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Paec_djinn
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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 Posted - 17 Aug 2006 : 03:42:06
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| Interesting, but I wish there was at least a cover. :-/ |
"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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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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Paec_djinn
Learned Scribe
173 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2006 : 09:55:35
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To his thread to bugquestion him then! |
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Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
334 Posts |
Posted - 17 Aug 2006 : 22:59:02
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I'm somewhat surprised that there's no cover art posted, yet. I've had a JPG of the cover for several months, now. I'll query my editor about this and see if it's permissible for me to make the cover public. He may tell me to hold off until WotC makes the book "official" (ie, it shows up in their catalog and on their website), but when I get the thumbs-up, I'll get it visible somewhere.
Thomas |
"A knight is not truly virtuous, only truly resolved to be so."
www.thomasmreid.com |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 17 Aug 2006 : 23:16:02
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Originally posted by Thomas M. Reid
I'm somewhat surprised that there's no cover art posted, yet. I've had a JPG of the cover for several months, now. I'll query my editor about this and see if it's permissible for me to make the cover public. He may tell me to hold off until WotC makes the book "official" (ie, it shows up in their catalog and on their website), but when I get the thumbs-up, I'll get it visible somewhere.
Thomas
I hope he'll let you cause i'm dying to see the cover. Hell, I'm dying to read the whole tilogy. |
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Paec_djinn
Learned Scribe
173 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2006 : 01:12:07
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| Since you're in this thread, and it's been awhile since we've heard from you, can you fill us in on additional details about the book. Like where it's set? What's it gonna be about (without spoiling too much)? How's the writing progress on the series? etc. |
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fitz
Acolyte
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Posted - 18 Aug 2006 : 10:19:11
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Originally posted by Thomas M. Reid
(ie, it shows up in their catalog and on their website)
It's just want to know, I see a lot of time "ie" but I don't know what it means. Someone can say it to me ?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 18 Aug 2006 : 11:23:08
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Originally posted by fitz
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Originally posted by Thomas M. Reid
(ie, it shows up in their catalog and on their website)
It's just to know, I see a lot of time "ie" but I don't know what it mean. Someone can say it to me ?
Thanks
Basically, it means "for example". |
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Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
334 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2006 : 04:40:33
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Hey, folks.
I was told to stay mum on the book for a little while longer, until the WotC catalog comes out in another month or so. Very sorry, but you'll have to be patient.
And "ie" or (more appropriately, i.e.) stands for id est, which is latin for "that is." It basically means "that is to say," or "in other words," introducing what follows it (usually in parentheses).
Thomas |
"A knight is not truly virtuous, only truly resolved to be so."
www.thomasmreid.com |
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Arkhaedun
Senior Scribe
869 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2006 : 23:55:01
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| Thanks for the update and the Latin lesson Thomas! (Looking forward to the book, by the way) |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2006 : 14:14:14
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Thomas,
I am so looking forward to this Novel. What with your penchant for improving charcaters (i.e. Insurrection's Jeggred and especially valas Hune), I am eager to see what you do with Steven Schend's "babies", Kaanyr Vhok and Aliisza. I am sure that Steven need not lose any sleep, you will make him a proud Papa.
I know we are probably too far out for May 8, '07 for a teaser, but hey I gotta ask.
Does Allisza's little trinket she aqquired at the end of WotSQ play any role? I just feel she invested too much into finding a piece of "he who shall remain nameless  " , to keep it as a memento. Seems more fitting for a resurrection for her plaything? (or can she bind his spirit to her?) But, who am I to decipher the mind of a woman, let alone an Alufiend woman! Ok, enough with the prying.
Can you tell us what stage you are in? Submitted and waiting for revisions or??
Any more info on this mysterious cover art??
Lastly thanks for the latin refresher.
I hope you novel lives up to this little Wonkaism "fax mentis incendium gloriae"
Feel free to obfuscate on any or all questions!
edit: I think my +3 keyboard of grammar needs recharged! |
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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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
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Posted - 12 Sep 2006 : 15:00:28
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Originally posted by Paec_djinn
Hey guys, was looking over at another forum and found this link to Amazon. Looks like Mr. Reid's Kaanyr Vhok and Alisza trilogy to me.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786940247/sr=1-3/qid=1155774652/ref=sr_1_3/002-0081192-3422449?ie=UTF8&s=books
It's set to be released May 2007 and is part of the Empyrean Odyssey (trilogy?)
Damn it doesnt register as a Forgotten Realms book when I do search on Amazon |
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Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
334 Posts |
Posted - 15 Sep 2006 : 20:52:31
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Does Allisza's little trinket she aqquired at the end of WotSQ play any role? I just feel she invested too much into finding a piece of "he who shall remain nameless " , to keep it as a memento. Seems more fitting for a resurrection for her plaything? (or can she bind his spirit to her?) But, who am I to decipher the mind of a woman, let alone an Alufiend woman! Ok, enough with the prying.
