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Latest Theories Challenge: The Vlar-rei promised the Red Queen that they would aid Elspeth when she spoke Maruman's name. Twice she has called on them when in dire need. In The Red Queen she will call on them again: why? - set by Arwen. Have your say here!
Obernewtyn.net is home to all the latest news, discussion, and information about Isobelle Carmody and her writing. Taking its name from Isobelle Carmody's most popular series, The Obernewtyn Chronicles, Obernewtyn.net welcomes all as a fun community to discuss anything Isobelle Carmody related and much, much more.
Check regularly for any updates on The Red Queen, the final book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles, and Darkbane, the completion of the Legendsong trilogy, as well as other new releases from Isobelle Carmody.
Isobelle Carmody will be in Australia in May this year, to launch Metro Winds, and will be appearing at several bookshops around the country. She has confirmed a few appearances on facebook yesterday - and there's surely more to come!
Have you been, or are you going to, one of these events? Let us know all about it in this thread.
Penguin has posted a news item on their Penguin Teen Website concerning the release date of the Red Queen.
The Red Queen, the seventh and FINAL book in the almost 20 year old series has officially moved to a 2013 release date.
You may have seen The Red Queen available from the US and UK very shortly. To clarify, this is not the final Book Seven in the series. In the US, The Sending is published as two separate books, Part 1 titled The Sending and Part 2 titled The Red Queen and due for release 30th April. If you have read The Sending Australian edition, then you have already read this book.
To read the whole news post, click here. Penguin also releases updates via their Facebook page, which you can find here.
While many of you will be disappointed and some of you aren't sure you want the series to end, we've got to keep in mind that good things come to those who wait.
Some of you may have seen her Facebook post, others her tweet; but for those that haven't seen either, head over to insideadog.com.au and check out Isobelle's first blog post as author-in-residence for March, Skating on Thin Ice.In this article, Isobelle blogs about her life in Prague, and about why she loves it.
... Last week, I went on a 4 hour train ride out of Prague to a lake called Machovo Jezero. It had been minus15 degrees most of the week leading up to the trip, but that day the temperature had risen to around zero, so I knew the ice would be thick enough not to crack and swallow me but that I would not freeze my head off skating. It was surrealistic, stunning, spookily magical, to be skating alone on a lake that was white...
Isobelle posted an excerpt today on her insideadog.com.au blog post, The Short Story (Pt 2). The excerpt is from The Stone Witch, a short story from the upcoming anthology Under My Hat, edited by Jonathan Strahan.
Under My Hat will be published by Random House in September 2012 and contains stories by Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman and Margo Lanagan to name a few.
...Here’s the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty- story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick. Moreover, I am fine with being solo. I mean manless as well as kidless. Not everyone needs someone, no matter what the greeting cards say...