Blackflame Critic Reviews!

4/28/2017

As I've done once before, I'd like to share with you some early thoughts from those who read Blackflame when it was still messy and wailing.

Feast your eyes on the raw, almost fanatic enthusiasm of these formerly unbiased critics as they discover new vistas of literary wonder on every page:

"Will Wight is my favorite author!"
-My mom

"Of all the books I've ever read, this was the most recent."
-Alec Hutson
(Author of The Crimson Queen)

"Wait, this isn't Kings and Killers?"
-Devin

"My favorite part was when Lindon learned the Rasengan and then met Dende."
-Andrew Rowe
(Author of Sufficiently Advanced Magic)

"Where's book four, Will?"
-Devin again

"Blackflame is the one book you should read this year. The only book. Just read Blackflame over and over, and buy copies for your friends until they beg you to stop."
-Will Wight
(Author of Some Stuff and also Some Other Stuff)

"My weight is healthy for someone my age, and I'm very comfortable in my own skin."
-Your mom

92 Comments

Sean K

4/28/2017 01:46:56 pm

Also as a great fan who invented time travel to give myself a copy of this book 3 days early, I also say that this book is a book! Also, some of these people may be understating how good the book is. Have you seen how Will and his mom fight?!

Will link

4/28/2017 01:48:48 pm

It's like a DBZ showdown. Rocks are flying, there are shockwaves in the air, and Vegeta's growling because he feels inferior.

Sean K

4/28/2017 01:54:05 pm

Then Yamcha gets beaten by a girl after trying to act important. At least he's good at baseball.

Mysterious Rival

4/29/2017 03:54:19 am

Don't you dare look down on me, Kakkarot.

Will link

4/29/2017 06:12:55 am

Go grow a mustache, Vegeta.

Adam

4/30/2017 09:01:13 pm

And then Krillin dies because that is what he does

Brian S

4/28/2017 02:05:16 pm

"Blackflame is the one book you should read this year. The only book. Just read Blackflame over and over, and buy copies for your friends until they beg you to stop."
-Will Wight

I guess what Will is saying here is that he's not publishing anything else this year, and in the event that he does publish something else this year, he doesn't want you to read it.

He most likely still wants you to buy it though.

Will link

4/28/2017 07:35:07 pm

I'll be publishing more books this year, but Blackflame is the only one I want you to buy. IGNORE THE OTHERS.

Aaron

4/28/2017 02:15:01 pm

I think my favorite review was the

"No, I will not providing a quote for the cover!"

- Neil Gaiman

Will link

4/28/2017 07:36:01 pm

That's what I should have done:

"Mr. Gaiman regrets that he does not have time to answer every email personally, but he appreciates the time you took to contact him."

--Neil Gaiman's Assistant

Some other person named Devin

4/28/2017 05:36:47 pm

Where's book five, Will?

Some other person named Devin

4/28/2017 05:39:39 pm

Where's Waldo, Will?

Dude wheres ur book$$$$

4/28/2017 05:50:47 pm

At least we don't have to wait for endorsements from Rothfuss. If he was writing a review Blackflame might not get published until 2020-2030, and if he does write a review early he might write a review instead for George Martin book.

Will are you going to start including Abidan characters into your other series?
Seems like unsouled is outselling your other series, why not keep writing Unsouled and find other writer to coop with in OKAK and TG? (More money to ya and happier unsouled readers/ and i would argue happier okak and tg readers as they get their books earlier.) Everyone wins but it will be more challenging for you!! Thats how you grow.

Jeremiah

4/28/2017 06:31:19 pm

Will, if you follow this advice, I will feed a badger to the sofa to see what kind of deadly intent can come of it. I hope the sofa advances to True gold at that point

April

4/28/2017 08:25:17 pm

Agreed.

We actually have a contract in place with a company that specializes in the humane shipment of wild animals. We have advised them on dealing with badger remnants and they will have spirit seals on hand should they be needed. They protested against feeding the badger to the sofa, but the offer of an advance copy of OKAK was sufficient to overcome their reluctance.

Will link

4/30/2017 12:01:45 pm

I know a guy who specializes in inhumane animal transport.

...he just owns a trebuchet.

Will link

4/28/2017 07:34:39 pm

I'd like to publish/work with other authors, but I'm not going to shop out my series unless someone wanted to do (for instance) a spinoff of their own in the Traveler's Gate universe. I'd be open to discussing that.

