So my job for the last week has been to take pictures of places where Leviathan is set. Namely, towns in the old Austria-Hungarian Empire and glacial landscapes in the Alps.
Between this photo-taking and pitching my books at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, there hasn’t been much time to blog. Or even to think of what to blog. But here’s something to gnaw on. Here are my research photos for the illustrator of Leviathan (who shall remain nameless until the official announcement, which is soon).
I post them here for all to see, and to imagine what stories shall occur in these places.
Also, I would like to thank skiers everywhere for providing an economic incentive for the creation of low-level fly-overs of the Alps in relative safety. What did authors do before ski-lifts? Walk everywhere?
Click on the thumbnails for the big versions.
April 10th, 2008 08:50
I’m looking forward to your next novel!
The pictures are beautiful.
April 10th, 2008 08:59
The photos are awesome!
The mountains are gorgeous but I like the architecture even better.
And lol, I went on a ski-lift recently in the Dominican Republic…
~I
April 10th, 2008 09:01
Gah! The town looks absolutely beautiful! The mountains, too.
April 10th, 2008 09:20
so pretty i love rural wildderness its always so beautiful
April 10th, 2008 09:21
woahh,
thats sweet. =]
April 10th, 2008 09:23
ooo very fawesome pictures!!
i loves em!
April 10th, 2008 09:29
Sounds like fun I wish I was ther right now!!!!
I love Superman/Tom Welling!!!!
April 10th, 2008 09:32
those pics are absalutly beautiful
gosh somtimes i wish washington was like that
i love mountains and forests
April 10th, 2008 09:35
those are so pretty. It reminds me of the Sound of Music.
April 10th, 2008 09:57
I seriously wish I was ther right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why cant be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love Superman/TOM wELLING!!!!!!!!!
April 10th, 2008 10:46
omgooodness !! i love the city i wanna go ahhh i can’t wait for this book !!!!!!!!
p.S im listening to a live muse performance and its BEAST anyone else a muse fan??
April 10th, 2008 10:51
WOW! That’s amazing. I like the castle type thing on the cliff.
Yes i adore music
April 10th, 2008 10:55
that’s so nifty and beautiful and…..amazing and all that. i SOO wish i was there. next time u should go to ireland, tho. SOOO pretty (haven’t actually been there, but i’ve heard a lot about it from my grandmother).
April 10th, 2008 11:06
Wow, everything is so gorgeous.
April 10th, 2008 11:13
Oh..my..gods…can you say FAMAZING?
I’m so excited about Leviathan! Like, seriously, excited. The sort where you wonder what it will be like and think seriously about whether you will preorder it or pick it up in the store the day it comes out.
*such a hard decision!*
April 10th, 2008 11:15
preeeeeeeeeeettttttttyyyyyy……
i can’t wait for Levithan.
and i thought i’d heard somewhere a long time ago about who the illustrator for Levithan was, but i guess i must have imagined that. Or maybe i’m getting it mixed up with the Good Neighbors. *shrug*
will still be awesome.
and on the topic of “things to blog about”, who else would like to see more Hiro chapters? i know i would, the last ones were interesting to see.
and the only adventures i can imagine occuring on ski slopes are werewolf chases, but that’s just how *my* brain works.
April 10th, 2008 11:16
Werewolves on ski slopes= awesome.
April 10th, 2008 11:17
and am i the only person who’s done both [re: preorder vs. buy] because the preorder’s taking too long? a stupid, wasteful habit, but it’s true.
hey, i donate the extras to the library, so it’s karmically good.
and i love the slanty little alleyways.
i love old cities, or funky styled ones.
*looks fondly at vacation pics of Reykjavik and Cork*
April 10th, 2008 11:19
and i’m glad you think so, Reese.
because that’s what i thought, and i got a 17K novella out of it.
of course, that’s when i added Cat’s Cradle and wolf vomit.
and angst. lots and lots of angst.
April 10th, 2008 12:29
Awesome pics!! Did u save then as tiffs? i bet u didnt! It helps with picture quality……..
I didn have as much homework……today. Now, tommorow, that could be a diffeent story. i mean tommorow is another dayyyy.
Im kinda bored, nothin to do, finished my book, need to write but dont feel like it. yep, life can be difficult. with nothing to do. but sit. and research on cowboys.
April 10th, 2008 12:54
Fawesome picks! It’s lovely there! Although it looks too cold for my taste…
April 10th, 2008 12:58
hey Bran-la…. do u by chance have Kate Brian’s e-mail address?? …i tried to enter at her site to win ambition but it wouldn’t let me and i’m very confuzzled as to why not.
April 10th, 2008 13:00
No i dont! which sucks. she has a myspace which i have visited severl times but i dont remebr seeing an email adress. I guess i could look again but no nothing i can remeber. Sorry!
April 10th, 2008 13:06
Have u read all the private series? i have, they rock, im waiting for ambition to come out. and sorry if i alreasdy asked u this!
