Soulsmith Audiobook Giveaway!

11/6/2018

As you may or may not know, the Soulsmith audiobook is available now on Audible and Amazon!

As a matter of fact, the narrator--Travis Baldree--is so awesome that he's already done recording Blackflame! It's headed off to editing already. I don't know how he keeps up with these.

Now that Soulsmith is out, I have to do a giveaway. As is tradition.

Comment below and tell me your favorite word and its definition. Any word, real or made up. My hidden gnomes will then pick their ten favorite responses and give those people a code for a free Soulsmith audiobook!

Here's the deal: comment on this post (here on the blog) and tell me about your favorite character word. When you comment, make sure to use an email address you check, because TOMORROW NIGHT we're going to pick those 10 comments and email you each a promo code to download Soulsmith for free!

(You can use it yourself or give it away!)

DISCLAIMER: The code only works on Audible.com, NOT Audible.co.uk. I'm going to have a separate giveaway for U.K. codes, so if you're in the U.K., save your comments for next time!

As for people who are in neither the US nor UK...I think it depends on whether you use Audible.com or Audible.co.uk.

If you get your audiobooks from Audible.com, these codes are for you! So let's see your comments below!

-Will

P.S. If you are in the UK: Yes, I forgot about you last time. That happened. Therefore, I'm going to be doing a giveaway for the Unsouled audiobook in the UK on Monday. And instead of giving out ten codes, as an apology, we'll be giving out twenty-five UK codes, which may be more than we have responses. After that, we'll do the Soulsmith giveaway as well.

...sorry about that. I won't forget you this time, I promise.

74 Comments

Jeff

11/6/2018 02:17:16 pm

My favorite word is fred, why because on a keyboard it is a simple square. It is easy to type and fun to say.

11/8/2018 02:48:20 pm

I did not define my favorite word fred because it really is a name but here is the definition for Fred a short version of Frederick, Alfred, or Wilfred, also used as a formal male given name. (military, slang) Nickname for the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, widely used by USAF aircrews. The definition of Frederick is a masculine given name meaning "peaceful ruler". It is the English form of the Germanic name Friedrich. Its meaning is derived from the Germanic word elements frid, or peace, and ric, meaning "ruler" or "power". ... Short form Fred was among the most popular names for boys in Lower Saxony, Germany in 2010.

Ashley Tolman

11/6/2018 02:20:46 pm

Stelliferous- abounding in stars

Corey link

11/6/2018 02:22:30 pm

Favorite word for me at the moment would be cummerbund. It's a sash worn around the waist, usually as part of a man's formal evening suit. I just think the word is funny rather than the definition. Very immature I know :)

Jeremiah

11/6/2018 02:34:44 pm

My favorite word is Shuffles (hint)

Scott Nichols

11/6/2018 02:42:13 pm

Vivisection
Vi-vi-sec-tion:

The act of operating on a living organism for the purposes of research.
Ie. The thing Will does to us when he releases those "cryptic" updates.

Eric

11/6/2018 02:48:46 pm

Wightboi
Def: Someone who eagry awaits the next Will Wight book and will drop whatever they’re reading once it comes out.

He’s such a Wightboi, when Soulsmith came out he dropped everything he was doing and read it in one sitting. That’s my kind of person.

Ann R

11/6/2018 03:43:42 pm

Honestly, I think this is a winner

Deadnettle

11/6/2018 02:59:43 pm

verklempt. ver·klempt. adjective.
The definition of verklempt is a Yiddish word that describes a person who is too emotional to speak. An example of verklempt is a bride unable to give a speech at her wedding reception because she's overcome by love and joy.

My favorite uncle used to say that he was feeling verklempt when he was upset and I absolutely loved it! I never knew what it meant until years later after his passing away, but I like to dust it off from time to time and keep it in my vocabulary in remembrance of him.

(I hail from the cold, harsh hinterlands of Canadia, hopefully that won't be a problem if I am selected.)

Gavin

11/6/2018 03:01:43 pm

Aspirant: loosely defined as one aspiring to win or achieve a particular goal or prize

Darren

11/6/2018 03:13:13 pm

defenestration - the action of throwing someone out of a window

how awesome is that, actually have a specific word for throwing someone out the window!

