Status Updates From The Shadow Club Rising (Sha...

Awesome so far! I love the reunion of the members!

I don't think I've officially noted this on a progress update here, so I'll do it now. Cover art for The Shadow Club Rising is by the great Cliff Nielsen. He's done some incredible cover art in his career. Incredible in terms of quality, variety, and sheer amount.

Very nice, a reference to Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War! Fitting, as Neal Shusterman is near the top of a short list of YA authors I consider in Cormier's league, the others being Avi and Gary Paulsen.

"Nobody sees themselves as 'the bad guy.' Even the nastiest, most evil people are heroes in their own minds."

—The Shadow Club Rising, P. 29

"(P)eople see you the way they want to see you...and sometimes they manage to turn you into the very thing they want to see."

—The Shadow Club Rising, P. 29

A Ralphy Sherman sighting on page twenty-seven!

"Sometimes people see you the way they want to see you...no matter how hard you try to change it. It's like they'd rather twist the whole world just so they can keep seeing you the same lousy way."

—Tyson, The Shadow Club Rising, P. 18

"But anger and hatred and resentment—those feelings are as slippery as a greased pig: hard to handle, and even harder to catch when they get loose. Feelings like that don't die easily—they just move on to other people if they can't have their way with you."

—The Shadow Club Rising, P. 4

After a long period, multiple years, with this book on the back burner, I'm going to try to get back into it now as Halloween nears. Go Neal Shusterman!