Thick as Thieves Day - We Made it! (SPOILERS)

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Welcome to the early morning hours of Thick as Thieves Day. All this time, we’ve been trying to cure a seven-year ache.

First off SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! Depending on how sensitive you are to spoilers, I would not enter the realm of the comment section till you have finished the whole book. Presumably, spoilers for further on in the book will not appear in the threads for earlier chapters, but I cannot guarantee this. Remember who our authoress is?

Vent your initial reactions and squeeing here for the book in general or by chapter.

You may want to post reviews to the community itself. You can also start your own specific

discussions or post questions. All spoilers must be hidden under an LJ-Cut with a clear spoiler warning till at least a month after the official release date.

Those with arcs began discussing a few weeks ago. The Jamey Dodger Society is now unlocked and everyone can jump in on that, but remember it's full of spoilers!

Welcome to the other side, reprobates!

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I feel like Queen's Thief is a pretty great exemplar of these principles...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

Rules for Rulers, by CGP Grey. I can name almost every position in this video from Queen of Attolia... :)

At Long Last

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After years of walking into bookstores and libraries and hating literally every book there because they weren't the (one)s I wanted. After years of not allowing myself to get excited because (especially recently) it hurt my heart too much and took the breath from my body. After all that. Today is the day.

Wow. I am actually crying. Gah. Megan, why you gotta do this to us with your better-than-everyone-else skillz?

Can't wait for the mail to come. And can't wait to meet up with all you crazy Utah fans at the King's English on Saturday to see our girl.

Beautiful

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The tears in my eyes are making it kind of difficult to read...

Another interview

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From Dear Author: http://dearauthor.com/features/interviews/interview-with-megan-whalen-turner/

Please don't post if it's a duplicate. Thanks.

Okay, I've finished.

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So - is Book 6 ready yet?

Meeting with Ms. Turner at Rakestraw Bookstore

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Ms. Turner started by talking about the maps and their details.

It was a really nice. I'm glad I went.
I got to meet my favorite author and agh_4, please fill in details, I'm sure I missed lots.
There was a question about the audio books. Ms. Turner said that she chose Steve West because when she listen to The Scorpion Race, he seems to disappear into the story, and the story becomes more important than the reader (or performer). The reason they had new recording for all books because the publisher got the rights back so it's less expensive to have a new recording (if I remember correctly). The publisher sent her 3 readers, she sent them all back because she didn't want the reader sounds like Percy Jackson, Gen is older than Percy :) Then she chose her own 3 readers, the publisher sent back another 3. After she listen to Steve West for 30s (Did I remember correctly?) or was it 5min? (Anyway, I think it's a very short time), she said he's the one. So ...

At the end, I asked the following question for an_english_girl:
"In one of the recent interviews, Megan mentioned reading the Green Knowe series as a child. Did her copies have the Peter Boston woodcut style illustrations in?" from her post last week.
The short answer is "yes." She elaborated about the books and authors that influenced her and her writing. She said that Dianna Wynne Jones' Dalemark Quartet, how some of the characters seemed like gods or goddesses of some religion even though they were made up, and in particular about Green Knowe series, the illustrations seemed to be from a different world (maybe?), and Light Bearer (?)
She had seen the question from the community and thought it was mine. I said I asked for an_english_girl (I'm sorry, I wish I had recorded it or taken notes)

While she was signing my books, I asked her if there will be hard cover books for the new covers, she said that if many people ask for it, maybe. She also said that she wish that the publisher would have a design to match with the old set, so that readers can have the matched set, because basically, it's just the jacket :) She also mentioned that the previous books are in different sizes.

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