THREE THINGS:
Thing One
So let’s do another meet-up. Come to the WesterForum and ask me all the questions you want. Here’s the temporal data:
For USians, it will be Saturday, April 9 at 8PM Eastern Time, 7PM Central, and 5PM Pacific.
For you here in Australia, it will be 10AM Sunday (April 10) on the east coast, 7AM on the west coast, and 9:30AM in Adelaide, because by halfsies how you SA folks roll.
In London . . . ? I don’t even know anymore. Do you GMTers change your time soon? I think it’ll be 10 or 11PM Saturday night, April 9. (The US has already changed time for spring, and Australia will change in the other direction for autumn on April 3. Confusion!)
Welcome to my life. All I do is sit around and try to figure out what time it is in other places, like when I had this conference call with a bunch of people in LA last week. But you can ask about that at the meet-up! (Bwah-hah-hah!)
Thing Two
Sydneysiders, don’t forget about the great Zombies Versus Unicorns Debate next Thursday.
Thing Three
How about some fan art? Because it’s FRIDAY almost everywhere!
First a Lego Stormwalker from GizzmoHammer!
And from the side:
Lots of details from the book in this model. In fact, the back has tiny steam pressure gauges!
I do like me some Lego. And it’s great how builders have to improvise, because there’s no official Leviathan(TM) Lego kit yet. (HINT!)
For a change of pace, check out McL-Jessie’s Deviant Art gallery, which has lots of Leviathan fan art and general steampunkery. Here are a couple:
This one imagines Deryn and Alek in Japan:
And here’s Dr. Barlow wearing a cool expression, plus Tazza and egg!
Now I realize that you a lot of you guys have sent me many other pieces of fan art lately. But, alas, it’s all over my disorganized desktop. If you want to send it again, I WILL NOT LOSE IT THIS TIME, and we can do another Fan Art Friday soon.
Of course, next Friday is the first of the month, so it isn’t Fan Art Friday, it’s KEITH ART FRIDAY, with actual art from Goliath! And next art reveal is perhaps A BIT SPOILERY, but I think you’ll enjoy it anyway.
So, yeah, there’s that.
March 25th, 2011 10:42
AHHHHHHH!
God, I cant wait for next friday <3
And that fanart is just derned lovely
March 25th, 2011 13:09
Scott,
Can I recommend timeanddate.com?
I use them for setting up phone calls between NZ and US or Oz.
March 25th, 2011 14:58
These are all so beautiful!
I’m excited for next friday!
March 25th, 2011 16:04
I do like me some spoilery… AWESOME!
March 25th, 2011 16:14
Why does everything have to be on April 9th? I’m taking the ACT that day and am missing all of the coolest stuff.
Anyway, now that my little complaint is out, I loved the fanart! Its great and I’m jealous! The Legos are especially cool.
March 25th, 2011 18:01
>perhaps A BIT SPOILERY
me gusta.
SO EXCITED GY90ERYGIKE[HE (i may of danced in my chair a little)
March 25th, 2011 19:04
Did you see Wasted Talent’s comic of their realization of how awesome Leviathan is? http://www.wastedtalent.ca/ yes. So good
March 25th, 2011 19:16
Thank you very much for posting my art in your blog, I am very honored!!!
March 25th, 2011 20:28
http://everytimezone.com/ This should help!
March 26th, 2011 00:23
Well done on the Lego Stormwalker, i relay want to try and make one. i really am interested in the little word hint. dose that mean one of my Lego fantasies may come true?
March 26th, 2011 00:45
FAWESOME!!!!!! Can’t wait!
I was wondering for the book project that I’m doing on Midnighters what the exact date(or as close) is for the beginning of the first book? I’m doing a journal from Jessica’s point of view and I need the dates for the entries.
Thanks,
Bookworm 1000
March 26th, 2011 01:28
Yay spoilery-stuff and artwork!
That is so awesome! (The Lego creation of the Stormwalker) I still play with my Harry Potter Legos and my mother tends to give me a weird look when I make noises for the characters and the Hogwarts train… maybe because I’m nineteen going on twenty…
I never noticed, until now, there is a smiley face at the bottom of your page. I don’t know why but when I read the “…so it isn’t Fan Art Friday, it’s KEITH ART FRIDAY, with actual art from Goliath!…” I couldn’t help but hear a jingle and a bunch of kids screaming in the background.
March 26th, 2011 04:29
Omg! I’m so excited for next Friday! Ahhhhh! Btw, a leviathan Lego series thing would totally rock!
Loved da fanart!
March 26th, 2011 04:42
Yay! Spoilery!!
March 26th, 2011 05:31
Such nice fan art westerlies!! I’m so excited for the meet up… I won’t miss it this time. And keith art friday??? I’m turning inside out from the excitement!!
March 26th, 2011 08:36
What? A bit of spoilery?! AHHHH! I’m so barking excited!!
