[Mark Lawrence]

Briar King, on 07 February 2013 - 09:22 PM, said:

Hey Mark for those of us that aren't able to make it to any signings what's another way for us to get a signed copy of the 2 plus Emp after release?

Well, I'm also one of those who aren't able to make it to signings. I'm either at my day job or caring for my very disabled little girl - so I can't travel at all. So you're not missing out

Goldsboro do a signed & numbered limited edition of each book at cover price, which is a great deal. All 250 of the first two books sold out within a couple of weeks of release but if you get in early that's the way to go on book 3. Forbidden Planet and VJ Books also do or have done very cheap signed copies. Beyond that it's smaller & more pricy specialist companies I'm afraid.

Posting to me is an option but the postage to & from the States is very expensive (around $15 US to UK and more like $22 on the way back)

[Assail]

Mark Lawrence, on 09 February 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:

Briar King, on 07 February 2013 - 09:22 PM, said:

Hey Mark for those of us that aren't able to make it to any signings what's another way for us to get a signed copy of the 2 plus Emp after release?

Well, I'm also one of those who aren't able to make it to signings. I'm either at my day job or caring for my very disabled little girl - so I can't travel at all. So you're not missing out

Goldsboro do a signed & numbered limited edition of each book at cover price, which is a great deal. All 250 of the first two books sold out within a couple of weeks of release but if you get in early that's the way to go on book 3. Forbidden Planet and VJ Books also do or have done very cheap signed copies. Beyond that it's smaller & more pricy specialist companies I'm afraid.

Posting to me is an option but the postage to & from the States is very expensive (around $15 US to UK and more like $22 on the way back)

You.... you led me on! You implied you would be at a signing! This won't be forgotten Mark

On a realistic note, I'm sorry to hear about the circumstances regarding your daughter. I wish you the best in whatever ways you can pursue to make life easier.

That leads me to another question though, are you the type of author who has worked his real life friendships, relationships, experiences, children etc into your books?

[Mark Lawrence]

Assail, on 09 February 2013 - 08:54 PM, said:

You.... you led me on! You implied you would be at a signing! This won't be forgotten Mark

Technically it was you who implied I would be & I merely avoided contradicting you

Assail, on 09 February 2013 - 08:54 PM, said:

On a realistic note, I'm sorry to hear about the circumstances regarding your daughter. I wish you the best in whatever ways you can pursue to make life easier.

That leads me to another question though, are you the type of author who has worked his real life friendships, relationships, experiences, children etc into your books?

Not in any significant way. I operate on imagination, but obviously my ideas about how people work come in part through personal experience, also through what I've read or watched. Small touches here and there are lifted from life - when I was 10 or so my parents took me on vacation to France and we went into a cave called le Gouffre de Padirac http://www.vacancel..../07/padirac.jpg - I lobbed that in as a Jorg memory (called it Paderack)

[amphibian]

So there was no brother being stuffed in a closet or cave for temporary safe-keeping?

Durn it, Mr. Lawrence. Even I managed to do that - with my older brother and dumped him headfirst into a space behind a dresser too.

[Ukjent]

Listening to King of Thorns(reread) as my first soundbook experience since I was 12, and it works great. just sitting on the buss and listening to Jorg adventures is way better then I though it would be. I hope he someday will travel further north, just so I can read how Norway is described .

[Obdigore]

Graablick, on 12 February 2013 - 10:55 AM, said:

Listening to King of Thorns(reread) as my first soundbook experience since I was 12, and it works great. just sitting on the buss and listening to Jorg adventures is way better then I though it would be. I hope he someday will travel further north, just so I can read how Norway is described .

Erm... Didn't he go to Norway in KoT?

Spoiler

With the longhouses and the volcanoes and trolls?

For some reason I though they took a boat to get there, which would indicate Norway or Sweden to me?

[Ukjent]

If you look at the map, you will see that he got to cross a ocean to reach Norway and Sweden. Or he may take the tour up Russia. As far as I can recall from earlier today, he did ride and walk to the mountains. The only thing we get to know about that Nordic countries is that they are filled with ice and snow and Danmark is as good as gone.

This post has been edited by Graablick: 12 February 2013 - 12:03 PM

[Mark Lawrence]

Graablick, on 12 February 2013 - 11:59 AM, said:

If you look at the map, you will see that he got to cross a ocean to reach Norway and Sweden. Or he may take the tour up Russia. As far as I can recall from earlier today, he did ride and walk to the mountains. The only thing we get to know about that Nordic countries is that they are filled with ice and snow and Danmark is as good as gone.

It's true - the Maladon coast is through northern Germany - http://www.youtube.c...h?v=GJrCceCilFY - though many elements of ancient Danish culture are echoed there. The volcanos resulted from geothermal energy plants that got nuked.

I finished this weekend a book set in the Broken Empire (not a Jorg book) where the characters head far north... even landing in a port called Trond...