There are a few reasons for it, but the main one is this: I don't want to. They're my stories, and I like writing them, and I want to keep doing it.

As for whether I'm going to start including Abidan in my other series...who says I haven't already?

Zac

4/29/2017 05:34:36 am

On a related note, Will, I've only just started but my basic set up for my multiverse is the exact same as yours....

Multiverse with each one having one or more worlds that have living people.

Each world has its own "unique" ( because lets face it some one else has already thought of it) magic system called that worlds/universe's "higher power".

There are ways of traveling the multiverse but not the Way you have( it's more point-to-point....ish. Sometimes)

But all this and more is still in my idea phase... so is that a problem since you've already done it?

Will link

4/29/2017 06:16:24 am

Don't worry, Zac; I'm like the ten millionth person to set my stories in a magical multiverse. You will be the ten million and first.

As long as someone couldn't reasonably mistake your stories for mine. Like, if you're writing "Houses of Blade" in the "Traveling Gate Trilogy," we're going to have a problem.

But what you've described sounds great! I look forward to reading it.

Zac

4/29/2017 07:01:46 am

YAY!!

Also does anybody know where I can find beta readers? ... if I make it that far?

Philip Smith

4/30/2017 04:22:55 am

Well now I need to read them all again. I did notice the connection between the elder saying he grew stronger with each human in his house and how humans anchor the Way to a universe.

Dustin

4/30/2017 01:38:49 pm

How about if someone wrote a similar premise but called it "House of Sporks." Would you be too upset by that?

Sam

5/12/2017 08:27:41 pm

Sooooooo having read Blackflame in a day as soon as it was released (I took leave, completely worth it) and reread the series twice since then....is it gonna to be closer to two years or three before the next book comes out? I need my fix, and it's rare to find a gem like this.
Cheers,
S

Jeremiah

4/28/2017 06:31:57 pm

Hey! Devon's stole my quip

Arty

5/5/2017 07:45:32 am

The same thing goes for House of Blades. The more people in the house, the more powerful it grows. OR maybe it grows closer to the way.

Corey Barron

4/28/2017 06:40:19 pm

Very wholesome reviews!

Will, are you releasing Blackflame on what I assume as American Monday, or when the front of the world (+12GMT) has Monday? Reader from New Zealand here doesn't want to wait till Tuesday for shiny new book :P Even if it is technically the same time.

Will link

4/28/2017 07:32:44 pm

You know, I thought I clarified this in another comment, but I don't see it, so maybe I'm crazy.

I'm going by Seattle time, because that's where Amazon headquarters is and that's when they start a lot of their record-keeping. I'm trying to keep all of my sales in the month of May, as Amazon calculates May.

Sorry man! If it makes you feel any better, I'll be getting up at 3 AM my time to do the upload. My discomfort will be my penance.

Corey

4/28/2017 07:51:29 pm

You know... That does actually make me feel a little better :P
Thanks, Will!

ALPHA Reader

4/28/2017 08:09:17 pm

I think you clarified it on a reddit comment. But i do remember seeing it.

Hello Moms of the World

4/30/2017 06:04:09 pm

You answered it on the reddit

Adarsh

4/28/2017 08:05:39 pm

So how long is Blackflame?

ALPHA Reader

4/28/2017 08:10:31 pm

A little over 25% longer than the other cradle books.

Evan

4/30/2017 07:12:42 pm

I'm excited by this. My biggest complaint about Cradle is really that the books end. So 25% more not ending is perfect.

Connor

4/28/2017 08:48:58 pm

I just want to mention that you didn't ask for your sister this time.... Based on her last review I feel like there's a reason

Will link

4/28/2017 08:52:12 pm

That phone call was the last time I ever spoke to my sister. She wanted romance in my books, and now she's dead to me.

Let this be a warning to you all.

kaden

4/28/2017 09:25:43 pm

So that's why you killed lucan off

Adarsh

4/28/2017 10:21:47 pm

Im still mad about that.

Max

4/29/2017 12:50:34 am

But romance makes the world go round... and sometimes little people that cry a lot.

TransEmo

4/29/2017 04:02:39 pm

argh! That spoiler ruined my day. :( Reading these books ATM waiting for blackflame.

kaden

4/30/2017 03:26:28 pm

Sorry Transemo at least you get Blackfame tomorrow

kaden

4/28/2017 09:31:40 pm

So you said you were going to say something about OKAK but you haven't and you said something about a book in between blackflame and OKAK but nothing else. Stop giving me little bits I don't need the whole picture all a once but more meat on the bones please.

