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

DragonCon Approacheth

8/25/2017

46 Comments

 
In just about a week, from September 1st through 4th, DragonCon will be in Atlanta, and I'll be there!

I'm supposed to be on some panels this year, though they still haven't released their schedule, so I'm not sure which panels or when. I'm sure it will be fantasy-related, so if you're going, keep your eye on the Fantasy Literature track.

Also, if you haven't heard, Blackflame and Soulsmith paperbacks are now available on Amazon! I'll have some with me at DragonCon ready to sign, but if you just want the books, they're already available online!

Skysworn news (and potentially OKAK news, although I may have to wait on that) soon, along with a drastic update in the progress meter!

-Will
46 Comments
Mahfuz
8/25/2017 06:17:56 am

Goldsigns crossed!

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Jeremiah
8/25/2017 07:12:09 am

One day I will make it to Dragon Con and see you... or stalk you, or something. I really do owe you (we owe you) dinner at some point. Looks like not this year though

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Adam Belaire
8/25/2017 07:53:04 am

Can't make it but have a buddy going. Hopefully he can find you there.

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Darrell
9/2/2017 07:00:17 am

i will be checking today.
have to figure out which floor will is on

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John
8/25/2017 08:45:58 am

Will the progress meter read complete? Sept 1st is fast approaching and since today is my birthday, it would be a great present to get news that Skysworn is releasing in a week!

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Mars
8/25/2017 08:51:33 am

Awesome news Will. Hope it's awesome at dragon con.

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Awesomepossum
8/25/2017 08:53:35 am

Thankyou will! This post gives me hope!

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Deadnettle
8/25/2017 10:24:11 am

Awesome! Looking forward to reading your next book. I hope DragonCon goes well for you.

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Diego link
8/25/2017 11:44:20 am

Yes! YES! .....Rub it in.... T.T .... U guys are so lucky u live in USA and can go to stuff like that. Blizzcon. Comicon. Now Dragoncon..... damn it all!!!!! Oh well beggers can't be choosers. Enjpy yourselves! :D

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Garbagiel the raccoon
8/25/2017 12:16:06 pm

I'd love to go, but Dragons ARE the number 1 predators of raccoons.

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Alex
8/25/2017 08:11:00 pm

But think of all the trash cans

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Eccentric cash register
8/28/2017 12:37:25 pm

That's a bit harsh, Will's books aren't that bad.

Azqa
8/25/2017 12:34:28 pm

Is the panel going to be recorded for upload to YouTube or anything? I'm sure there are a lot of fans who'd like to see it but...omg D*C is so damn crowded these days if you're there in person.

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Mick
8/25/2017 01:53:33 pm

It probably is a panel about molecular biology.

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Marek
8/25/2017 06:33:26 pm

Is the news about skysworn that it's a meticulous film noir style thriller? The various underlords of the blackflame empire gather to track and then take down the counterfeiter that is ruining their economy! Eithan is basically a mob boss.

The (presumed) facts:
1. Eithan is ranked as the weakest underlords in the empire at (I think 11.)

2. Up through true gold there is about an order of magnitude of madra capacity between levels. Underlords might be less above than true golds than average, but it was unclear.

3. The jai elder is one of the most powerful underlords, but his madra capacity is at least 1/20th of Eithan's based on his judgement from the battle where Eithan was trapped. (as long as his guess on how Eithan coated his body in madra was accurate) This makes it feasible that Eithan can match the combined madra output of the other underlords, which themselves would be a majority of the madra production in the empire. At the very least a significant fraction.

4. their entire currency is based on pure madra because of various reasons listed in soulsmith. The pertinent one is that no one strong was capable of making it, thus limiting production.

5. If my guess is that Eithan is capable of being a significant fraction of total madra production he would very well dwarf PURE madra production by an order of magnitude (or much more!). No wonder he can buy all those elixers for our heroes, it's all free money!

Sorry for the long post, but this has been rattling around in my brain for days.

