Last Day-ish

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Behemoth comes out this Tuesday in the US, and next Tuesday (Oct 12) in Australia!

When it comes out, I’ll be putting up a Spoiler Comments Thread. The actual post won’t have spoilers, but do NOT click the comments unless (a) you’ve already read Behemoth or (b) you want your brain to explode.

Don’t believe me? Just ask the people who accidentally read the Specials spoiler thread. (Mwah-hah-hah.) And no, this doesn’t mean that anyone is necessarily going to DIE or anything in Behemoth. But stuff happens, you know?

In other news, shortly after the book comes out in the US, this countdown timer will start counting down again to a date in early November. “But what is the significance of this date?” you ask.

That is currently a secret. But it will be FUN.

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What Happens on Tour

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Look what I got today . . .

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And as you can see, I ignored the label. Bwah-hah-hah! (But seriously, don’t try this at home, or especially at your bookstore. I’m what you call an expert, with years of training that keeps me safe.)

Now, some of you have been asking in the comments of my tour details post exactly what my appearances will be like. That is an excellent question!

Here’s roughly how they go:

1) The events are in a bookstore and somewhere between 30 and 100 people show up. These numbers seem to be completely random. (Sometimes at book festivals or other large venues, hundreds appear.) Those who come early sit closer, but no one is turned away! You can always buy my books at my appearances.

2) 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 boo-tiful art, which allow me to make hilarious visual jokes! Later in the tour, my schtick is smoother, but it is always stirring.

3) Next I answer all your burning questions about everything—the Leviathan series, the Uglies books, the Midnighters and New York trilogies, my adult books, writing advice, or whatever you want to know. Pro tip: Raise your hand early on when everyone else being a weenie, and your question will be answered.

4) I sign stuff. This can take a while, but your patience is rewarded by me signing pretty much anything put in front of me. I pose for pictures too. In case of very long lines, some stores have rules, like, two things signed for every book you buy there. And 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.) And please assume I don’t how to spell your name, even if it’s “Rick.”

5) Sometimes Justine is there. If you like her books and say so to her, she will not harm you. She may even sign things or amuse you in other ways. But there are no guarantees!

That’s it, really. So if you live in or near . . .
Exton, PA
West Chester, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Glen Rock, NJ
Houston, TX
Allen (near Dallas), TX
Austin, TX
New Orleans, LA
Alpharetta, GA
Decatur, GA
Raleigh, NC
Cincinnati, OH
Ft. Thomas, KY
Naperville, IL
Novi, MI
Ann Arbor, MI
Provo, UT
Paris or Nantes, France
Miami, FL
or Vancouver, Canada . . .
then please check out my Appearance page for when I’ll be there.

See you on tour!

Behemoth Tour Details

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Here are the long-awaited details of the Behemoth tour!

NOTE: This only goes through the end of October. In November I’ll be going to Miami, FL; Vancouver, Canada; and Nantes and Paris, France.

ALSO: Behemoth comes out in ONE WEEK in the US. And in THREE DAYS in the UK. And on the 12th in Australia!

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5
7:00PM
Barnes & Noble
301 Main Street
Exton, PA 19341

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6
7:00PM
Chester County Books
975 Paoli Pike
West Chester, PA 19380

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7
7:00
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8
4:00PM
In-store signing at Books, Bytes and Beyond
197 Rock Road
Glen Rock, NJ 07452

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10
1:30 – 2:30PM
New York Comic Con
Javits Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12
5:00 PM
Blue Willow Bookstore
14532 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77079

October 13 in Jackson, MS is canceled.
SORRY!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
7:00PM
Allen Public Library
300 N. Allen Drive
Allen, TX 75013

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
2:30PM
This is me presenting Behemoth, all alone.
The Sanctuary at First United Methodist Church
1201 Lavaca Street
Austin, TX 78701

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
8:00PM
This is me in a Zombies Vs. Unicorns debate.
Austin Bat Cave
AAMP Building, 411 West Monroe Street
Austin, TX 78701

