Bonus Art Will Post Friday

Keith and I have come up with the winning image concept, and it is SEASONALLY APPROPRIATE. And Keith has done such an awesome job with the art that as a bonus to the bonus, I’m going to write a piece of fan fiction to go with it!

Now, debatably this won’t be fan fiction, because I am not a fan of me, technically. (I mean, I think I’m fairly cool, but I AM me.) But if Middleman-creator Javier Grillo-Marxuach can write Middleman fan-fic, then surely I can also fanboy my own oeuvre.

Besides, I declare this piece non-canonical, so it has to fit SOMEWHERE in the endless fan-fictional definitional matrix. I’ll be posting both the story and the art on Friday, along with some fan art by you guys.

Oh, and starting next week, I will be doing a weekly Uglies Manga reveal from now till the first book comes out. We will start with the characters. Keep your voting hats on.

Okay, that’s it. Hope you’re having good almost-Hanukwanzamas-break times!

UPDATE

The Japanese version of Leviathan has just come out! Feast your eyes:

153 thoughts on “Bonus Art Will Post Friday

  1. Or you could just use a pen name!
    And could you please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please PLEASE!!!! do another fan fiction fan art friday?

  2. …okay, so clearly a close-up of “the kiss” isn’t coming. Mistletoe? Bovril holding mistletoe over Deryn and Alek, both in dresses? (I’ve been to that party…)

  3. *shot in the dark* Deryn in a dress kissing Alek under mistletoe? Cheesy, but t’would be adorable. xP

    SOOOOOOOO EXCITED! COME, FRIDAY! COME NOWWWWW! (AND NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE MY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL BEFORE BREAK!!!!!!!)

  4. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! So all this time he knew what he wanted to do and he was making us argue amongst ourselves? Was he even going to count the votes? (Of course, I wouldn’t make him because there were SO MANY. But I guess his way is easier.)

  5. I wonder how long the fanfiction (wait, I mean NOT fanfiction and not fiction because Scott will be writing it, therefore making it true) will be! Let’s hope it’s companion-novel long.

  6. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TELL US!!!!!!
    Now I will sit at my computor in hopefull anticipation until Friday…
    First I’m going to stock up on food and water, because I don’t want to die…

  7. How about some Dalek fluffiness and Newkirk in the background with a cheesey smile and thumbs up? That would be HILARIOUS for a fanart. That would make me SO HAPPY!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  8. Remember, that Goliath started in early October, (look at Goliath, chapter one, first page) so for it to be (and I quote) “SEASONALLY APPROPRIATE”, it will be several months after Goliath. I hope the fanfiction is a continuation of their story, you know, with the POV changes from Alek and Deryn and so forth.

  9. Well, I was pretty bummed over the no Fan Art Friday, but this… this makes everything all better, even the chemistry exam that I bombed.
    Thank you, Scott-la!

  10. Well, I was kinda bummed about the no Fan Art Friday last week, but this… this just makes everything better. Even the Chemistry exam that I bombed, which is saying something.
    Thank you Scott-la!

  11. @ TheWordMaster- YES! THAT’s INSANE! But NO DRESSES! None. Everyone knows you can’t properly fight with snowballs while wearing a corset.

  12. Hopefully it still talks about the war. Because even though I am an insane DALEK shipper, (and a REWKIRK shipper- yes, that’s my and Newkirk’s name smashed together with awesomeness) I want to know how the war ENDS and what they do afterwards. Hopefully, LIKE A GOOD WRITER WOULD, Mr. Westerfeld will go COMPLETELY overboard on this fanfiction, and it’ll be as long as an entire book. We can only hope.

  13. “Keith and I have come up with the winning image concept, and it is SEASONALLY APPROPRIATE.”

    That narrows it down to:
    1)Deryn and Alek under the mistletoe
    2)Deryn(in a dress) and Alek, years later, spending christmas with their kids
    3)Bovril in an elf costume
    4)Some disaster invovling Bovril and a christmas tree.

    I’m hoping it’s the last one 🙂

  14. Please do not make it Christmas themed! What does a holiday have to do with the plot? Mr. Westerfeld says it has to fit in with the story somehow! Please just make it about winter or snowball fights or something! Please. This is the only circumstance I will BEG!

