Apologies for the lapse in communication. A lot of stuff has happened/is happening and it's hard to find the time to Blog and think about business stuff and writerly endeavours. That said, I'm still hurtling through Book 8- I think I've got a third of it done, which is good news.
Let's see... Okay, on February 20th I'll be in London as part of the Imagine Festival. I''m going to be talking about the movies that have influenced Skulduggery, and showing trailers/scenes as we go. Expect a LOT of awesome 80's movies. You can book your tickets now.
On the 7th of March I'll be at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Kildare, interviewing Alex Barclay on stage about her fantasy novel for younger readers, Curse of Kings. Alex writes some of my favourite crime novels, and she's also a very good friend of mine, and you'll be hearing a lot more from me about Curse of Kings in the next few weeks.
On the 9th of March, I'll be in Derry, the City of Culture, doing... something. For 600 people. So... there's that. Book now! If you can find out what I'm doing. Because I haven't a clue.
In April, for The Maleficent Seven release, I'll be in Dublin and Cork and Galway and Stratford and Milton Keynes and, ulp, Norwich. Where SHE lives.
Oh, and last but not least, Twitter. Here is the official announcement:
I will tweet this Saturday, the 19th, at EXACTLY 9 PM Irish time.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2401 – 2600 of 4912 Newer› Newest»I don't know...I saw you had a draft, so I met up with Star and Ember first...don't know where it goes from there.
*squeezehugs Em* Don't they just? They're awesome. :)
Em, it's true. (I would've tried formatting that into a poem, but it just wouldn't have flowed as well, you know? I'm not as good with poems as I am with full sentences.) People like him really do touch everyone, in a sense. Example: I never knew him. But I cried for him anyway, because he had touched all of you and you had touched me. And then I told my friends, and now they've been changed by it too. And the ripples keep getting softer and smaller as they're passed on, but no matter how small get they never fade out completely.
You rock, too, Mara. I know you'll probably deny it, but it's true.
Fabi - Alright, thanks :) I think I'm going to change it anyway...
No-one lives forever? I beg to differ. Amazing people, such as Chase, will live forever, if not in a physical sense, but in our hearts at the very least.
I always find myself feeling dreadfully guilty when I speak of Chase, as I failed to converse with him as much as I wish I could have. He truly was a wonderful person and has helped me more than I could ever have wished him to, especially with the problems of his own.
He often treated me as an equal, which is much more than most people do.
If I could trade my life to save another, there is no doubt in my mind that he would be the one I saved. He made Em happy and that's more than I could ask from anyone. Chase was a great man, and stronger than any of you seem to believe.
Despite how little I know about him, I cared about him greatly and we helped each other with things such as self-harming. Chase is irreplaceable, nobody will ever make me forget how much I owe him, especially because of how happy he made Em.
I'm not completely sure what I am saying, so I'll just leave it with this:
I knew from the minute he and Em were on chatzy at the same time that something was between them. I think it is a great shame it took so long for either of them to notice, though I am glad they did. I know their time together is now over, but that does not mean that they are forever apart.
True love doesn't just drift away, after all.
All Chase wanted was for Em to be happy. He told me that was his last wish. He helped us so much, I think it's time we help him...
Right, I'm back again now and will attempt to join in a conversation...
wbd...playing guitar :)
Yup, you're right Fabi. I will deny it. Because I don't rock and never will. And I'm fine with that. :)
Luci, that was amazing. And so true.
Luci, you need to give yourself more credit. Unless your point was something about penguins and marshmallows in which case it went completely over my head... I heard exactly what you wanted me to there. That was brilliant. And more than I've ever really known about him. So thank you for that.
Im better at getting messages across through guitar and music...I know that sounds cleche but its true :)
Hello again.
My disappearance wasn't entirely my faukt this time. The laptop died, because it's evil.
I said I'd stay up late tonight to see other-side-of-the-world people . . . That includes Lavender, because she's practically an Aussie now, timezone-wise. :)
[hugs Em]
[hugs Mara]
[hugs Luci]
[hugs everyone]
*looks upwards at comments* They're right about it being amazing, Scáth. :)
Aretha, that ripple thing is a really apt analogy, and a nice one. :)
It's just the usual crap I come out with...
OMG. MY MUM JUST TOLD ME SHE MIGHT GET ME 1D TICKETS FOR MY CONFIRMATION.
My. Life. Is. Complete. O.O
But I know she won't.
But who cares? It's you guys who make my life complete :)
Hello, Star:) *ninjaeroplanetacklehugs*
How's you?
How can you call what you write crap?
How?
You're amazing and yet you don't realise it.
