Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 272
April 19, 2016
Hi! I'm a bookseller at Barnes and Noble who first read your work when I picked up Six of Crows as an advanced readers copy. I fell in love and I've been recommending it to everyone I know! I was wondering, will Crooked Kingdom also be sent out as advanced
Ahhhhh you are splendid. Thanks for being a book pusher
As far as I know, there will be no ARCs of Crooked Kingdom. We’ll have excerpts at BEA/Bookcon aaaaand… there’s a good chance we’ll be sharing an excerpt online sometime soon.
Thus endeth the ask binge!
When did the Darkling lose his love of colors and stuff? Or is he still that same young boy inside? Is all the black just a dramatic statement or does he really not appreciate colors the same way anymore? BTW I looooooooove your books with burning passion
Thank you!
The Darkling never lost his love of color. As Nikolai says (more or less), the Darkling understands the power of public image. Wearing black, keeping that color associated with his title and no one else is part of a carefully cultivated persona.
Hello! I was wondering if you'll ever come to Paris for a signing event? I missed one of your events in London when I traveled there last October so I wonder it's okay to hope haha. Have a nice day!
I hope so, but that depends on my publishers. Fingers crossed though. My French is terrible. All should experience it.
Hello! Are you going to be doing a tour for the Crooked Kingdom release? :)
Yes! We won’t know the stops for a long while though. I’ll post about it plenty, and you can always sign up for my newsletter if you want to make sure you don’t miss the announcement.
thank you for Nina. thank you for Inej.
You are so welcome. Thanks for the lovely message.
Even given that Corporalki are in some ways considered "a class above", is Nina considered a powerful individual by other Grisha? She's obviously skilled in multiple areas (QUEEN) but so far as raw talent goes, where does she fall on the spectrum?
Interesting question! Nina is a powerful Heartrender, but her natural ability isn’t crazy off the charts. (She also doesn’t have an amplifier.) I’d put her around a 7 as far as raw talent goes? But you can still do a lotta damage at 7.
It seems that, in Germany at least, the new audiobook version of Six of Crows with the recast Kaz is available for download. Have a great weekend! :-)
Guys, I haven’t been able to hear the new Kaz at all and it’s driving me nuts. I even deleted SoC from my phone and re-downloaded. VEXED.
Hi! Leigh, I just recently read SoC and now I am catastrophically in love with u & ur writing and of course, the characters. I was wondering after CK, sometime in the future will you write about Kaz, Inej and their team again. Bcz u kno, I NEED MORE.
I honestly don’t know. I don’t want to close the door on the possibility of writing more in the series, but I have a couple of other projects I want to get to first. (And thanks for the kind words