Also you should forgive your sister its just in her nature to ask for romance novels (idk why).

Will link

4/29/2017 06:17:43 am

So you're saying you're irritated because I've given you just enough information that you want to know the rest but not enough that you're satisfied?

Perfect.

Sean K

4/29/2017 08:33:04 am

Uh oh. Will is starting to act like Sanderson with his RAFO's! EVERYONE RUN FOR THE HILLS BEFORE HE CONSUMES OUR INTERESTS WHOLE!!!

OMG, author's feed on interest. Are they like banks?

Reddan

4/29/2017 10:51:34 am

"My plan is nearly complete!"[Insert maniacal laughter here]

Kaden

4/30/2017 03:23:41 pm

All I'm saying is if you keep giving us sweet whispers of nothing we are going to lose interest its like slowly starving us to death.

George

4/29/2017 01:25:21 am

Wow, what are the odds?
Of all the names your reviewers can have, one had EXACTCLY the same name as you do,hahha. Makes one almost think that you wrote it yourself (he said suspiciously).
I can't help but question the biasness of these critics; seing that it was explicitly written NOT to be bias makes it even more suspicious
I need help!
Am I just paranoid, or am I actually on to somehing?

Will link

4/29/2017 06:18:33 am

That's crazy talk, George! CRAZY TALK.

George

4/29/2017 07:12:47 am

What a wonder, of all the people, who could have responded it had to be another WILL.
Let me guess, your last name is coincidental Wright as well.
Hah, you might fool the other simpletons, but you WON'T fool me Mr. Wright I have seen through your charade.

Satya

4/29/2017 02:57:34 am

The absence of your sister's comment means that blackflame finally has romance?? YerinXLindon confirmed!!!

Will link

4/29/2017 06:19:36 am

It means that I have struck a blow against romance as the opening volley in my personal war against Aphrodite.

Max

4/29/2017 07:24:59 am

How much have you looked into Buddhism/Taoism/Confucianism that Xianxia is largely based on Will? I'm taking a Zen Buddhism class at the moment, and its interesting seeing where a decent bit of the "tropes" come from. I'm even cultivating my inner self haha! Also, thank you for your fast output of book Will!

Will link

4/29/2017 12:06:55 pm

I've done the research, but I knew I wanted to spend more time on the magic and fighting than the underlying philosophy. Knowing where the traditions come from really adds another layer to reading xianxia, though.

Coldsteel

4/29/2017 07:38:24 am

Hey Will, did you ever consider taking all the material from Yerin's storyline that you cut out and turn it into a side novella that complements the story in the main books. Kinda sorta like you did with the Sea and Shadow books (but not really). I think that would be really cool.

Also, that might answer how a bunch of Jades were able to take down the Sword Sage, whom I am assuming was at one of the Underlord levels of advancement. Since Sages are literally one in a million, that had to be an incredibly rare happenstance and a huge deal in that world. I'm intensely curious about how it went down. If the sage was half as suspicious by nature as Yerin, how were these jades able to take him unawares and poison and kill him? It's been bothering me all along.

Shane

4/29/2017 03:56:07 pm

Actually, I think Will has mentioned previously that Sages (including the Sword Sage) are multiple stages above Underlord (or the Lord realm in general).

That makes the method of the Sword Sage's demise even more mysterious. There are a lot of theories floating around (the reddit page in particular) as to how it could have happened. Will's response so far has essentially been, understandably, Read and Find Out (to the collective groan of his fans, and some strange maniacal laughter heard in the background).

Sean K

4/30/2017 06:45:42 am

My current theory is that the Sword Sage was trying to advance. Suriel spoke of the location where Ozriel "once died then came back to life" inside some labyrinth. Thus I feel that in order to advance past the Sage level, you have to die.

Evan

4/30/2017 07:17:10 pm

Does Yerin not say he was poisoned in his sleep in Unsouled? I feel like that's a thing.

Source pending.

Evan

4/30/2017 07:22:56 pm

Please see text quoted from Chapter 19 of Unsouled below.

"Suriel’s vision flashed through his head, Sacred Valley blasted out of existence, and he spoke with real sympathy. “He must have been a great man. Even in the outside world.” “The spine of the matter is, he only came to the valley for me,” she said. He couldn’t see her face, but suddenly he could barely hear her words over the wind. “Wouldn’t have bothered coming on his own, it was just a safe place for me to train. But it doesn’t matter how strong you are when you’re poisoned in your sleep.” By the end, her voice carried the ring of cold steel."