1D tickets? Sounds like a waste of time to me...
*preprares to be slaughtered by Mara and hides*
OK guys- I'm really, really sorry to leave you now, expecially Em... *supertacklehugs*
I have to poof now so I can get ready- my first ballroom dancing competition is tomorrow. That's right; there will be no hearwrenching chapters from me until Sunday. Sorry... I'm sure you're all very dissapointed...
Fairfarren all!
Anyone got a good name for a male tribute from District 8?
blahhh...can anyone recomend any good songs on guitar - and mara I will consider 1D songs...at a push :)
Bye Ari! *hugs*
Luci, let me change the lyrics of WMYB.... "You don't know you're amazing!"
*sharpens knife* *laughs evilly* *walks over to Ieni*
Hello!
Is it weird that even though I have a 39.6 degree fever, I feel like a block of ice?
Star--no idea.
Maybe Lowell, after the Lowell textile mills? Not that they're worth naming someone after, but it's all I can come up with.
Bye Aretha.
Everything I write is ridiculously terrible, Ieni. Don't attempt to convince me otherwise as it rarely to never works.
Never shall I be amazing, do not tell me I am.
*pushes Mel off cliff* *shouts at her* HOW ABOUT 'I WOULD'?
You said at a push...
*hugs everyone* Sorry Star, no ideas. Mara, just don't point that knife anywhere near me... Mel, most Taylor Swift songs are good.
Hi, Saph!
No, it's not weird. I don't think...
FOURS ARETHA!
How can you break our hearts now you've eaten them? '~'
:P
YAY! Hope you get the tickets, Mara! :)
*studies contract, before glaring at Ieni* I'm not angry at you, btw. But I think that, in order to be very certain I am obeying my contract to the letter, I would be better off if I glared at you.
Luci.
Don't say that.
No.
Nuh uh.
*hugs*
You know what happened this week... Don't make me more upset! :(
Bye, Aretha!
Clover - you can convince yourself that, but you'll never convince me that.
Huh? What? Why are you glaring at me? Contract to the letter? Me confuzzled.
MARA! NO PUSHING! and ok... i'll think about it and saph I have been sitting doing taylor swift for...umm...half an hour yeah and all of the songs are good but when your having a personel break down/crisis they become very depressing :L
Ooh, I just remembered! Yesterday Fabi, Death and I were pairing people with SP characters. Mara, you ended up with Camron Light, and Mel, you got Frightening Jones :) We didn't get around to Star, but I think... maybe Ravel? We hadn't paired him with anyone yet. Stravel?
Hi Sapphy! *hugs* Nope, it's all Ieni's... *grins evilly*
Me too Star :P I don't think I will though. The last ones are only available in Belfast, 8 hours away, without stopping...
Fine, if you don't want to be amazing, you can be maazing. It's a left spelling of amazing. It has the same meaning, except maazing is better than amazing, coz it's LEFT. XD
*badly quotes Up* "South America. It's like America, but SOUTH!"
Yeah, I know what you mean about Taylor Swift :L
We did? [doesn't remember this]
how the hell did you make that connection? Im not objecting but wah???
... CameronLight...?
BUT ME AND FLETCHER ARE TOGETHER. FLETCHLIE! *waves arms around*
Or Harralie... Hehe. *fangirl giggles* HARRY STYLES IS MINE LADIES.
. . . Let's play a game, shall we? It's called Restricted Pairing. The rules are that you can pair anyone you want with anyone else, except you can NOT pair Star. If you pair Star, you lose a life. Lose three lives, and you're dead and can't pair anyone.
Sound fun? :)
WAIT A MOMENT!
What have I deserve for a knife to be pointed at me? It's rude to point, did you know. I don't care about that knife BUT IT'S RUDE TO POINT.
Agh, too cold.
Going to sleepy in a few minutes, probably.
Can you come back form the dead and continue pairing as a ghost, or just ignore the rules like an Ieni, like I generally do?
Ieni - I signed (in chocolate) a contract promising I would respect 1D for the rest of my life.
Well Fabi, you WERE half asleep at the time.
Mel, it was partly that we were running out of characters and partly that if he's good enough for Tanith, he might JUST be good enough for you...
No. Not really Star. Because I WILL end up dead. You know I will.
Msd. Have to disappear soon.
I gtg, don't pair me with anyone while I'm gone.
Ah...but what would happen if I ate that contract?
its fine, just one more person that I get to mysteriously kill...joking obv...or am I?
Byebye, Fabi! *waves*
Whatever
I'm past caring, to be honest
Bye
Mhm. Mara's contract.
