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Fantasy Faction has set a date for the Grim Gathering! Join Peat and three other pretty cool fantasy authors for a night of panel discussion, signings and a hopping after party. Here’s the all the information you need to know:

Who? Peter V. Brett, Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Myke Cole.

When? August 13th, 2014 at 6:30pm

Where? Blackwell’s Bookshop Charing Cross Rd

What? Panel, Q&A, Signing, After Party

Here’s the breakdown of the evening:

6:30pm until 7:00pm will be a panel discussion with the writers on the fantasy genre.
7:00pm until 7:15pm will be questions from the audience.
7:15pm until 8:00pm will be a signing with all four authors.
8:00pm until late will be an after party at a local inn. Come drink and chat with the authors and other fantasy fans.

This is a really special event that was a ton a of fun last year with about 100 people cramming into the bookstore. It’s more than a signing — with ample time for a panel and an after party to those of you who want to keep going, this is definitely an event to mark in our calendars.

You can RSVP to the event on Fantasy Faction’s Facebook here.

Posted on June 24, 2014 at 8:00 am by megelizabeth
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As you may have seen from time to time on Peat’s Twitter, Cassie’s been doing a great job powering through her superheroine costume challenges. Inspired by the game Injustice, Peat writes out challenges on the living room chalkboard. The prize is an essential piece to a superheroine costume. Once Cassie completes one of the challenges, it becomes unlocked! But the challenges can be tough: trying new foods, doing chores and reading harder books.

Cassie’s done a lot of challenges. The other week, Myke was over and asked Cassie how many costumes she had created through her challenges. Cassie counted on her fingers. She had completed three (Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Catwoman). So who is her fourth superheroine? None other than Hawkgirl (who Cassie often refers to as Hawkwoman. After all, she’s a grown-up).

Now, Cassie faces the ultimate challenge: getting her Hawkgirl costume done before her superhero birthday party at the end of July. All the kids will be in costume, and Cass is determined that Hawkgirl make an appearance.

Step one was putting together the challenge board:

Next, Cassie had to begin collecting supplies from the local costume shop to make the perfect homemade Hawkgirl. We used this as our jumping off point:

Cassie found the perfect wings:

And a pretty awesome mask:

But the mace was more of a challenge. The shop only had morning stars:

Peat had to get creative with the weaponry, making it into a DIY project with Cassie:

Before

After

Cassie knocked off the first challenge by reading on her own for a full hour. Once unlocked, she received the first element of her costume: the Hawkgirl mask!

Challenge #2, putting away all her cups, plates, silverware, and associated materials after each meal WITHOUT BEING ASKED for one week is a greater test. After 4 days, the clock had to be set back to zero, but confidence remains high.

Still, there are a lot of question marks on that board… will Cassie complete them all in time for her superhero birthday bash?

Check back soon to find out!

Posted on June 23, 2014 at 8:00 am by megelizabeth
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Blogger SplatterGeist recently posted a review of The Warded Man. I am loving the title of the review: Who Knew Ink Would Be Our Saviour? A great subtitle for the series.

The review starts off with a pretty awesome intro written by the blogger. Check it out:

In a world where demons rule the night, reigning supreme only to scurry or burn away at the rising sun, humans cower, weak and frightened, behind peeling wards. In these wards hum the subtle reminders of the old world when a man known as the Deliverer destroyed whole legions of demons with a single swipe, walked among them without fear, tore at them as they would us, and unlike an ordinary man, no physical harm could ever befall him – or so the stories say. With the Deliverer offering us aid in our darkest times against the demons, we humans praised and sang about his deeds, his courage, his prowess in battle. We named our children after him because for a long time, there was peace. The demons were still there, don’t forget, somewhere in the night beyond the limits of our sight, frightened of our saviour.

A few of us thought that they were waiting for something – what, exactly, we couldn’t fathom.

Life carried on, we built cities, dukes rose, the poor begged on the streets. The time of the first demon war was written in our history books and everything in the world seemed at ease. We went out in the dark to deliver supplies to other cities, we worked in the dark to build bridges and roads – the corelings left us to do as we pleased in the dark. We were under the impression that this was how we would spend the rest of our lives with the demons held back. Of course, fate had other ideas and the unthinkable happened.

The Deliverer disappeared.

Catching us unaware, the demons came in a wave of claws and roaring maws, spittle hanging in wet strings from snarling jaws. On that first day, countless of us were slaughtered. Many of us went back to the mud, our last breath leaving our lungs. Others were less fortunate; bit of bone and flesh fed the stomachs of their murderers.

With the demons back in full mass we barely stood a chance against them. We returned to what we knew best; we hid, drew wards, and prayed for the Deliverer to come again and save us.

Except he never did; in his place we watched a robed figure rip the arms off a demon before flinging it at its companions and roaring at them as he tore the creature’s head off. The hooded figure jumped into the fray, attacking more than half a dozen demons with the full moon’s glow illuminating his features; he was a man, if albeit hairless and bore strange markings on his skin and spoke in a hollow voice.

The Deliverer had abandoned us, but there was hope yet that the Warded Man might save us.

The rest of the review follows in  a traditional fashion before closing with this ominous one-liner:

There’s action, suspense, and a whole host of nasty critters out to get you, so be careful and mind the dark.

Posted on June 20, 2014 at 8:00 am by megelizabeth
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Joey, an aspiring tattoo artists, uses his own skin as a canvas. And lately, his theme has been wards. Check out these incredible tattoos:

Warded skulls … very Demon Cycle. Doesn’t get much cooler than that! Thank you for posting your fantastic work, Joey!

Posted on June 18, 2014 at 8:00 am by megelizabeth
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This just in — warded monograms are the latest thing! At least according to super fan Mia, who had the first letter of her name encircled by some useful wards.

She will definitely be safe on the golf coarse! Awesome job, Mia!

Posted on June 17, 2014 at 8:00 am by megelizabeth
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