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My editor’s notes are back on Book 2, and I have officially descended into the edit cave, where there is no sunlight, no phone, no interwebs. However, I’ve spelunked my way back up to the surface (can you spelunk upwards?) and trekked across the frozen wastes to bring you this little piece of awesome.
A composer named Will Musser got in touch with me a little while back, and asked if I’d be interested in him composing a piece of music inspired by Stormdancer, which sounded like about the best idea I’d heard all year. Will read the book, and inspired by Buruu (particularly the hunt for him in chapter 11) wrote this piece of solid gold awesome here.
Hope you enjoy it!
PS: many thanks to the huge outpouring of comments on my TED post. Much, MUCH love for all the help, peoples. I’ve shot an email to the winner of the signed HB, if they don’t get back to me shortly, I’ll pick another. But thanks so much for all your thoughts – it’s sincerely appreciated!
November 7th, 2012 at 12:22 am
Whahhhh!!! BRILLIANT!!! WOW!! And a whole bag of other words. How spesh is that!! You need the volume up for when those drums start pounding. Well who is a lucky boy then? Will does ROCK! this piece of music.
The awesomesauce keeps on pouring:D
Mich
November 7th, 2012 at 12:24 am
NOoooooooo…email
Maybe next time.
Good luck man, i’m sure you’ll edit the hell out of book 2.
November 7th, 2012 at 1:12 am
AWESOME news! Love it. Now get to it.
November 7th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
It’s a beautiful piece! Due to all the school work and stuff (+ faulty memory) I kind of forgot what ch11 was about, will need to re-read…
P.S. This is the second time I’ve seen the word ‘spelunk’ used this week. The first was a description of exploration of a certain female cave..LOL
November 27th, 2012 at 4:54 am
Lol, I like the first use better
And thanks, glad you like it!
November 7th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
That is super awesome! I love when artists are inspired by other artists (especially when music is involved). And the song is so lovely.
November 27th, 2012 at 4:54 am
I think he did a FANTASTIC job
November 7th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
That is really fantastic. I love the music. I imagine it feels pretty amazing to have someone inspired like that by your work. Congratulations! Now get your ass back to editing book 2!
November 27th, 2012 at 4:54 am
I’m going, I’m going!
November 7th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Nice! Fits perfectly! Good luck in the dungeon!
November 7th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
That was fantastic.
November 8th, 2012 at 7:49 am
Great music, yeah it totally fits with the atmosphere of Stormdancer
November 8th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
How awesome is that??! Congrats Jay!
Next: Graphic Novel!!! *__*
November 12th, 2012 at 3:47 am
I hope that graphic novel is a manga. CLAMP would probably have a field day with it.
November 12th, 2012 at 10:10 am
CLAMP? No way
We need tougher peeps, in the style of Hiromu Arakawa or Yoshihiro Togashi
November 13th, 2012 at 3:55 am
Hiromu Arakawa would be a great choice. But maybe CLAMP should team up with Kouta Hirano for the Stormdancer manga.
November 27th, 2012 at 4:56 am
MAKE IT SO!
November 14th, 2012 at 4:22 am
Personally I think said manga should have an anime version and that music track should be used in it. And I think the visuals should be similar to Blood-C. I think an artstyle like that would work well for an anime version of Stormdancer.
November 21st, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Sheriff Tex must cameo in any gfx novel or there will be rioting and much mayhem!
November 27th, 2012 at 4:56 am
He’s bonus content for the e-version
November 27th, 2012 at 4:55 am
Hah, we shall see
November 8th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Dope.
November 27th, 2012 at 4:55 am
Yeah, boiiiiiiiiiiiii
November 10th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
I think your book needs theme music like this throughout. I could definitely listen to a CD with music like this while reading your novel.
November 27th, 2012 at 4:55 am
Maybe we can do something with the audio book. i should ask, actually…
November 28th, 2012 at 2:56 am
Audiobook? Excellent!
November 19th, 2012 at 11:15 am
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