So until next time this is Bill, Darth Bill saying Peace.
Hey, fellow readers in blogville, it's Carl as well, terribly excited about hearing from two people this morning! The first is Spartacus Kilroy, founder of the great Port-O-Door website. It's an Erec Rex fansite run by teens--reader guys (and girls) just like you! Spartacus says:
Hey, Spartacus Kilroy here, the founder of Port-O-Door, and I'd just like to say thanks for linking to us! I love your site! Also, Search for Truth was flabbergastingly amazing! I managed to win a signed advance reviewer's copy from the Erec Rex forum, erecrex.com/forum, so after I read it I had to wait a month or two until I could finally expand upon it's awesomeness, but now I realize it's just too awesome for words.
Thanks, Spartacus! Take a look at their site everyone. It's terrific! I'm in chapter 3 of The Search for Truth and enjoying it. Boy, Erec gets in trouble right away! Kaza Kingsley wastes no time getting the action started!
We also have a review from Jana Warnell, a school librarian, a mom of boys, and faithful follower of this blog:
I have a book review for you! Have you read any of the Young Bond series by Charlie Higson? Great books with the concept of James Bond as a teen--but set in the 1930's. The first two were okay, readable and full of action, but the third, Double or Die, was great! Could hardly put it down. After I was finished I had to run and watch Casino Royale and make a James Bond ringtone for my phone--it was that good!
And thanks to you too, Jana! I've heard the first two Young Bond books were Ok and it's good to hear this one is really good. This was a good review and we appreciate it. Have we made you an Honorary Guy yet? You guys might want to check with your parents before you get any James Bond movies, though, because they always have a lot of--well, I hate to say it--kissing involved. Yes, there are car chases and shooting and things blowing up but there's always kissing. It's only my duty to warn you.
There's one more bit of news for all of you, especially if you were at the Star Wars Camps at the Matthews or Imaginon libraries. We're having our Star Wars Camp Grand Finale on Thursday, July 30 here at Imaginon at 2 pm. We'll have a speaker talk about Luke Skywalker as the Epic Hero, snacks, and show the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie. Registration starts at 9:00 tomorrow morning. Call 704-416-4630 to register. Hope to see you there!
Well folks, it's Double or Die.
At 11am yesterday Charlie Higson ripped open a heavily embargoed box of Young Bond books to reveal the title of the latest instalment. I was somewhere towards the back of a mob of several hundred eager fans and parents at Waterstone's Piccadilly shameless gnawing my fingernails in nervous anticipation of the morning's proceedings. You see, I only got back to work the day before, and so I had to scramble to make sure all was in order and set-up for the massively anticipated launch. Barring a few small kinks — I barely got a TV monitor working in time to display the cool secret cameras that were shown off by our guest partner Spy Shop Ltd and our MC had trouble saying Charlie's name correctly just about every time he had to say it (why I don't know) — the launch went off incredibly well. We are all pleased! Videos of the event can be found at Youngbond.com and Youngbonddossier.com and I threw together some of our digital picks on flickr here.
From what I gather, the books are flying off the shelves. Stores are already selling out of the limited edition wrapped series, so I would recommend you go out and grab one fast. These will be collectors' items down the road certainly. In fact on a December 06 episode of Antiques Road Show, Ian's secretary had a complete set of Ian Fleming James Bond First Editions worth somewhere around £20,000 each. At last glance, a signed copy from the event is already going for £35 on Ebay.
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Hurricane Gold is coming out soon, and I think I saw a fifth book out in the UK. David Gilman has a new spy one coming out soon, too. Ice Claw, I think!