  15. @Books Before Boys
    It’s Bovril. Anyone who is somewhat mentally stable likes him. (I said somewhat because I don’t really count as mentally stable)

  16. @ Paola- Thank you. I hope so. @ Books Before Boys- I LOVE YOUR USERNAME THINGY! I FEEL THE SAME WAY! (about books before boys, I mean.)

  17. @ Jacquie-la
    ya seriously he does. what 15-year-old has a face like that? but its still cool

    OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG OH MY!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!
    CUZ FOR A SECOND THERE I WAS ALLL “YAY art. but wait… it is gonna be totally meaningless art unless he writes something to go with it!!” AND THEN HE DID!! YAY!!!
    does evryone know how monumental this is?!?! SINCE WHEN CAN AUTHORS DO THAT?!?!?!

    MAYBE this will rub off on Rick Riordan or Suzzanne Collins (sry, i have no idea if I spelt those right)

  18. @ Jaquie-la- I agree! They both look around 10, if you ask me. Alek kind of reminds me of Asa Butterfield in The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. But Deryn looks good! I think the Deryn on the Japanese cover is much better (more like DERYN, I should say) than the girl on the American cover of Goliath.

  19. Okay, seriously, why can’t the covers for the American books look that cool? Gosh I just love that cover!

  20. And what do you mean “non-canonical” Mr. Westerfeld? I hate to say it, but if you write, it is considered law. So whether you like it or not, your fans will make it canon!

  21. MALLORY and HANNAH-LA! I KNOW! I NEED TO LEARN RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE! Just to stare at the awesomeness. I really wished for that the American covers were Keith’s illusrations from the inside, like the British one, I think?

  22. I think we’re all just partial to covers with the characters on them… But DRAWN characters, because the models are just, like… Ehhh…

    I prefer drawn. But they look too ‘young’ for the U.S.’s YA market. Blargh.

  23. FRIDAY!? YAY! Something to look forward to Friday… for that is the day I am getting my wisdom teeth removed… o.o But now I will look forward to it at the same time as i do not!

    I like the Japanese cover, I agree with Hannah-la, drawn characters are better(to me).

  24. I really like the cover of Leviathan when it’s the picture of Deryn holding Alek hostage in front of the Stormwalker and it was in color and it was JUST AMAZING and wow this is a really long run on sentence and stuff.

  25. Wait…what do you mean non-canon? Drawings by Keith are by definition real. I do so hope this isn’t wrong…

  26. MR. Westerfield,
    I saw some of the other peoples’ things and I agree that you should really, really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,really,
    SHOULD MAKE A WW2 SEQUEL/second series with the same characters and new ones( like heroes of olympus) and should think about a graphic novel made with illustrations like the normal ones. plus, for the second series if you do it, have a map made like the one in the inside cover of Leviathan.
    PLEASE?

  27. It’s not Hanukwanzamas! It’s Chrismanukwa! Also, they look a little young on the Japanese cover. Am I the only one to notice?

  28. Scott, you need to post this picture and fanfic (Maybe authorfic?) as soon as you wake up Friday morning! Then I can see it before school and will be happy all day!

  29. PICTURE IS ABSOLUTELY AMAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZINGGGGGGG!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! (my version of digital squealing)

    Can’t wait till FRIIIIDAAAAYYYY. Love you always Scott!!!

  30. I am so excited about your fanfic! And the art reveal! *SQUEEEEEE*

    And how come America didn’t get the cool painted (-ish) book covers like Japan? I’m so jealous!

  31. OMG, the japanese cover-art looks amazing!!! (though alek looks weird randomly pointing a pistol/ whatever in a random direction)

  32. Yeah, they do look too young. And yeah, YA covers in the English-speaking world don’t have a lot of kids wielding pistols on them, either.

    Of course, in Japan citizens can only own shotguns and single-shot hunting rifles. There are literally no pistol owners among civilians, and the handgun murder rate there is less than one hundredth of the US’s. So I guess showing kids with guns isn’t very threatening, because it comes across as completely fictional.

  33. SOOOOOO EXCITED FOR FRIDAY!!!!! CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!
    yeah, deryn and alek look super young (but cute!) in the Japanese covers
    Yay!!!! Fanfic!!!!!!

