Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

As always, feel free to start your own threads, but be sure to hide spoilers with a warning under an LJ-Cut for at least a month from the release date of the new book. Not everyone is going to finish the book on the first day. :)

Use this thread with handy sub-threads to discuss the new short stories and poems. Simply reply to the comment with the name of the story or poem you want to talk about. There is a thread at the bottom for the extra content, such as the almond cake recipe and the art references, if you wish to discuss those. I've not included threads for the previously published and renamed?? short -stories, as we recently discussed those. Also, I don't consider discussing already published content to be spoiler-y, but feel free to start threads on those if you'd like to revisit them.

With all that out of the way, let's freak out in the comments! ;)

Table of Contents under the cut.

( May I borrow your pen? )


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Just a quick reminder, our masked Halloween chat will be tonight at 6pm CT/7pm ET in the Conspiracy Room. Password is HERE. Come dressed as your favorite QT character and keep your identity a secret untill the end of the chat.

We're also having a midnight release party for Moria's Pen in the Conspiracy Room tomorrow at 10pm-11pm CT/11pm-Midnight ET, however eariler risers are likely to be stopping in before then.

For more details, please see this entry. Happy Halloween!


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How's your summer going, Sounis? Hope you're having fun and not just counting the days till Moira's Pen releases, which is only a few months away! Here's what's coming up as the summer draws to a close, and we approach November 1st.


( Sword at Sunset )


We have been planning to celebrate the release of Moira's Pen by re-reading and discussing all MWT's previously published short stories, including the ones that do not take place in the QT universe.

My plan is to give you all two weeks to read the non-QT stories, take a break, and then cover two QT short stories each week from there. These short stories are… well… short, so they should only take about twenty minutes are so to read.

If you do not own all or even any of those elusive out-of-print editions that had the older short stories published in them, scans of the short stories are available HERE for Sounis members. Instead of Three Wishes should be readily available at libraries. If you don’t have access to the Best Short Stories anthology book that The Baby in the Night Deposit Box was published in, looks like you can read most of it on Google Books.

Have a schedule. Short stories are in chronological order, BTW...


( Schedule )

That should give us plenty of time to cover everything and still have a short break before the book comes out, so we can do a Halloween chat and a midnight release party for Moira's Pen. Megan really likes to release books around Halloween time. Have you noticed?

That’s all for now!


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Hey, just some reprobate wrangling here! In light of RoT coming out in less than a week and the likelihood of some advanced copies floating around, it seems prudent to review sounis's spoiler policies for before and after the book is released. I haven't been terribly rushed in posting this, since everyone has been doing a great job of keeping spoilers to spoiler threads, but I've noticed a few anxious comments about spoilers and people planning to avoid the community till after they've read the book.

sounis's spoiler policy is in place in order to make that unnecessary and allow you to scroll without fear.


The policy is as follows:

Spoilers are not allowed in the comments on spoiler-free threads or on the main page. Threads are considered spoiler-free unless otherwise stipulated. This will remain in effect until a month after the book's release.

All spoiler-y discussion of Return of the Thief (a spoiler is any information about the book concerning the plot) must be hidden under an LJ-cut with a clear warning, preferably in the title. A warning can be as simple as putting SPOILERS at the beginning of your post with all spoiler-y text hidden under a cut. I'm happy to help if you're having trouble understanding how to use a cut.

Any comments or posts found in violation of this policy may be deleted without warning. We don't want to have to delete anything. We like being benevolent despots, so please be kind and hide those spoilers! :)
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Like I did for TaT, I will be posting an opening thread for RoT the morning of October 6th, where we can start discussing. Everyone is welcome to post their own threads about the new book, as well, just please follow the above spoiler policy.

If you have an advanced copy, I just ask that you wait till October 6th before you start discussing it, since we are so close to the release day at this point. Starting threads about spoilers that are available to the public is perfectly fine as long as sounis spoiler policies are followed.

checkers65477 and I will be wearing our mod-hats over the next few weeks and keeping an eye on things for you. If you come across any spoilers where they shouldn't be, please let us know.