The Demon Road proofs have been sent out to critics and reviewers and bloggers and booksellers and all kinds of wonderful, wonderful people ahead of the release on August 27. I can't WAIT for this book to get onto shelves. I want to know what you think. I want to see how you react. I've been warned by my publishers not to expect the second series to be as big as the first — at least not initially — and let's be honest, Skulduggery is a hard act to follow. But this whole thing has become a giant experiment for me, and it's going to be fascinating to watch unfold.
There's gonna be some cool bits and pieces available too —"merch" or "swag" or "stuff" or "free things" like Demon Road badges and wristbands and maps and little pamphlets containing the first four chapters. That's kind of the point of this blog post, actually, because once those sample chapters are released, a plot detail that I haven't REALLY spoken about is going to be confirmed. So I'm going to discuss it here first, by providing to you the opening line of the book:
"Twelve hours before Amber Lamont's parents tried to kill her, she was sitting between them in the principal's office, her hands in her lap, stifling all the things she wanted to say."
I've talked about how this is a story about a girl being chased across America by a pack of demons. What I haven't said is that those demons are Amber's own parents.
I had this idea years ago, of a teenager being hunted by her mother and father. It resonated with me because this is so obviously WRONG, it is against the natural order of things for parents to want to harm their children. I'm lucky — I come from a good home, and I have loving parents, but I am well aware that not everyone is in the same position. This inversion of values is why the idea stuck with me, and so the whole trilogy has become an examination of family, and what it means to be loved and accepted for who and what you are.
I'm not going to say anything more about it right now, and all those wonderful people who are reading the proofs won't really be saying anything about it until the official release, but I genuinely cannot wait for you to get your hands on this book.
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:) Hear hear.
@Chloe: -_- I feel ya.
:) Well, do you know any activities that woud make you feel more awake in the meantime? Doing something normally makes me feel less tired . . . like, it distracts me so I spend less time just sat there feeling tired, and freaking out about The Alloy of Law usually wakes me up, so . . .
^See.
I have all this tiredness-advice now.
If you asked me a month ago I would just sit there looking sympathetic unable to be of any use.
See.
I KNEW something good would come out of messing up my sleep schedule.
(Well, no, I didn't, but y'know.)
(Hehe XD
I am watching Jeremy Kyle )
:) If I've ever watched Jeremy Kyle, I don't remember it.
(I like it
Jai?)
?? I didn't see it.
(I caught it
Jai said '...')
@Chloe: :/
(Hmmmm
Come back Jai!)
Eh she may come back eventually.
hey clo, and why is your name a question mark? :)
(Because it is
I'm talking to her Zaf)
@Zaf: She undoubtably will. I think Chloe is aware of that; hence, in context, it marks sense to deduce that she was requesting her imemdiate return.
. . .
I'm not sure where all that formal phrasing came from . . . :P
*makes
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE AND THEY'RE EATING PEOPLE!
(Star, being formal like a boss XD)
(*runs away from the hills*)
@Dugglyn: O_O O_O
*RUNS FOR THE DESERT*
@Chloe: XD Thanks.
*sigh*
(Wales is full of hills! Ahhhhh!)
*runs up to hills and loudly and sternly sings every sound of music song I know until the hills back down*
Hills: *Chase after Star and Chloe*
*evil grin*
*realizes she lives on a hill*
*frrrroooooooowwwwwnnnnnssss*
Oh Carl fish.
Me whilst distractedly listening to music whilst typing: Huh? When I did I have Metallica's black album on my phone?
*remembers that A7X ripped them off* oh yeah.
(I am not even kidding, that is literally what I was thinking.)
*RUNS FOR DESERT*
*REALISES TEHER ARE NO DESERTS IN BRITAIN AND THAT I'D HAVE TO RUN OVER AN OCEAN*
. . .