  34. @ awesomesauce, I agree with you COMPLETELY (I am not strictly mentally stable either. Also those characters look way better than the models on the American version but they still look about 9 yrs old

  35. OMG i am SOOO exited for Friday!!!!! that will be like the best day of my entire LIFE!!!!!!!! Plus break starts on Friday!

  36. A huge snowball fight between everyone with Newkirk and Lilit falling in love! And Bovril shouting out something Hilarious!

  37. I think i might start some sort of count down on my computer because I CAN”T WAIT TILL FRIDAY!!!! *squeals*

  38. OH MY BARKING GOSH!!!! EEP!!! Friday will be one of the best days of my life!
    @Scott. You’re the best. Just–thank you, for being so awesome.
    @Keith. You, too, are the best. Can I take drawing lessons from you? Please? Please pretty please with a pencil and paper on top?
    I will count the hours until Friday…

  39. I think this Friday I’m actually going to enjoy the kids singing the ‘Friday’ song in the halls @ school. WHOOT!
    Lemme guess…Bov with a Santa hat!
    Or Dalek mistletoe!

  40. I…. I just finished Goliath for the, I don’t know, 10th time, and I… I am in awe of you, Mr. Westerfeld. Thank you for taking this oppurtunity to continue this series, even for however brief a time. And Goliath ended at a perfect time too, because it ended on December 20, 1914. Which is 83 years before my birthdate! Impeccable timing, Mr. Westerfeld. Simply impeccable. This makes Goliath even MORE special for me! Thank you, because finishing the book (again) makes me appreciate EVEN MORE you taking the time to write an authorfic. Hopefully this authorfic will be the first of many to come. Sincerely, Rachel.

  41. @ Libby- That’s INSANE! You could be related to them, you know. So you were born…. Cool! ( I think Scott said they were born in 1898-1899)

  42. omg! YES. THANK YOU SCOTT. Thank you!!! Yay for writing a “fan-fiction”. And yay for seasonally appropriate!

    And that Japanese cover is mighty swell 😉

  43. AWWW they look like babies in the Japanese cover!! But I still love it!!

    My inner fan girl squeals for tomorrow (or maybe the next day because time zones different in Australia.) IF it is i may die of anticipation 🙁

  44. Is it the wedding, Mr. Westerfeld? Please? People get married around Hanakwanzasmas (or whatever it’s called) a lot! The rest of the year, too, but that doesn’t count. So it should be the wedding. There are lots of rants for it, and if you read them, I’m sure you saw the light and made the wedding. Thank you.
    And even if you didn’t, I’d be okay with it. As long as it’s Dalek I’m happy.

  45. CAN> NOT. WAIT. im at school right now. Rebelling. i really hope Bovril is in the picture. i will also print this picture out and FRAME IT. kthanksbai.

  46. EEEP! Today is Friday Eve. I am so excited! AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish we had awesome covers for Leviathan. I mean, we do, but not that it’s so awesome that I squeal. When I saw the Japanese cover, I squealed. When I saw the new Leviathan cover I went “Ohhhhhh….. Eh.” No offense to the Alek model (whom I am secretly stalking. Just kidding! Heh heh.) but the Japanese one is cool. Deryn is PERFECT! The face, the way she parts her hair, the nose, EVERYTHING! Alek is spot on, too! Just wait til their 15 or 16 and then they can be them IN THE MOVIE! If there is a movie…..

  47. AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Please make it with lots of Dalek fluffiness! And please don’t make this a cliff hanger, (like you did with Goliath, Mr. Westerfeld.) Can’t you tell how excited we are?!!!! DOESN’T THIS MAKE YOU WANT TO WRITE MORE???????????? DOES IT???????? *pokes you repeatedly while waiting for your response*

  48. Ohmiigawd !!!!!!
    This is soo badass!!!! 😀
    I’m so going to read te japenese version!!!
    (good thing I learned japenese!!!!!! ;D. )

    Oh and I want to see Dr. Cable first!!!:D
    Her and her extra sharp features, and scary pretty face with the cold dead eyes! I want to see her!!!(:

  49. Reading the word “Dalek” in the comments always makes me think of the Daleks from Doctor Who. Then I have to remind myself that it means Deryn+Alek. It makes so much more sense that way.

