
A neat little ten-minute video from PBS’s Off Book series.
Watch the full episode. See more Off Book.
Pretty cool, huh?
In other news, here are a couple of places where you can order signed copies of Goliath:
I’ll be in St. Louis on September 20, doing a library appearance for Pudd’nhead Books, and will be signing any mail orders they’re holding for me there. Note that when you order from Pudd’nhead, you’re paying full retail and for shipping, but on the online order form you can add a personalization, like “To José” or “YOU ARE A NINJA!” (Within reason, of course! If you kill my hand, it shall haunt you in scary ghost-hand fashion.) You can also order signed copies of Leviathan, Goliath, and the Ugies series this way!
Click here to order from Pudd’nhead.
Another option is Amazon, which has a signed edition. This is also full retail, but if you’re a regular Amazon customer, you get their free shipping or whatever. These books will not be personalized, because I signed them a while ago. (And Goliath is the only option.)
Click here to order a signed edition from Amazon.
That’s it for this post, but don’t forget to check out my Appearances page to find out if I’m coming near you on my upcoming tour.
Hey, all. It’s time for FAF(cake), the cosmic all-kissing edition of Fan Art Friday. I think this needs no explanation, because we all love cake.
Let’s start with Alek and Deryn, shall we?
First a tiny wee gif from UniYuki:

Awwww.
And here’s an eerily similar in style, but way bigger and non-moving, image from Ridgetail95:

She looks like the surprised one here, which tells a story. (Like, he’s figured out her secret and is like, ba-BOOM, and she’s all, “Wha??”)
That’s something I’ve noticed while trawling the interweebz for Dalek lip-on-lip action: every picture tells a story. Sometimes they’ve obviously been together for a while, and are just chillin’; sometimes she’s surprising him, and sometimes it’s the other way around, like the above.
Here’s a case of them having obviously known each other’s secrets for a while, from stkidd (who seems to specialize in kissing fan art!):

Go check out all of stkidd’s art. She has a great one of Deryn snoozing with a sketch of Alek. Heh.
From DanyDiSalvo, here’s one with the ever popular title, “Engine Grease.”

Pretty intense. (And seriously, I do see the title “Engine Grease” a lot. Is THAT what the kids are calling it these days?)
Here, from Miyu999, comes a more comical approach. Clearly it’s right before a battle (“Will we ever see each other again?”), and it also proves what I learned while writing this series: all scenes that feature Bovril are fundamentally awesome.

Note that we’ve made the all-important jump to Alek being on the left side of the frame! Is it just me, or do the vast majority of Dalek kisses have Alek on the right? Is this a geographical thing, like Austria is kissing Britain?
Seriously, HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THIS?
And now an even more comical, in the sense of sequential comics, take on kissing from britata348. (Note that Alek is back where he belongs, on the right!)

And here’s a fanciful image from Art-BandGeek (who we’ve seen here before, but CAKE demanded a revisit) that actually is a bit like a scene from Goliath. (only in that Deryn’s wearing wings. But this was drawn BEFORE yesterday’s art reveal. Hmm.)

And yes, Alek on the right again. Hmm.
Are we bored of Alek and Deryn yet? Never!
But let’s have a slightly different take anyway, another lovely sketch from stkidd:

As the French say: Yowza.
All you naughty shippers, Dr. Barlow is married, you know, and had had two children by 1914!
And finally, one last Dalek kiss, a sweet one from MaiaBlackWolf:

Again, I say: Awww.
That’s it for this week. Thanks for all the kisses!
(Don’t forget: I’m going on tour soon. Check out my Appearances page to see if I’m coming anywhere near you.)
Yes, this is the last one. So I thought I would make it a really good one, even though this image is maybe just a BIT spoiler-y.
So if you hate to experience even the slightest bespoilment, I suggest you turn your computer off now and set it on fire. Then go live in the forest until September 20.
Have you done that? Good. Now I can reveal the September Goliath art sneak preview!

Would you like to see it zoomable? I think that you would. Click here to do so.
That’s it. I have no comments about this image (or its alarming caption). You may interpret it as you will.
See you tomorrow for Fan Art Friday, which will include CAKE!*
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*CAKE is an acronym. Real cake not included.
