things shannon told me at the tour stop
“fitz was originally 97 years old”
“dex was originally white blond, but i was forced to change his hair color”
“i will never tell you about the great gulon incident in the main series”
“however, there will be a short story collection including the great gulon incident, from keefe’s point of view”
“if i told you about it in the main series, it would just be a quick paragraph of keefe explaining it, and then sophie would be like ‘cool’, and that would be that”
“these tour stops are the only time i get to feel cool”
“how many of you have finished flashback? raise your hands… ah. there’s a lot of you! surprised you haven’t thrown anything at me yet”
“book eight will be mainly centered on the last sentence in flashback”
“simon & schuster offered me a contract for books 8, 9 and 10, but i said no and… asked for just 8 and 9. for right now we’ve put a pin in book 10″
“wait, you made this art? for me? and i get to keep it? no, really, i get to keep this?” (this last one has nothing to do with other people but i was just dying inside so)
“you and your friend are on different teams (for ships)? and you can still be friends?”
“i don’t control who’s on the covers - my agent does. that’s why keefe shows up a lot. she’s team keefe”
“there were originally supposed to be a lot of fight scenes between sophie and fitz in exile. but when i started writing… sophie just wouldn’t get mad at him. she didn’t want to. and not because he has pretty eyes - though that does help. it’s because she knows how he’s feeling. she knows what it’s like to lose people close to her. and she just can’t be mad at him for that.”
“i feel bad for how many times i’ve almost killed sophie. but there’s still two more books, at least, so… hang in there, everybody”
“keefe originally didn’t exist”
“kotlc was originally a short story, set from the perspective of an elf going to a human city, on a mission to find a long-lost elf. think about that, guys: my seven-book-long-and-still-going series was supposed to be a short story. i’m so glad i burned that idea. it was an awful short story. it was basically just,
‘hey, you’re an elf!’
‘cool, thanks’ “
“sophie was originally named agnus mcweenie, and was 11″
“guys i get paid to write about how i think a glittery horse talks”