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Samuel
8/27/2017 07:41:29 am

Ok, so,
1. He is probably not one of the weakest, considering he fought 6 Truegold Elders while fighting the 7th ranked Underlord

2. Unsure of what you mean,but I assume you mean Madra capacity per level is less for Truegold to Underlord than for other advancement stages.

3. Jai Daishou is the 7th, and Eithan is the 11th and near the bottom of the Underlords, so Daishou was a mid-ranked Underlord. Jai Daishou said that he could have gotten out of the boundary but wouldn't be fit to fight on the other end, so Eithan has at least double his madra. He then thinks how Eithan must be gushing madra into the broom to keep it from exploding, but he is not utterly shocked like later, so we will say Eithan has quadruple times Daishou's core. Then Eithan uses the scissors, and Daishou says that it would empty his core three time over to do that. So we can logically say that Eithan has around 10-15 times the madra capacity of Daishou.

4. Correct, but some scales are worth more than others.

5. Yep! Eithan is a walking cash machine, and could probably BUY the Blackflame Empire if he wished.

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Elipsses
8/25/2017 10:05:35 pm

Wooo, can't wait. Will is there an ETA on the Skysworn cover?

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Ravi
8/25/2017 11:55:03 pm

He actually revealed it on his Facebook page on his birthday!

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Elipssess
8/26/2017 05:48:14 am

Thanks buddy.

Mathew
8/26/2017 12:13:55 am

I'm honestlyshocked to see this post.
After the the not so good news from thelast post, i expected the mob had already gotten you.
Is Will suddenly a hidden master capable of subduingwhole hordes of angry fans, OR is the person posting this not Will, at all(he asked suspiciously)?

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Lightsyde link
8/26/2017 01:49:33 pm

Buy me a plane ticket and I'll be there. A return ticket.

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Darryl
8/27/2017 12:33:51 pm

I know this isn't pertinent to dragoncon, but I have to ask, since Lindon can inject his pure madra into someone's core via empty palm what's stopping him from doing the same with black fla!eating and essentially destroying their core? I mean Jai long gets hit in stomach no more stellar spear anything and ends up just like his sister maybe worse, duel over.

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Samuel
8/27/2017 02:50:27 pm

Will has said this multiple times. Your spirit has control inside your own body. That's why only pure madra can do an Empty Palm, because pure madra can influence the spirit and ONLY the spirit.

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sage of the infinite blade
8/28/2017 01:11:08 pm

because of what sam stated (plus Lindon's father explains it in the books) this would not work. The only way this could really work is if A: Jai Long was like, Foundation level weak or weaker, or Lindon was way, WAY beyond Jai Long in strength. Obviously, neither of these things are true xD

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manty05
8/29/2017 04:20:16 am

I agree with Sam and Sage that it is unlikely that an empty palm executed with Blackflame(BF) madra would have a cripling effect on an opponent of the same level. But I think that there could theoretically be techniques that try to hinder or criple the opponent using BF madra injections. Though not targeting the opponents core but their madra channels, because the BFmadra users (both Lindon and the original BF family) have to cleanse their madra channels after use.
For the technique there are the questions of effectiveness and sensibility. First effectiveness, or the ratio madra amount injected versus the effect on a target that is on same level as the technique user. If a reasonable amount of BFmadra injected can cause hindering/crippling blockades(I personally doubt that the blockades(if they form) are cripling immediately[but could become so without treatment] ) in the madra channels or is just very distracting(painful) to expunge, then the technique is viable from the point of effectiveness.The second point of sensibility or what could be done with it, the BF techniques we have currently seen are highly destructive at any range so I don't see much point for a crippling technique outside of punishment/torture use(old BF family could have developed ), a hindering or distracting technique could be useful for the modern BF other than Lindon(the old BF could order someone else capture and Lindon has the empty palm) assuming they operate alone, if the injection causes great pain to the target the old BF family might have developed for punishment/torture.
So with the above reasoning while I think a BF technique similar to empty palm is possible. It is unlikely that Lindon shows it except as a last strand technique or as an experiment(likely against revenant or a sacred/dread beast) if at all asuming it is possible. Well Will has the final say in this mater, here are just my thoughts on the mater.