Will I hope I'm not breaking any rules posting your IP to your blog.

Will link

4/30/2017 07:59:04 pm

No, Evan, of course not.

I mean, you know...please don't copy-and-paste entire chapters or something, but quoting a book is almost always perfectly fine.

Evan

4/30/2017 08:15:43 pm

Excellent. I did not think so, but one never knows.

I will only copy .5 chapters at a time and post them suspiciously close together.

Anonymous fan

4/29/2017 05:01:19 pm

I was reading your old blog posts and while reading the one containing the background of the blackflame empire there was something about the family of black dragons ruling half A continent does this mean Cradle has more than one continent and as the series progresses do we get to see and hear about them as well.

Also if other continents exist are they more advanced than the continent the Mc and others are residing in now as is the case with most xianxia novels. Could they possibly have characters stronger than Northstrider, the luminous Queen and the eight man empire or are these characters are @ the strongest level possible on Cradle?

Lashan

4/29/2017 06:15:40 pm

Seems like its is 29hrs 48 min until upload - but whos counting? I am just looking forward to learn how to get to three.
( Dang it wheres the countdown clock - getting confused here with all this math and numbers.)

Will link

4/30/2017 12:00:30 pm

12 hours even.

rdmooch

4/29/2017 07:02:35 pm

I have not posted on here before, but with book three coming out Monday I though I would list some of the questions I have about the Cradle series. Learning about the world and magic systems of fantasy books is one of my favorite past-times. Not all of my questions are meet to be taken seriously they are just fun little things my mind comes up with.

1. Who does all of the farming in Cradle? In a society so focused on martial martial abilities. Who would waste time on farming? We know the population of Cradle is many times greater then Earth. So tens of billion of people need to eat. The only real solution I could think of is if there are Paths that happen to both greatly help agriculture and has combat potential. Or as we saw in book two slavery.

2. How will Lindon act the first time he meets someone weaker then him? While Lindon has gotten to what I would call half-iron (his cores are half the size they should be so he levels them up faster then he normal would, and only one avenged to iron) and that makes him stronger then most people his age in the Sacred Valley. Knowing that and meeting them while stronger then them are different. I bring this up because out side of a few people everyone we have met seems to have no trouble "bullying" those weaker then themselves. I know this is a might makes right society but still part of the honor of that system is to ingore/protect those weaker then you. If you only follow those "laws" when other are watching you then that's not honor its saving face. When will we meet people who follow these codes of conduct not for themselves or for "face" but because they believe in them?

3. Would a fire path be one of the fastest way to level up? All you would have to do is stand next to a barn-fire and absorb the ambient fire manna it would give off, then refine it. On that note how different would the manna type be, between different types of fire. A hearth-fire warming a family home in the winter, with all the "happy" connotation that come with it, compared to like an arson attack destroying someone's home and possession and just everything that they have worked for. Both are fire but you get what I mean.

I'll Answer as best I Can

4/29/2017 09:34:12 pm

1. In one of Will's short stories set on Cradle there was a small village of life Madra processing people who were farmers. While most of them were still Gold or Jade, this shows that there are still people in this world who would fill this and any other "niche" jobs that we would have to take care of normally. Also, in book 1 there was mention of one of the clan's disputing the rights to a farm property.

2. This is for Will to say, but I suspect that Lindon is a significantly more sincere individual than most of the people around him due to his initial handicap.

3. I'm not sure if fire would actually be the fastest way to refine madra. Imagine stone madra for example, or water: Both are readily available in many places and therefore would both be excellent sources of power, yet I get the impression that there are distinct limits to how much a person can pull out of their surroundings. At some point in your cultivation it may simply prove more effective to slay Remnants of your chosen path. As to different qualities to different types of fire, I believe that the different types have more to do with how the Madra is mixed. say for example Fire and shadow may conceivable create a different effect than fire and wind.

Hopefully my ramblings have given some small insights on this matter. As always, Will is the ultimate authority on this subject aside from Garbagiel the Raccoon (the one true ruler of the Willverse)

Tacroy

4/29/2017 10:02:59 pm

After reading a few other Xianxia-ish novels I've been doing some thinking about the practical economics of these sorts of worlds, and actually I'm pretty sure that farmers tend to be high-level bad-asses.

See the thing is that power in these universes scales exponentially; which means that, much like in the real world, a single properly equipped farmer is able to feed far more than themselves and their own family.

