Camorr - News and Views from Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora books

Hi folks,

We're looking for new ideas to bring the site to life!

Mainly we want to increase engagement/participation on the site from our core folks. My first throughts are:

a) Group reading at a chapter a week through books 1 and 2

b) Weekly digest of new content on the site

c) Guest bloggers talking about and reviewing other fantasy authors work in a new Camorr Blog

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,

Rob

I'm very honoured (I'm British - I demand that 'u'!) to announce that Scott has kindly permitted us to post up an excerpt from his forthcoming novel.

In my haste to post it up for you guys to read, I haven't actually read it yet! I'll post my thoughts below as soon as I have done though.

Many thanks to Sabetha (as always) and Scott for facilitating this,

Ravelle

Hello everyone!

I've just moved the whole site to a brand new platform "Drupal"!

All user accounts should have come across to the new platform, along with all of the old pages, forums, topics and comments. The new site isn't themed quite as nicely yet, but it should run a bit faster and has bags more functionality for us as we move forward.

Scott has finally posted it! The long awaited excerpt to the upcoming novel, The Republic Of Thieves!

Read here and be amazed!
Discussion on the excerpt has already begun here!

Apologies to everyone about the downtime on the forum recently,

This was entirely my fault as I removed 8000 spammers. I accidentally removed the anonymous user too, so if you weren't logged in via cookies you wouldn't have been able to see any of the board!

Problem fixed, and more features coming to the site soon!

Thanks,

Rob

Camorr.com is approaching it's birthday!

Whilst news on the Gentlemen Bastard series has been slow going, we're proud to say our community has stuck around and been following what trickle there is with a voracious tenacity.

As a thank you, I'm looking at upgrading the website in a few ways and wanted to hear exactly what you our community want. So far I'm thinking

1) Removal of all the ads

2) Cleaning up of the content across the site, images, and links etc.

It's been announced that, despite our finger-crossing and fervent hoping, Scott's upcoming novel The Republic Of Thieves has been pushed back to 03/06/2010. 

Gollancz has recently released a catalogue claiming it will be out in November, but I'd rubbish that claim. It said RoT would be out last summer, but obviously that didn't happen. Catalogues aren't always right, and considering the manuscript still hasn't been turned in, I'd go with what many websites are saying, which is the 2010 date. 

Just as we felt  perhaps the bondsmagi had imprisoned our favourtie author, SL has put out a blog post over at his live journal blog. Not much about the books unfortunatly, but an  interesting discourse into US politics. On a sadder note he adds
"...unfortunately going to be away for a while longer for personal reasons"
Alas it seems book three may be a little longer than we'd dare dream.

Our best wishes to Scott, 

Rob & Sabetha

PS - Thanks to Icarus from our forums for nudging us with this!

Happy New Year Scott Lynch fans!

Welcome to 2009, the year where, hopefully, we'll get our hands on the much anticipated third book of the Gentleman Bastard sequence!

Thanks to Sabetha
Lots of things planned for the site this year. As usual the amazing Sabetha has been keeping the forums alive ant the site content updated so hats off to her for her magnificent efforts last year, and her continued support this year!

Read-A-Long
I'm planning a read-a-long of the first two books early this year. More to come!

Hello Scott Lynch fans!

As you can see I'm currently working on a "proper" site to accompany our forums. We have a dedicated group of followers of both Scott, and fantasy fiction at large, talking about The Gentleman Bastard sequence and more. I'm elated the forum is still active, and it's a tribute to the quality of Scott's writing that so many people are getting onboard and joining the chinwag.