[Leonie]

I think I enjoyed the Riddle the most as I was all excited about getting it!!! But I really enjoyed the Gift as well!!!!!!! :p

My favourite covers have to be the UK ones as the Gift one was what attracted me to the book in the first place!! They are sooo pretty!!! :)

[peter_gia]

I think i liked the Riddle more than the Gift... All the covers look good and i couldn't possibly decide which one i like more...

[Netty]

Hi Bubbly!

um..i dont know which one I prefer. They are both really good, I dont think I can decide. Though, I liked the Aussie Gift's cover better than The Riddle...I dont know why...maybe because I like green better than purple...hmm...

[Silvia]

MWHAHAHA i can decide i like the uk ones the best :D oh and welcome bubbly!!

[Siobhan]

Noooo people.... the Aussie cover's are the best... specially the Gift

[alison]

It's very encouraging to hear that you like The Riddle better - I hope that The Crow keeps that trajectory going - I feel optimistic that it might - though if it does, it makes the stakes even higher for The Singing :eek: I feel very impatient for The Crow to come out. I want everyone to read it! Anyway, I have finished my rewrite. Yes! So now the hard work starts!

[Becks]

I think the Crow will be great. Ali dont worry about it, if u were in the 1st place :) :)

The sample chapters were GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D

Its great that youve finished the rewrite!!!!! One step closer 2 the crow comes out......Im SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO impatient....But i just got Timesplitters so thatll pass the time and then theres skool.........(skool= :(
Timesplitters= :D :D)

Gud luk with the hard work i hope it not 2 hard!!!!! :D

[Bridie]

you feel impatient for the crow to come out?!?! now you know how we all feel :p

[Teresa Edgerton]

I've just had the pleasure of reading The Naming. As much as I enjoyed it, I couldn't help wishing it had been around for me to read when I was in my teens or twenties, because there's a good chance it would have rocked my world. You have a very smooth and easy to read style, Alison, not to mention appealing characters. (No doubt you've heard all this from others before.)

But if you don't mind, I have some questions. Having done some worldbuilding for my own books, I'm always curious to hear how others have done it. Did you start out with the characters and the story and then create a world for them to live and move in, or did you start with some ideas about the kind of setting you wanted and let it generate some characters? Or was the process something else entirely?

Also, the languages, particularly the Speech -- how much of that did you figure out in advance, and how much did you develop as things went along? How much of the Speech exists, beyond the examples you give in the book?

[Silvia]

CROW CROW CROW CROW CROW CROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we want crow we wantr crow lol