DragonCon and Sales!

8/31/2017

I'm leaving for DragonCon as we speak!

In honor of the convention, the Traveler's Gate Trilogy (the complete collection) is on sale on Kindle for $2.99 from September 1st through 5th!

I'm going to be here and there throughout the convention, but I'd like to meet you! If you're going to be in Atlanta this weekend, send me an email (will@willwight.com) and we'll find a place and time to meet! I'm bringing books, cards, and (a small number of) shirts to sign! And, of course, I'm willing to sign whatever you bring me.

Especially sheared lambs. Those are my favorite things to sign...so supple. So smooth.

-Will

26 Comments

Yosef

8/31/2017 05:36:27 am

Does that mean no Skysworn tomorrow then?

Walter

8/31/2017 06:54:43 am

But what a about the progress update??! The suspense is killing me!

Ki-adi-mundi

8/31/2017 08:22:54 pm

What about the Droid attack on the wookies

Crowlord

8/31/2017 10:05:46 pm

There were no survivors. The Wookies fell to the last child.

A mad bookworm on the path of impatience

8/31/2017 07:05:39 am

You promised news! Soon! Can we get a new soon? Maybe... a date? A date for news about the dates, we all want to know? That way we can mark our calendars for when to mark our calendars...

Azqa

8/31/2017 08:02:01 am

Have a great time at D*C! Looking forward to the post-con report when you're up for it :)

Paden

8/31/2017 10:24:52 am

Will is there any way you could put some of this up in the Merch section pleaseeeeee

Joe

8/31/2017 10:27:07 am

I have to ask... have you actually signed a sheared lamb?

Kurt Ambrose, Necromancer Supreme

8/31/2017 11:48:46 am

Hey Will, I tried to bring in a lamb last year but they wouldn't let me. They said it was against the rules. I figured they were worried about potential lice problems, so i sheared and waxed it and brought it back, but they said that they couldn't allow any animals inside. So then i thought that maybe they would let me in if it was dead, since at that point it wasn't an animal, just a sack of meat. Besides, I could just use my necromantic powers to resurrect it later. So i chopped off the lambs head(The ritual to bring an animal back to life required a severed lambs head, and I haven't figured out a less gruesome requirement) and asked again. Unfortunately at that point they started screaming and calling the cops. Maybe they were PETA members? Anyways they didn't try to stop me as i made my way inside with the dripping sack of formerly living lamb meat over my shoulder, the severed head in one hand and the machete i used in the other. I needed an open area to do my ritual, so I wandered over to the middle of the convention and cast an expanding shield bubble spell that gently ejected everything inside a 12 foot circle. I started carving the runes into the floor, but i had to stop to cast a noise cancellation spell because of all the screaming. I mean everyone acted like they'd never seen a necromancer perform a resurrection ritual before. I placed the severed lamb's head in the middle of the ritual array and the body in another spot and began to cast my ritual I was almost done when i suddenly felt my shield spell break. It was so shocking that I stumbled over the last arcane phrase and mildly botched the ritual. You see, normally the goat head is just a catalyst and isn't consumed in the ritual, but my butchering of the last word of power caused the energies being channeled to fluctuate a bit, resulting in the lambs head exploding. This explosion startled the one who had broken my shield, a priest looking person holding a glowing sword and spouting off some nonsense about cleansing the world of m kind. He had just pissed me off and prevented me from bringing my favorite goat back to life, so while he was ranting i cast a quick flashing spell followed by a paralysis spell. Then, seeing as i still had all the power from the ritual and a goat body still in need of resurrection, I decided to use that priest-guy's head as a replacement for the one he made me destroy. I cut it off with my machete and stuck it onto the stump of the goats neck and finished the ritual. Unfortunately the stupid priests soul refused to go quietly and fought with the goat's soul, causing them to merge. The resurrected goat with a human head had a goat-human personality. That wasn't what i wanted at all, so I finally gave up on getting my pet back and decided to just do some damage control. A few spells later and nobody remembered anything of the last half hour or about that priest-guy. I didn't want to keep the new man-goat, but i didn't have the heart to kill it. So i bound it to the building i was in and cast a few spells that made it unnoticeable to the mortals before i left. Ive been too guilty over what happened to my pet that unfortunately i haven't returned as i am hunting down that priest-guy's organization.

Oh, if you notice any of you're food go missing or you trip over something fuzzy and invisible, its probably my former pet. Don't worry, he probably won't hurt you.

