J.’s Comments (group member since Nov 02, 2011)

J.’s comments from the Q&A with J. Leigh Bralick group.

Eee! How exciting! Thanks for sharing it...you don't know how important that is for us indies! ^_^ I really appreciate it.

Say, did you check out the pic in my latest blog post? <3 ;-)

Yay! When I saw that you were reading it, I was totally biting my nails hoping you'd like it. So glad you did! =)

Thanks! ^_^ You probably noticed the final version is a bit...bluer. ;-)

Hi! Thanks for joining, and for the question!

And -- yes. =) There will be a book 3, titled Prism. I'm hoping it will be finished by the end of May. I may be putting up a GR page in the next couple of days. In fact...I think I'll do that right now. ;-)

I'm anticipating that the entaka will be a major player in this one. Yikes. He totally creeps me out. O.o

Check it out, guys! Subverter now has a cover!

=D

Hey, I just posted this to my blog, I but I thought I would post it here, too, for your viewing pleasure. Behold, my Down a Lost Road soundtrack!!! I thought it would be fun to compile a list of songs I think go with different parts of the book, so...

What would you pick for these different scenes?

Trailer: Summoning of the Muse — Dead Can Dance

Opening Credits: Í Gaer — Sigur Rós
Pyelthan/Memories: In the Shadow of Life — Niyaz
Arrival: Panoramic — Atticus Ross (Book of Eli)
Yatol/Through the Desert: Egil Saga — Faun
Camp: Ember Deid II — SuidAkra / Kadet Siipina — Korpiklaani
All Forgotten: The Scientist — Coldplay
Watched: Summer Overture — Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream)
Return/Ungulion: Sirius b — Therion
The Gorhiem Bolstoed: In Search of Lost Innocence — Lisa Gerrard
Safe: Yasmin the Light — Explosions in the Sky
Akhmar: The Northern Lights — Lisa Gerrard (A Thousand Roads)
The Branhau: Aldebaran — Enya
Meeting the Lord Master: Coming to Barrow — Lisa Gerrard and Jeff Rona (A Thousand Roads)
Consolation: Red Horizon — Lisa Gerrard
The Library: Black — The Birthday Massacre
Yatol Remembers: Adagio for Tron — Daft Punk (Tron: Legacy)
Khymranna/Escape: Elk Hunt — Trevor Jones (Last of the Mohicans)
Azik: Sigur Rós — Sigur Rós
Departure/Elekeo: Fejd — Eld / Twilight and Shadow — Howard Shore (Return of the King)
The Blade of Heaven: Last Agni Kai — The Track Team (Avatar: The Last Airbender -- cartoon, not movie)
The Gift of Fire: N’Eus Forzh — Denez Prigent
Lathelin: E-Bow — Sigus Rós
Into the Void/Alone: Sanvean — Lisa Gerrard
Dreams/Entry: Indigo — Epica
The Judgment/Rescue: The Host of Seraphim — Dead Can Dance
Farewell: An Hini a Garan — Denez Prigent
Home: Wherever You Will Go — The Calling
End Credits: Hawk vs. Crow — The Union Trade

Ooh, hope not in a bad way! :)

Mmm...the Ungulion. We'll have to see about that. I hadn't anticipated that they'd be back, but...something strange has happened in the chapter I just wrote that makes me kind of wonder... Actually, I don't know what or who I just met, but....it wasn't who I thought it was. I know that much at least. O.o

Here's another question for you guys.

If you could design the cover for Subverter, what would you want on it? And please. Don't say a beautiful girl in a fancy ball gown, facing away from the viewer with her hair blowing wildly, or facing the viewer with an angsty look on her face. :-P That was pretty fantastic the first fifty books or so, but now I'm kind of sick of it! ;)

Seriously though. Something similar in theme to DaLR? Something featuring a character or two?

Let me know -- because I'm seriously listening. I need to start thinking about this and I'm having no end of frustrations with it! O.o

Yeah, it would definitely have to be changed. Much lighter, and shorter...still shaggy, but not too long.

I didn't actually base my drawing on him....I'd actually never even heard of him until I asked this question and it got me thinking, "Who would I want to see as Yatol?" So I started hunting around for actors in that general age range and he came up. And yeah, I thought he really did have the face too.

Aw, sorry about the no time for writing...but marching band is really cool! So at least you get to do something awesome anyway. =)

It wouldn't be unheard of! After all, Kurtis just an adjunct with a Master's at that point. :-) And he's a pretty smart dude.

Really? That's interesting... He's no older than 25 or 26, so he's still pretty young (*mutter*)...but maybe I did go overboard in trying to capture his youthful personality... O.o Haha...yeah...

Hah! She totally punched him. That really surprised me. :-P

Hmm....I think he's still only like 14 though. :-/ I think I'd just have a hard time not imagining him with an arrow on his head!!! O.o

I'm having a really tough time thinking of someone for Yatol. Annoying! I kind of like Liam Hemsworth (Chris Hemsworth's little brother), or someone like this guy, Tyler Blackburn, if you could picture him with lighter hair....

Aha! I knew it!

Umm... ;-)

Well, here you go. I'm feeling charitable, so...here's an excerpt of part I was just working on...
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She started to turn down the tunnel, but seeing Lohka reach for his short sword she stopped and waved the torch at him. “Don’t even think about it.”

“Aniira—”

“No. It’s out of the question. You will stand there until we’ve left the tunnel.”

“But I know where you’re hiding. What makes you think I won’t just follow?”

“I don’t care if you follow us later. You don’t know where we are at the Academy. And you certainly don’t know how to gain access.”

Lohka let out a thin hiss of laughter. “But I know someone who does.”

Before I realized what happened, Aniira had him against the wall of the corridor, the edge of her sword against his neck. Part of me wanted to smirk. Payback. But I just went for the torch she’d thrown aside, managing to rescue it from the ground before it went out.

“I’ve never had much trust to spare for the likes of you,” she said. “I don’t care what awakening you’ve had, or what kind of new person you claim to be. You’ve straddled the battle lines too long for me to believe you’re on ours to stay. So stay out of our way.”

To my surprise, Lohka didn’t argue with her. He just turned to me, sad and weary.

“Funny, isn’t it?” he murmured. “Funny how we can hate and mistrust each other, and circle around and try to outsmart each other, and yet in the end realize that our only chance is to band together…”

The blood drained from my face, and I stared at him through a tunnel all awash in a red haze. Two steps. And suddenly Lohka was sliding down the wall, unconscious, his nose streaming blood, while I stood over him shaking out my fist.

LOL! Nah, you got it right...

(view spoiler)[I'm not going to answer that! Mwahaha! (hide spoiler)]

:-P

So let me be evil myself and turn Jen's question around on you guys!

What would you have told me to do differently, if you could have?

Thanks Keri! :-)

I'm really nervous...I just sent off a copy of DaLR to someone I really respect. And he might just give me a cover quote...... Yikes! That would be so awesome...but I'm terrified he won't like the novel. :-/

Yeah, that could be irritating. =k

So...question #2. If you could....what actor would you pick to play Yatol? Or pick some other character if you like...;-)

Mmm...he's still in training. I checked with a Marine friend of mine about the timeline, and it's going to be tough. Maybe we'll see more of him in Book 3, however...;-)

You know, the kind of crazy thing about this book is I have no idea who is going to show up, and when. I just had the plot take a strange twist on me. Just when I thought things were so messed up I could never get them to make sense, something changed and now it all fits together. Weird. So, who knows what will happen next?