Here is the first batch of stuff I was given while on the KOTW tour.
I've started to only pack half a bag every time I go away, because the amount of things I'm given while signing is just astronomical. What usually happens is that my publicist takes anything I can't fit onto the plane and sends it on to me afterwards. Well, the final package has arrived, so here I am to give you a brief pictorial rundown.
A skull! Signed by "le gang"! And a picture from the irrepressible one, Becky...
I don't have room to put up all of the artwork I was handed, but here are some pieces that stood out...
And I was also given books! One Minion had illustrated my biography blurbs- wonderfully unique idea! And in Liverpool I was handed Project Baguette, a collection of letters and notes and drawings and all kinds of coolness.
And elsewhere in the UK I was given a box! A wonderful little box!
But what's INSIDE the wonderful little box? Is it, perhaps, a set of wonderfully TINY Skulduggery books? It is!
The pic below is so cool. For those of you who can't spot the similarity, this is Super Derek, sitting on a stack of books, reading one with, er, his tongue hanging out of his mouth...
Quite simply one of the CUTEST things I've ever been given.
I've shown this one before, but I figured I'd do it again, and add in another two Skulduggerys (one from this tour, another from... three years ago, maybe...?)
And this! This Raggy Skulduggery that SHE WOULDN'T LET ME KEEP!
Because of the unfortunate lack of Skulduggery merchandise, many of you have had to improvise. Some of you, ahem, have improvised better than others...
Ah, the Tall Bonde! One of my favourites! You've seen her picture here before (I doubt you've forgotten it) but here is a picture of the BACK of Sabrina Sparrow's T-shirt...
And this is Sabrina's partner-in-crime Becky, giving a suitably deadpan freedom sign...
Naturally, Sabrina and Becky came with their banner- much like they did the LAST time they turned up...
(Present)
(Past)
And here's a picture of Mable and Sherlock totally agreeing with the message in my kitchen...
As I was shifting these pictures from my phone, I came across a few I'd taken in Germany a few years ago...
See that? Stylish AND practical!
And to finish it off, here's a picture of my cousin Michael, who came to one of the events in Australia and looked, it has to be said, AWESOME.
Once again, thanks to everyone who came along, and an extra special thanks to those of you who did something extra special.
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I feel special :)
Yay! You called me Ieni!
*hugs*
I am...*thinks* much better compared to yesterday actually.
Yesterday was a bad day...
(x)
*hugs everyone*
heeey everyone. So, whats going on?
I am practicing singing Payphone :)
For my AUDITION. I am so scared... >.< *whimpers*
Audtion? Anything amazing? Like the amazingly bad X-Factor?
Ooh... KOTW is interesting... WHAT?!? _________________ and _______?! Why didn't anyone tellllll me?!? :'( Poor _________!
lol, THAT was fun :)
Lol oooh audition
Nothimg like that *laughs* No, leni. I am auditioning for a talent show in a nearby town.
* Nothing
But it is a big talent show. And so I am scared.
Good luck in your audition x
I don't like reading a book in a series when there is no way on earth that I can get the next one.
Nevertheless, that is what I have just done. :(
Good luck!
Yes, Mara, I'm distant . . . :/
I'm sure you'll do fine! :)
Thanks Aimza! :)
I feel the same Ink. Like with Catching Fire in the Hunger Games. I shall never get Mockingbird... *sobs*
Thanks Ink :) I will try my hardest! *crosses fingers*
Good luck in it :)
I never watch X-Factor much.
Doctor Who has it's priorites in my life.
Thank you too Zaf! :)
And thank YOU leni! Thank you all! :) *hugs everyone*
*screams*
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S ALIVE!!!!
God damn mother firetrucking riots in Belfast. Great. I find out NJ cant go see Derek hence all the stuff she was gonna give him...
Im going to go flip,
Why is there riots in Belfast? :O
Gtg fours!
Bye Ink! *hugs*
Stupid religion crap. I want to punch one of them. I might not be going but what gets me is the fact that NJ cant go. I mean when do we ever get the answers to questions. Now I wont. NJ cant see him.
Hey guys!
Zaf, are you SERIOUS?!?!?!
Im serious. Im not even kidding. She just told us on Skype
That is...ridiculous. At least all I had was a question...
But poor NJ..:(
*is sad*
:(
:(
Hey Jen!
I know Kes. I know.
Guess im going to never get that chance. Ah well. All more reason to go to Ireland eventually
Zaf, exactly...
*scribbles it down in list of reasons*
How are you Jen?