*RUNS FOR EUROTUNNEL*
Hills: *pause*
*frown*
*slowly turn forwards Vi, entranced by her singing*
*grin dreamily*
OoooooooooooooOooooooooOooooOohhh
(Hey vi!
*jumps in a lake*)
*walks up to hills, stil singing(sings these next words)* Will you please stop eating people? It isn't very nice?
Hey Chloe :) *hugs despite the lake*
Hills: *frown again*
*if they could tAlk they would say "but people taste good!"*
*still singing* People don't like being eaten!
(*huggles vi*)
Chloe: :) How be you?
(Tired
You?)
Hills: *frown deeper*
*They can't sense Chloe anymore because she is in a lake and Star bad disappeared into the Eurotunnel*
*all this frowning..*
*the hills are slowly wearing themselves down*
*they need people to build themselves back up...*
*or cake*
*cake is good*
Chloe: pretty good. I have plans with anther human today! My friend replied!! Yaaay, I won't be completely alone today!
How about his cake, instead? *pulls out cake*
(Awesome! I'm going out with a friend tomorrow)
*is still running*
*realises I haven't got out of Yorkshire yet and the Eurotunnel is all the way past London*
*. . .*
Chloe: Ooh, yay, much friendship!
Hills: *can sense Star again*
*Star or cake*
*Star or cake*
*remembers past bubble eating experience*
*ewwwwwww*
*no bubble eating*
*CAKE*
*throws multiple glittering cakes to the hills*
(Friendship is awesome!)
*is so glad she is a bubble!*
*carries on running*
*or floating, as the case may be :P*
(Friendship rocks!!!)
(I'M SEEING MY FRIEND TODAY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SHE WAS ON VACATION BUT NOW SHE'S BACK! :D
She's doing sailing camp jex week and so she has to tired water for ten minutes with long pants and shirt on and then put on a life jacket. She's nth too enthusiastic but I'm like "Awesome, I want to do thAt!!!" Because getting in the pool with your clothes on sounds totes my goats applesauce!)
Hills: *eat cake*
*cake is better than human*
*hills grow*
*they are longer hungry*
*thank you Vi!*
(I'm so glad I have you guys)
YAY FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL
You are welcome hills!
People, you can come out now! We are safe from the hills!
I'm going to go now... Got to shower. Probably bbs
*huggles all and skips away*
(Byii vi!)
*works on running back to where I was :P*
(*Comes in whistling Zelda's ocarina of time* )
(Hey k!)
(Hey Chloe :) *huggles* )
(*huggles* how art thou?)
(I'm fantastic wbu?)
(I'm tired
How are you fantastic? Care to share?)
(Wouldn't want to jinx it. hehe :D but things are good :D )
(Isee
WELl I'm glad your great!)
(Hello. Watching Divergent.)
(*Giddily dances around * I'd say have a nap or something but harder to sleep later :/ )
(I watched Insurgent the other day :D :P...)
(...anyone want to roleplay..?)
(I can if you wish ?)
(Sure.. go ahead.)
(I love seeing people happy ^.^.)
(COn: Is conx juvia still a thing and what about con daisy and cole? jw... :P )
Con2: *emerges from the tree line draped in darkness looking around for something to do, or kill he thinks smirking*
Kiana: *pads into the clearing, looking scraggly and I unkempt*
(Cole is with eira
And me and jack have been rping over text
Inky sped up her pregnancy and gave birth to a boy which they named after Cole)
(Thanks ? :P XD :P hehe )
Con2: *spots someone in the distance and smirks cracking his knuckles and loosening his shoulders* *He shadow walks closer seeing if they're a threat or boring*
(@Chloe cute..)
Kiana: *looks at con*
*bares her teeth, growling*
(Con: Okai, just because we were all in your house b4 and nothing really came of it. I'll continue to use 2 though incase Juvia. *smirks* He's persistent I'll give him that, sets his mind to something... )
Con2: *smirks growling back* Cute. *laughs* hehe Hello there.... Who are you *points his baton at ((/her?/ )*
(Hehe)
(I.. I'll be a minute.. or so..)
