ext_132490 ([identity profile] monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] codex_alera2008-11-11 09:12 pm

2 weeks left

2 weeks until book 5 is released. For the first time since book 1, I've stayed completely spoiler free. Which is completely abnormal for me. :) I've not visited the forum, nor read the sample chapters.

I hope Princeps Fury sparks some good conversation with us here, as I know it's been fairly lacking.

[identity profile] priscellie.livejournal.com 2008-11-12 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm getting married April 4th, you almost destroyed my marriage! =)

Congrats! Now we'll only ruin your honeymoon!


Are the finishing touches done on Turn Coat?

Oh, god, I wish. Jim is still madly plugging away on Turn Coat. He took on way too many non-novel projects this year, then there was the move, then there were fifty trillions cons... I do not envy his mental status right now.

Though as for being more psyched for Turn Coat than Princeps' Fury... You are crazy. Princeps' Fury is freaking amazing. I read the last chapter on a bus, and I was actually writhing with glee at the last page. WRITHING. IN PUBLIC. Fortunately, I am a New Yorker, so no one cared.

[identity profile] priscellie.livejournal.com 2008-11-12 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, speaking of Alera and betaing, I got an Alera assignment for [livejournal.com profile] yuletide. Will you be my beta?

(Does any actual Alera fanfic exist, other than those two stories in the slash comm? It's kind of unsettling.)

[identity profile] hjcallipygian.livejournal.com 2008-11-13 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, no, no. I didn't say I thought Turn Coat would be better than Princeps' Fury, just that I'm anticipating it more. I'm pretty certain that PF is going to make me crave the next Codex Alera book like a frothing madman for an entire calendar year, and no one is looking forward to a grown man drooling. =)

Did you ever read the unfinished Exiles series by Melanie Rawn? She kills off one of the most fascinating characters in heartbreaking fashion, then shows said character's significant other having a kind of breakdown moment... and now it's been over ten years with no sequel. Brutal.