Yes, the rumours (and, er, the announcement in the back of a few books) are true- 2012 will see my second trip to Australia and New Zealand for a Skulduggery tour. I will spend two weeks in August- from the 6th to the 20th- going around meeting the Minions-who-talk-funny and signing whatever they have to sign. The first few days will be spent in NZ, then off to Oz. Details, such as exactly which cities I'll be visiting, shall be forthcoming as soon as I have them. I actually have no input into where I visit because my publishers do all the arranging, and I just go where I'm told to go.
My last tour, in 2010, was a huge success and every single day I was startled by the reaction. It was exhausting, with an astonishing amount of travel, but so worth it.
When I get back home, I have a little over a week to recover before the Ireland/UK tour kicks off. We're going to be doing something different this year- instead of heading over to the UK for 10 straight days, I'll be heading over for three weekends in a row. The plan is to pack as many signings in as possible on days when none of you will have school or college or work, so hopefully you can come along if you haven't had a chance to before. Again, further details will be available once I have them.
And now for something completely different...
How did you enjoy World Book Day? I know, I know, different countries have World Book Day at different times of the year, and some countries don't have World Book Day at all, so, the very term itself is kind of misleading... but ANYWAY...
I had a very good World Book Day, thank you very much. I was over in London with a bunch of other writers for a huge webcast thingy that was broadcast to three quarters of a million students across Ireland and the UK and, I don't know, possibly elsewhere. We each had five minutes onstage, which isn't a whole lot of time. I ended up talking about my dogs, for some reason. It was manic, but amusing.
Behind the scenes, however, was where the real fun was taking place. Put ten authors in a room, especially authors who write for young people, and after a while things are going to get slightly odd. And when a camera comes out to record interviews? Oh dearie me. I'm sure they'll be posted on worldbookday.com soon enough, so you can watch as responsible adults (such as me) turn into immature kids as we try to make each other laugh. Fun and games galore with Andy Stanton and Steve Cole and Chris Bradford, while Cressida Cowell looked on in astonishment. Eoin Colfer wasn't above having a bit of a lark himself, but Holly Webb and Jeremy Strong did the wise thing and stayed well away from the rest of us. Jacqueline Wilson, meanwhile, must have wondered what the hell was going on.
To end the webcast, we all trotted back onstage to meet The Duchess of Cornwall. I'm completely ignorant about all things royal family-ish, and I may have forgotten to stop chewing gum when I was shaking her hand. But I DID smile and say "pleased to meet you", so that was something, wasn't it? At least I didn't have my hands in my pockets, like Ronan O'Gara did when the Queen met the Irish rugby team.
Which, I have to say, I think is hilariously dim.
Annnnnyway...
I've been on TV quite a lot lately, and it's all thanks to World Book Day, so thank you, World Book Day, for interfering with my writing week. I was on the Alan Titchmarsh Show, which most of you know about, and then I was on Live With Gabby on Channel 5 a few days later, then I was on Elev8 on RTE yesterday, and on Tuesday morning I'll be on Ireland Am on TV3...
Good GOD. I'll be sick of myself, I swear I will.
And I can't even get away from myself in newspapers, either. The Guardian asked me to list my ten favourite villains from YA/children's fiction, and you can see if you agree with me by clicking here http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2012/mar/01/derek-landy-top-ten?newsfeed=true .
( I didn't include any of MY villains, because obviously mine would be best, and I'm far too modest to proclaim that in a national newspaper.)
Okay, that's enough babbling. It's 2:30 in the afternoon and I haven't eaten anything yet. Must make lunch.
Oh! One last thing! Take a look at this video- http://www.standup.ie/index/ - which promotes standing up to homophobic bullying. I mean, life is hard enough to get through without bullies making things worse, and the only decent thing to do is stand up for your friends when they need you.
And NOW I'm going to make lunch.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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«Oldest ‹Older 4201 – 4400 of 4809 Newer› Newest»I believe the one they offer as "new" that costs the amount all other pb SP books do is probably the one I want...
sorry lav, but...?
back
*sighs now*
my mom wants to take them away until my school work's done... which still will take forever!
*sighs again*
i'm sorry to be like this now... but it's been hard for me...
Hi Raven... I don't think we met yet. I'm Lavender. :) nice to meet you.
Hi raven!
Hi Lavender, nice to meet u too *hands cookie*
hi thrust!
*munches on -* wait that's for lavender....
HEY! My cookie!
KALLISTAKINS! *is hugged and noogied* *hugs back*
*hands lavender another cookie*
*sigh*
I got to go eat dinner now... bb later!
*takes cookie as I leave*
Thank you!
bye lavender!
bye, lav!
*hopes kal doesnt drop a blueberry on her head*
np lavender
blue berries are small.
If anything, they'd land on you shoes and splatter on your socks leaving you in uncomftorble mess
...
well, thats SO much better :P
*uncomfortable
I feel like I'm being watched...
Back quickly then i have to go again.
Raven, I saw on your profile that you live in the USA. So do I! :) please check out my blog.