(No Problem :P ... is it bad that I really went to ask if it was a boy or a girl ... hehe that's how you know i'm too happy to think :P)
(Why are you so happy? Skype?)
hey ^_^
(Hey F :P *hugs smiling * )
(Back.. Its a her)
Kiana: *growls louder, watching him*
Greetings humans of Blogland.
hey keiron, i am glad you're happy ^_^ is it the same stuff that you told me on skype? :p *hugs*
Okay turns out I chat come back, I've got stuff to do. Whoops. So bye bye possible talk to you all later.
(Hey Fera, dav)
(Hi Davine.)
arrrrrrghhhhhhhhhh....i wanted to continue the rp :P
(Byii vi!)
(Byii vi!)
(sshht :P...
Hey Davine :P *shakes hand* :P *pullls into hug* :P hehe
Con: cool.)
Con2: *laughs and barks loudly* I'm the alpha bitch.
hey davine ^_^ hey clo :) u wanna continue our rp? :)
Hello Chloe, Jai, and Frank.
And Keiron. Didn't see that one until after I commented that.
How are all of you?
Kiana: *growls and leaps at him, sharp toenails digging into his skin to grant leverage, teeth lunging for his throat*
*shakes hand, is hugged, thins lips, pulls away from hug*
(Hello.)
Liliana: He was drunk.
Isabelle: I just poisoned you.
Bethany: No...
Lily: The same applies to me.
(Hi Soph.)
Onwa: I am aware.
James: Poisoned me?
*frowns*
Yes.
Manuel: I see.
(I'm too tired to rp with anyone... I'm in more of a listen to evanescence mood!)
(Fantastic wbu? )
Con2: *squirms grabbing her tendrils slamming into her to get her off*
Hello Sophia.
I'm alright, Keiron
Kiana: *keeps ahold of him, hissing at the trendils, nails digging deeper into his flesh, fingernails burrowing under the skin of his shoulders*
(I reply emailed btw. *smirks*
I actually need to go now sorry Jai... at least Sophs here to rp now *smiles* SOy!)
(..bye k)
Davine: frank? how do you know mah name? ^_^
(Hello, Jaimie. *she cuddles Jaimie tightly*)
Liliana: People do strange things when they are drunk. You, for example. *she grins*
Isabelle: Yes, poisoned you. In a minute or two, you will be dead.
Bethany: I'm not...
Lily: ... Sorry, I'm really not used to making conversation.
You see, a person in Blogland has sort of changed recently. The part of themselves that they tend to bury down within them and ignore has gotten stronger. So strong that they named it. They named it Davine Naughter. Then I became free enough to come here. But sorry, Frank, I'm not allowed to say who I am. But that means I've watched her have all of her conversations here. Though you may not know me, I know all(or at least most) of you. I hope that makes some sort of sense. If not, I can try explaining again. I have found that I'm rather confusing
(*cuddles her tightly back*)
Onwa: *raises an eyebrow*
Me? What do I do that's weird when I'm drunk?
James: *frowns more*
And you were the one saying I better not being taking advantage of you. Except that I know your lying.
You are Beth.
Manuel: Nor am I in all honesty.
(Hello. Still watching Divergent.
Eeeeeeeep Tris and Four.
I watched Insurgent too.)
(Hi gem.)
(Hey gem gem )
I didn't like Divergent the movie (well, it was mostly meh, but I can't get over the fact Tris was wearing makeup whilst in Abnegation :P) adn haven't watched Insurgent the movie, but I loved the books. :)
Omg.
I really wish Steelheart was written by an up-and-coming YA author instead of an author famous for epic fantasy.
Steelheart deserves as much attention as all these other cool YA books that get movies made out of them and suchlike.