March 26th, 2011 11:58
wowoww the storm walker IS.SO.COOL!!!
and hmm art from Goliath? woot! cant wait!!!!!
March 26th, 2011 15:08
I was the one who told McL-Jessie about how you saw her artwork. she flipped out XD
you know i was playing Pokemon Black and i found a pokemon that looks uncannily like Deryn. Here’s a link to an image of it. look at the female version (sorry about the bad quality it was so hard to find a decent picture of it -_-)
http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/521.shtml
March 26th, 2011 21:38
(: yaaay I’m counting the days till fridayyy
March 26th, 2011 21:44
Awesome fanart!
And Leviathan LEGO!?!?!? Ahhhh! All my dreams come true!!!!!
Leviathan Lego would be soooooo freaking amazing!!!!!
When I did a book report on Leviathan I took my brother’s starwars lego stuff to use as props….. But REAL LEVIATHAN LEGO would be sooooooooooooooooooooooooo cooooooool!!!!!!
LEGO LEVIATHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people think I’m too old and girly for legos, BUT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO OLD OR GIRLY OR ANYTHING FOR LEGOS!!
If there are Leviathan Legos, does that raise the possibility of a Leviathan Movie or TV series or graphic novel?
March 27th, 2011 02:14
Gasp! Spoilery dare I ask? Yay! I can’t wait!
March 27th, 2011 06:39
First- i WILL be there this time, and not only for the las 30 seconds!!!
Second- yes yes, i might pull out my thousand ton lego sets (mainly HP) if Levi turns into bricks
Third- No, i absolutely would not mind if u spoiled a little bit with the art… not at all
March 27th, 2011 07:37
Ooooooooh! I love it! I just had this crazy thought, though. What if the Goliath is actually the two-headed messenger. What if that is what the study is about? I am seriously going crazy.
March 27th, 2011 07:44
Sorry for posting two comments, but I had to tone down my lego inspired excitement before I realized everything that was actually said in that post.
Mcl-Jessie, your art is awesome! I love the expressions, how do you do that with fan-art????
And now the first friday of everymonth is Keith-Goliath-Art-Friday? Yes! Goliath Art!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And spoilery? We don’t mind spoilery. In fact, I think we all LOVE spoilery….
And I still wish I lived in Sydney, so I could go to the ZvU debate!!!!
And I also wish I could go tot he forum meet-up…. but alas….. oh well.
Totally Randomly: Has there ever been talk of a Midnighters graphic novel? I think that could be cool….
March 28th, 2011 01:01
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! Can’t wait till friday! wh-hoo! The fan art is amazing Mcl-Jessie and I will tell you that personally on your page… *stalker*
On a completely different topic though I’d like to bring light on two other amazing Leviantheers that I’ve met on deviant art… blackbird31 and myst47!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve seen their artwork and fanfics and I have to say they’re AMAZING!!! So those who have Deviant art addresses (which hopefully most of you do) I’D SUGGEST YOU GO TO THEIR GALLERIES AND CHECK OUT THEIR ART!!! *even more of a stalker*
Anyway… can’t wait until Friday and September still seems AGES away! *bashes head on a wall*
lol…
March 28th, 2011 06:08
Have you seen Sucker Punch yet?
One of the scenes, I think it was the first one, reminded me of your books SO much… one of the girls is in a Walker style contraption shooting down blimps …
my twitter is @NobodysBacteria
March 28th, 2011 09:47
just wanted to sat(sorry this is off topic) but as any dedicated reader must know Borders is closing shop….. I went in for my like third time today, and as a fan I bout all of Scottsters, Cassies, Hollys, Melissas, etc etc, books I could find…. Excep my dad drew the line at a second copy of Behe…
March 29th, 2011 07:40
This blog always manages to cheer me up! I blew auditions(again…) and came here. Then I was like,”Oh yeah!” Cool spoilery stuff on Friday. That sounds awesome.
March 31st, 2011 11:16
Wooohooo!! Keith Thompson art soon!!!
It’s what makes these books amazing. If it was just the story, it would be slightly less epic.
Joking! *dodges strafing hawks*
I’ve done, like, 5 fanarts for this book. I think it beats Skulduggery Pleasant……
April 1st, 2011 06:24
love the way dr. barlow is portrayed!!
April 1st, 2011 21:49
“Yet” huh? If there’s gonna be a Leviathan lego kit….I AM GOING TO BUY IT ASAP!!!
April 2nd, 2011 06:39
It’s a loris… with a tiny umbrella!
As the slightly less obsessed sister of a boy who’s been obsessed with LEGOs for the past 10 years or so, I can say that’s pretty impressive.
And it’s a loris… with a tiny umbrella!
Anyone else look past the awesomeness and notice that Alek looks a little like a creeper in that Japan picture? Still mind-blowing – there’s a loris… with a tiny umbrella! – but I can’t look at him straight! XD
April 4th, 2011 03:51
How exactly do you send fan art in?