It's just too soon for me to reveal something that detailed.
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Can you tell us what stage you are in? Submitted and waiting for revisions or??
I turned over the final revisions to the editor this past Tuesday. I will probably see galleys in December.
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Any more info on this mysterious cover art??
The only thing I can tell you is that it exists, I think it rocks, and I can't show it to you yet. When the next WotC catalog comes out, I'll make sure everyone sees it.
Thomas |
"A knight is not truly virtuous, only truly resolved to be so."
www.thomasmreid.com |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 16 Sep 2006 : 00:35:02
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Originally posted by Thomas M. Reid
It's just too soon for me to reveal something that detailed.
I felt that way as soon as I typed it, but hey it was worth a try!
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I turned over the final revisions to the editor this past Tuesday. I will probably see galleys in December.{/quote}
*steples his fingers together and whispers...Exxxcelllllentt*
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The only thing I can tell you is that it exists, I think it rocks, and I can't show it to you yet. When the next WotC catalog comes out, I'll make sure everyone sees it.
Thomas
If it's that good, it's worth waiting for!
Can anyone tell me if "Gossamer Plains" has any meaning that I would have missed by not having read any source books, or is it new?
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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
947 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2006 : 03:32:27
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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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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
947 Posts |
Posted - 14 Oct 2006 : 15:00:06
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| is there any update on this? |
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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Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
334 Posts |
Posted - 16 Oct 2006 : 15:54:05
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Originally posted by MerrikCale
is there any update on this?
Nope, not yet.
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"A knight is not truly virtuous, only truly resolved to be so."
www.thomasmreid.com |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2449 Posts |
Posted - 16 Oct 2006 : 17:31:57
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| Darn. Well, I guess we'll just wait another month and cast raise dead on the thread again... |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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RodOdom
Senior Scribe
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 15:15:59
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| Any guesses which part of the Realms this series will take place, guys? |
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Uzzy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
618 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 15:28:24
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| According to this site its going to be Sundabar and Celestia. |
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RodOdom
Senior Scribe
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 20:22:27
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| Where is Celestia ? |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 20:45:26
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Originally posted by RodOdom
Where is Celestia ?
Isn't that one of the upper planes? |
"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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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 22:30:45
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by RodOdom
Where is Celestia ?
Isn't that one of the upper planes?
Aye, it is. :) Or in FR's new planes, it's a mountain in the plane called the House of the Triad. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
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Gaspar
Acolyte
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Posted - 06 Dec 2006 : 20:37:50
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| Looks like a very nice cover, i'm looking forward to reading something set on the other planes, strange things can happen, which makes for good twists on the normal stories. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 06 Dec 2006 : 22:17:18
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| Thomas, just read the copy for this book . . . that sounds awesome. Really looking forward to this trilogy. |
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Damon33
Acolyte
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Posted - 15 Mar 2007 : 20:20:15
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| Currently reading The Gossamer Plain for review and so far so good, I am only a few chapters in now though. |
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Alaundo
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initiate
Learned Scribe
Canada
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Posted - 18 Mar 2007 : 01:19:54
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Splendid news! Please return and tell us what ye think, [and please post the FBS link to your thoughts once there is one, Damon.]
Reading over the Cosmology of Abeir-Toril section in the Player's Guide to Faerun the other day, it was brought home to me how much I'm looking forward to this novel. I used to be quite unhealthily obsessed with the Outer Plains, and glancing over them again reminded me what rich, outlandish source material Mr. Reid has to work with in this trilogy, (if it is truly an "epic journey across the plains of existence", as WotC's product calendar says.) The characters are a big draw too, of course; I found Kaanyr Vhok and Aliisza to be among the more likable entities in WotSQ. One thing I note particularly about both of them: While they're nasty mercenary characters concerned with their own gain above all else, they've never really done anything to make me hate or resent them. They're evil, yes, but "agreeable evil", if that's not an oxymoron, and I think that Mr. Reid's initial portrayal of them in "Insurrection" went far toward establishing this.
Not to derail this thread, but is it my imagination or is WotC starting to exploit the on-line review sphere, and the buzz generated by the distribution of advance reading copies, more than they used to? If so, glad to see it happening. Also, very happy to see great places like Fantasy Book Spot taking an interest in the Realms.
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initiate
Learned Scribe
Canada
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Posted - 29 Mar 2007 : 01:46:11
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Just thought people might like to know that the sample chapter for "The Gossamer Plain" has recently been posted on the novel's product page over at wizards.com. Interesting stuff.
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There's a celestial character introduced in this excerpt who I think I could grow to like. Tauran seems fully devoted to the cause of Tyr without being dangerously fanatical, and several of the things he says and does in this chapter, [such as his inwardly acknowledged desire for challenge], seem to indicate that there's a lot to this character. Eagerly awaiting the book's release in May.
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