There Really Is No Reason For This Post

[snurri]

Whoa! The book is up on Amazon UK! The date is wrong, and stuff, but hey. GO RIGHT AHEAD AND ORDER.

It's also up on Amazon Japan, which I cannot explain.

Product of random phrase googling: Anti-American Taiwanese Children's Rhymes.

I would hire this attorney.

Your Score: Serious Cat

45 % Affection, 30 % Excitability , 65 % Hunger

Hungry for knowledge in any internet forum, you demand decorum. Any off-topic remarks, absurd statements, or tomfoolery on the interweb is deeply frowned upon by you. Truth has no room for drollery.

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Comments

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Man, talk about random...

Your book is so cool! Is it maybe up on the Japanese site because maybe your publisher hasn't told you something yet?

You should note that the evil-eyed dragon hasn't forgotten and is still staring at you.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Didja know that Pliny the Elder claimed that dragons were the only natural enemies of elephants?

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

And Plutarch said elephants crossed rivers by snorkeling.

Dunno if Plutarch said anything about dragons, though.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Plutarch was right. Not just rivers, either.

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Really! I thought he made it up.

The things you learn reading blogs...

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Elephants have been known to swim long distances to islands in South and Southeast Asia, and off the coast of Africa, too. Apparently they go for the good fruit.

[madam-silvertip.livejournal.com]

And they do use their trunks for snorkeling, in fact that was once proposed as an explanation for the Loch Ness Monster (though how it got in the loch was not explained).

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I think the theory was that it was an AWOL circus elephant or something. Which seems a bit of a stretch.

[madam-silvertip.livejournal.com]

Yup. :)

You read the same book(s)!

[madam-silvertip.livejournal.com]

Not surprising that elephants should be good swimmers. They share a common ancestor with whales.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Wow! I think that's the first plot description I've seen for this and it makes me want to read it even more. I want! I guess I'll have to settle for Harry Potter instead though :(

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, the copy they put up there is the preliminary jacket copy I've seen, complete with factual errors -- but it's not bad, aside from that.

[gregvaneekhout.livejournal.com]

Woo! Your book's just that much closer to being a real three-dimensional object!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I know! FREAKY.

SERIOUS CAT DOES NOT HIRE FLIPPANT LAWYERS.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Lion Warning Cat

80 % Affection, 63 % Excitability , 50 % Hunger



"You are the good Samaritan of the lolcat world. Protecting others from danger by shouting observations and guidance in cases of imminent threat, you believe in the well-being of everyone."


(yay, book!)

Re: SERIOUS CAT DOES NOT HIRE FLIPPANT LAWYERS.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Flippant? I think you mean Genius.

Re: SERIOUS CAT DOES NOT HIRE FLIPPANT LAWYERS.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

I find myself questioning your Serious Cat credentials.

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Very cool, and exciting! :) I can't wait to see the cover for it! :)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

You'll see it here first!

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Can't wait! :)

So here's a question for you, since I feel relatively new to your blog: did you watch the first season of Heroes, and if so, what are your thoughts on it, since you're also writing about superheroes that, according to the Amazon.uk blurb, may very well stop a tragedy?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Well, first I should say that you shouldn't make any assumptions based on the blurb. The book is about power, but it's also about the limits of power; while real-world events intersect with the story, I wouldn't have felt comfortable changing history.

To answer your main question, though, I haven't really watched Heroes, although I've heard good things about it. I may check it out on DVD when it's available. When I found out that show was coming out, I was sort of worried about overlap, since there are some superficial similarities with the premise, at least. (I fully expect that someone is going to accuse me of ripping off the series, even though I wrote the book four years before it appeared.) So I didn't watch it from the beginning, and I didn't want to pick it up halfway through.

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally understand. :)

To be perfectly honest, I never watched Heroes either, simply because it was too similar in my mind to existing shows (like The 4400) and comics (Rising Stars and X-Men come to mind). I might watch it one day, but I want to see where the series goes in the eyes of its fans, and if it trully lives up to its first-season hype.

But one good thing about it, when your book comes out, you can have interesting discussions about when you got the idea for your novel, when you started working on it, when you sold it, etc., and how that compares to the concepts of televisions shows and their production.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Heroes definitely has an X-Men feel to it.

I can certainly talk about all that timing stuff, but I'm not sure how interested most folks will be :-)

And this is me...

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Your Score: Cheezburger cat

54 % Affection, 58 % Excitability , 54 % Hunger

Sure, you deserve one. You helped popularized lolcats from a running gag to an online sensation. Now mainstream media writes asinine columns on this 'phenomenon', students write theses on the topic, programming languages adopt the grammar, and losers write tests about them on dating sites. Now take your cheezburger and never touch the internets again.

[ellen-denham.livejournal.com]

I got lion warning cat. I has fangs!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Rawr!

[madam-silvertip.livejournal.com]

I got lion warning cat too.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

So, how often does this situation come up, exactly, where you have to warn people about lions? We have three Lion Warners in this thread alone . .

[madam-silvertip.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. Now if they were bear warners, Stephen Colbert could explain it to us.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Woo! I have put your book on my wishlist in the hope that Amazon's mysterious recommendation engine will notice it and stop trying to recommend I buy Laurell K Hamilton and Neal Asher books. :)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'll be curious to see what they pair me with in their "If you liked . . ." sidebars and the like.

[blueeverglades.livejournal.com]

Hee, that is just super cool!
(The book description is spiffy, too. ;p I can't wait to read it!)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Words cannot express how happy it made me to see that up there with your name on Amazon.

Also, this was a little TOO perfect for me.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Your Score: SurpriseAdoption Cat

32% Affectionate, 62% Excitable, 33% Hungry

Calloused. Heartless. Exuberant. You carry the heavy burden of informing children that they are adopted by jumping out of their birthday cake. A difficult task, but somebody must break the news to children on their only day of happiness.

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