  50. Still think Myazaki should do Leviathan as a movie- think of how amazing everyone would look!….and they know how to draw a proper mustache.

  51. YES. Can you imagine Volger with the giant mustache that that one soldier has in Howl’s Moving Castle?

    “Your mustache scares all the girls!”
    *Volger twirls mustache and glances at Barlow* “Says who?”

  52. AHHHHHH!!!! I just figured out that i have to wait till SATURDAY to see the pic and author-fic!!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 @ Scott-la PLEASE POST THE BONUS STUFF AT LIKE 2 IN THE MORNING!!! I will be waiting at my computer ALL of friday and Saturday refreshing this page EVERY OTHER MINUTE so i can see it as soon as possible! (and not to mention be the first one to comment!)

    ~insane fan-girl~ 😛

  53. @ Winston Churchill- That’s why I love Doctor Who. The one episode has Daleks (Dah-licks) and Winston Churchill (I think that’s who it was) in the same episode and I was freaking out!
    @ Ruth- 98. Unfortunately, I will be on my way to Florida over winter break, so I won’t have internet access 24/7. But I’ll be waiting….. Heh heh.

  54. I think I’ll get up at one in the morning on Friday, check my computer, and then tear my hair out because it isn’t there.

  55. Yes!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
    Fanfic AND art!!! I can’t wait!
    And really, first we get the Russian one thrown in our faces along with the uglies/pretties one and now this, a perfect one! They even got the hair and outfits right! I wish I was Japanese. Curse you American covers!!! (no, not really, but these ones are sooooo much better)

  56. OH. MY. GOD. LOOK!!!! LOOK!!! LOOK AT THE “LATEST TWEETS” THING!!!! THE AUTHORFIC IS GONNA BE LONG!!!! I WAS BRACING MYSELF FOR ONLY ABOUT A PAGE OR TWO BUT WHOAAAA!!!! EEEEEEEEEP!!!!! *drinks coffee*, *screams more*, *goes back to reading the hunger games for the millionth time*

  57. @selin-102 Thank you for pointing that out for me!!!!! SO COOL!!!
    @Scott-la I know i already said this but you RULE!!!!! SO MUCH!!!! *squeals for like the umpteenth time*

  58. Aww, the Japanese make everything so cute c:
    Also YAY! But if by seasonally appropriate you mean wintery, boo, because there’s enough of that up here already. Darwinist Canada’s peacekeeping fleet of militarized unicorns dislikes the snow and cold 😛
    Ah well, Keith will find a way to make winter AMAZING and LOVEABLE.

  59. BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! Scott-fiction!!!!! A Leviathan-y-ish-like Christmas/Hannukkah/Kwanzaa (did I spell that right?) is INFINITELY AWESOMER than a normal one!!!!! And I just read that the authorfic is going to be LONG!!! *flips out, eats chocolate, watches Harry Potter, dies* SOOOO exciteeeddd…

  60. I just want you all to know that I was reading through these posts, and during everyone I literally squealed (or my equivalent of squealing) because it reminded me of the awesomeness.
    And I think that for those of us in North& South America we will get it all before Friday because Australia is ahead of us. Like the time stamps are already in Friday. Yay!!! I hope he gets up really early so I’ll still be awake. EEP!

  61. @Lissa-108, I just thought about that (for like 15 minutes) And now every five minutes I check to see if it has been posted yet!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!! ITS ALMOST AUTHOR-FIC AND BONUS ART TIME!!!!

  62. That is a gorgeous cover!
    I’m so excited! Be sure to post it on time Scott, we’re too excited to wait any longer!

  63. @ Rachel
    Haha, could be, I mean, of course, if they were real people. (WHICH THEY ARE IN MY HEAD!!!)
    I am actually both Scottish and Austrian though 😀

  64. @Libby. I am so jealous of you right now. I’m Deutsch and German and a wee bit Scottish. Something else, too, but I can’t remember right now. I want to be Austrian, too! I have a family over there, though. By family I mean I stayed at their house in my time there… does that count?

  65. @Libby I am part German and part Scottish SOO CLOSE 🙁
    Hey! I just realized Scottish/Scott-la! Same first word!