I post videos of me singing and I would like you to see them.
please start at the FIRST POST though. here's the link:
http://lavenderhopestoryblog.blogspot.com/
the post at the top is one that I made... cause I wasn't supposed to come back here for a while, but I couldn't help it! :P so i'm back anyway...
*wonders where the banana came from*
ok lavender, ill check it out
plus, to everyone, i'm going to try to play guitar with my next song... but that's slow progress. sorry!
night kal! *hugs*
bye Kal!
Raven, did you take a look yet?
yeah
and btw, i love all the cat pics
Yeah and I have, like, tons more! :P I got them all from the internet... I like cats :)
I'm still not here.
Okay. Hi then, Mist who is not here.
I'll how on again in a few hours
1st
1st
1st
okie mist
@lavender
lol i can tell :P
congratz mist!
night kal! again *hugs*
This page goes to Eve the ROCK.
I'm 2 pages ahead now, Eve. You arent gonna catch up. ;)
Night Kal
Now I need to remember to tease her about it again tonight
Bye again Kal!
sorry, had to go for a min.
its ok, lavender
so... Raven, did you see my songs?
just curious to know what you have to say about it. sorry. :P
well, i just listened to 'the Rose' and u have a good voice :) i liked it
:) thank you.
Now I gtg again, if Eve comes on tell her I'm another page and comment ahead of her.
Bye!!
bye mist, kk
My first one was 'the call'. I think that could have been my best... but i'll let you decide that.
Bye mist!
ok, just watched 'the call'
very well done *applaudes* u have a really good voice
HELLO AGAIN!
wb val!
*bows* :P
Thank you! :)
Hi Val!
brb
I was gone for a while... But I'm not back for long!
okay. see ya Raven!
Hi Lavender!
okay Val. I'll be here as long as I can.
:)
Just practicing guitar. :P
Hmmm... If I disappear, don't be surprised....
okay. sorry for the late comments. :P
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hi again Raven! :)
O DEREK! I AM HERE TO LEAVE YOU AN EGO BOOST!
First of all, I absolutely LOVED "The End of the World." Skulduggery and Valkyrie at their usual best, as expected, but it amazes me, the impressive plot twists you can pull of in just 127 pages. You, sir, are incredible.
But more importantly, I wanted to tell of my most recent evangelical Skulduggery success. I have a friend with dyslexia, and because of this, she has always hated reading. But she heard me and another friend fangirl over your books so often, she decided to give it a try.
She's devouring them.
She started the series about two weeks ago, and I just gave her MORTAL COIL today. Thought you'd like to know: the first book of the series is the very first book my friend, a junior in high school, has ever finished completely on her own, without the aid of a parent, adult, or audio book.
It's quite grand. Hope you feel all fuzzy inside now.
hi again lavender!
hi fantasyfreak0
*sighs*
I wish i could do better with this guitar stuff... then I can give you guys my next song... but I'll get it eventually. :)
:P
i have to go in 20 mins... but I'm still here now, and I will hopefully be back later.
okie
Wait where's meh last comment!?
like I said, though, I'm still here now. :)
hi AmeriMinion.
i know lavender, i was just saying ok.
hi AmeriMinion
Hey, Raven? What are you doing now?
cool. I got comment 4444.
PASTA~
Sorry gotta go now...
*sigh then mumbles*
Mum's here... XP
GAH!
won't be able to come back tonight, after this... Sorry.
BYE EVERYONE WHO'S HERE!!!
nothing really, just watching TV
NOT COMING BACK!
bye lavender!
Okay, everyone! I had a BIG question, and I cant find my last comment. How do I do this?
'This' isn't very descriptive. You have to be more specific.
Well, I commented 2 days earlier/ I had a Q for Mr. Landy. How do i find if he answered?
and, why the hell did my name just change? 0-o
i need to find it,
o-o
You still aren't making much sense to me... Although, I'm pretty tired, so that may be why...
HELLO!?
i gtg, ill try and be back tomorrow sometime, night all! *hands everyone cookies*
Sorry, i thought no one was here. How do I find my previous comments?
gtg to bed, someone?
argh! stupid blog!
Damn all this!
Why don't you try the "Older" button by the number of comments? Just go back pages until you find it.
*mumbles*
There 4000 fricken comments! Sorry. midnight anger
I tried looking for the 'edit' and then the 'look for', but my fricken dell sucks.
I tried copying comments onto word and looking from there. No luck
*mumbles*
DEREK LANDY! O OVERLORD GOLDEN GOD! I HEREBY BEG YOUR PARDON FOR ASKING YOU THIS QUESTION! DID YOU ANSWER MY LAST QUESTION!? I AM AMERICANMINION>:), BUT SOMEHOW MY NAME CHANGED --o-0--SO, DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR ME!? PLEASE, O GOLDEN GOD!?
IF NOT, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION IN YOUR NEXT POST! BTW, I LOVED THE PART WHERE CRAVEN ACCIDENTALLY KILLS ---SPOILER ALERT--THE DEATH BRINGER!
*chuckles at craven's clumsiness and the faces of 500 bloggers just tricked*
hello?
Oh
overlord
golden god
hello!
Derek? Mr. Landy? Mr. Totallyawesomeoverlordgoldengod?