(*waits for Soph to depoof*)
davine: hmm....that's a bit of a brave statement, as nobody really knows me...not even my family ^_^ but...hmm...I have a few candidates regarding who you might be...i am fairly certain you're not hopey... ^_^
Well, Frank, I wasn't claiming to know you very closely and personally and deeply. But I just meant I know who you are. She has had multiple conversations with you.
Liliana: *she grins* Nice, but strange things.
Isabelle: Well, at least you trust me.
Bethany: *she shakes her head* ... Will they bring the menus soon?
Lily: I have no idea what to talk about...
hmmm....interesting...i am trying to think but...gem?
I can't tell you, Frank. She won't let me. Sorry, but, at least for now, I shall remain anonymous.
davine: very well ^_^ calling me frank implies that you're comfortable with saying my name for some reason ^_^
I have a hypothesis as to who you are. I'm not putting it forward, though. You don't want to be detected; I get that.
Onwa: *raises an eyebrow questioningly*
James: Should I not?
Probably.
Manuel: Hmm.. what's your favourite realm?
hmmm...e-mail? :)
Would you like me to call you something different? I would hate to make you uncomfortable or anything.
And thank you for your understanding, Star. I am a bit curious as to who you think, but I won't push.
No, the word "uncomfort" is quite non-existent for me, so you can call me anything :)
star...e-mail ^_^
*fights down snarky and awful grammar nazi within me with all my might* All right Frank. Well, I am glad to make your acquaintance :) *offers hearty handshake*
i know uncomfort as a word doesn't exist XD :P Hearty huh? *shakes hand* ^_^ :)
Alright. And yes. I'm trying to be... I don't know. I'm trying to make friends, I guess. So hearty it is.
So it isn't Aretha, probably Sil.
(Probably not sil.)
very well, people who are friendly and want to make friends are always welcome to me :) ^_^ *does hearty handshake*
Hmm. I like these type of cases. Hello, everyone.
Thank you.
Not Star, she'd be too excited to not tell us....
Excited about what?
(MATH
SCIENCE
HISTORY
UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERY
IT ALL STARTED WITH A BIG BANG!!!)
davina: :)
yeh i really don't think it would be star :D
clo: theoretically ^_^
Star wouldn't be able to hide her identity too long, and its just not Adra she would be too... Never mind she just wpuldn't.
hmm....we can stop guessing, she said she doesn't want to reveal it yet , sooo...^_^
Sir.
Sorry.
...
>.<
Bye
(Hey Noelle and Zaf)
No, feel free. Nothing will be confirmed or denied, but guessing entertains me :)
XD Thanks, Zaf.
(Seriously. I take that as a compliment.
@Noelle: :/ I'm still sticking with my hypothesis, but that's a good guess.
I'm about 99% sure that it's not Jai, and I'm rarely 100% sure of anything.
(I'm literally 100% sure it's not me. I couldn't be bothered making a new Google account unless planning to leave as Silente forever.)
noelle huh....maybe ^_^
@Jai: *nods*
Well, I'm not 100% sure it's not me, so . . . XD
I don't think it's Noelle.
(Yeh I had the full guessing game a few pages back... :P -you've added someone to my list, but unless they started spelling my name correctly I doubt it's them :P I'm still sticking with Raven Or Hope.)
hope is not on. trust me ^_^ :)
I will say: I do throw in little things here and there that don't align with me, to hide it. Some things I do consistently. There will never be a clear trail, if I can help it
I don't think it's Hope anyway - not her typing style - but if Fera says it isn't, I'm pretty damn sure it isn't. :)
awwww *hugs star* ^_^ yeah i am 99% she isn't hopey :)
(Well I'm stuck)
@Fera: :) :) :)
Adra wouldn't do it
Ari mighr, it might be a name of Alastair's.
(I'm off to bed
Nos da)
nos da clo :)
(Nos da Chloe!!!)
(She said she's a girl along with her counter part.)
(nos da)
(unless there was a full setup from Vi to consistently spell It Kieron b4 changing it to K then I doubt it's her...