SHHHHH GOTTA BE YOU IS ON. *awkwardly sways to the beat*
Bye Fabi! *hugs*
Alright... Bye Luci. *hugs*
When five people are dead, they can pick one of them to come back aa a ghost.
However, once that person comes back, you need ANOTHER five people to die before anyone else can come back.
After five people have come back to life, the number of dead people you need reduces to three.
If you ignore the rules like an Ieni, you get locked in prison until seven more pairings have been made. You go to prison three times, then if you're still ignoring the rules you get tortured.
the rules seem simple enough...
I only ignore rules, because they either seem too scary, or I can't be bothered to read them, or they're too confusing.
Ooo...torturing sounds fun! I may just disappear off to bed if the occurs though...
:P
I should design a game similar to this irl.
*murmurs* Seems fair I guess.
My internet went funny... Can we pair ourselves?
My internet went funny... Can we pair ourselves?
Everybody can pair themselves unless they're me, because then I would lose a life.
Okay, okay. I am going to not break the rules and so I won't tempted I'll disappear off to bed, because my parents will return soon, anyway.
Byebye *waves*
Bye Ieni! *hugs*
Bye leni! *tacklehugs*
Okay... Vexphire! *swoons*
STAMERON INKBLIGHT! XD
bye Ieni :( wbd...Im having what my mum calls 'a pesonel crisis' or what I call 'my personel issues that I hate' :L
FOURS, RULE-BREAKING IENI! :(
Msd.
Fletchalie Chann xD
*explodes the Irish guy who wrote the song we gotta sing in chorus*
Fine, Fletchalie :) You two would actually suit each other...
Although, I'm going through a realy weird Flaelan phase atm...
Did I lose a life Star? *smiles innocently*
Hi Zaf! WHat song is it?
I KNOW! ZAELAN! Joking XD
*starts acting like I used to when I was little and playing Pole Tig* HOW DARE YOU???????? *snatchs one of Maralie's lives, marching over to the pole - I mean, door to room with angry tiger who munchs lives in it, opens the door, chans the life to it before closing said door, then locks the door and eats the key*
I miss Pole Tig. :(
Mhm, Fletcher...
BUT HARRY IS STILL MINE...
I MEANT MARALIE. Your name's both begin with M, no wonder I get them muddled!
I used to keep thinking Scáth was Lynxia and via versa, and when Zaf/Zath comes on I often think they're Zath/Zaf. :P
*names
Little Beggarman!
We have pictured Derek as a shish kabob because of that damn song!!!!
Nikki wants to roast him alive and feed him to Celine
Ok- I am back momentarily. What's this about pairing? My MC otp (one true pairing, for those of you who don't know) is Death Rose and Ian Heartbreak
Pole Tig?
Is Tig like Tag or something? :o
ok, well if you will excuse me I have to go think about things *puts on thinking hat of life* .
Derek the shish kebab... SACRILEGE! :@
Nikki decided he'd be a Derek kebab
Lol...
I must go and search for an SD card... I may return!
*giggles* StameronInkblight *runs*
*skims through previous comments*
Do I get any ships? *blinks hopefully*
Haha idk...
I looked at a list of fabric names on wiki. Think any if these are good for my male tribute? If so - whichhhhhhhhhh?
Batik
Cambric
Darlexx
Fustian
Jute
Leno
Malimo
Merino
Percale
Rakematiz
Rayon
Rep
Samite
Sateen
Saye
Serge
Tulle
Zaf, I ship you with... Well, Javier, obviously! ;)
Hmm... I don't really know. None of them are quite right for you, Aretha. Aretcher? I don't think it's quite right... Aravel? Hmmm. Arethomon? No way in hell...
Star- I like Saye and Rayon, but then again, I don't know what the character is like.
I like Sateen...or Batik :) Im sittin listening to scouting for girls this aint a love song and Im making myself more depressed than I already am :(
I like Jute and Leno best
*takes another life off Mara* ONE MORE AND YOU'RE DEAD, DIRECTIONER!
Yes, tig is another word for tag. :)
We always called it tig up here.
Pole Tig was a variation on tig me and my friends invented in year three, or maybe four. Probably three. :)
Aretha, we're playing a game. In this game, you can pair anyone you want with anyone you want, EXCEPT Star, and if you pair Star, you lose a life. :)
Yeah, I don't think I would really click with Fletcher, either. Definitely not Arethomon.
Lol, we've all chosen different things XD I also like Saye
II don't know what the character is like yet because I haven't MADE him yet. *laughs*
I have got quite a bit of my HG entry done though.
Jute. Leno. Saye. Rayon. Saten. Batik. I'll bear those in mind. :) Thanks.