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Diego link
8/29/2017 10:39:44 am

Whats stopping him is that Jai Long is a True gold. That makes him faster and stronger tied together with his genius-level skill, he's not going to sit still for Lindon to land a blow easily.

Also your presumption is wrong. Injecting blackflame madra into Jai Longs core won't do anything but disipate. Maybe a little channel blockage due to being corrosive. Your madra is king in your body.

Destroying a core is done by overwhelming the core with power. I imagine it like filling a ballon with air till it pops. Lindon doesn't have enough madra to do that to Jai Long. So its a non-viable scenario either way.

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Sage of the Infinite Blade
8/28/2017 01:09:21 pm

Hoping beyond reason that the "drastic update in the progress meter" is "complete" or "truegold" or whatever you use to mark it as complete

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deadnettle
8/28/2017 04:09:02 pm

The first of the month falls on the Friday this week. If (a big if) Skysworn comes out then, is a Friday release in any way detrimental to sales? Is there an optimum day for a book release or is the first of the month regardless of the day of the week the best option for amazon statistics?

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Awesomepossum
8/28/2017 07:36:42 pm

I looked it up and turns out that in general the best days to release a book is at the end of the week. I'm not sure if this answers your question, but I thought it might help.

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Awesomepossum
8/28/2017 07:39:00 pm

Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Garbagiel The Second
8/29/2017 08:31:45 am

In one post by will, he stated that he would release something on the 1st of September. However, in a similar request for an August birthday, this did not happen. In addition, he has stated that he enjoys the practice of releasing on the 1st of a month. This, combined with the fact that the 1st is on Friday, and so is one of the best book release dates, and the fact that Skysworn has already had the cover released and is upcoming, leads me to believe Skysworn will be released on the 1st of Septemeber, 2017.

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Samuel
8/29/2017 09:01:37 am

You jinxed it man...

Azqa
8/29/2017 11:12:02 am

I'm guessing (purely a guess) that we'll see a Cradle short story out Sep 1st, Skysworn on Oct 1st, an EE short story on Dec 1st, and OKAK on Jan 1st.

Blackflame Lamboghini
8/29/2017 12:21:12 pm

I agree with Azqa, but a part of me wishes it won't be true

Deadnettle
8/29/2017 01:05:43 pm

We all wish that Skysworn will be out this Friday... is it a realistic wish? Probably not. Thanks to everyone for the release info btw, I didn't have the time to go hunting for what Will has said in the past on the subject.

desperate squirrel
8/30/2017 04:15:37 pm

only one day remaining till its too late for sept release announce. so antsy for news

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Deadnettle
8/30/2017 04:20:04 pm

I'm not going to lie, I've refreshed this page pretty much every hour that I've been awake today on the off chance that it would update.

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gordon
8/31/2017 12:32:05 am

ditto

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That One Hope
8/30/2017 04:27:33 pm

I want some Skysworn chpaters now...

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Jose Martinez
11/13/2017 03:38:09 pm

Very nice book ja. Soooo lovely.

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James Rich
11/13/2017 03:39:45 pm

I agree, its very nice. I like a an of culture.

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Shawn Adams
11/13/2017 03:40:45 pm

You mean man. A man of culture. But still, i agree.

Rajaswaran Patel
11/13/2017 03:41:39 pm

Right, very nice book. I very much agree.

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Tyrone Williams
11/19/2017 06:11:44 pm

Wattup cuz, Dis book is so cool.

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Patrick Bell
11/20/2017 04:54:21 pm

Hey, it's Patrick Bell. I love your books Will Wight. They are so entertaining and nice. Please reply.



- Patrick Bell

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Will Wight
11/21/2017 02:30:38 pm

Thanks for the kind words.




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