[Dresden] "Turn Coat" - due out April 2009

[Highlander II]

'baited' breath? Little fishy, huh? XD Sorry, just one of those grammar mistakes that makes me laugh.

But, yes, as soon as I found out this one had something to do with Morgan, I couldn't wait. Still have two months to go. Ack!

[Saeltari]

Morgan hasn't been one of my favorite characters but he is interesting and I find the premise for this one to be very intriguing. Quite looking forward to it.

[The44]

I thought that Morgan's character was somewhat stereotyped as the rigid fundamentalist of the White Council. He has grown on me in that it seems that he can grow. I too look forward to this alliance between Harry and Morgan. It looks like a lot of fun.

I quite liked Highlander II's statement that there are no minor characters, per se, in Jim's writing. This suggests, to me, that a character that we have considered minor may be the next swordbearer.

I find it hard to believe that Jim will bring in a wholly unknown character to take up one of the swords.

[Saeltari]

I tend to agree, it wouldn't fit his style which is good, however it could be somebody only mentioned in passing in a prior book.

[Highlander II]

For your reading enjoyment, Jim has provided the first of 5 teaser chapters of Turn Coat! You can read them HERE!

Subsequent chapters will appear, one each week, for the next four Tuesdays! (which should take us almost to the release date of the book)

[Ice fyre]

You are a wee cruel man Highlander, putting temptation in our way like that! I cant read it as I will wait for the book to be released I hope the UK shcedule will be close to the American one. Apirl Sigh

[The44]

I, OTOH, have zero scruples with regard to spoilers. Read the first chapter. LIKED IT!

Harry's headaches are something that we will hopefully get a handle on in the rest of this book. His helping Morgan is so Harry.

Hmmm. Spoiler tags do not work here. Why? Text

[Highlander II]

*is not a man* Just for clarification.

And it's not 'spoilers' since it's the actual first chapter of the book. =) If you read them, you just get to be 'ahead' when you get the actual book!

The 'spoiler tag' works... it's just different than it is in some places. It changes the font color rather than adding a background that matches the text.

[Saeltari]

Ahhhh!!!! Must resist! wait for whole book! Must wait! Ahhhh!!!!

[Highlander II]

*is an enabler*

Why wait? It's RIGHT THERE! Free for the taking. You won't hurt anyone if you read it!

*giggles*

Not really pushing... just having fun. There's no law that says you have to read it before the book releases. =)

[The44]

The spoiler tags that I have used on other sites actually hide the text and provide a "Hide" button so that a person can view it. That board was a v-bulletin type board. My [spoilr] [/spoilr] codes, deliberately misspelled here, only hid the entire text. I have seen that [quot] [/quot] tags do work as advertized. These were again deliberately misspelled so they could be seen.

If it is OK to take quotes or scenes from the chapters in plain, then I am cool with that. Others get panicky with the idea of spoilers. I will make no such moves without permsission, of course.

I think that even in the first chapter there are some very interesting things for discussion here.

[Highlander II]

I know there's another piece of code that can be tied to the spoiler tag, I'm just not sure what it is and Brian has to put it in. If I can find it, I'll send it to him. =)

And this is the Turn Coat thread, so anything in there is fair game to be a potential spoiler.

Though, when we get to reading the book, spoiler tags might be appreciated by those who might read a little slower. XD

[Saeltari]

To the enabler:

Item 3,456,567,893,113 of paragraph 345,579,811,243,112 of criminal code 3,999,331 of the Univeral Wizards Enumeration de Codification ni Analitica (commonly know as Uweca (pron 'Wheka)) clearly states;

"Thou shalt not, nor presume to cogitate upon the mental digestion of any manuscript afore the allotted release ..." (there is more, but I don't want to bore you) .

And spoiler tags are great, for those of us that follow the Uweca... , though I am may be losing the fight to temptation .

[Highlander II]

Yes, but, as an enabler, I have my own code to follow, which supersedes your code. However, I am not allowed to reveal it's verbiage, except on pain of death. XD

[Saeltari]

Well... see, I might be ok with those terms.. it just depends on whose death we are speaking of?