Did you miss me on tour? Have you always dreamed of a book signed by me to you personally? To “Sally-wa” or “Space Ninja” or “Admiral Choking Hazard”? Or just your regular boring name?
Then keep reading.
Before my signing at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, AZ Monday night, I’ll be signing books (and personalizing them) for anyone anywhere in the world.
That’s right, I will not only sign the books for you, I will write whatever you want in them. (Within reason!) To take advantage of this just go to this link, order a book, and remember to put your personalizations (“To The Love Doctor!”) in the comment field of the check-out screen.
Changing Hands ships almost everywhere in the world. If it seems from their website that they don’t ship to your country, just call them and check. This includes all Leviathan series and Uglies series books.
But you must do this before late Monday night when I leave the store! That time will depend on the crowd size. So don’t mess around! Do it now or during the day Monday!
You have roughly 24 hours, just like in a spy movie.
Of course, if you live around Phoenix, you can just come and get one, plus you get to shake my hand.
Monday, October 3
7:00PM
CHANGING HANDS BOOKSTORE
6428 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
Wednesday, October 5
7:00PM
BARNES & NOBLE
1758 South Val Vista Drive
Mesa, AZ 85204
Still on tour—headed for Texas and Arizona next. Here’s my info for the next few days.
ARIZONA
Monday, October 3
7:00PM
CHANGING HANDS BOOKSTORE
6428 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
This store is working with me to send signed and personalized books (almost) ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. That’s right, I will not only sign the books for you, I will write whatever you want in them! (Within reason. Ahem.) Go to this link for details. Remember to put your personalizations (like, “To Space Ninja!”) in the comment field of the check-out screen.
Wednesday, October 5
7:00PM
BARNES & NOBLE #2143
1758 South Val Vista Drive
Mesa, AZ 85204
I’m on tour and not posting much, because Goliath just came out! But my auto-updator keeps clanking along, and today’s update is the info for my California events. (Check my Appearances page for info about the whole tour.)
What will you use this comment thread for? I don’t know, but don’t put spoilers here. Put them in the comment thread of this post!
Wednesday, September 28
7:00PM
KEPLER’S BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Oh, yes. It’s that time of year: A TIME OF SPOILAGE.
Use the comment thread of this post to discuss all that happens in Goliath. If you haven’t read the book, however, it might be wise to NOT LOOK AT THEM.
Seriously, don’t let what happened to this person happen to you. I quote from the famous Specials spoiler thread, back in May of 2006:
oh god, i read the spoiler section before i read the book. i would have read the book by now but the bookstore doesn’t have it in yet! i got the first two before the sale date. why can’t i do that now!? crap i can’t believe i read the spoiler section…crap
Those, my friends, are the lamentations of one who has been spoiled. So don’t even drop in to say, “La-la-la, I’m not looking!” Because you never know what your eye might glean.
Just in case anyone needs it, here’s my tour schedule for the next few days. (For the whole tour, go to my Appearances page.)
Thursday, September 22
4:30PM
RAINY DAY BOOKS
Unity Temple on the Plaza
707 West 47th Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
This is a “ticketed” event, but the tickets are more or less free. You just have to pre-order a copy of Goliath from Rainy Day, and you get two tickets along with the book. Click here for details and here to get tickets.
Friday, September 23
7:00PM RED BALLOON BOOKSHOP
891 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105
Saturday, September 24
1:00PM WILD RUMPUS BOOKSTORE
2720 West 43rd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55410
Sunday, September 25
1:00PM
MALL OF AMERICA (The Patio)
8100 24th Avenue South
Bloomington, MN 55425
If I haven’t messed up my auto-scheduler, then today is the day that the final book in the Leviathan trilogy comes out! So, like, go purchase it, if you want.
It looks like this:
Note that the comment thread of this post is NOT for spoilers! That thread will post tomorrow, after you’ve had a genteel sufficiency of time to read the book. (You lot with the ARCs, just hold your horses one more day!) This thread is to blather about whatever, to brag about how you scammed a copy early, and to make your final predictions of who will kiss/kill what and when!
Hey, look! It’s me hanging out with Alan Cumming:
Want to buy the audiobook? Check your local bookstore, or order from one of these fine online stores:
Tonight I will be in Missouri showing images from the book and explaining how Keith and I worked together. Here are those data. (Note that the address is not the one I posted a month ago, but it is correct!)
Tuesday, September 20
7:00PM
ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY HEADQUARTERS
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
St.Louis, MO 63131
(314) 994-3300
(with Pudd’nhead Bookstore)
For those of you who’ve been asking, here’s how my appearances usually run:
1. In bookstore events, somewhere between 50 and 100 people show up. These numbers seem to be completely random, unrelated to either weather or local urbanization. Sometimes at book festivals and other large venues, hundreds appear. Those who come early sit closer, but no one is turned away!
2. Some people wear costumes! Specials face paint! Peeps contact lenses! Midnighters tattoos! This is all awesome.
3. First I do a half-hour talk about how Leviathan came to be, and how Keith and I work together. This presentation has many slides of his lovely art, which allow me to make hilarious visual jokes! Later in the tour, my schtick is smoother, but it is always stirring.
4. Next I answer all your burning questions about everything—the Leviathan series, the Uglies books, the Midnighters and New York trilogies, my adult books, my Powerpuff Girl choose-your-own-adventures, writing advice, or whatever. (Pro tip: Raise your hand early on when everyone else being shy, and your question will be answered.)
5. You can always buy my books at my appearances. Even if it’s at a library, there will be a table with book. You can bring your old copies too. Because . . .