Now, if you're talking about some podunk village out in the middle of nowhere, sure they've probably got a bunch of low-level subsistence farmers who can barely manage to keep the village fed; but any self-respecting metropolitan overlord is going to recruit and maintain a few people who can walk out onto a few acres and convert a small pile of celestial energy into a full season's harvest in time for lunch.

George

4/30/2017 03:27:27 am

"1. In one of Will's short stories set on Cradle there..."
Where can I find this story?
Do I have to be on his Mailing list, or can I find it somewhere else.

Sean K

4/30/2017 06:52:19 am

Go to "Say Hello" at the top of the page. There you will find a way to e-mail Will himself. He is REALLY quick and awesome about it. Just ask about getting the short stories he produced so far and he will take care of you.

In return, sign up for his mailing list! It a boost for him to say he has 100k people on his mailing list, and for you you'll get instant access to his short stories when he produces them! You should be able to sign up for the mailing lists on the same part under "Say Hello".

Red -Path of the Stumbling Drunk

4/29/2017 10:18:55 pm

Thinking about these types of questions intrigue me as well so here are my thoughts on them.

1) It seems like families keep cultivation techniques and path manuals closely guarded for use in their own family. So if you are born to a small family with little influence you would have to find a path on your own much like Lindon is struggling to do or prove themselves capable to a faction or family that will take them in. However for most a "normal" life is likely more obtainable and they stall at copper or iron or something and take on jobs like farming. It also seems like plants have the ability to slowly cultivate madra. Maybe this allows them to grow faster than on earth or something.

2) I had assumed when Lindon split his cores they were halved and he had to build both up to "normal" copper size and density of madra. Then he was able to improve one to iron that is standard size and has a copper core as well. This seems like an overpowered thing so why doesn't everyone do it? At the low ranks it won't seem like much but every rank will take twice as long if he keeps both cores "updated". As for the people who believe in the codes of conduct perhaps there are factions that specifically looking for such individuals and we just haven't seen them yet.

3) I was wondering something very similar so I assumed there are some kinda balancing laws like maybe eventually the madra from a campfire is not enough to advance so you have to travel to a volcano or something haha. I see what you mean though like there could be a group of people that use fire madra and they decide to burn up a town for the sake of increasing their rank.

Let me know if you agree or disagree or find faulty logic somewhere I love these discussions.

Coldsteel

4/30/2017 09:02:31 am

In regard to #2 above, Will had mentioned that every time you split your core, there is a small loss of overall core strength. So when Lindon split his core he lost a few percentage points from each and they're both slightly weaker than his original one. Will also mentioned that splitting your cores over and over again would therefore lead to diminishing returns that would be undesirable and that's why people don't do it and why Lindon won't be splitting his core more than once.

Of course that fact that Lindon has 2 cores now at 98% of the original's strength and capacity more than makes up for the slight power loss. We saw that in the last book when he drained one core completely to activate the binding in the last fight. Instead of being completely incapacitated by that, he still had his full iron core left to use afterwards. Very handy indeed. I suspect the Path of Twin Stars will be a popular one someday.

George

4/30/2017 03:39:11 am

I found on the reddit site a link (http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=ba4bf39fb09712a9c982f3bc8&id=9a4055d765). Several short stories are being listed there, but not the Cradle one, though.

Captain Nemo

4/30/2017 06:52:53 am

About (2), I could be very wrong, but I thought that Will had said at some point that when London split his core, it ended up where he just had two completely normal cores -- nothing smaller, weaker, stronger, etc. about them. But, it looks like there are other opinions on this, so...help us understand, Will Wight! You're our only hope!

Lashan

4/30/2017 07:43:32 am

Core splitting discussion was sometime in april:
When someone is splitting a core there is a loss of total quantity : eg one normal iron core 100 units, 2 split iron cores 49+49 loss of 2 units. So if Yerin is only using sword madra why have 2 cores? Not efficient. This is my current understanding.
More cores proly will not show as a large benefit until Lindon can start bonding remnants to his cores ( i don't remember if Will confirmed that lindon can bond multiple remnants). Also

Captain Nemo

4/30/2017 05:31:08 pm

I remember that discussion now. Thanks for reminding me about it, Lashan!

Will link

4/30/2017 12:00:01 pm

There are a lot of responses to these questions, and I'm not confident in my ability to parse every one of them, so I'm just going to answer your questions as best I can. And I apologize if someone else has already done so.