April 10th, 2008 13:12
lol i haven’t. i’m on Legacy. trying to pace myself. not going so good though. and yes they do rock! if you enter the contest on her site you can win ambition before it comes out in stores. but for some reason my computer is being retarded and won’t let me enter.
heres her site if you don’t already know about this one: http://privatenovels.com/ if you enter the contest let me know if it works pleasee.. and can you give me her myspace site? pretty please? 
April 10th, 2008 13:18
never mind i found her site. haven’t found an email address yet. still looking though.
April 10th, 2008 13:19
looks very mountain-y
April 10th, 2008 13:35
hi scott! im OBSESSED with the uglies series! im almost done with extras. they are so good! i wish you could make more too the series! That reminds me…i love the books so much, i’m writing my own books! not with the same charracters and futureistic items as the uglies books, but with my own! i’m only 13, but i’m going to try to get it published. i wonder if i will ever be able to write a book as good as yours? Well, if you have any writing tips or help for publishing, i’d love to hear from you. Please email me (londnbrigette@gmail.com) thanks SO much! you are like, my idol!
-thanks again
–Brigette
April 10th, 2008 13:43
danget. just typed up a comment and clicked to ex out of a website and accidentally hit the wrong one. bumma.
well…i couldn’t find an email address. and i don’t have myspace so no luck there. but i did find out that she’s currently reading Specials! and that Uglies was at the top of her list for best books of 2007!…i gotta agree! and another weird coincidence is that her real name is Kieran Scott and her and Scott-la are my 2 fave authors at the moment. well just thought i’d point that out. kinda crazyyyy. or at least i thought so.
April 10th, 2008 16:19
Hey, Bridgette-la! I’m a teen author, also working on getting my first novel, and some poetry of mine published. I wish you the best of luck, and a tip is that you need to use a lot of patience because the publishing process is usually very long and very slow, but percervierance brings the best of joys!
April 11th, 2008 01:45
The parts with just the wilderness, you know, the mountains and stuff, remind me of Oregon. Man how I miss that place!
It looks absolutely gorgeous! Hope you had fun.
April 11th, 2008 01:50
I really like the little river creek thing. So pretty!
April 11th, 2008 03:40
Judging from the license plates and from some words on the signs you were in Italy, from the architecture (and since you wrote “old Austro-Hungarian Empire) I think the pictures were taken in Alto Adige. Where? Bolzano? Bressanone? What’s the castle name? And what skilift is it?
April 11th, 2008 04:59
wow so preetttyyyy scott-la!!!!! i wish i was there!! can u take me with next time???
o and i think you should make another uglies book (from tallies point of view) hint hint nudge nudge
April 11th, 2008 05:02
o and i forgot to tell u, i luved the uglies trilogy so much that i started to make a book(just for fun) about what happens to Tally after Extras. I’ll maybe post it when im done. It might b a little different than what u had in mind for Tally but ya. I am on like chapter 6 or sumtin like that.
April 11th, 2008 06:07
Our Spanish teacher gave us new seats
and the person who sits next to you is your partner for all assignments
I sit next to this dude that is really annoying when you’re trying to work.
She told us that she specifically gave us these seats so that one partner could help the other
and since he has a D- and I have 107% I’m guessing I should take that as a compliment but for some reason it just makes me angry.
April 11th, 2008 07:17
Good luck Bridgett-la! The first novel is the hardest. I don’t actually know that though, because I haven’t finished my first novel. As for tips…I’d say don’t listen to what anybody says.
Make your own way, it’s bound to be more fun.
Being a teen author would OWN. But I guess I’ll wait until I’m older, so I know my first book will be the best it can be.
April 11th, 2008 07:17
Yeah, and Netta-la, that majorly sucks.
April 11th, 2008 10:02
who knew all you were such a good photographer!
this makes me excited for the book =]
April 11th, 2008 10:13
Netta-la, it sounds like you sucked all the percentage outta his grade! LoL!
April 11th, 2008 10:24
myspace.com/katebrian
her website is pretty cool, i have never seen it before. My Billings BFF was Natasha. shes nice. By the way, i didnt like Inner Circle. and i didnlt like legacys ending……
Im not even close to finishing my first novel, although i dont want my first one published, cause, well, its my first!!
April 11th, 2008 10:25
OMG it would be sooooo awesome being a tennage author!!! YEAH!!! Id be…..famous!!!
April 11th, 2008 10:51
I’m getting some of my poetry published in the extremely near future and I’m SOOOOO close to finishing my novel then I’ll send in my manuscript to publishers and start the very long and very slow process of publishing! Whoot!
April 11th, 2008 11:31
Man scott.! your making me want to go visit the Alps.!
those pictures are greatt.! and i definitely cant wait for
Leviathan. ive read midnighters, uglies trilogy + extras, peeps, the last days, and so yesterday.. and now im not sure what
to read.! lol so yes, cant wait for Leviathan.!