Ann Rosendal

11/6/2018 03:45:21 pm

Haha this is my favorite word too /high five

Alex

11/7/2018 12:08:06 am

Thats my new second favorite word.

Finn

11/6/2018 03:23:02 pm

Dang I was gonna do defenestration...

Oubliette - a secret dungeon with a trapdoor hidden in the ceiling

Appeals to my fantasy nerd...

11/6/2018 03:46:04 pm

Smart minds think alike. Defenestration is my favorite too

Chylo

11/6/2018 03:38:47 pm

My favorite word is bibliophile... a person who collects or has a great love for books ... I am one and it’s fun to say 🤪

Steve

11/6/2018 03:41:52 pm

sesquipedalian - a person that uses long words

Latin roots - sesqui (one and half); ped (foot) - a foot and half long

11/6/2018 03:43:37 pm

Oh look, your comment stream is suddenly full of sesquipedalians!

11/6/2018 03:44:22 pm

Defenestrate
To kill someone by throwing them out a window

Yuri

11/6/2018 04:10:34 pm

My favorite word is loquacious. One of the first complex words I learned in English and just fell in love with it.

As an aside, I am not entering the audiobook giveaway. No need. Just wanted to share.

Jeff2

11/6/2018 04:19:39 pm

Word
A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” - Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Meng

11/6/2018 04:19:45 pm

Daydream.

Isn't this how books begin? A little daydream that dared to try.

Cicelean

11/6/2018 04:30:18 pm

Inconceivable
not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable.

You've fallen for one of the two classic blunders! The first being never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly lesser known: never go in against a cicelean when DEATH is on the line! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA *dies*

Sean K

11/6/2018 07:32:30 pm

THIS! My favorite part of that movie! Right after every other part of that movie! All parts of that movie are my favorite part!

11/6/2018 09:34:11 pm

If you don't win I'll be upset. I'm upset I didn't think to reference this.

Reddan

11/7/2018 06:06:57 pm

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Kyle

11/6/2018 04:42:54 pm

Kairos

an Ancient Greek word meaning the right, critical, or opportune moment.

In rhetoric, kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos

CTS JohnZ

11/6/2018 05:16:32 pm

Liberator

A liberator is someone who sets people free from captivity. Abolitionists were liberators who fought to free African-American slaves from bondage in the years before the Civil War. Both liberator and liberty derive from the Latin liberare meaning "to set free."

John Herring

11/6/2018 05:30:04 pm

Chork - v. mid-15c., now Scottish, "to make the noise which the feet do when the shoes are full of water" [Jamieson]. Related: Chorked ; chorking .

Aaron

11/6/2018 05:44:24 pm

Furtive, I would tell you the definition but I can't seem to find it

Andrew

11/6/2018 06:05:55 pm

Paraprosdokian, its a sentence where the ending makes your reconsider the beginning. For example: "light travels faster than sounds which is why you looked smart till you opened your mouth."

11/6/2018 06:14:55 pm

I like this word, the examples reminded me to watch Mitch Hedberg

"I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long." —Mitch Hedberg

Turcojo

11/6/2018 06:15:08 pm

My favorite word is omnipotent. All knowing, ever present, and all powerful. Tis my favorite word for the sheer concept of omnipotence and how it can be attuned to today's society. Specifically if someone with enough money, high enough political standing, and enough general resources they could be as close to omnipotent as can be accomplished due to our reliance on technology coupled with the fact that you are almost always on camera somwhere whether it be out to eat or walking through town. That's not even beginning to mention the sheer amount of personal data on cell phones

11/7/2018 10:45:53 am

After rereading this I personally think I sound like a paranoid nut.

11/6/2018 06:20:45 pm

Abibliophobia
It is my favorite word and my worst fear.
The fear of running out of reading material.
- The person dying for Underlord to come out

Scott W. Pike

11/8/2018 12:21:20 pm

I now have a name for one of my fears. Thanks.

Steven

11/6/2018 06:51:51 pm

My favorite is onomatopoeia.

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle )

Orthos is the living embodiment of the word with his crunching and stomping everything in sight .

