Sarah Rees Brennan

Aw, thank you for the kind words! 

We are always happy to both please and torment. ;) And the Bane Chronicles will be tormenting everyone for months to come…

Plus writing retreat and tour means I haven’t seen the Lizzie Bennet Diaries in ages, so I’ve lots to catch up on. Vampire Diaries and Walking Dead first, though…

I will not have a formalised tour or like, a bus, for Untold because… you know, Cassie’s really fancy. I point this out to her often.

Sarah: You’re so fancy. *pokes with finger*

Cassie: Stop-

Sarah: SO FANCY.

Cassie: Why must I be prodded because I am fancy?

Sarah: Just checkin’. *pokes* Yep. Still fancy.

HOWSOEVER, I do think I will do a FEW THINGS, and hopefully they will be with my friends. That is what I like, because I can talk about my friends and their awesome books. (Talking about myself and my awesome books, seems braggy!)

Also, I worry I will make jokes and everyone will just give me the fisheye. THE FISHEYE. With my friends we can talk and joke to each other, and others will talk and joke with us, and I have lots of fun. And I think book events should be fun! I always hope they are, for everyone who comes to one of mine. ;)

Also, there is always the worry nobody will show up.

This happens. It happened to J.K. Rowling: nobody showed up for her once (early on, obviously) and she spent her time drawing on a door. The bookshop has kept the door. It is called the Dumbledoor.

If nobody shows up and I am with a friend, we can just hang out. My drawing skillz are not that awesome. PLANNING! Otherwise I guess it’s just scrawling jokes on the walls…

BOOKSHOP STAFF: Madam please stop vandalising our walls.

SARAH: Shan’t!

But yes, I’d like to come over and do stuff for Untold. For one thing, m’friend Robin Wasserman’s super amazing THE WAKING DARK, basically YA’s answer to and improvement on Stephen King, is coming out in September along with UNTOLD and we were thinking we might do an event in Boston. ;) Hope to see some of you there!

For another, Holly Black and Cassie Clare and I are casting a weather eye over at Fair England…

So basically, WHO KNOWS what will happen in the future.

Aside from me watching lots of telly and always liking to be with my friends. ;)

Cassie Clare is being given a bus from which to tour and wreak havoc, and she asked me and Maureen Johnson to come with her. Soon, soon, we shall be aboard THIS:

“you are going on tour with cassandra, right? are you going to sign your books too? :]”

Yes, I am. ;) My books should be there everywhere and I will be there, wielding a pen ready to sign! I may also chase people about trying to sign them. Also I may forge my signature into Cassie and Maureen’s books. ‘I TOTALLY WROTE THIS,’ I will write in their books, and everyone will be fooled!

… My favourite thing to sign is my own books, though, so I am doing it and very happy to be doing it!

“I just finished unspoken and all I have to say is YOU ARE CRUEL. I love you, but you are. I hope you enjoyed my pain. Please, please, please make the next one not so heart wrenching, k? Thanks! You are amazing! I can wait to meet you on Cassie’s tour! (: <3 

— karleemcginty”

You are amazing, and it’s true, I am kind of cruel. ;) I am pleased that you like me anyway though, I would like to always be evil and for people to ENJOY my evil.

I make no promises about book two… that is all part of my cruelty!

But I promise I will have chapter one of Untold to give you on tour! So you can decide on its evilness level yourself.

‘Since your gonna be in on tour with Cassie is it possible you’ll be available to sign books? ’

Yes, I will sign books and I will give you a prezzie with Unspoken. It’s a nice prezzie. Holly Black helped me make them and she got a blister: you will have a prezzie anointed with the pain of Holly Black!

‘Dear Sarah, I am SO EXCITED about seeing you and Cassie and MJ in Vancouver in March! I have been making PLANS to first buy CP2 (as required by the hosting bookstore) a week ahead of time - it is complex as I do not actually live in Vancouver. But I am trying to make it work! My Very Important question is this: will you tell your fans (ie, me) any spoilers for Untold? I am totally happy to be spoiled.’

I am SUPER EXCITED to meet you too! And I love to give spoilers. It’s one of my favourite things. I promise you AT LEAST ONE spoiler of your choice. 

(Sadly Maureen will not be in Vancouver. But I may do a Maureen impression. Not as good as Maureen’s own Maureen impression. My height holds me back there. But I will TRY.)

Anonymous asked: re: armand's age. to be fair, 17 year old boys can look and act very, very young. writers seem to forgot how immature and childlike they can be. so i don't blame anne rice for attributing such youth to armand at that age. it's quite realistic. they're still doughy and pimply, more like Corny from Tithe than say the demi-gods of hotness in the Mortal Instruments of Wish Fulfilment. an accurate portrayal would look more like Misfits than the glossy man-angst Edwards and Jaces of YA fame.

Uh, I don’t think Armand, described as beeeeeeyoootiful as an angel on the regular, is any more ‘realistic’-looking or less ‘wish-fulfilment’ than Edward or Jace (who are also… pretty different-looking!).

Armand doughy with pimples? Oh please, unless every character in the Vampire Chronicles has an enormous pimple fetish. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wish-fulfillment, so I am cool with all the hotties with excellent teeth from ages long gone by featured in the Vampire Chronicles! 

While indeed people mature at different rates, as I said (and this was all I said), the reactions of people in the text to Armand suggest that he does look very young indeed, and not like someone who would have no trouble being served in Ireland. (i.e. most seventeen year olds.) 

Also the cast of Misfits are all I think pretty hot twentysomethings, though I would like to see more actors in the US cast as UK actors are—I think there’s a wider variety of looks displayed. (Also one of the actors in Misfits… is in the Mortal Instruments movie? So they are displaying the exact same level of realism and accuracy, unless that actor’s the only hot one, which is not the case…)

Pimply and doughy?

Some teenage boys look like beautiful angels from Renaissance paintings, some look like hot dudes who work out a lot, some are pimply and doughy. Basically I think they look like people… so, a lot of different ways. I don’t blame any author for portraying them in any way they choose. Corny in Tithe is great—I also like the Mortal Instruments and its characters a lot. None of these are books written by me, so I have no dog in this race! I also think it’s fine for people to have different opinions.

And now probably best to stop talking about the relative hotness of teenage boys, because the law may come after me, and also apparently people will get nasty over the Vampire Chronicles.

Those who had quotes from it painted on a wall for their teenage years (I mean me: nerds, behold your princess) understand completely. ;) 

Anonymous asked: An OTP in Holly Black’s Curse Workers? May we ask which?

Barron/Daneca OTP 4 lyfe. ;)