Today I’m signing the Waterstones special edition of SCATTERED SHOWERS. This is a limited signed edition. (It’s the one with the rainbow edge.)
I drove around looking for open-stock Sharpies in a color that would match the interior ink… (The interior is printed in two colors of ink — a minty teal and a purply burgundy.) I think Rocket Red is the best choice, but I’m open to Berry. I spent … a lot. Of time. On this.
(My husband hates to cut the tulips, but this week is so hot, they would have fried anyway. I talked him into bringing them in, and now I’m signing in Wonderland.)
SCATTERED SHOWERS is a collection of short stories, including characters from Fangirl, Attachments and the Simon Snow Trilogy. This is the Waterstones edition. They ship internationally. You can preorder it here.
I can’t always tell when Baz is mocking me. He’s got a cruel mouth. It looks like he’s sneering even when he’s happy about something. Actually, I don’t know if he ever is happy. It’s like he’s got two emotions - pissed off and sadistically amused. (And plotting, is that an emotion? If so, three.) (And disgusted. Four) Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
late share for six sentence Sunday bc I was working on this and… felt guilty?? but apparently not enough to not post it - so thanks for the tag @palimpsessed
Rating: Mature (for future chapters; all content to this point is rated Teen)
Words:~62K
Chapters: 8/12 (updating weekly)
Summary:
On Christmas Day 2015, Simon Snow didn’t walk out of the White Chapel alive.
But someone else did - The Insidious Humdrum. He’s not really sure what happened, but he knows that whatever it was has changed him from being the greatest threat the World of Mages has ever known to… something else.
Now the Mage is on the lam, Baz is on his aunt’s sofa, and the Humdrum is just trying to get by on his own in the big city.
The art will be coming in the following chapters but in the meantime, you can get a sneak peek of it on this gorgeous banner created by Kris!
Summary: When eleven-year-old Baz Pitch enters the Watford School of Magicks for the first time, he’s very excited to finally get a chance to meet Simon Snow. He’s been preparing for this moment his whole life and he cannot wait to get a chance to fulfil the prohecy his mother used to tell him about before she died.
But fate has other things in store for him.
Simon Snow has been trained to kill Baz his entire life. His father says fulfilling the prophecy and destroying the darkness that threatens the World of Mages is his destiny. The thing is, Simon isn’t interested in being Baz’s enemy.
In a world where both their families are set on having them hate each other, would it be possible for the two of them to be friends?
Simon’s got a message to pass on to Baz, but Baz won’t listen. So Simon follows Baz into the woods, where they accidentally run into a faerie fertility rite in progress and get more involved than they wanted to….
Simon
I skipped my final class of the day so I could catch Baz coming back to the room before tea. He has a free period right now, and I know for a fact he usually takes advantage of my absence from the room to get some studying done. Or plotting. Probably plotting.
I need to talk to him. I promised his mum that I’d pass on her message. And I’ve been trying to talk to him. But he’s been avoiding me since he returned to Watford, even though I’ve done everything but shout “your mum Visited me!” across the dining hall.
My bad luck continues, though. When I reach my room, not only is it empty, but I can see Baz’s unmistakable figure from the window, making for the treeline. Probably planning to suck down Bambi’s mum.
Maybe… if I can catch up with him before he gets too much of a head start, maybe I can kill two birds with one stone.
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