Julio

11/6/2018 07:01:24 pm

I word that always bring a smile to my face when used in a book is poppycock. Which means nonesense.

Eithan said “Dross what they are saying is a bunch of poppycock, don’t bother thinking about it!”

Raccoon #542

11/6/2018 07:05:51 pm

Favorite word: Yodeled

Mark

11/6/2018 07:08:25 pm

Besmirch - to tarnish or dirty
"he had besmirched the good name of his family"

I've always liked besmirch as it sounds like a dirty word, it means to tarnish or dirty, and i cant help smirking everytime i say it - as if the word itself is a private joke

Johnny

11/6/2018 07:19:45 pm

Underlord: The first rank beyond Gold, few reach this stage as it requires more than raw power; Other uses, the mythical next book in Will Wight's Cradle series.

11/7/2018 08:07:51 am

This is also a winning word IMO

11/6/2018 07:29:34 pm

Gnomeregan - A fictional city of World of Warcraft which was once the hometown of the Gnomes.

When I first heard of the place I heard it as "Gnomes-are-gone" and thought it was some kind of repellant for the more deranged members of Gnomish society. "Try this handy-dandy 'Gnomeregan' repellant! Guaranteed to reduce chances of nasty bites while in your garden or your money back! No exchanges or refunds."

Benjamin I. Espen link

11/6/2018 08:55:31 pm

Mellifluous. Latin for sweet-sounding, like honey. Often used to describe an unusually persuasive speaker.

My high school German teacher introduced it to me, and I've often thought about it ever since.

James

11/6/2018 09:14:26 pm

Radiculopathy. - it is defined as pain shooting from the spine peripherally out. Typically down the leg. The definition is not fun but the word is.

Haunar

11/6/2018 09:26:32 pm

Bescumber; one of the words in the English language that mean “to spray with poo”

Path of the Overly Ambitious Goal Setter

11/6/2018 10:06:14 pm

I'm going to cheat and list a favorite word and a favorite phrase. I understand if I'm disqualified.

Favorite Word: Optimal, adjective that means the best. I like it because it's simultaneously vague and precise. Lots of different things can be optimal because different people have different objectives. Good discussions are usually precise and I think this word can help direct a discussion to fundamental differences in beliefs and views.

Favorite Phrase: "Arguments aren't soldiers." Credit for this goes to the blog "Less Wrong." The basic idea is that people tend to treat debates like a war. Winning is the important thing in a war, so in your debate you have to defend all the arguments on your side, even the terrible ones, because if you don't it's like betraying your own soldiers. But a debate isn't a war and your goal shouldn't be, "winning" it should be finding the truth whatever that truth is. Defending terrible arguments only obscures the truth, so we have to remind ourselves that, "arguments aren't soldiers."

Jack

11/6/2018 10:51:23 pm

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Mary Poppins:
When trying to express oneself, it's frankly quite absurd,
To leaf through lengthy lexicons to find the perfect word.
A little spontaniaty keeps conversation keen,
You need to find a way to say, precisely what you mean...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrosicous!
If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious,

Christopher Britt

11/6/2018 11:28:42 pm

Chutzpah: audacity, cheek, etc... also a great scrabble word

Sofie

11/7/2018 01:23:33 am

Hangry
A person that gets angry when they are really hungry.
Love that this word was invented. It describes a friend of mine so well! :)
Love it!

Joe

11/7/2018 04:29:02 am

Typewriter, a machine for writing, can be written using only the top row of keys in a standard typewriter

Mariane

11/7/2018 08:50:49 am

Malarkey- meaningless talk; nonsense; another way of swearing without being offensive

"The clans of Sacred Valley didn't believe Wei Shi Lindon's malarkey about the coming doom and collapse of the valley."

11/7/2018 08:53:40 am

One of my favorite words is Brouhaha, only because its definition is 'a hubbub'.

Patricia Murray

11/7/2018 10:11:05 am

Carapace, definition - shell,

As an example- as I am hiding in my carapace until the next book by Will is released.