Oh, ok then... Sappholent! (first name that popped into my head- I don't actually ship that)
Oh yeah Zaf and Javier
SAPPHOLENT?
That's almost as bad as Valovent. Believe it or not, there is a fic based on that...
In all seriousness, Alpphire!
Ooh
I mean, Valevolent
(Alpphire is Alex and Sapphire)
Alpphire? :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D You're so nice :D
If I can still say my opinion, I like Cambric, Star.
Cambric?
The name for the male tribute...
I must be un-shippable... 0.o
Actually, I'm kind of hopelessly in love with a fictional character... Aretha isn't because our stories split just before she read the book that just made me to head over heels... But I usually try not to think about that...
In Pole Tig, one person was It (usually me. I liked being It. :) ), and they were It for the whole game. The wall was the safe area. On our playground, we had yellow lines marking out a huge rectangle, and then more lines inside it . . . like in a sports hall when you have all those coloured lines on the floor. Anyway, the yellow line went parrallel to the wall - they were a meter apart. The person who wa It couldn't go nearer to the wall than the yellow line.
Then it was ordinary tig for a bit - person who was It trying to catch people, others trying not to get caught whilst provoking the person who was It . . . However, when someone got tigged, the personw ho was It would take them to the pole (it was the pole of a basketball hoop). Then the person would have to stay on the pole until someone who hadn't been caught came and touched the pole without being tigged.
So then it was more everybody who wasn't it trying to get to the pole, whilst the person who was it guarded the pole and their prisoner. If someone else got tigged, they would get taken to the pole also. If someone managed to get to the pole without being tigged, they could only release one person - but then that person and the person who freed them would get a free walk - be able to walk to the wall without being tigged. However, when they touched the wall, it was game on again.
Good fun. :)
It sounds awesome
I know that game. I'm not sure it has the same name though.
Wow- that sounds really fun! I'm pretty fast, so I always loved playing tag- I still do, that's why I'm the seeker of my Quidditch team- and I played tag literally every day of elementary school recess. We played tons of different variations, but never anything like Tig! Maybe I'll try it sometime!
I'm rubbish at Tag, because I've got asthma
I used to be rubbish at tag, because I was not a very active person til I got really into dance...
Will be drifting in and out randomly. Don't mind me!
I rock at capture the flag though.
"The owl was not in the green room."
We used to play Capture the Flag and Battle Ball
Thank you, Saph, for being the only one who at least acknowledged my presence.
But I'll leave, because it seems that no one else is going to.
I try being happy for once here, instead of how I've been recently, and I don't even get a hi.
Well, bye.
*feels bad for posting this*
I love capture the flag! We used to play it in the woods at my old school, and one time my friend and I got lost...
Oh. Hi/Bye Lav.
Hi Saphy.
Hi Zaf.
No Lav! Don't go!
*Struggles to find words*
Gtg bye
Bye Saph as well...
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I guess I'll go too.
Hiya!
Hiya...
Sorry for vanishing... *skims over comments* Lav!! Don't go!! Please...?
Sorry for vanishing! I hate commenting on my phone and I didn't have the charger for my laptop :(
I'm sorry I never said hi to you!! I'm being a scatterbrained idiot because of dancing and because I brought up.... That person... Please don't go!
LAV! I DIDN'T SAY HI BECAUSE THE COMMENTS WOULDN'T LOAD!
DON'T LEAVE
Hey Seph! *is afraid to not say hi to everyone now*
I don't think she's here anymore...
I think I'll shoot Lav an email...
[Doesn't say so, but thinks that that's a good idea]
Im being screamed at irl
I'm being ignored by people irl. They're just jealous. XD
What they're jealous of, I'm not sure. Probably my sheer awesomeness and my genius.
You're probably being screamed at because you're awesome, too.
Zaf, you ok? *hugs*
Hi! irl, I'm lying in my bed with boxes of tissues nd loads of bottles of water and about a million blankets...
Ah, Zaf, they're just so excited to see you! You know how stars walk outside and everyoe starts screaming? That's what's happening!
What's wrong, Zaf?
On an unrelated note, I showed my L.A. teacher MC, and she says that what she's read is awesome!
*hugs Zaf* I promise not to scream at you
Whoa...really, Sev?
Yeah, because she's in charge of Library too. For the first half we read, and the second we can read or work. I asked to read MC, and she said sure, and then asked to look at it.
Do you want to tell us what's wrong Zaf? Or do you just want us to chat randomly and cheer you up?
Whoa...[reacts about fifty different ways at once]
That's so cool! I'm glad she likes it!!