I say hello when actually I have to go because homework is taking over my life! Year 9 sucks :(
I say hello when actually I have to go because homework is taking over my life! Year 9 sucks :(
I cant even say half of it on this post as its like KOTW spoiler and Derek doesnt like those. So, I really am in a hole that i cant get out of
:( poor poor poor NJ :(
Oh yeah! Apparently Enda Kenny was texting someone while the Pope was making a speech.
What an example for the Taoiseach to show :(
(PS: I spelt Taoiseach wrong, I know)
Is that the riot?
Ah sorry keep sending things twice! Whoops
BYe!
Hi Mara!
Zaf, then let us transfer to le spoilers!
But Kes. I doubt Derek would even get to read that. Thats my problem. How do i know he will?
Hi Kessie!
I'm coming if you're going to spoilers! Don't wanna be a loner...
Zaf, I suppose that is true...
You can only try, Zaf.
You know i dont think it is spiiling really...its been spoken before
Zaf, is it an important question?
And I wonder if Darquesse can do the death bubble...?
Hell yes!!! I got an idea actually
What is it? Unless it's a, y'know, spoiler.
Sorry I poofed.
just testing out this tag
Ooooh Mara hear ice cream van. One second...
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING JA-"
EXPLOSION!!!!
Hello again eden.
What tag.
Mara, is it the Penguin-Mobile?
Eden, mouse over the words.
The amount of children outside is phenomenal.
6.
Cool penguin mobile.
I'll be popping in and out so don't count on me to be a great conversationalist.
*laughs*
I bet you Scaoegrace*bursts into uncontrollable fits of laughter* scared them all away.
I do not know Kessie. It exploded.
OMG FREE SLUSH PUPPIES! *grabs them all and runs*
*Scapegrace
Slush Puppies...?
YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, COPPERS!
*looks back and pauses*
Well, that's a surprise... My father left me in the house by myself. Thanks Dad.
I like being left alone...
gtg, bye!
Bye Kessie! *hugs*
Bye Kessie
I'm gonna go too. Sayonara!
*hugs and walks off, waving*
KALLIE!!! Im sad cuz Derek wont get my picture :(
COMMENT!!! I HAVE COMMENTED!!! I'M IN A WIERD MOOD TODAY!!! I SHALL COMMENT!!!
AND NOBODY SHALL COMMENT BACK!!! WONDERFUL!!!
I SHALL LEAVE NOW!!! GOODBYE!!!
Anyone here?
*jumps in the volcano* *flails about*
*disappears*
Hi Kessie! Sorry, distant...
*dances like Maralie does* *runs around shooting random things with balls of light*
*burns library* *starts crying*
I HAVE A NEW T-SHIRT.
FROM AMERICA.
AND IT'S SEXY.
I'mjustreallyoffendedthatbarnesabdnoblecloseddowninfloridamall.
Guess I'm on my own, then...
*sighs* I might go to bed...I feel so ill.
Zaaaaaaaafffffffff!
*has been stalking the Blog all day*
HELLO
Val!
Willow!
Hello. :3
I need more cats.
*tries to drown Derek-lizard*
*murders Zafira*
But Derek-luzard wanted to swim!
No he didn't! *holds Derek-lizard, out of reach of Zafira*
Yes he did i wasnt hurting him
*sits on lakeshore*
Ooh a fight over the Derek lizard.
* sits anticipating anything *
Oh yeah, what's everyone's position on necromancer unicorns?
I love Necromancer unicorns. I thought of those a long time ago.
*tries to get Derek-lizard to hold the sonic screwdriver in real life*
*it isn't working*
Oh it was you that thought of it.
* smiles then writes it down in my pads*
I'm doing research for a story.
Aaah YAAAAY Doctor Who recorded
Okay
Eden, I actually happen to be writing a story that involves evil unicorns... And Derek... And ninjas... And stuff...
Cool, I'm writing a story that would involve necromancer weapons.
*grin*
Derek.
Think how you feel now about that last Doctor Who episode. About Amy and Rory.
That's how the rest of us are going to feel is anything like that happens to Skulduggery and Valkyrie in last book.
Oh my Golden God. The very last ever Doctor Who season...*just dies*
leni, I Skyped a Brit we watched it together...I AM FREAKIN SOBBING I GOTTA WATCH IT TONIGHT 9pm MY TIME!!!!!
Derek, I believe this is a night to cry yourself to sleep
I think its practice for Book 9, I forsee myself sobbing hysterically after i finish Book 9
I'm just shaking and feel so depressed.
I don't cry and TV things.
I am gonna cry I just know it. Again.
HIYA
River was amazing in that episode though. I love her so much.
BUT I WANT AMY AND RORY TO COME BACK!