Damn >:(
My trollin' scared everyone away! :(
Well, MR. LANDY! I HAVE TO GO TO BED! IT'S 11:21 HERE IN AMERICA, AND I HAVE TO SAY, GOODNIGHT! AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE FISH!
*more Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy References*
WRITE ON!
I just had, like, 200 comments in a row, all mine. :(
It's not 11 whatever here in America. It's only 8 something. Although, you're probably on the East Coast...
Yargh!
*looks at Ameriminon oddly* ...yargh?
I have to go, bye!
Hello?
Oh, noes. Soon we'll reach the 5000 comment limit. But, then again, I suppose we'll just go to an older post...
Hai.
hello people!
Jakro...
Why do you come on here? You know everyone hates you. [Not me, but I don't even KNOW you]
Everyone doesn't hate me, just some of them... like mist
must eat noodles now, will be back later
I don't hate you Jakro.
I on't hate you Dylan.
Dylan, don't say things ilk that, it's mean.
...Hello?
Hay. Ima here.
Back.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE!!!
HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER!!!
Eve!
-Grabs and throws at tree-
...In other words, HI EVE!!!
Hehe. Hi Sparrrrrky!
Uh...Dylan...
*sniggers*
PANDA!!!!!
DEATH!
I'm depressed
Then I'm going.
NO... SPARKY, STAY HERE!!!!!
Why should I?
Why should you leave?????
Because when I tried to make people happier yesterday all it did was make things worse.
*remembers*
hmmm... I kinda feel partly responsible for that, but I have an idea... If someone does something that is harmful to the citizens of blogland(ie. starting pointless fights, or Insulting people) we just ignore them
No, because that just makes them worse, and it gets people all grumpified.
I've just decided that I can't solve the problem and I shouldn't have taken upon myself to fix things in the first place.
*leans back into chair*
I'm just not bothering, you people do and behave how you want to each other, I'll just sit here eating popcorn on the sidelines.
Jakro... out of all people, YOU say that and you expect us to actually buy it? You don't have a very good reputation on this, so you need to rewrite it.
OOH... popcorn, do I get any?????
Dylan, you just did what we call 'the pot calling the kettle black'
But, I'm not contributing to this inevitable fight any further.
New Blog post! Pictures of my Doggy!
http://evetherockblog.blogspot.com.au/
There is no popcorn, I was making a point.
huh, where'd dylan go
I already looked at that Eve!
Oh Yay! My doggy is adorablicious!
I know someone from my school who is from australia... do all of you call shrimp: 'prawns'?
Prawns.
Dammit, you sound just like Toby
I thought it was two different things...but I don't know a thing about sea food. I HATE seafood.
He said there was an octopus in a hole, and it killed fish... and he saw it... and it was PURPLE!!!!!
I second Eve's notion.
YAYYYYY... arent Prawns just big shrimp?
Just googled it. It's two different things, although you can't tell the difference just by looking at it.
Miiiiisstttyyyyy.....*ghost voice*
Argh! Too much knowledge! *head explodes*
WHY CAN'T DEREK COME HERE?????????
I just saw the mass of text and skipped the comment.
Because it's 5:41 am for him.
I meant to america dummy
I have to go now. Bye!
Bye Eve!
Well by 'here' I thought you meant Blogland.
It was a fairly safe assumption.
hmm... PINEAPLE
I missed her by less than a minute!
Or by 2. Whatever works
star, they are two different things, and... COMMENTS!!!!!!!
*growls*
I'm not taking part in another one of these silences. And Eve is gone. So bye!
Am going now, BYE!!!!!
Right when I was just getting into the new poem I'm writing, mum had to drag me off the laptop...
I'm here. But I need to go. Will be back in five to ten mins.
Hi Star. But as I said, I need to go and I'll be back soon
Star, while I know you're here, I just want to say...
Thank you for that dedication you would have done if you really did get first on that one page back there... You are one of my BEST friends here...
And Sparky?
You are my other one...
*sigh*
Alas! Now I must go again... Bye...
Hi!
My friend is here and she is bieng weird
Her name is Bella and she is crazy.
Bye! gtg
I'll be here in 2 mins
I'm back, bebe. (bender quote😊)
No one's here.
I just got back!
Eve, would you like to be in the poem I'm writing?
(Everyone gets killed)
Ooh yes!
I won't be Eve Azure though. I have decided that I have a taken name, but I prefer to be called Eve.
My taken name is Astrid Vanilla! Hehe.
But NEVER call me that.
Astrid Vanilla... I like it!
Hi Johanna! Do i pronounce your name as Joanna?
My friend Bella is so lame, she hasn't even read SP.
Yes like Joanna, but i prefer being called Jo.
Thank you. It reflects many true aspects of me, and I have been very very honest with who I am in this name.
Is it your phones fault?
Jo. I like it. I made a Sim called Jo. She's super cool.
No, you would be good ol' Eve the ROCK!
Bella, Bella, Bella.
Miiiiist!
I play sims! Do you have a profile on the website? I do!
My name on the website is nutbag.
Hi Astrid. Hehe
Mist! Do not call Eve that name!
Oh, because Eve is in it, Zath is too.
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