6. Then I sign stuff. This can take a while, but your patience is rewarded by exhausted/witty banter and the fact that I sign pretty much anything put in front of me. I pose for pictures too. In case of very long lines, some stores have rules, like, “only two things signed.” (But I have been known to break these rules and sign extra things. Tell no one.)
7. HOWEVER, I would strongly encourage you to buy at least one book at the store hosting the event. I mean, it’s in your interest to keep them in business! But please come up and say hi, even if you are penniless.
8. Please assume I don’t how to spell your name, even if it’s “Rick.” (Cause there was this guy “Rique” once. Seriously. I have not recovered.)
9. The whole thing takes between one and two-and-a-half hours. Of course, most people are gone well before the end, because once your book is signed, your outta there!
10. Unlike most tours, Justine will not be traveling with me this time. You need not bring her books or search for her. 🙁
11. Gifts are nice, but please remember that you outnumber me. (And if they’re heavy, they will not make it home.)
I’m on tour soon (my Appearances page will tell you where) so I won’t be able to post much until mid-October. So this is our last FAF for a while. *sniffs*
I’ve decided to end on a bang, with a set of Leviathan videos, but first let’s do some regular art.
First, from the world of dreams and clouds, this random assortment of air and water molecules decided to make Huxleys!
That really does look like Huxleys, which is a bit cool. (Photo by hpaich of flickr, tweeted at me by @ohhmyhead. They may be the same person. ON THE INTERNETS WHO CAN TELL?)
This just missed the CAKE cut-off, but ONE more piece of kissing fan art is entirely okay. It’s from Amy:
I love the blurry background, because it shows how the world fades into a blur when you’re kissing. (Unless it’s not-so-good kissing.)
I was a big doodler in my school days, because doodling’s a great way for your hands to show you what’s going on in your brain. It’s like dreaming on paper. So I was happy to get this Leviathan-themed page of scribbles from Ema:
So many gears!
And now a couple of whacked-out-Alek drawings. I see a lot of these on the internets, drawings where Alek looks a bit mad. Maybe it’s because he’s so reserved on the outside, but we know he’s all a-churn inside.
From Maria Luisa, a rather manic Alek plays cards with Deryn on the spine.
This equally manic, or just plain scary, Alek comes from Coffee-Bun:
AHHHH!
Let us move away from the crazy and toward the cute. An excellent piece of cosplay came may way this week, complete with a living, breathing Bovril!
Hannah claims in her email that this chihuahua’s name is really Kip. But he does have eerily similar markings to a certain perspicacious beastie.
And a fancy-boots Dr. Barlow costume from Aurora Celeste:
It seems like Dr. Barlow cosplay is outpacing Deryn at the moment. And we don’t get much Alek or Count Volger at all. WHERE IS THE VOLGER LOVE? Don’t tell me it’s because cosplayers are mostly female because a) probably not true, and b) girls can stick on mustaches too!
And now a hilarious submission to FAF from Katie. It shows how a novel can invade your reality, making everything a potential reference to the fictional book-world inside your head. Even a soda can.
Hah! That happens to me too. I get hypersensitive to one word, or name, and it starts to pop up everywhere.
And to finish, here’s a quartet of Leviathan videos!
Let’s start with some Darwnist rock (from LScribeHarris, aka Lorelai Quinn):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjtsKjCQ1fg
You know, I never thought of Deryn and Alek as being a power-ballad tupe of couple. But they do fly through the clouds on top of a really big airship, which is pretty rock-worthy.
Here’s a more sedate book trailer from Erin in Queensland Australia:
From Spitballer09, a rather stylish cast pick video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anFdT0dVJ2w
I feel like I’ve posted this fake movie trailer from Zozomagod before, but I can’t find where, and it’s pretty cool. So here it is (again?):
Of course, the youtubes are full of Leviathan trailers and videos. What are your favorites?
The lovely folks at the Indigo Teen Blog are hosting a special Bonus Art Reveal for Goliath! I also gave them some text describing what’s going on in this Chapter 15 image, which is a BIT SPOILERY of me! If you don’t want spoilification, go look but don’t read my text!
But it’s not just the Leviathan series that has enjoyed the Awesome Russian Cover effect. Check out the paired covers for Uglies and Pretties.
Do you see what they did there? DO YOU?
It’s interesting to see what “ugly” and “pretty” mean in this context. Like, freckles are ugly? I think not. (Maybe they’re zits.)
The only problem with this amazing visual idea is that, of course, Uglies is a trilogy, not a duology. So the Specials cover is lonely:
The hawk(?) is cool, though, because Tally’s like a Cutter bird of prey!
And I’m not sure if there’s a Russian Extras yet. No word from my friends there. (See below.) But thanks to @Radda_in_motion for letting me know about these covers. They really are splendidly pulptastic.
As you may have noticed, I’ve been linking to my Appearances page on every post. That may be annoying for those of you who have already checked it and been saddened, but if it saves even one life, then it’s all been worth it. So, HEY LOOK, IT’S MY APPEARANCES PAGE!
My tour starts in only a few days. Must. Pack. Soon.
Update:
In comment 13 below, Alexandra_Piro tells me that there is indeed a Russian Extras, and it looks like this:
Last year on the Behemoth tour, one of my favorite stops was at Provo, Utah, where they have an awesome teen author festival every year.
In addition to my usual presentations and signings, I did an interview there, which seems to have turned out pretty well.
Check it out:
Click here to see it on the YouTubes. Bigger! More controls!
Okay, that’s it for today. Much more blogging this week, though, because I’m headed off on tour on Thursday. (Where am I touring? Check out my Appearances page to find out.)