I knew Dr Who would be subject *sigh*
Haha, I'm sorry.
BUT I JUST HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT!!
Because I'm dying inside.
*shrugs* Go for it.
Never interested me much
And I think I need Nye to give me a new heart.
I'm that desperate.
Yes FIRST!!!!
I dedicate this page to the Minions who didnt get to see Derek today because of parades. That isnt right. Those poor Minions deserved the chance to see their Golden God. It a shame. I mean, NJ had this folder of stuff to give Derek from us. Guess that isnt happening. Bloody riots,
Rude.
I didn't hear about that riots. What happened? Is that about the marches about staying or not in the UK or something?
Thats what i heard. NJ couldnt go because of this
*shrugs* I've not heard much...
Wow...that's actually really...selfish..
I know. Just saying, hopefully nobody kidnapped Derek
Hello?
WE WILL GET HIM BACK. WE ARE THE MUNCHKIN ARMY!
Y'alright Flame?
We will!!! The loyal Munchkin Army! Derek must be proud to know we'd save him
He should be!
I need a website that makes decent custom tee shirts that are AFFORDABLE
Y'alright?
I feel like I'm a bad person. But, oh well.
Why Willow?
I refused to shift someone.
shift?
French Kiss.
Sorry, I sometimes forget.
And that makes you normal!
Look I gotta go!
Bye, Robin!
*hugs*
. . . Oh, great. I need to post my comment that disappeared in two comments so it'll stay . . .
I just watched Now Is Good at the cinema with two of my friends. SO SAD. All of us cried. It was about this 17-year-old girl who had leukemia and was dying. At the end, she died.
What really got me crying wasn't about the film, though. I mean, the film was making me cry, but I wasn't just crying for the characters in the film, I was crying for the girl who gave Luciana hope while Luciana was in hospital and so gave Luciana the will to pull through it, only later that girl was round to have a cancerous tumor in her leg.
Willow, everyone refuses me and I feel bad, not them.
I think that makes you a good person.
(It'll take three comments, sorry. Also: ^^^found)
The girl in the film just started bleeding through her nose, I mean really badly, it was a torrent of blood, and she had to be rushed to hospital and all . . . I wasn't crying then, but just after that, I, y'know, started thinking about it, and thinking about the girl who gave Luciana hope, and how someone who'd saved the life of my friend had to die, and I was just sitting there crying for the next five minutes. I cried for her later as well, but that was my big cry. There was this page that I never gave a ded to . . . So I'm dedicating to that girl. I've never met her. Hell, I've technically never met Luciana. But that girl deserves my tears, y'know? I also understand that tons of people die from cancer. Tons of good, lifesaving people. So I dedicate to all of them as well, and all the people who love them and care about them. Because they deserve my tears as well. *speaks as if to them* Look, people, I don't know you, alright? And you will probably say that I don't understand and all that. I probably don't. I'm sorry. But my heart goes out to you all the same.
I think I shouldn't email Luciana about it. In case I just made her upset. But I ded to her as well. Luciana is a truly amazing person. She says the most beautiful, beautiful things about life and the world and it's just . . . Beautiful. She's a truly great person and she's been through so much, yet still come out smiling. There is a noticeboard at our school that says "What inspires you?" Well, Luciana does. She makes me want to smile at people and makes me grateful that they're there. I'm not as close to her as some, but she's still completely amazing in my eyes. I really hope she gets better, and that the stupid doctors work out exactly what she's ill with.
And, seeing as I'm bad at ending deds, I'll just . . . say . . . hi . . .
Hi.
Hi Kal and Flame!
DEREK! I HAVE A QUESTION THAT I'D REALLY LOVE FOR YOU TO ANSWER.
So I was wondering whether true names have to be one word or if they can be more.
All the true names we have discovered so far have been one word (Laudigan, Darquesse, Argeddion) etc.
But could it be two words? Because my true name would be but if they have to be one then I shall rethink.
Thanks :D
Octa
Laudigan?
*laughs* I love how Octa and Kal both posted the same question within minutes of each other. :)
Hi Octa!
Myron Stray's true name is Laudigan
LAUDIGAN!!!! Y'KNOW!!!! LAUDIGAN!!!!
Bliss found out Laudigan's name, richtig?
Make that three question marks, instead of one. :)
Hey Star! Hey Flame! Hey Willow!
KALLIE! *cuddles*
No, Bliss was slayed in TFO.
Hey Octa, Star, Kal and Willow! *hugs*
@ Star
It's almost as if it was planned xD
Laudigan was in DD.
@ Octa, Preposterous!
