The offical blurb for Conpiracy of Kings is out!!

[ccwtaylor.livejournal.com]

http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/harper/511_1189_323932323630.htm

And click on read more.

Is this not utterly to squee for.

Comments

[ccwtaylor.livejournal.com]

Of course I meant "is out." And I should have said you need to click on read more.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

The cover is different! I like it.

Hmmm...author blog? Author video?

*peers around at mwt with one eyebrow raised*

(ccwtaylor, you can go in and edit the post if you want.)

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks Checkers--I don't use live journal and it didn't occur to me that I still had access to the message...

Charlotte

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Local events: San Diego, CA and Cleveland, OH (possibly working with Cuyahoga Library system)

cool.
Megan, you will let us know about these in advance, right?

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Hey, Pegi...

What was the release date now. Oh... March 23,2010. Now who talked about that date, and who else said June... Hmm...

[sgwordy.livejournal.com]

"includes a map"

Oooh!!! So who here got a request for their map? :)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

OMG.

That's pretty much all I can say. XD

[haleysings.livejournal.com]

AAAAHHHH that sounds awesome!

...Also, has Sophos always had that beard and I never noticed it? Or...am I just seeing that cover funny?

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

No, it's a brand new beard! Hey, I was right all along! Sophos IS Buffed-Up!

[kulai-raito.livejournal.com]

yay no more debate about the Map!
marketing campaign sounds very interesting. So mwt is finally fbooking

[katewaits.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. I'm too old to squee. But I'm as close as I get when it doesn't involve my own kids. ;D

[traboule.livejournal.com]

I love that cover. They've all been pretty, but this one is great.

Looking forward to this, and Sophos...obviously. Still holding out for the theory that he's been undercover as a pirate.

[rosalui.livejournal.com]

Well, that confirms that it's all about Sophos, lol! I don't mind, really - I love Sophos - but dammit, I miss Gen's narration. ;___________;

But... ew, Sophos. Beard. It's so not you. DX

[katewaits.livejournal.com]

It's more scruff, I think. An indicator that he's now a man and not the blushing boy of his last appearance in the series.

I like it. In the last image of him, he still looked very young and a little feminine.

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Wait, peashooter? what? and I must say I didn't know there were lampposts in Attolia (must now revamp mental image).And goodness, Sophos, find a razor. I'm sure they have razors in QT world. And illustrator-man? he's seventeen-ish. I know boys who are growing beards at seventeen, but they're all really sad, stubbly beards. Not the Paul Bunyan thing he's got going on there.MAP. WANT WANT WANT.

(uses original cover icon in protest of the beard)

[katewaits.livejournal.com]

I really think it's just scruff. You can see his skin through all of it but the mustache which is perfectly normal for even seventeen-year-olds.

And, just to stand up for the approximately two-day manly growth against the scruff-haters, I've made a simple avi of just the new chin. XD

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

Wait. But... how could there have been lampposts in Attolia? there are all those chase scenes where the darkness is very important... and why wouldn't Attolia have ordered all the lamps lit at the beginning of QoA? so the guards could have seen him? I'm so confused now. Could someone enlighten me?

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

What are these lampposts of which you speak?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks for posting that! It's suddenly occurred to me that I'll have to rename my "favourite books" shelf the "...of kings" shelf, since 3 of my all-time favourite series contain a book with this sort of title. (The Game of Kings, A Clash of Kings, and now A Conspiracy of Kings.)

[traboule.livejournal.com]

YES!

I was noticing the same thing on my bookshelf (although I'm not going to say that Clash of Kings was exactly a favourite. I liked it - but Lymond and Gen are exponentially better)

[gamwyn.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!!!! *is ridiculously excited*

Currently on my fourth re-read of QoA, and still getting really into it. :-)

[keestone.livejournal.com]

AAAAH! I want this now! (I guess I need some practice on using my inside voice and being patient.)

[fathomlesssky.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!!!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

EKKK!

I'm so excited.

Peashotter? Lamppost? Why does something tell me that this scene will be funny?

A map!?

EKKK!

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

My entry to the first sentence contest:

"This is going to be good," Sophos said quietly.

[inkasrain.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness :-D

The way the summary is phrased, I wonder if the story will take place in flashback style, gradually explaining how Sophos ends up on that lamppost. Thoughts?

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I thought that same thing, inky!

Can I call you inky?

And hey, did everyone see what is around his wrist? Poor Sophos.

[openedlocket.livejournal.com]

A LAMP POST? AND A PEASHOOTER? THAT IS JUST AWESOME! And I am VERY happy there will finally a map. Now I can trace Attolia with my finger and remember that that's where Gen lives *squee*

[mycenaeth.livejournal.com]

Includes a map.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

where does it say there is a map? *has looked but not found*

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee!

I NEED an ARC. IT IS ESSENTIAL TO MY SANITY.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally didn't even notice the rope the first time. I thought it was a sleeve of an undershirt or something. I AM NOT A TRUE FAN ANY LONGER!! *weeps silently* not sure about the beard... but I applaud anything having to do with Sophos, in Attolia, climbing a lamppost. Could somebody enlighten me, though, please.. what's a peashooter? Is it some kind of gun?
~toastisyummy

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

http://traditionsacrosseurope.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/peashooter.jpg

There you go. It's a small blowpipe you can shoot small objects like peas from. VERY mature, Sophos, very.

It is, indeed, to squee for.

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

AIIIIEEEEEE.

Includes a map
YES!!!!!!!!! ALL MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE. Hurry up hurry up March 23!!!!!

Does anyone else feel like the illustrator was lurking around Sounis, getting ideas on what to improve on? Gone is the old-man hand, the little-boy face, the eye... we are one spoilt bunch of fans. Is anyone else very happy that the eye is gone?

And climbing a lamppost with a peashooter? LOL! Yes, Sophos, that's very mature. You obviously have grown up XD

Hey, if Harry Potter books can be released simultaneously worldwide, why not Gen?

[(Anonymous)]

aaahhhh... so now we finally know the truth... Irene isn't Irene at all, she's the White Witch, escaped from Narnia! That's why she's so icy!! *grins, then smacks own forehead as punishment for bad joke*
~toastisyummy

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

Also, notice how in the description, the books are now a 'series' again, not a 'sequence'?

And 400 pgs - that's the longest so far! (By 13 pages, admittedly...)

Hey, wild peas are native to the near east and Meditterranean basin. Who knew?
*is totally not obsessing about that peashooter*

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm been spending the whole day thinking about that. Here's a sketch.

TLE: *is on vacation*
Bro: Let's go snorkeling!!
TLE & bro: *watch the pretty fish*
TLE: *pokes bro*
TLE & bro: *swim to surface*
TLE: Where did Sophos get the peashooter?
Bro: *facepalm*