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18
4:30PM
Octavia Books
513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20
7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
Mansell Crossings Shopping Center
Alpharetta, GA 30022

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
7:00PM
The Little Shop of Stories
133A East Court Square
Decatur, GA 30030

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22
5:30PM
Quail Ridge Bookstore
3522 Wade Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27607

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25
7:00PM
Joseph Beth Booksellers
2692 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26
4:30PM
Blue Marble Bookstore
1356 South Fort Thomas Avenue
Ft. Thomas, KY 41075

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27
7:00PM
Anderson’s Bookshop
123 West Jefferson
Naperville, IL 60540

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
7:00PM
Borders
43075 Crescent Blvd.
Novi, MI 48375

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
7:00PM
Ann Arbor District Library
343 South Fifth Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
12:00PM
Provo County Library
550 North University Avenue
Provo, UT 84601

Zombies Vs. Unicorns Is Out!

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Today is the official release date for Zombies Versus Unicorns, an anthology that includes short stories from me, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, and Carrie Ryan (all Team Zombie) as well as Meg Cabot, Kathleen Duey, Margo Lanagan, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, and Diana Peterfreund (Team Rainbow Farts).

People have been seeing ZvU in stores for a few days now, because the contagion cannot be contained!

Here’s a cool interview with the cover artist. And click here for awesome Zombie vs. Unicorns wallpapers!

(Of which this is merely one example:)
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And don’t forget the ZvU debates, one in New York on Thursday and one in Baltimore on Friday!

Thursday, September 23
6:00PM
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York City
Zombies v Unicorns Debate
Team Zombie: Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Scott Westerfeld
Team Unicorn: Holly Black, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Naomi Novik
Compere: (the totally impartial) Justine Larbalestier
$15; Members $12

Friday, September 24
6:30PM
Baltimore Book Festival
Children’s Bookstore Stage
Zombies Versus Unicorns!
Justine Larbalestier, Scott Westerfeld, Carrie Ryan, Holly Black, Diana Peterfreund & Kathleen Duey
Click here for more details.

Come one, come all!

Tomorrow, I’ll be unleashing the Behemoth countdown timer, so see you soon!

Fan Art Friday

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Check this out:

Deryn and Alek, medium

I actually commissioned this image from Allison B. Thomas, whose work I’ve been following for a while. Since I always refer to Keith’s style in Leviathan as “Victorian manga,” I thought it would be cool to see the characters in a real manga style.

It’s cool how the clothing above (wind-swept, as always in manga) feels almost as detailed as in Keith’s incredibly fine-lined work. It’s a great translation from one style to another, which my favorite thing about fan art. It’s kind of like alternate history, art-style. (Or something like that)

But seriously, go check out Allison’s other work.

Here’s a piece from Haley A., in the great tradition of the Uglies series cover redux:
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I love how many people have sent me images of themselves as Tally. It’s an interesting form of character identification—Tally as everygirl.

And finally we have a rare piece of The Last Days fan art from Katja K.:
fan art2

Kewl.

And by the way, if you’ve sent me fan art and it hasn’t appeared, please send it again! Just make sure to use the term “fan art” in the subject line. I seriously get a lot of email and stuff gets buried.

Okay, back to finishing Goliath. More on the tour soon.

Leviathan in France/More Behemoth Art

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Salut à tous mes fans de France! Merci pour votre visite. Le premier livre de ma nouvelle série, Leviathan, sort en publication aujourd’hui en France. Cette trilogie a des merveilleuses illustrations de Keith Thompson. (Jetez un coup d’oeil ici.) J’espére que cela vous plaira!

Cliquez ici pour gagner une copie gratuite.

Okay, that was a shout-out to my French fans. Leviathan comes out there today, so I wanted to say hi.

But there’s news for you anglophones as well: More art from Behemoth has just been released into the wild! Just check out this post on io9.

