Kate’s Blog

so chat amongst yourselves….

I had great fun at the Erin Hunter web-chat on Saturday night. All the Erins – Vicky, Tui and Cherith – were on top form and we had lots of great questions. A special hello to Firefoot, Rosesong, Crescentmoon, Sunbeam, Vixenfur (sad you had to leave so soon but happy you popped in to say hi!), Brightsky and Skywing, who all were there. It was lovely to have some familiar voices in the room

I’m going to give you a taster by quoting some of the chat questions, but for the whole transcript you’ll have to wait for Sheila to publish it on Wands and Worlds. (I’ll let you know when, of course)

Q (Firefoot) Can you give us a hint as to how Firestar will die? If he does die, who will be leader?

A (Vicky) Er, can I just say no and not telling. Gosh I’m so MEAN!

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Q (Oakfeather) Hey, is it ok if we make fan animations of the books and use book scripts? Or would you not like that?

A (Vicky) You can make your own animations using the characters and text, but you wouldn’t be able to profit for them or claim them as your own creations, that’s all.

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Q (Losty) As of the current book, what was your favourite scene/plot to write/develop?

A (Kate) Hi Losty. Um, there’s always something good to write into a scene, but personally I get weary of moving the cats from A to B in the forest – if you see what I mean. There’s only so many times you can write “she pushed through a patch of ferns and headed up the slope”. I want a Clan with a transported like on StarTrek!

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Q (Amberminnow) Will we see any new kits in Night Whispers, or maybe Sign of the Moon. I love when new kits are introduced – maybe Mousewhisker will become a father?

A (Vicky) There are new kits in Sign of the Moon! But not Mousewhisker’s, I’m afraid.

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Ooh and Vicky officially announced the name of the fifth book of OOTS – you’re going to LOVE it but you’ll have to wait for the transcript to be published to find out.

Just  a final reminder that the Wands and Worlds web-chat starts later and I’m very excited. I’ve had an electrician in all week, ripping up my floorboards and putting down new cable (it’s an old house and the old cable was in a dreadful state), so I’ve not been able to get to my computer all week. I’ve been doing my best on my iPhone but now everything’s up and running for the weekend and I’m looking forward to sitting up through the night chatting with Warriors fans. You’re so inspirational – I love your energy and enthusiasm. I always come away from web chats feeling positively electric!

I’ll do my best to answer as many questions as I can, but Vicky’s the real expert at answers – I’ll probably just be chatting away in the background

So see you there Rosesong, Phoenixfeather, Sunbeam and Crescentmoon. Hopefully there’ll be some other familiar voices too so I won’t feel so lost in the crowd!

I’ll do my best to post up some after-chat gossip on Sunday for those of you who can’t make it…

As promised, here’s a post where you can leave comments with as away as many spoilers about SD as you like.

SO DON’T READ THE COMMENTS IF YOUR DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!

Ok, start spoiling…

…if you’ll be at the Wands and World chat on Saturday leave a comment so I know who to look out for.

I’m VERY excited

And if you can’t come to the chat, don’t worry – you can read the transcript after and menwhile I’ll try and tell you all the best bits and, besides, you belong to BlogClan! It’s like a W&W chat all year here (except you only get a quarter of Erin )