1.) There are Paths that are used for agriculture and irrigation, they're just usually low-key. There's a (very) brief reference in Blackflame to the Redflower family, who are in charge of feeding the Empire. By law, they are neutral in every conflict, and anybody who starts a fight with them or tries to pressure them will soon regret it.

2.) This is 100% a spoiler.

3.) A fire Path would not be the fastest way to advance, because the aura would be slightly rarer and harder to collect compared to, say, earth or air. But it's still very fast, as are all the Paths that draw from aura easily found in nature.

There WOULD be significant differences between those two Paths! Fire from different Paths could take on different qualities depending on how it's used an where it comes from; you could have a gentle flame that spreads slowly and provides lots of even warmth, versus a violent flames that consumes rapidly and burns out quickly.

Evan

4/30/2017 07:39:37 pm

Let us not forget that Eithan the OP Underlord is a janitor/sewer keeper.

So clearly people either follow mundane Paths, or perform mundane services in addition to their path. E.g. little girl cutting stone blocks with her fingers when Lindon/Yerin get to the Five Factions camp.

Will link

4/30/2017 07:57:52 pm

Different places in the world handle the basic necessities of life differently. Some places have sects that focus entirely on farming or whatever, but other places prize independence and self-sufficiency. Those sacred artists value the ability to provide food, resources, and basic societal infrastructure for the people that depend on them.

Kaileonis

4/30/2017 01:59:55 am

Hello Will,
Awesome reviews man!

Got a quick question, and kinda moot when Monday comes around, but, you got the design for the book cover of Blackflame already? Could it be the emblem mentioned in Soulsmith, with the black crescent over blue and white background?
One more day!!
Its gonna be a hassle when patients come around as I absorb the book during work. They gonna be complaining about not getting enough meds for their pain. Haha

Azqa

4/30/2017 06:36:30 am

http://www.willwight.com/a-blog-of-dubious-intent/working-on-blackflame has an image of the cover!

4/30/2017 07:22:45 am

What a nice Sunday. I'm sitting around watching a surprise snowfall. Too wet to do anything outside. Nothing on TV. No new books to read. Sigh.

Tomorrow... back to work Monday... busy busy busy.

Curse you Will Wight and your choice of book release dates!

Adarsh

4/30/2017 07:31:15 am

So I read Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe, and from that we know that Simon does at one point leave Amalgam and end up on whatever world S.A.M takes place on. Does this confirm the Author collaboration?

Will link

4/30/2017 11:53:03 am

It confirms that I AM ANDREW ROWE.

(...jk, I only beta read for SAM, and he put a reference in there for me as a shout-out. He beta read Soulsmith and Blackflame as well, so if there's a problem with Blackflame, feel free to blame him for not catching it.)

I NEEd Music

4/30/2017 10:42:09 am

Will, can you recommend any music that fits to the Cradle Series.
I need few songs for tomorrow, when I'm reading Blackflame.

Will link

4/30/2017 11:51:19 am

While writing Blackflame, I primarily listened to JT Machinima and Dan Bull, who do video game songs/raps on YouTube.

But usually when people ask me for songs to listen to along with my books, I recommend this (and the related playlists):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eZAaXYpD40

I NEEd Music

4/30/2017 01:34:41 pm

Any asian themed soundtracks?
I think they would fit more to xianxia's.

Will link

4/30/2017 01:52:19 pm

I can only recommend what I listen to when I'm writing, which is usually based on the tone of the scene. Dramatic, tense, whatever.

If someone else has some Asian songs, I'd be happy to listen to them too.

Darryl

4/30/2017 03:42:43 pm

8 more hours!

Ian

4/30/2017 09:03:38 pm

How much longer? Where's that darn countdown timer?

Ian

4/30/2017 09:05:29 pm

There's the time stamp....2 hours and 55 min...not that I'm counting or anything.....

kana

4/30/2017 09:50:08 pm

Hi from Japan. I and my husband had been waiting for this release. We are geographically separated now, but it is always great to share and chat about your book online with him. By the way he previously commented on your blog with his gorgeous pun, which has been harassed me counter-less times.

Darryl

4/30/2017 09:50:29 pm

2 hours 10 minutes and counting! Works going to suck but I will finish this book before I go in!

Blake

4/30/2017 10:46:05 pm

Ahhh the Australia curse. Always get things a nominal day later due to time zones and stuff. ( Cravings intensify )

Darryl

4/30/2017 11:54:37 pm

5 minutes!!!!!!

In which we ramble on.
And by we, I mean me.