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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 20 Apr 2008 : 22:50:23
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Oh, the title is Mistshore.
I will still buy and read it asap, but it does not have the appeal it did when I Mis-heard the title. My bookseller mentioned it and I though it was about Mirt's ....oh well, rhymes with shore.
What a great Waterdeep tale that would be.
I loved Delve, so I can't wait for JJ's take on our favorite city! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 24 Apr 2008 : 03:50:41
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| I'm not sure what I will do myself about reading 4e novels. I have read virtually all the previous edition novels, but I don't envision myself following this horrorific 4e stuff. But I always enjoyed the novels. I don't know what to do |
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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Jaleigh J.
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
879 Posts |
Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 23:53:10
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Not to judge a book by its cover, but. Just got home and my copies of Blackstaff Tower and Mistshore were on the doorstep, hurrah. These continue the trend of what I've found to be better and better design from WotC's book department all the time. And Jaleigh, I think yours will turn out to be my single favorite FR novel cover ever--I love that illustration!
Now, to actual reading! |
My Realms novel, Sandstorm, is now available for ordering. |
Edited by - Christopher_Rowe on 05 Sep 2008 23:53:58 |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 06 Sep 2008 : 01:14:42
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Originally posted by Christopher_Rowe
Not to judge a book by its cover, but. Just got home and my copies of Blackstaff Tower and Mistshore were on the doorstep, hurrah. These continue the trend of what I've found to be better and better design from WotC's book department all the time. And Jaleigh, I think yours will turn out to be my single favorite FR novel cover ever--I love that illustration!
Now, to actual reading!
Yes, I like the cover very much as well. It reminds me of the pirate city in the last pirates of the carribean flick. |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Jaleigh J.
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
139 Posts |
Posted - 06 Sep 2008 : 19:21:44
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Yes, I like the cover very much as well. It reminds me of the pirate city in the last pirates of the carribean flick.
I was very happy with how the cover turned out. I really need to try to get in touch with the artist to see about getting a blown-up print.
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 07 Sep 2008 : 00:06:25
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| Yeah, I have to say, that cover really stirs the imagination. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
879 Posts |
Posted - 07 Sep 2008 : 14:03:33
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This bit from page 77 made me smile. The protagonist, Icelin, suffers from eidetic memory, and here she's recalling the conversation with an old teacher in which he introduced her to the method of loci:
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"Picture your mind as a vast library," Nelzun had described it at the time.
"No vault can contain all of what rattles around in my head," she'd complained. But her teacher had only smiled indulgently.
"Once you have walked the halls of Candlekeep, with permanent wide eyes and slackening of jaw, you may feel quite different," he'd said.
When are we gonna see book club scrolls for the two newest books?
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My Realms novel, Sandstorm, is now available for ordering. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31798 Posts |
Posted - 07 Sep 2008 : 16:28:46
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Originally posted by Christopher_Rowe
When are we gonna see book club scrolls for the two newest books?
Alaundo's currently away from the Halls at the moment. I may just have to tackle this myself. I'll look into opening some Book Club scrolls for these books in the next day or two. |
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Mo Foard
Acolyte
USA
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 11 Sep 2008 : 21:03:56
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So the prologue of Mistshore is a letter from grandfather to granddaughter, but it’s also a letter from me to a reader discovering the Realms for the first time. I want them to see the magic of the Realms the way I saw it, and to be swept up the way I was with all the possibilities for stories.
That's quite sweet.
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"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 11 Sep 2008 : 21:39:54
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| Nice interview. Can't wait to read it! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31798 Posts |
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Jaleigh J.
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
139 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2008 : 01:48:00
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Originally posted by Mo Foard
Here is an interview I did with Jaleigh Johnson that just went up:
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Thanks for the heads-up, J. I tried to get on earlier to post about it, but the day job kept getting in the way. 
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The Book Club scrolls for Mistshore are now open. Enjoy!
Thanks, Sage! |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2008 : 16:08:17
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| Yes beautifull cover. I finished reading City of Splendors yesterday so I just started reading Mistshore today |
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Anauria - Survivor State of Netheril as penned by me:
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 23 Sep 2008 : 01:55:52
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I just finished this novel today, and I was very pleased, entertained, and impressed.
J.J.'s characters just get in your head and stay there. I was completely convinced from page 1 and never, ever knocked out of the story.
(Plus what can I say? I like the sexy elf rogues.)
Cheers
P.S. Oh, and I wanted to add to Steve's long ago sleep-deprived plugging moment:
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Sorry. Insomnia and silliness have forced me to post plugs for the two books by Waterdhavian natives herein.
BLACKSTAFF TOWER: "Hey! I can see my house from here!"
MISTSHORE: "Gee, I hope I can get back to my house alive from here...."
DOWNSHADOW: "My house is how far above us here?"
CITY OF THE DEAD: "Welp, better make that mausoleum my new house, here."
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2008 : 14:14:39
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
I just finished this novel today, and I was very pleased, entertained, and impressed.
J.J.'s characters just get in your head and stay there. I was completely convinced from page 1 and never, ever knocked out of the story.
(Plus what can I say? I like the sexy elf rogues.)
Cheers
P.S. Oh, and I wanted to add to Steve's long ago sleep-deprived plugging moment:
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Sorry. Insomnia and silliness have forced me to post plugs for the two books by Waterdhavian natives herein.
BLACKSTAFF TOWER: "Hey! I can see my house from here!"
MISTSHORE: "Gee, I hope I can get back to my house alive from here...."
DOWNSHADOW: "My house is how far above us here?"
CITY OF THE DEAD: "Welp, better make that mausoleum my new house, here."
I was thinking,
City of the Dead : Hey I can see my next home from here!
Mistshore just arrived at my door and the cover is even better than it looks online. As soon as I fininsh the City of Ravens(which I find hard to put down) and Blackstaff tower, since I have read the sample chapter, I cannot wait to devour double J's latest! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Stout Heart
Learned Scribe
USA
118 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 20:28:08
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| I'm about 60 pages from the end but this is a damn good book. I really enjoyed blackstaff tower but i didint feel anything for the characters the way I do in mistshore. It's quality all around icelin has a good solid Dwarven constitution to her nature. I hope someday that my writing is on par with JJ's and I say that in all seriousness. |
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Mistshore : Ed Greenwood Presents Waterdeep
