Questions Specifically for Jim, Part 3

[magic penguin]

Listen closely: Jim is THE Skavis. His life force is sustained by our wails of anguish and despair. Grin

Then he must be super super strong and filled with energy from our anguish...misery...suffering....woe

HEY  MAYBE IF WE ALL RALLY AND BE JOYFUL OVER SOMETHING ELSE  HE'LL WEAKEN AND BE FORCED TO
RELEASE THE BOOK A MONTH OR TWO EARLIER..

 BE JOYOUS OUT THERE ALL OF YOU

[sscout]

I have a question about the beta list, how can I join?

I don't want money or spoilers or to know something ahead of schedule, I just want to help get the books out faster. I proofed Brooke London's (http://www.facebook.com/brookelondon) Pitch Dark in about 1 week and caught a bunch of mistakes / typos her editors missed (didn't get paid either ). I'm pretty sure he hasn't heard of this but I offered the same to Patrick Rothfuss, who last I checked keeps rewriting parts of book 2 of The Kingkiller Chronicles .

I've been editing / proofing 'for fun' since I started reading Enid Blyton around age 10. I've been editing / proofing profesionally since around 1997-8, mostly in spanish but lately mostly in english. The only large samples of my work are mostly translations or I'd put some of it up on the web.

Other than including it on my writer's resume I don't even know how I could possibly profit from doing this, unless someone recommended me to a publisher for online work. But I love the Dresden Files and Codex Alera, so I'm volunteering. That's all

sscout@gmail.com <-- I'll be more than happy to answer any questions here.

[LogicMouseLives]

Hey, Jim!

Just missed you live on BBB this afternoon. I got home from work an hour after you wrapped up, with questions still burning in my head.

You have no idea how much of a pain it was for me to get back onto your site, when my old account --LogicMouse-- got all messed up, but I set up a new e-mail just for you, you bastard, so I hope you answer at least one of my questions, even if it's only with your sing-song-y tag line.   

So anyway, on with the questions.

1: Who do you think you're kidding? I mean

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After the hit he took in the Erlking's hall and walked away without a scratch, you seriously expect anyone to believe that one measly little bullet will take Knight Harry down?

2: What happened to the migranes? You made a big deal of them having gone on for ~six months at the beginning of Turn Coat, but there's not a word on the subject in Changes. Did it just fall off the edge of your plate, or was the omission deliberate for some reason?

(and oh, yeah--first post, sorta!)

LML

P.S. And no, folks, Jim can't be a Skavis--if he was why would he work so hard to make us HAPPY!?! I swear, even when tears are streaming down my face, I'm still grinning so hard my cheeks hurt. Thanks, JB!

[Bassfraser]

Was what appears on page 286 of the hardback my 10,000 post nod? 

Make it to 20,000 and get in the next book, too 

[Shecky]

P.S. And no, folks, Jim can't be a Skavis--if he was why would he work so hard to make us HAPPY!?! I swear, even when tears are streaming down my face, I'm still grinning so hard my cheeks hurt. Thanks, JB!

Fine, so he's a lust child of a Skavis and a Raith - we despair and we LOVE it.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Make it to 20,000 and get in the next book, too 

Heh. Wouldn't that be the coolest thing!

But I'm satisfied. Mostly. I've gotten a very special, personalized card from a dearly beloved friend signed by Jim. Got to chat with Jim on the phone at last year's KC signing while Aine and Themo and Mystic and Bookie and others were hanging out with him as it all wound down. Another friend has a bookbag waiting for me that she had Jim sign for me, and I probably fennegled my way through his subconscious into this book.

The only thing left is for me to meet him in person and shake his hand, really. *Hopes the action performs some necromancy on my own dead writer's hand.*

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Make it to 20,000 and get in the next book, too 

I got the making it to 20,000 covered.

My handle's a Terry Pratchett allusion, though, so not really Tuckerisable in quite the same way.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

I got the making it to 20,000 covered.

Rub it in, why don't you? 

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Rub it in, why don't you? 

I can't rub anything in until you get within arm's reach, dear.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Rub THAT in too! 

[Bassfraser]

I can't rub anything in until you get within arm's reach, dear.

It that a short joke? 

[Bassfraser]

I got the making it to 20,000 covered.

My handle's a Terry Pratchett allusion, though, so not really Tuckerisable in quite the same way.

Hmmm... not sure how to sneak that into the next book.  Have to leave that up to the Mad Genius.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

It that a short joke? 

Nah, it was a "geography's a bitch" allusion.  I have more respect for my hide that to make short jokes at MSD; for those, we have Shecky.

[Bassfraser]

Nah, it was a "geography's a bitch" allusion.  I have more respect for my hide that to make short jokes at MSD; for those, we have Shecky.

Oh, good.  With an arena to watch them in when said jokes are made?

[Drizzt VS Kyler]

286 what are you  tlking about on it.
know its personal and against forum rules but humor me.

to Jim your awesome and i trust any direction you take this book. im your new fan base not a RPG player not over 18 nor a nerd, geek or any variation of. i meen NO OFFENCE TO ANY ONE READING THIS. love your books keep it up.
ps hope he is the winter knight for a while