Or " they walked onto the ancient battlefield still riddled with the carapaces of the last of the great black dragons centuries ago

Dave

11/7/2018 11:47:33 am

Syllepsis

1. a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses (e.g., caught the train and a bad cold ) or to two others of which it grammatically suits only one (e.g., neither they nor it is working ).
2. Because I am an overliterary nerd this became the name of a band I was in, and subsequently the songs we tried (badly) to write.

11/7/2018 12:23:27 pm

My favorite word is: capacitor, a device that stores electric energy as an electric charge.

Michael

11/7/2018 01:56:44 pm

Favorite word is: Patzer, which is a poor chess player

ben

11/7/2018 02:45:24 pm

ineffable

11/11/2018 12:46:04 am

Subtle

Omni

11/7/2018 02:47:10 pm

Favorite Word: Confluence
Definition: (1) the junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width. (2) an act or process of merging

Sentence: "Lindon felt his cores had been overextended to the point of collapse, but he continued to expel all of the blackflame and pure madra streams from his palms he could muster. He barely managed to merge the streams into a single point of confluence by sheer willpower, but it was too late..."

The Last reader

11/7/2018 05:19:38 pm

Imperitum(noun)

Definition: The amount of time it takes Will Wight to write and release the 3rd edition of the EE series. Currently this unit cannot be defined as it seems nearly as infinite as the number Pi.

Arjun

11/7/2018 06:32:31 pm

Semibuzzed: you have transcended being blackout drunk and ascended and become the god of wine

Jay

11/7/2018 07:12:47 pm

Here is my favorite made up word. (Not mine).

sonder:

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Mancer

11/7/2018 08:06:09 pm

My favorite word for characters is eccentric. I love crazy characters. And based on your Kai, Bliss, and Eithan I think you do too Will.

Matt

11/7/2018 08:53:42 pm

My favorite word is monosyllabic because it isn't.

11/7/2018 10:33:51 pm

Methylchloroisothiazolinone

It’s an ingredient in shampoos. Read it one day as a kid while sitting on the john. Just stuck with me. It’s fun to say and I like to pretend I’m being impressive when using it. I’m on the Path of the Long Word. The more letters in a word the more madra for me to cycle...

Rajat

11/8/2018 02:17:14 am

Prepone

...antonym of postpone. Can you believe that Prepone is not a real word? Shocking, right? It is like Harvard Dictionary never imagined that we would like to bring something forward...they could only imagine postponing it

JOSHUA

11/8/2018 08:01:38 am

Dude because Dude.

Chad Brink

11/8/2018 08:27:35 am

"iliberate" The inability to understand the process of turning left or any leftist thinking.

Robert Jahn

11/8/2018 09:15:44 am

Giant Siphonophore

“The giant gelatinous predator moves silently through cold, dark waters, propelled by a pair of expanding and contracting swimming bells. Its rope-like body is actually a colony of almost a thousand individual subsections, each performing a specific task. Some provide propulsion, others, reproductive functions; but most specialize in capturing and devouring prey. When hunting, these sections deploy thousands of slender, stinging tentacles to capture drifting krill, copepods, small fish, and other jellies. Almost anything blundering into this deadly net of tentacles soon finds itself stuffed into the nearest waiting mouth.” (Source: The Ecology Center).

My three year old daughter came up to me talking about the giant siphonophore that she saw on an episode of Octonauts. It was cute to hear her say it, and then she told me it would burst. After looking it up it turns out that they are in fact constantly under pressure and at water pressure below 46 MPa they will burst. These symbiotic creatures pulled up in fishing nets look like gelatin because of their need for constant pressure.

Salt and Pepper Shakers

11/8/2018 04:19:54 pm

Boracity—The state of being bored.

sara

11/9/2018 03:12:25 pm

i dont know if this is still ongoing but my favourite word is: Imbecile

sara from above

11/9/2018 03:14:00 pm

missed off the definition a bit from above and it pretty much means idiot

Brian S

11/9/2018 07:47:59 pm

Yeah, I know I'm almost as late as 'of Kings & Killers', but I just had to chime in anyways.

My favorite word is 'publish'.

To prepare and issue (a book, music, or other material) for public distribution, especially for sale.

Lets have some more of this going on!

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