Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

Hey all!

Just wanted to keep you in the loop. A little while back, I asked if there was a Sounis Twitter account, and if there wasn't, if we could have one ( Sounis Twitter? ). Well, there is! A couple of us got together and started TheRealSounis. We're still ironing out guidelines and expectations and such, so the feed will be a bit rocky for a few more days. However, if you're on Twitter, drop us a line. Follow us, let us know you're a Sounisian. We're going to do our best to promote both Sounis and MWT's works through the account, because who couldn't use more MWT in their life?

Hi! I discovered the Queen's Thief books a couple of months ago and fell in love with them. I just have a quick question on something that happened in King of Attolia.
After Sejanus's arrest, Attolia mentions that all the barons have been trooping though her bedroom to take a look at the king. Why are the barons doing that? Is it because Eugenides exiled Dite and imprisoned Sejanus? Or is it because the attendants have been telling everyone that Eugenides framed Dite for trying to assassinate him and then forced Sejanus to confess and save his brother? I'm not clear on how much the attendants have been gossiping about the king.
Thanks!

So, so, so, are there any Northern Californians lurking around here? Or Sounisians itching to visit Northern California?

I'm asking because the London meet-up and the Utah Thiefcon are inspiring, and I think it would be fun to have one around here sometime. I've been communicating with drashizu and sgwordy, who I met when mwt was giving talks about ACoK two years ago, and it seems like a good time would be later this summer or in early September. And I was wondering if any of you think you'd be able to come to a meet-up in that time window, somewhere in the San Francisco area. Do you have thoughts about when it should be, or any ideas at all? So far, the planning for this is very unsure, but we hope to make it work. At any rate, I have a few friends who've read the books who I could lure into coming...

I was just wondering... Why doesn't the Sounis community have a Twitter account? Or at the very least use a hashtag? It's so much fun dissecting parts of the books in posts, but sometimes whatever I want to squeal over is too short to warrant a post (even this idea is pushing it).

So can we make a Twitter account or even just decide on a hashtag we can use to communicate with each other? Or is there one out there that I don't know about?

Okay guys, normally this would be the time to vote for the bunny contest. However, there is only one entry in both the fanart contest and the fanfic contest. So, unless there are any last minute entries or entries that I somehow missed the following will win by defaults.

Fanart Entry:
Not in your nightshirt, though.. by deirdrej

Fanfic Entry

1. Better than Useless by booksrgood4u

Anyway, I hope everyone had fun with this. ^_^

I will be taking a break from doing contests for awhile since I have a wedding coming up in a couple of weeks. With that said, if anyone else would like to run a fanfic/fanart contest, feel free! ^_^

Kirkus Reviews is online. I haven't looked at many of the recent reviews. The fun is that they have their old reviews online. And even more fun: you can post comments to them! (You have to have a Facebook account, unfortunately).

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/

Search for your book, and if it doesn't come up (which it won't for the older books unless they've been reissued recently) then click on the Refine Results - Release Date - All link. Although their reviewers loved some of the books I do, they're really snippy about some that I also love. Here's your chance to argue with them!

Usually, we ask "what's new?"  As in, what is the latest and greatest book you've read? *

But, after many recommendations, I'm finally reading A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson, published in 1981.  So, instead, let's talk about what's old.  What older books have you read recently that you'd recommend to others?

How about if we define "older" as published in the 1900s?


(* in my case, that would be This Dark Endeavor, which had my heart pounding throughout.  Not old.  Latest and greatest.)

I just want to remind everyone that the extend deadline for the Bunny Fanfic and Fanart challenge is this Sunday. I hope everyone is having fun with this.