April 11th, 2008 11:42
my billings bff was Natasha too! i liked inner circle. i agree though, not as good as the others. and i haven’t read the end of legacy yet.. so i don’t know bout that one.
i wish i had the patience and the skills to write a novel. i’ve tried. haven’t got to far though. and i think being alone for that amount of time would make me insane. i mean i can’t stand going a week without seeing my friends or someone other than my parents. let alone being alone like 24/7. my passion is photography. so far this week i’ve taken about 450 pictures. working on macro and technique and things. i’ve been enjoying it.
i hope all you guys get your books published!
…and when they are i will buy them! i promise!
April 11th, 2008 12:35
Haha, maybe they give Natasha to everyone, lets hope not. Or maybe we have similar personality, which since i love how i act, would mean you are sooooo cool! (not that i didnt think you were cool before, but ur cooler now!)
So, it 8:34 here soooo, yep. I cant believe tommorow is friday. it came fast, ans i liek that. On monday i remeber talking to myself (i bet you do too!) and saying “i wish it was friday!!”
April 11th, 2008 12:46
Wow. Those are BEAUTIFUL (and you’re a very good photographer). Now I am REALLY looking forward to reading it! Again, it’s great that you get the opportunity to travel into the lands upon your pages.
April 11th, 2008 12:59
Breathtaking. Just imagining the enormity of those mountains stuns me. How the two slopes meet, with that huge gash like gap between, trees looking like teeny shrubs! Oh, it’s amazing. The earth is so beautiful. And all those ruins, on the irregular countryside. History just seems to permeate the entire atmosphere. I am looking forward to Leviathan a whole lot more now!
April 11th, 2008 13:21
haha. thanks. and your cool too Bran-la!
i bet that if we lived close to each other we probably be best friends.
and yeah. this week did go really fast! …probably cuz i didn’t have much homework. well i kinda have some right now that i should be doing but i haven’t yet. hehe. well i suppose i should probably go do it now. *sigh* laters.
April 11th, 2008 14:04
i dunno about being a teen author, it seems like everything you do would be all, “oh, that’s good. for a teen author”, or judged on a different scale or whatever.
i’ve got no problem with waiting to get published—if i have stuff out there, i want to know it’s something i’m proud of even later.
so first. learning to write well.
which is learn by writing.
a lot.
seriously, that’s been my spring break accomplisments. lots and lots of writing. hit 40,000 on one story. did MAJOR rewrites and a lot of new material + fixing on another. wrote two hugely pivotal scenes in another.
so, i’m feeling pretty good about writing this week.
tommorrow, there will be faery extortion.
and possibly graverobbing.
April 11th, 2008 14:12
Tally and Zane;
Thanks! that helps alot
(If you are interested, you can check out my book to http://www.freewebs.com/w0nders on the Brigette’s Book page-i add chapters there as i write them) THAnks again!
-Brigette
April 11th, 2008 15:51
These pictures looked suspiciously like Leavenworth in the Washington state, or is it the other way around . . .? Any way, I’m really excited about Leviathan!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 11th, 2008 15:54
If you drop the ‘a’ in ‘Leviathan’ you get the last name of a certain YA writer . . .
April 11th, 2008 22:38
WOW !!!!
Leviathan is going to be super-Uber-Fawesome.
Great now I’m all hyper well better go do something interesting
April 12th, 2008 02:41
Hey peeps. I’m at school, got some free tiem onnthe computer. I just got the first Midnighters book, and I’m so super excited about the fact that my library ACTUALLY had the book!!!
Wish me luck in loving Scott-la even more
April 12th, 2008 02:41
misspellings, sorry-
*time
*on the
April 12th, 2008 04:50
Awsome pics! go Scott!
April 12th, 2008 06:13
This whole week has been like superdeeduperdeefast
AND NOW IT’S FRIDAY!!!!
THIS IS AWESOME!!!
Okay, I’m like overly hyper
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and now I’m bored…
WE GOT CANDY IN SPANISH!!
But we had to wear Me Gusta T-Shirts
and next week is Riley Week
Tuesday is nerd day
I’m wondering why I have to pay a dollar to look like
April 12th, 2008 06:34
look like me
hehheh
I didn’t finish
I’m crying
I don’t know why
my happiness is over though
April 12th, 2008 08:06
ok this is really ramdom but i want to knwo what you think
so my crappy school is haveing a really crapy book fair but of course the gem is scott-sama’s books and you know the papers they giveout saying some of the books that would be there well extras is there and it has this awful summery and at the end of it its like “be careful what you wish for” and im like wtf this is a scifi book not fantasy and aya-chan liked it when she became famous so do you people think that is really applicable (sp)
April 12th, 2008 10:02
that’s…weird… Haddy-la
you’re right-Aya liked being famous, and how everything turned out…
you’re school must, well, suck.
April 13th, 2008 03:05
it does
emensly
April 13th, 2008 03:53
well my schol has one really small book fair every year.
I lvoe Supoerman/TOm Welling!!!!!!!
April 16th, 2008 12:31
i really want to read this book :]
and i cant wait for the uglies guide!
May 1st, 2008 11:13
wat, did u guys not like extas or something??? it was amazing! but i like pretties the bes out of all the uglies books!
June 5th, 2008 09:21
Awesome pics Scott-la. So serene