Raven spells my name right, and I agree with F on that tbh but because of something I said, although I don't think you talked to F much... did you? because you knew his name...
I doubt it to be Gemma as you were up at 4 am.. )
Farewell people, I must depart.
hmmm...yeah, hopey isn't up this time around, she has not been on skype at all either...she would also not be able to hide her personality from me, and she wouldn't say she doesn't know me deeply... ^_^
Alastair can be a girl.
So this person is British.
(Its not anyone, its Davine.)
(4am my time I'm guessing it wasn't theirs...)
yeah well, she shares her body with another personality ^_^
I know my mother too well.
I was staying at Collette's to watch movies. Her mum asked if i want to stay over. I phoned my mum and she said it was a bad idea. I have work tomorrow and my clothes weren't dry. Collette said i can dry them there. She said she didn't want me to walk there in the rain get my stuff then come back. She said she would phone my nana to see if she would pick us up. Like a minute later, she called again. Said i'm not staying and that she disn't wven call my nana. I asked why. She said because she said so. I asked why. She said because she didn't want me walking over there in the rain at 10 then going back. I said i would be getting wet anyway. She just said no and continued talking so i hung up.
Walked home in the pouring rain, got soaking and came home to find she was laughing in front of the tv with my dad having a fun stress-free night whilst i walked home in the rain. That's the real reason she didn't let me stay. And i guessed that. She wants an easy night before her birthday tomorrow. Or she wants me there for her birthday or just doesn't want me to have fun. Maybe all of them. I just know her cold, self-centered nature too well. Fuck her. Fuck the card i bought her today. Fuck her night out with my dad tomorrow. Fuck her new car. She has everything. She's getting everything and she won't let me stay at someonr's house even though it doesn't involve her at all! Bitch!
Don't kill me, Duggy!
It is in your best interest that Duggy, does not read that quote.
Butterfly- Parents are weird and sometimes cruel.
What does the infamous Grant Ward care? I heard of how sick you are, Grant Ward.
Sick? Were you not one of the Asgardians we found to have helped Loki with his Chitauri invasion? I may have betrayed people, at least the world I live on wasn't destroyed by me. I still wonder why you fell for an Avenger. Then again, I don't care, I have no alliance to S.H.I.E.L.D anymore.
(*hugs gemmy super tight*)
I'm not an agent either. I'm just married to the king of Asgard.
(*cuddles Keiron tighter*)
How did you trick him? I read your file before I left, you're just like Loki. Bastard shouldn't have survived, then again he did manage to kill Coulson even if GH325 brought him back.
gem? i thought she wasn't on kerion?
(Just got on there. Trust me, it's not me. I've been at a friends house all day and just walked home in the rain. Inly got back a little while ago.)
hehe, well it's definitely not hopey, star, keiron, gemma, jai, sil, dugglyn, violet, me....that narrows it down a bit ^_^
(@f She's Star butterfly...
*cuddles into her closely*... )
)
(*hugs Gemmy*
Shhhh. Don't tell Ver I'm awake. I said I was sleeping. *smiles*)
(I am a hundred percent sure it is neither Jaimie nor Star, but I do not especially care who it is. It is most likely not someone I care about, therefore it is most likely of no concern to me.)
Liliana: ... Do you even remember?
Isabelle: I was just making sure.
Bethany: You know... I've been thinking a lot... *she looks at her wedding ring* about how we met... And how we are... And... You've made my life perfect... Before we were together... I was the last one... And then there was the demon... and Liliana... *she sighs* And now, everything has come together. Liliana and I are friends... The demon... It still hurts, but... There's nothing I can do... I suppose I'll just have to live with it... And my sisters are back alive... And I think that's all down to you... I owe you everything. I'm the happiest I've ever been... And it's all down to you. *her hair shines more* It really is... Thank you.
Lily: Apart from this one?
