Happy Book Day!

[truepenny]

FIRST, Happy Book Day to Felix Gilman, whose book The Revolutions also comes out today. I don't know Mr. Gilman personally, but I admire his writing. And The Revolutions sounds awesome.

SECOND, Happy Book Day to me! To celebrate, my invaluable webtamer has put up the map of the Ethuveraz on katherineaddison.com.

THIRD, there's also a FAQ. I'm sure that more questions will need to be added for The Goblin Emperor, but I haven't been asked them yet.

FOURTH, John Scalzi graciously let me do a Big Idea post about fantasy and technology.

FIFTH, for Forces of Geek, I did a post about inventing languages.

SIXTH, for Tor-dot-com, I wrote a post about coming-of-age stories and quests.

SEVENTH, I also did the Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe for Tor-dot-com and can't remember if I posted the link or not.

EIGHTH and furthermore, there's a Q&A up at Riffle.

NINTH, if you haven't had enough of me yet, there will be other guest blog posts cropping up as my gracious hosts' schedules permit. I will, of course, post links.

TENTH, not one atom of this post is an April Fool's joke.

ETA: ELEVENTH, Tor-dot-com's That Was Awesome feature, in which I explain why you should be reading Scott Lynch.

Comments

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Happy book day!

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Woo!

[heresluck]

BOOK! :D

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

*does the happy book dance*

[avidreadergirl.livejournal.com]

Happy Book day! Got my kindle delivery right after midnight, hoping we get a nice rainy weekend so I can snuggle up with it. :)

[cassandraterra.livejournal.com]

Guess what just arrived on my door step!! So pretty!!

[katallen.livejournal.com]

Woooo!

[alex51324.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your New Book Day! I will buy it when my tax refund comes.

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

Happy (belated) book day! While I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive (it's being held up by Steles of the Sky, really, someone planned this very poorly) the library's copy is currently proving sufficient. Hooray!

[megazver.livejournal.com]

Finished the book. Loved it. Posted a review on Amazon and Reddit (will link in next comment so that you know it's probably in the spam filter.)

Speaking of Reddit, you _really_ should do an AMA there. It's very helpful.

[megazver.livejournal.com]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/22288m/the_goblin_emperor_is_a_joy_to_read/

[shadowsinfire.livejournal.com]

Read it! Loved it! Thank you very much for writing it!

[emgrasso.livejournal.com]

Finished the NOOK version yesterday morning and went back to the beginning and read it again.
It
Was
Just
That
GOOD

I'm hoping there will be more books set in this world. And that we will see more about how the magic works.

Also I really wish there was a live version of the bridge model I could visit in a museum somewhere.

(Also, interesting bit of linguistic trivia from when I learned Russian years ago: zh is very rare in English words, but the word where it occurs is not uncommon: it's the s in pleasure.)

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

You don't know me at all, but I just wanted to say how very much I enjoyed The Goblin Emperor, which I've just this minute finished. The worldbuilding is spectacular, and the personal story of Maia working to be a good emperor -- I particularly admire how he combines the moral and competency sense of good -- is just satisfying. I hope there will be sequels.

I've sent a copy to my brother. He's a historian and always on the look out for fantasies that feel solid on how their political entities might work. I think he'll enjoy the book as much as I did.

Thank you.

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

Yay! The day has finally come when I got paid enough to spend money on something other than bills. I just ordered it :) can't wait for delivery!