[amphibian]

I just slapped myself to stay calm once I read that there are more Lawrence books to come.

Mr. Lawrence, I understand very much that you have to keep doing what works and get better at that. Puts food on the table. However, I support any and all experimentation, mind-stretching and continuing leveling up of awesomeness that you may do in books that aren't Broken Empire. I trust you as a reader. It's one reason I like Erikson (and to a lesser degree, Esslemont) and other authors as well - they take that trust, show us how far the mind and story can go and they do it well.

That reminds me, I really should get on reading Fishing for Grandma Matchie or the other non-Malazan books Erikson wrote.

[Ukjent]

Mark Lawrence, on 12 February 2013 - 07:44 PM, said:

Graablick, on 12 February 2013 - 11:59 AM, said:

If you look at the map, you will see that he got to cross a ocean to reach Norway and Sweden. Or he may take the tour up Russia. As far as I can recall from earlier today, he did ride and walk to the mountains. The only thing we get to know about that Nordic countries is that they are filled with ice and snow and Danmark is as good as gone.

It's true - the Maladon coast is through northern Germany - http://www.youtube.c...h?v=GJrCceCilFY - though many elements of ancient Danish culture are echoed there. The volcanos resulted from geothermal energy plants that got nuked.

I finished this weekend a book set in the Broken Empire (not a Jorg book) where the characters head far north... even landing in a port called Trond...

Fantastic, can't wait for that one. Always been a sucker for books or movies about Norway, set non-modern times.

[Macros]

Trond in Norway, oh by do I hope you've included a failed Viking, someone who is so inept they are an embarrassment to their community

[Coco with marshmallows]

Macros, on 13 February 2013 - 04:45 PM, said:

Trond in Norway, oh by do I hope you've included a failed Viking, someone who is so inept they are an embarrassment to their community

Why would he put Apt in the books?

(yes i know Apt is actually Danish, I just wanted to make the comment)

[Obdigore]

Cocoreturns, on 14 February 2013 - 08:06 AM, said:

Macros, on 13 February 2013 - 04:45 PM, said:

Trond in Norway, oh by do I hope you've included a failed Viking, someone who is so inept they are an embarrassment to their community

Why would he put Apt in the books?

(yes i know Apt is actually Danish, I just wanted to make the comment)

If there isn't some sort of Norwegian Death Metal in Trond, I'm going to be quite disappointed.

[Macros]

Were he going to include apt it would be a balding wheelchair thief who drinks sugary cocktails surely?

This post has been edited by Macros: 14 February 2013 - 10:45 AM

[D'iversify]

Obdigore, on 14 February 2013 - 08:48 AM, said:

Cocoreturns, on 14 February 2013 - 08:06 AM, said:

Macros, on 13 February 2013 - 04:45 PM, said:

Trond in Norway, oh by do I hope you've included a failed Viking, someone who is so inept they are an embarrassment to their community

Why would he put Apt in the books?

(yes i know Apt is actually Danish, I just wanted to make the comment)

If there isn't some sort of Norwegian Death Metal in Trond, I'm going to be quite disappointed.

It's Sweden who're famous for death metal, Norway's famous for black.

[Macros]

Wait, they're separate countries?
where does Scandinavia fit in? Is it between them like a little Liechtenstein?

[Obdigore]

Macros, on 14 February 2013 - 01:35 PM, said:

Wait, they're separate countries?
where does Scandinavia fit in? Is it between them like a little Liechtenstein?

Scandinavia is the entire cock and balls. Norway is the top half, Sweden is the botton half, and Denmark is the balls.

[dietl]

Obdigore, on 14 February 2013 - 04:28 PM, said:

Macros, on 14 February 2013 - 01:35 PM, said:

Wait, they're separate countries?
where does Scandinavia fit in? Is it between them like a little Liechtenstein?

Scandinavia is the entire cock and balls. Norway is the top half, Sweden is the botton half, and Denmark is the balls.

Well, actually, Finland is the balls and Denmark is the sperm in the face of Germany.
Nice allegory btw.

[Macros]

So Scandanvia is basically a colder version of the UK with 4 countries inside it?
everydays a school day!

[Mark Lawrence]

"What's the north like?" The Nuban girl wasn't so easily deflected.

I tipped the amphora to my mouth, gulping wine while I held my hand out at a steep angle. "Like that." I wiped my lips. "Only icy. All the northmen slip to the coasts where they congregate in miserable villages smelling of fish. It gets very crowded. Every now and then a bunch more come sliding down from the hills on their arses and the only place for the ones closest to the shore is on a boat. And off they sail." I mimicked a ship's progression across the waves. I gave Lula my amphora. "Those horns on their helms?" I made myself two horns, a hand to each side of my head. "Cuckold's horns. The new arrivals are bouncing abed with the wives left behind. Terrible place. Don't ever go there."

This post has been edited by Mark Lawrence: 16 February 2013 - 03:25 PM