Davine said she was a girl. But she could easily be lying.
Girls:
Sil
Me
Star
Soph
Dugglyn
Zafira
Hope
Adra
Audra
Violet
Aretha
Chloe
Boys:
Con/Keiron
Fera
Blake
Trip
Rhos
Kassy
There are also less likely people that i highly doubt but still:
Mithria
Flora
Mara
Fabi
Kall
Sir
(you forgot Raven... my number one suspect :P )
(I'm so special I get two names :D )
(And it is hardly going to be me. I disagree with the concept of anonymity.)
Onwa: Of course I do.
James: *raises an eyebrow*
That's a rather drastic way of checking.
*takes her hand, squeezing it gently*
I did barely anything. The demon.. I got there too late to stop that.. it plagues me.. it was Liliana and Phaestra who brought your sisters back. You and Liliana getting close again.. admittedly I helped a bit with that. *grins*
Manuel: Perhaps.
And Raven. Are they a boy or a girl?
(Girl)
Liliana: Then you will understand. *she grins*
Isabelle: But it worked, did it not?
Bethany: *she squeezes her hand, back* Please don't let it plague you... You did all you could... I am so glad that you came...
Liliana would have only brought my sisters back if we were close again... Which was your doing... So it's down to you that my sisters were alive... Surely?
Lily: I like this one... I also like Earth, and Therald, and Aztraya... Apart from the wars.
Sil
Star
Dugglyn
Zafira
Hope
Adra
Audra
Violet
Aretha
Chloe
Raven
Keiron
Fera
Blake
Trip
Rhos
Kassy
Keiron, you would tell me this time if it was you, right?
Onwa: Mm..Obviously.
James: I suppose you could say that.
Of course I came. I wasn't going to leave you behind Beth. And I suppose.
Manuel: *nods*
Wars are hardly ideal.
(Yes I would tell you :C I feel bad that I'm even considered this time... What would I have to gain from Being a girl this time... and a girl that claims it's other half is a girl. *sighs*)
(Is there anyway you can either darken/ change the colour of your text / change the background I have to highlight to read most parts. :/ )
(Well. It's not the first time.
Dugglyn
Zafira
Hope
Audra
Violet
Chloe
Raven
Fera
Blake
Trip
Rhos
Kassy
Davine posted on Adra's blog. So it's someone that cares. I rule Adra out. And Jai, and Kassy, and Aretha and Star. They all commented on the same post.
(I'm going back to recording. bbs *poofs into the darkness*)
Yeah, I almost said summat about that but then got sidetracked actually commenting about the post . . . the mobile version is fine, but the white text blends intot he white background on the desktop.
OMG LIZZIE'S TELLING ME THEY LOVE ME ADN THEY MISS ME AND THEY WISH I WAS THERE
AWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHhhh
(Have fun with that Keiron...
Hi Star.)
Dugglyn
Zafira
Hope
Audra
Violet
Chloe
Raven
Fera
Blake
Trip
Rhos
Dugglyn - maybe
Zafira - don't think so coz of typing style
Hope - don't think so coz typing style and also Fera said it wans't her
Audra - maybe
Violet - maybe
Chloe - maybe
Raven - maybe
Fera - don't think so coz of typing style
Blake - don't think so coz of typing style
Trip - don't think so coz of typing style
Rhos - don't think so coz of typing style
Kassy - maybe
So, my list is Dugglyn, Audra, Violent, Chloe, Raven and Kas. Unless someone is being PARTICULARLY elusive and chnaging their typing style.
I guess i dedicate to everyone in that post. And the people that weren't. Hehe.
(Kassy commented on Adra's post too. I doubt he would comment twice on the same post. I ruled him out.
Fera could have been lying.)
(*is gonna sleep now*
*hugs gemmy*
*cuddles Sophi*
*curls up like a cat with my cat and sleeps*)
(I doubt Zaf would pretend to care about Adra.
hear hear. )
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