But yeah, Lamb's aren't allowed and I won't be able to visit you. :(

Daniel young

8/31/2017 12:03:18 pm

10/10 would would watch people run in terror again:)

Yosef

8/31/2017 12:31:53 pm

You do know that a Lamb is a young Sheep and a Kid is the young of a Goat. It's not a mistake a necromancer of your abilities should be making. I mean no wonder some of your spells went awry, if you can't tell the difference between a goat and a sheep.

KURT AMBROSE, NECROMANCER SUPREME

8/31/2017 01:06:36 pm

Yosef, heres a little advice. I didn't become a supreme necromancer by filling my head with such useless knowledge. I focus wholly on the arcane arts, and it is that dedication that has allowed me to gain the power to resurrect a dead baby sheep with the head of a priest.

If you wish to gain even a fraction of my powers, you must dedicate yourself to the pursuit of the arcane arts with all of you're mind and body as I have.

Kurt Ambrose, Necromancer Supreme

8/31/2017 01:15:36 pm

OR, if you don't feel like going about things the traditional way, i have the contact runes for psionic demon that owes me a favor. I can get him to cast a knowledge sharing spell between the two of us in exchange for just 2^74,207,281 − 1 picoseconds of service to me.

If you want to take me up on this limited time offer, just speak my name 3 times in a graveyard without any guardian spirits and one of my minions will appear.

Yosef

8/31/2017 01:47:29 pm

Sorry but necromancy is not an area of magic I have a great deal of interest.

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8/31/2017 04:21:54 pm

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Garbagiel the raccoon

8/31/2017 01:48:16 pm

Mortals, I have learned the hard way, tend to overreact to the most ridiculous things. This one time, I was rummaging through somebodies trash, and then-

On second thought, its probably best if you don't know the details. Lets just say that it ended in the razing of Carthage, and a reduction in the number of Abidan judges.

Kurt Ambrose, Necromancer Supreme

8/31/2017 04:34:41 pm

THAT WAS YOU?!?!? I lost favorite pet when Carthage burned. Do you know how hard it is to get over the loss of a pet dracolich??? It had been with me for hundreds of years ever since I killed its mother, broke it out of its egg, the brought it to life.

And not a week later I'm informed that my old college roommate is dead! And I am STILL looking for the last part of his body to fully resurrect him. At least I managed to find his scythe. Hopefully he won't be as put out when i bring him back because of that.

Also, could anybody tell me if they have found a small spherical object that looks like it has an orb of infinite darkness inside of it? It might latch onto somebody and keep reappearing near them if it likes them. It one of my friends eyes, and its the last thing i need to bring him back.

Well, that and a few shards from the Anvil of Creation.

Demon in disguise as a human named Samuel

8/31/2017 05:31:13 pm

You have found the Garden... where is it! I OBVIOUSLY have only 2 eyes, hehe, so an eye for the gardens location?

Sean K

8/31/2017 06:18:19 pm

Kurt, did you not know of Garbagiel the Racoon? He was the first thief of Cradle, and singlehandedly cause the "Dragon Wrath" present in all dragons when you steal from them.

You see, when dragons were still an infant race, long before man was born, they use to gather objects of value, even then. However, back them the dragons would flaunt their wealth and show it to all. One dragon, Kozdoreth the bright, topped an ENTIRE MOUNTAIN with gold to gather and reflect light aspect aura. He was heralded as the dragon with the best, most magnificent hoard, but like all dragons just left it out in the open, to show it of to others of his kind. At least he did, be for the raccoon came...

garbagiel the raccoon

8/31/2017 06:40:43 pm

What can I say, Carthage had it coming. I needed Tyrian purple dye for my glorious raccoon-sized cloak, and they were overcharging. How else am I going to look affluent, powerful, and smell strongly of fish? My condolences about your pet, however. Romans legions are notoriously thorough. At least it was probably quick.

Sage of the infinite Blade

8/31/2017 12:42:50 pm

Two years after the blog post, still no Traveler's Gate books ;-; Can't wait for skysworn though

Will link

9/1/2017 08:09:22 am

Cradle threw off all my plans, honored Sage.

Big Fan

8/31/2017 08:10:26 pm

So... where's skysworn?

Darre

8/31/2017 08:16:53 pm

what about bald heads? I can bring one of those. And I'm pretty sure i can get it through security

Will link

9/1/2017 08:10:05 am

Sold, just send me an email and let's meet up. I'll sign anyone. I'll uncap my Sharpie and go on a signing spree.

Nitin

8/31/2017 11:34:17 pm

I have failed you was telling. October it is.

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