I can't believe she likes it :)
My mum drove around the block this morning after I left, saw the creepy cape person, called and told me, then hung up. When I got back from school, we were talking about it, and she said, "What if it's Melancholia?" and the look of terror on my face was almost startling...
hey Im back :) zaf I get properly yelled at a lot so I know how you feel and on a lighter note It decked it up the stairs then fell down the stairs and have hurt a tendon in my foot YAY! :)
Fabi, do you want to collaborate on the next chapter of MC?
Hi Val! LOL! Hey, she knows who Melancholia is! My mum doesn't even know who Tanith is :(
Val... That's so scary...
Mel, I hope your foot is okay.
Zaf... You still here?
Aie! Gtg. Bye!!
Sev, can't right now... Maybe slowly or in 15 minutes or so.
thanks aretha :) Im limping right now but I should be fine and I will get my revenge on the stairs... trust me I will :)
None of my parents know anything about SP, nor do any of my friends, nor does... Anyone I know, really.
Only two of my friends know about SP; the one who forced me into reading it and the one I forced into reading it. My mum only knows who Skulduggery and Valkyrie are 'cause I told her
Bye Fabi!
Everyone in my family has read at least the first book, I converted Jubi, and I'm trying to convert my other friends
my mum knows who skulduggery is because she saw a skull scarf (I added it to my collection) in a shop and said "do you want it? y'know because of skulduggery being a skeleton" and I just was like OMG SHE ACTUALLY LISTENS TO ME... so yeah I bought it :)
I made Shai and my sis read it.
My mom managed to STOP halfway through!!!!
She shocks me.
Don't totally have to leave after all, but will be very distant.
My mum read the first book, got really scared when Bliss pushed Skulduggery off a cliff, and refuses to read the rest.
My 11 year old sister, on the other hand, is dying for the Tanith novella to come out...
Im back
All over my friend sleeping over
She got SCARED?
Welcome back, Zaf!
To just amaze: i read the books to my nephew Trevor he now says i owe him the Tanith Novella and he actually got Scepter of The Ancients from his library to try to read it
well Im going to bed guys...so have a lovely and wonderful day/nightime! and I will hopefully be back on tomorrow... so byebyes! :)
*Is confused* I just noticed that we're on 2606 comments... shouldn't there be a new page?
We're on a new page
And as soon as I post that comment my computer makes a new page *rolls eyes*
Bye Mel!
Saph, there is.
Val!! JOIN SPPB!!!
Bye Mel!
Night Mel
*runs in circles*
Bye Mel!
My computer goes funny sometimes and delays making a new page
Im on my iPod xD
Zaf, why are you running in circles?
*Casually blows up stuff*
What's SPPB?
I don't remember what it stands for, but ded to it please! It's our team and we need the point
BBS dinner
It's the opposite of MAHU
Sherlock and his pipe/patches
Ded war team.
Bad.
By the way, I dedicate to hitting people with shovels. I could name about 18 people in particular I want to smack, but I don't have a shovel. But the thought makes me feel better, so I like it.
Bye for now Seph. Val, SPPB is in honour of Sherlock's pipe and patch. The opposite of MAHU
*explodes Ireland*b
Because I is
I have this feeling Derek one day may come on when i do that
And GREAT parents arguing
I refuse to join any of those...
*explodes American Sanctuary* *sees Zaf's face and runs*
[Does not feel in the mood to be around explosives]
Wbd.
Val, I'm neutral too and so is Kes
*explodes Saphhire*
No one has ever attempted to recruit me... Though I oddly feel kind of like crying right now...
Kes isn't exactly neutral...She isn't on either team, though.
Ok, that doesn't make sense, but it's true.
It's also my opinion.
Zaf; OI!
Aretha; *hugs* why do you feel like crying? Don't cry! *hugs again*
(En general, people find it annoying when we try to recruit them. You are welcome to join MAHU or even SPPB, but I was under the impression you wanted to be neutral)
(Sorry if I was mistaken)
No crying!
Hi. I... Need to... Write... My... STORY! But it always.. Just... BAH! FOCUS DANTÈ.
Yeah, I'd probably rather be neutral... I dunno, I don't much care either way, so... Yeah.
Saph, I don't really know... I think it's a combination of the chapter I'm working on now (ok so maybe I lied about there not being a new one till Sunday) and thinking about this... Person... Who I now happen to be thinking about... And because Lav was sad earlier today and I'm afraid she's not ok, and because I'm worried about Em and Luci, and listening to depressing music probably isn't helping...
Though on a side note, I found the perfect song to compliment the current situation in my MC.
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