those with depression to actually see a mental health PROFESSIONAL. I'm no expert on mental health, and neither is anybody here. That isn't to put any of you down, but frankly, none of you are equipped to deal with this stuff on a daily basis.
Now look, the support of friends matters, but if you try to wrestle with your demons without proper counseling, you're gonna have an uphill battle so steep that you'll be climbing 90 degree angles.
*smiles, putting on the armour*
*kneels beside Beth, hands wrapped around the too big legs, the armour slowly shrinking down to size*
Onwa: *pulls on some armour, shrinking it to size and making some parts larger*
Agreed, Fool. I just have nothing else to offer.
I don't want to see a mental health professional. I'm scared of mental health professionals.
Fine, but you can't pretend that this place is any healthier. Here.
http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=urgent_crisis_hotline
http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com/static/hotlines
Two lists FILLED with hotlines, with people who'd be more than happy to just listen to you.
He is afraid of a person who exists solely to help him?
(*hugs Kas*)
Well . . . you either have to see one or carry on as you are. Only you know which is the lesser of the two evils; I'm not in your head. :)
Bethany: Thanks... Could you make the chest... A little larger? *her cheeks go red* It was designed for a man...
Claire: *she dresses herself in the armour*
(Msd.. if so brb..)
*grins, standing up, cupping where her b****** would be and making it larger*
Better?
Onwa: *tilts head at Liliana, pointing at the left over armour*
@F American numbers. And no, do not provide me with UK ones. I can find them myself. Thank you.
@Protector everyone has ulterior motives.
(Breasts is not a swear word.)
Bethany: *her cheeks flush more and she nods*
Liliana: Armour... Is not my style.
(I will be back soon.)
Yeah, gonna call bullshit on that one. Claiming that people who go into a field to help others have "ulterior motives" is verging on paranoia, and extremely insulting beside.
And because I do want to help, no matter what "ulterior motives" I may have, here are some UK hotlines anyways. You need help, even if you can't see it.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/pages/mental-health-helplines.aspx
(Thank you, Fool)
(No, but it is rather vulgar..)
Good.
*kisses her gently despite the helmet*
Onwa: *removes her helmet*
Nor is it mine, however it is necessary.
((Storm, no it's not. There's nothing inappropriate about breasts. But like, if you want to censor it, that's obviously your choice.))
Jaimie, you're amazing! *smiles slightly*
*agrees with Kes*
As someone who has a mum who's a youth worker, I can tell you that there are those in the youth working profession who genuinely care and are in that line of work because rhey want to help.
And I'm assuming the same applies to related professions.
((I don't know if therapy always helps everyone, but I know my best friend was starting to get better but then she stopped going and it's going downhill))
((So, it probably won't make it worse, and it's much more likely to be able to help than we are.))
I think that the effectiveness of therapy greatly depends on the therapist . . . you need one that's both good and is compatible to your personality
(I just think it's a vulgar word then. I mean, it just SOUNDS like a strong word..)
(Kas, no I'm not! *smiles*)
Why am I in parentheses.
*pokes Storm* Yes you are :)
(I rather think whose breasts are the determining factor to judge whether they are vulgar or not. The word itself is fine. It is just a word.)
Bethany: *she kisses her back* I love you.
Liliana: *she sighs, putting a helmet on* Only if you plan to get hit...
I know.
I think it's because they're so sexualised and society represses sexuality, particularly in women.
I disagree with the idea that some words can be inherently bad, though. Words are not bad. They are just sounds or squiggles. It is how we use them and the meaning we attach to them that can be bad.
*resists urge to spam vulgar words*
*just kind of smiles*
@Star I have an irrational (or perhaps rational) fear of being put in a mental hospital/asylum. Because I'm fucked up. I'm not normal. Yeah...
You won't be put into a mental hospital . . . if you were that messed up, we'd've realised it. :)
@Stararar: Not only that, but they're not actually sexual organs. They're secondary sex characteristics, like beards.
@Tia: No ones going to institutionalise you :)
(Could be what star said
*nods*
Or it could be the 'Br' part..)
