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Goodness!
For a long time my website blog posts were automatically copied here via plugin. Apparently that plugin stopped working in March 2012. This is how lazy I am, that I forgot to rectify the situation for this long.
I'm going to see what I can do there. Meanwhile I'm considering posting a bunch of recipes here. -
Thanks and things
So…sadly, Chess did not win Round 2 of the Suvudu Cage Match. Kelsier-and Brandon Sanderson’s readers-proved too powerful. Sigh.
BUT. You know what? That’s okay. It’s more than okay, actually. Because while she didn’t win, I didn’t honestly expect her to; the MISTBORN books are huge, it’s an enormously, enormously popular series, and Kelsier is one ( Read more... ) -
SACRIFICIAL MAGIC stuff! (and Cage Match Round 2)
Guess what I got this morning? Two copies of SACRIFICIAL MAGIC, right off the presses; yay! As always it’s so exciting to see it as an actual book; it somehow removes it from me a step further, so it doesn’t feel like the manuscript I wrote but this entirely different thing, this actual book.
And it’s so pretty! I love that cover so much, sigh, I ( Read more... ) -
Your Excerpt
I figured what the hell, I’ll post it now.
CHASING MAGIC was the overwhelming winner! And I’ve tried to pick something that gives some hint of Big Things happening but isn’t a spoiler-this is NOT a spoiler, this excerpt, so don’t worry. It is, as requested, a Chess/Terrible moment, and I get a kick out of it and I hope you guys do too.
For those ( Read more... ) -
Chess Wins!
So thanks to all of you, Chess won the first round of the Suvudu Cage Match! Look at that, 68% of the votes! YAY!
And epp! Because this means she goes into Round 2, where she will be “fighting” Brandon Sanderson’s Kelsier. Who can manipulate iron, which as you all know is rather a large part of our Chessie’s magical arsenal. Which means, yeah, I’ve ( Read more... ) -
Cage Match is UP!
The Suvudu Supernatural Cage Match 2012 has started! Sixty-four characters from your favorite (or not-so-favorite) fantasy/urban fantasy/paranormal/sci-fi novels, battling it out on the Suvudu blog, and readers pick the winners. And Chess is a “contestant!”
Suvudu asked me to write a battle scene for them; it’s Chess vs. Giles Babcock, the main ( Read more... ) -
Heroes and, ahem, “self-love”
I’m curious.
This is something I’ve wondered about for a while-a long while, actually-and a discussion elsewhere has finally prompted me to go ahead and ask. (I want to emphasize that this is all just hypothetical/what ifs/conjecture; I’m not strictly endorsing any of these ideas, just thinking aloud and providing talking points.)
How do we all ( Read more... ) -
Squee! Squee!
First, I got to do the most awesome thing this weekend, on Sunday. See, it was the first-ever London Super Comic-con, and hubs and I decided we wanted to go. Then we saw that Mr. Stan Lee was going to be there, and we could get books signed by him and get a picture taken.
Now, let me just say I am not one to pay for autographs or for pictures, in ( Read more... ) -
Q&A Group!
So I have a few things to rant about; I’ll probably do that Monday or Tuesday, if I do it at all. For now I just want to mention that I went ahead and started an Author Q&A group on Goodreads. I figured I’d open it now to give people time to find it, and we’d start the discussion on March 20, but people have already been joining and posting (which ( Read more... ) -
Countdown Starting!
We have FIVE WEEKS until the release of SACRIFICIAL MAGIC in the US, can you believe it? It’s almost here!
And of course I’m starting the freak-out that will inevitably lead to me spending release day huddled up on the couch puking and crying and whatever else, terrified I’ll have let everyone down. But I’m trying to be optimistic.
Its helping that ( Read more... )