Yeahhhhh, but before Valkyrie knew magic, Bliss found out Laudigan's true name, only we don't find that out till later in the series.
Is that right, or am I getting it all wrong?
I don't know.
I can't remember every detail of the books..
Maybe HB was right..
You're right or so I believe.
Didn't Skulduggery tell Valkyrie the story in Dark Days but it actually had happened ages ago.
Sorry, for poofing.
I have to re write my English essay. -_- I used grammar in it, and apparently that is unimportant and now I have to write it again.
GOSH YOU MAKE ME WANNA READ DD AGAIN..
SHUSH
*starts flicking through DD*
Where is my DD book...
D:
I don't know where my DD book is D:
It was my favourite SP book.
Thats a good question. I actually do wonder, like, is it always one word or is can it be 2?
I hate this stupid essay. It's annoying me. Why do I have to write with commas, apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, etc?
NO
NO
NO
I CAN'T FIND IT
HAH!
"Once upon a time," said Skulduggery, "Myron Stray was an information broker, much like China is today. He was respected too. Until it all fell apart for him."
"What happened?" Valkyrie asked.
"Mr Bliss found out Myron's true name.(...)"
If it makes you feel less slighted by my amazingness, I didn't remember Laudigan's taken name was Myron Stray. I didn't even know his true name was Laudigan. I just knew it began with an L. In fact, there are these people in my SP battle pack and I don't have a clue who some of them are. I even forgot who Baron Vengeous was when he was mentioned in KOTW. I saw the words Baron Vengeous and my brain went, "Scary evil guy who was an ultimate baddy in one of the books!" Then I went, "Wait, which scary evil guy was he exactly?" Then a few paragrahs later I was like, "Aha. He worshipped the Faceless ones. He would be the one in TFO then who opened the portal? No, hang on, Batu was behind all that . . . *still hopelessly confused*"
Let's just say I have a bad memory for names. :)
... Hello?
I need to reread the SP books. As I only started owning them myself recently, I, uh, haven't read them as many millions of times as some people have.
'Lo Sparks.
Hi Sparky!
I've only read them once.
Then some parts by themsleves, other times.
Hey Phoenix, Ink.
I read them one and a half, I think. I read them once, then I skimned through them once looking for quotes. Long story. Well, not that long, but longer than I can be bothered to type. *shrugs*
I might have read the first one twice, through. Maybe the second one too. I dunno.
Hello, Sparky!
Hello, Willow!
DEREK THERE'S A TYPO IN YOUR SHORT STORY FOR HAUNTED!
Page 114:
"It isn't," Donal told me. "Hospitals are full of ghosts, but that's it, really. To be honest, there aren't that many ghosts walking around, anway."
Kal!
*hugs her*
It's been AGES!
FINALLY THIS ESSAY IS DONE!
*hides her walker behind his back*
*whistles innocently*
I stole it, Kal.
I bet you to that one, Sparks.
*looks at Flame*
That was odd.
Because I have her walker.
*holds it up*
*laughs* When I read I read the word as a whole, not the individual letters. Other people so this too, I know. If someone is writing about God, and are saying about Him with a capital letter for Him and stuff, my brain usually tells me the Him has a full stop in front of it and it's a new sentence and I get confuzzled. So I often don't spot typos. My brain even fills in the missing words in sentences. So I had to read Flame's little paragraph three times before I spotted the typo. :)
*gives her the walker back*
When I have my cello on my back it makes it hard for me to bend over and, say, put a music stand in the box full of music stands. It makes me feel like an old woman, y'know, looking at the box and going, "Oh no, I have to bend over, wonder if I can manage that . . ."
Are we yelling to Derek? Oooh goody someone get him to answer this: how did Billy-Ray gain sight without eyes?
DEREK I CANT SPAM THIS AS I GOING TO HAUNTED HOUSE SOON SO PLEASE ANSWER
I would guesstimatle that it's one name for everyone. *shrugs*
HI ZAF!
Hi Star! If Derek Blogspeaks can someone ask that for me if he doesnt answer? Im going to a haunted house tonight with my Minion friends
He probably got some potion to help him do it..
Sure I will, Zaf! I doubt he will blogspeak, though. Sorry. :(
Ah, I've missed this place. Damn school and the fact that not many people are on in my afternoons.
Yelling at Derek is fun!
HI DEREK!!!! ARE YOU AWAKE?!
Msd and csgd. Sorry.
Ow, Kal...
*pokes Sparky*
You OK?
I gtg pester this question for me guys!
DEREK!!!!!
How did Billy-Ray gain sight without eyes?
I need more cats.
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