In other news, the Miami Book Festival has been added to my tour schedule. So see you Floridians on Sunday, November 21. Also added is Lemuria Books in Jackson, MS on October 13.

Note that tomorrow is fan art Friday, with much awesomeness in store.

And finally, here’s the poster for my Pittsburgh event. See you all Pittsburghian fans in three weeks!

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The Behemoth Tour Takes Shape

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It’s Friday, but I got no new fan art this week. (Boo-hoo.)

And yet I have cool news! The mighty computers of Simon & Schuster have begun to reveal the details of the Behemoth tour. Not everything is set in stone yet, but at the end of this post you’ll find a list of cities that I’ll definitely be going to.

But first, here’s a bunch of events in and around New York (as far away as Baltimore) that I’ll be doing in the next month or so. Most of this early stuff has to do with Zombies Versus Unicorns, because that comes out September 21. (So soon!)

Obviously there are more details to come, but this is what I know so far.

Wednesday, September 15
7:00PM
I’ll be reading (from ZvU) with Susan Beth Pfeffer (The World We Live In)
KGB Bar (you must be 21)
85 East 4th Street
New York City

Thursday, September 23
6:00PM
Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York City
Zombies v Unicorns Debate
Team Zombie: Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Scott Westerfeld
Team Unicorn: Holly Black, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Naomi Novik
Compere: (the totally impartial) Justine Larbalestier
($15; Members $12)

Friday, September 24
5:30PM
Baltimore Book Festival
Children’s Bookstore Stage
Mount Vernon Place
600 Block North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Zombies v Unicorns Debate
Team Zombie: Justine Larbalestier, Carrie Ryan, Scott Westerfeld
Team Unicorn: Holly Black, Kathleen Duey, Diana Peterfreund

Sunday, October 10
1:30PM
New York Comic Con
Javits Convention Center
Scott Westerfeld Spotlight
Panel Room 6 (1A21)
(Comic Con entry pass required)

Okay, those are the events with firm details. Now here is a list of cities and dates. THESE DATES ARE APPROXIMATE. It’s not my fault if they change.

Philadelphia, PA
October 5-6

JUST IN: Pittsburgh, PA
October 7

Houston, TX
October 12

Just in: Jackson, MS
October 13

Dallas, TX
October 14

Austin, TX
October 15

New Orleans, LA
October 18

Birmingham, AL
October 19

Atlanta, GA
October 20

Slight correction: Raleigh, NC
October 22

Cincinnati, OH
October 25

Chicago, IL
October 27

Ann Arbor, MI
October 28

Saturday, October 30, 2010
12:00 Noon
I’ll be giving the keynote address for the . . .
Provo Teen Book Festival
Provo City Library
550 North University Avenue
Provo, UT

Nantes, France, Utopiales Festival
November 10-14

JUST IN: Paris, France
November 16

JUST IN: Miami, FL
November 21

Vancouver, Canada
November 24th at 7 PM
West Point Grey United Church Sanctuary
4595 West 8th Ave
Vancouver BC
Tickets: $5.00 (can be used towards the purchase of a book at the event)

And now, so that this post is not completely artless, here’s a lovely flyer for the Provo Library event.
TBF-Flyer-Web

One More Behemonth

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One more month till Behemoth comes out, which I declare to be Behemonth!

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Watch this space for excerpts from the text, some giveaways, and of course a few more pieces of Keith’s incredible art. I will do all I can to assuage the waiting. (It’s tough for me too, you know.)

And now, because I’ve now missed two Fan Art Fridays in a row, let me make amends with this lovely and quiet image from A-Wrob. It shows Alek’s watch with a cameo of his mother in it.

Alek Leviathan

It’s based on one of the illustrations from Leviathan that’s my favorite, because it’s so quiet and personal compared to all the giant walking machines and beasties. So kudos to A-Wrob for picking a subtle piece to recreate.

See you with more cool stuff soon.