Love you too beautiful.
Onwa: And I don't intend to have you hurt either way. Need it resizing?
@Kes: Yup. They're like safehands. :)
As on
the entire hype surrounding them is entirely societal and irrational, and I even have an article on this somewhere.
Woah.
I look organised now. O_O
(Used only to feed children.
Jaimie, Bromine is not excessively vulgar, either.)
Bethany: I'm glad you love yourself.
Liliana: I do indeed.
I mean, a hyperlink to an article. :P
My bro died
Chlo died
Flo died
Hali died
And then /I/ died!
. . .
I miss year ten. :P
. . .
Brodide, chloride, floride, halidide, iodide. :P
*bromide
(It is not entirely irrational.)
@Sophia: Okay, no. But it's mostly irrational.
(They do not exactly look bad?)
Myself?
*frowns*
I was talking to you.
Onwa: Put it on and I'll resize it.
. . .
If there wasn't such a ! about them and they were treated as just another body part, they'd be viewed as just another body part with no more significance than, say, an elbow or a foot . . . ?
(Perhaps. But society, in terms of the body, tends to focus on parts which are more sensitive than the others? So I believe, if the elbow or the foot would be similarly sensitive, there would be similar hype about them.)
Bethany: But you're the only beautiful one...
Liliana: *she dresses herself in the armour*
Shh. You're beautiful too..
Onwa: *moves her hands down her body, slowly resizing everything as she goes*
Bethany: *she shakes her head* No, I am not.
Liliana: Mmm... Play your cards right and you can do that later. *she whispers in her ear* Without the armour.
Shh. Yes you are.
Onwa: *grins*
Mm.. perhaps behaving for once might be worth it then.
*smirks*
If it leads to a chance to be mischievous.
You know, there used to be the same hype about women's ankles as there xurrently is about breasts, because women used to wear really long dresses and so you never saw their angles.
Also, ears are sensitive. Is there a hype around ears . . . ?
(you get ear fetishes)
@Star yes, there is. *flicks Star's ear* :P
(I think I just fainted...
Or did I fall asleep?
Idk.)
It's falling asleep. It happens. *hugs Seirsha warmly*
(Then perhaps it is about what you cannot see.)
Bethany: I'm really not...
Liliana: As mischievous as you like.
(I would like to point out that the artwork for my current Blogger image was done by Jaimie.)
(But I wasn't tired...? *sighs* Nver mind! *huggles*)
Yes you are..
Onwa: Good.
*grins*
You probably were. *hugs*
*wonders what to do*
Jaimie, that's really beautiful.
(*nods* thanks :)
Yes, but only a few people have ear fetishes. Nearly everyone who likes women has a breast fetish or is assumed to. THAT'S what I mean by hype.
(It is definitely a well drawn image. But it is of me, therefore not beautiful.)
Bethany: I'm not...
Ember: So are we all ready?
(It is beautiful! Kas seconded that! Therefore I'm right and you're beautiful! *smirks*)
Shh yes you are.
*nods at Ember*
Yup.
*pulls Claire and Beth close, resizing Claire's armour for her*
@Soph Nope, you're beautiful too.
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(Translate someone please??)
(That may be a good tactic, Lavender.
It is entirely possible for two people to be wrong.)
Claire: Thanks... It was a little too long?
Ember: Than let us start searching.
(She said it was a nice image, and that she is annoying her mother today since she has to be nice to her tomorrow.)
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*hugs Hopey*
(Ah okay *nods*)
You're welcome.
*smiles*
*nods at Ember*
.-- .... .- - . ...- . .-. .-.-.- / --. --- -. . .-.-.-
*-. --- - / .... --- .--. . .-.-.-*
:)
It is beautiful, and I mean that as a compliment to both of you. :)
(It would be helpful if you said that before I translated, Lavender. However, given that translators are available for those who cannot actually read morse code, me translating it does not make any difference.)
Ember: *she starts to walk forwards*
(Ha! *smirks* see. Everyone agrees you're beautiful Soph!)
*follows with Beth and Claire*
Onwa: *follows also*
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