![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
kitsune-rains.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
queensthiefGreenwillow books posted a "teaser" for Conspiracy on Facebook recently.
The page can be found here. (I hope.)
Megan Whalen Turner’s A Conspiracy of Kings will release in just a few short months, and everyone at Greenwillow Books is excited to be working with Megan as she gives the text its finishing touches.
Would you like a glimpse?
***
“Yes, I am set, and I can see. Stop nagging,” said the younger man. With one foot on a narrow ledge and the other pressed against the chipped indentation, he was high enough to wrap his left hand around the narrow top of the marker. From this vantage point, he could see easily over the heads of the people gathered in the streets, and with a good grip for one hand, he had the other free. They had chosen the marker the day before because it offered a view up a long straight stretch of the Sacred Way and he would have plenty of time to aim.
The page can be found here. (I hope.)
Megan Whalen Turner’s A Conspiracy of Kings will release in just a few short months, and everyone at Greenwillow Books is excited to be working with Megan as she gives the text its finishing touches.
Would you like a glimpse?
***
“Yes, I am set, and I can see. Stop nagging,” said the younger man. With one foot on a narrow ledge and the other pressed against the chipped indentation, he was high enough to wrap his left hand around the narrow top of the marker. From this vantage point, he could see easily over the heads of the people gathered in the streets, and with a good grip for one hand, he had the other free. They had chosen the marker the day before because it offered a view up a long straight stretch of the Sacred Way and he would have plenty of time to aim.
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 04:23 pm (UTC)Thanks for posting the link. :)
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/25/09 03:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 05:32 pm (UTC)Thanks for posting!
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 06:45 pm (UTC)I thought Sophos and Gen were together trying to peashoot someone. Sophos is climbing a wall, which presumably Gen taught him how to do
even when drunkand Sophos has figured it out so wants Gen to stop nagging him.no subject
Date: 10/23/09 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/25/09 12:45 am (UTC)You are brilliant, sandtree! But....do you think he's actually shooting peas? Perhaps diamonds? Wedding rings?
I actually wondered whether he could be shooting a secret message -- all crumpled up small, you know?
~D.
(Although....Isn't this supposed to be happening in Attolia?)
no subject
Date: 10/25/09 09:42 pm (UTC)...unless there's one in Sounis too.
Oh, Geography!
Date: 10/26/09 03:24 pm (UTC)I can't wait for the book -- and the MAP that's going to be in it!!
~D.
no subject
Date: 10/25/09 01:32 am (UTC)(Though if he missed and hit the Minister of War instead, I think true nirvana might be achieved on my part.)
no subject
Date: 10/26/09 04:18 pm (UTC)Now that would ROCK.
no subject
Date: 10/24/09 05:53 pm (UTC)I think my theory just broke down.
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 05:42 pm (UTC)2) OMG IT'S COMING IT'S REALLY TOTALLY ACTUALLY COMING THERE'S A BOOK WITH PAGES AND WORDS AND SOPHOS AND IT'S COMING!!!!
3) It's cool. Whatever.
;-D
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 06:19 pm (UTC)EEEEEEEEE!!!!
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 09:54 pm (UTC)And oh yay, sentences from the book!
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 06:35 pm (UTC)~drashizu
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 06:41 pm (UTC)I think.
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 08:20 pm (UTC)"We twisted through more narrow streets until we reached Sacred Way , which we followed down to the gate out of the old city." the gate is the lintel one with the lions Megan showed us a photo of sometime ages ago.
"The King's Route was wide and straight, crossing the more circuitous Sacred Way twice again before reaching the docks."
Chapter 2 about a page before he yells for Philonikes
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/24/09 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 10:01 pm (UTC)"They left the palace through the gate near the stables and the kennels and proceeded up the Sacred Way on foot."
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 10:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 10:37 pm (UTC)"There was a paved path of white stones that led uphill from the gateto intersect the wider pavement of the Sacred Way."
no subject
Date: 10/25/09 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/23/09 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/24/09 06:37 pm (UTC)Eeee! :D
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 08:37 pm (UTC)I totally second the 'ACTUAL BOOK WITH ACTUAL WORDS' comment; there is a REAL book with REAL words and soon it will be here... oh God, I can't wait that long.
no subject
Date: 10/23/09 11:25 pm (UTC)*rocks, sucking thumb*
(for some reason, this has filled me with anxiety. Why? I am afraid I absolutely will actually, literally, burst with excitement?)
no subject
Date: 10/24/09 01:29 am (UTC)Now I must go re-read King of Attolia, because that's my Pavlovian response to any MWT news.
no subject
Date: 10/24/09 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/24/09 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/24/09 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/24/09 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 10/24/09 06:35 am (UTC)If my mind were in poetry it would look like this:
/////////////////
If you get this I warn you you are a total geek and I love you for it.
no subject
Date: 10/26/09 01:56 am (UTC)Thanks for posting this (I was away from my usual internet connection when I first saw this, so I just squealed out loud for a while and didn't have the patience to squeal online at that point. But I definitely squealed a lot)!
As others have said--the book actually exists! And we are going to get to read it!
Eventually...
I think it must be in Attolia, because...
Date: 10/26/09 09:59 pm (UTC)Sophos, heir to Sounis, doesn’t look like much of a prince. At least, according to those in power. At least, to those who do not know him or the size of his heart and the depth of his courage, loyalty, and love. But Helen, Queen of Eddis, knows him, and so does Gen, the queen’s Thief, who is now King of Attolia. Gen and the queen believe that Sophos is dead. But they also believe in hope, especially since a body was never found. So when Sophos is discovered in Attolia, climbing a lamppost, peashooter in hand, the obvious question becomes: where has Sophos been all this time?
.....Where, indeed?
And who is that second man, if it isn't the magus? Kamet? Dite the Younger? A complete stranger? Oh, the possibilities!!
Re: I think it must be in Attolia, because...
Date: 10/26/09 11:26 pm (UTC)Re: I think it must be in Attolia, because...
Date: 10/27/09 07:01 pm (UTC)I'm not sure where or when we'll actually see Kamet again -- but he did seem too smart, & too interesting not to turn up again somewhere, don't you think?
I'd love it if the other man were Kamet....
what a shame we have to wait so long to find out!
~D.