  66. @ selin at 102- my friend, Josh and I, (and another of my friends who has also read Leviathan) are reading the Hunger Games 23 times IN A ROW in honor of when the movie comes out! GO MARCH 23, 2012!!!!!!

  67. @ Lissa- AHHH! That’s amazing! Did I mention mine is on the VERY LAST FEW WORDS OF GOLIATH? Yes, yes it is. But, now, I NEED TO RANT ABOUT AUTHORFIC OR I WILL EXPLODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  68. @Rachel (118)
    FANTASTIC BOOK RIGHT!!!!! my friend and i both love The Hunger Games, and for a christmas gift she gave me a mockinglay pin!!!!! it looks just like the one on the cover.
    IF ONLY SUZANNE COLLINS HAD A BLOG.
    oh books.

  69. Wait, you’re birthday is on the very last few words of Goliath? I don’t get it. Do you mean the day the Eddie Malone article was published?
    Sorry, my brain’s engines are working at half power (LoL it’s messing with my knee pressure 🙂 ) because I’m waiting for the reveal. Don’t ask how that makes sense, it just does.

  70. BTW anyone who doesn’t know, my comment name was formerly just “Lissa” but I changed it to “Miss Lissa”

  71. oh and YA!!! CANT WAIT FOR THE MOVIE RIGHT!!!!!! i gotta wear my pin to it. HAHA, GOOD IDEA reading it 32 times.

  72. I keep hitting the refresh button…. Again and again. HAVE ANY HOURS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE BEEN MORE AGONIZING??????

  73. WAIT! i just remembered something!!! HE IS ONLY IN AUSTRALIA IN THE SUMMER!! so he must be in New York…… which means… NO EARLY CHAPTER

  74. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! –goes and cries in the corner AGAIN– Why? Oh, why oh why? That ruined my whole barking day! I repeat, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! @Selin. God’s Wounds, why do you have to be so…so… oh, I can’t insult you. It’s not your fault. Thanks for pointing it out so I know I won’t be asleep when it gets posted, I guess.
    Sigh. Sniffle. Weep.

  75. Now I shall go to bed, waiting until morning as though it were Christmas Eve and I were a small child who still had the innocence of youth.
    Sorry for the bad simile. I get this way when I have conflicting emotions (i.e. “EEP! Fanfic/Art!!!” and “NOOOOO! I have to wait longer!!!-wails!-“)

  76. WHHAAA!!! I need a cookie. well goodnight blog that enjoys torturing young readers with the thoughts of a new chapter. bright and early tomorrow

  77. AHH. Extra chapter? What is this madness? I didn’t know there was another chapter coming with the extra art! This is incredible. I can’t wait until tomorrow!

  78. @Rchel-132 I AGREE COMPLETLY!!!!

    Sorry for all the CAPITALIZED words and all the !!!!!!!’s. I do that when I am SUPER HAPPY/UBER MAD (because scott-la hasn’t posted it yet)!!!

  79. My sister is trying to kick me off the computer 🙁 She just doesn’t understand obsessive fangirl-ism. *shakes head disbelievingly* tut tut…

  80. So, Scott, I think we all agree that it is close enough to Friday for it to not matter anymore, so you should just go ahead and post it before we all go mad.

    Cordially,
    Hannah-la

  81. I am watching harry potter right now (meanwhile refreashing this page every 2 minutes) and i SO wish i had the opposite of a time turner, that way I can speed up time and SEE THE ART AND READ THE AUTHOR-FIC!

  82. I am going to fly through this authorfic so fast I won’t understand anything til I’m finished reading it. And then I’ll cry.

  83. If Scott-la is in New York then I am SOOOO glad i am home-schooled because then i can CHECK THIS WEBSITE EVERY MINUTE!

  84. Love The Japanese leviathan. How come none of the covers have some of Keith’s art on it??! That would be the logical solution . . .

  85. Japanese cover is epic. They do look so young but so perfect! Japanese and Russian covers are so epic. Why does America have such less epic covers. *sigh* If only I knew Russian and/or Japanese…*double sigh*

  86. *starry eyes* It’s gorgeous! They look a bit young, but then again they were fifteen. By the way, Alek’s birthday was supposed to be near in the beginning of Leviathan. So, was he sixteen in Goliath, or even Behemoth?

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