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.)

[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?

[(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

[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.

[(Anonymous)]

I like the new look--no eye anymore, but with beard--so much better He looked to much like Legolas in the first version (which you can see here-http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gZW10xq-pDs/SjBAt6yHsDI/AAAAAAAAB74/Yp7Lsbc4mTY/s1600-h/a

Charlotte

[kulai-raito.livejournal.com]

lol they never want us to see the eyes. Always from nose downwards. At least the eye on the horse got intense! And now everything looks darker

[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

[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]

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]

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?

[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.)

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

What are these lampposts of which you speak?

[gamwyn.livejournal.com]

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

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

[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

[sgwordy.livejournal.com]

It's in the blurb, which I at first didn't read for fear of spoiler stuff but then was so curious about the lampposts that I caved.



TLE - was not the chase supposed to be quiet and stealthy so as not to alert anyone? Poss reason to not light lampposts? Or, lampposts are fairly new and so there's this one lamppost to signify the power of Attolia? Actually that sort of makes me laugh imagining one lone lamppost, maybe over a decorative well or something, casting romantic light over some courtyard... hehe

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Yeah, plus if he's been on the run, or whatever... no time for shaving!

[adalanne.livejournal.com]

The lampposts are probably only in very select areas of town (i.e., where the rich people can buy 'em)?

[keestone.livejournal.com]

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