Tomorrow is the 19th anniversary of this little patch of Internet heaven, AKA sounis!

How in the world can it be 19 years?? sounis started here back when The King of Attolia was just about to be published and there weren't many (or any) other places to discuss the awesomeness of the first two QT books. Over the years, it has been a smart, fun, informative ( Read more... )

And no, not the country on the little peninsula, US! It's been 17 delightful years since this site was created and, boy, has it been a long-lived and welcoming place.

You all probably already know how I feel about sounis and you all. Such friendly, smart people! Who love the same books!

There are other Queen's Thief places to visit, including MWT's ( Read more... )

Hi folks. I adore our little sounis community, but I wrote about some of my concerns with Live Journal a while back and have been meaning to put together an email list of all you wonderful sounisians, in case something happens to LJ and we need to regroup.

Here's what I'm thinking. ninedaysaqueen and I will keep a spreadsheet with you all's LJ user names and email ( Read more... )

Months ago, in the Conspiracy Room chats, semperlego and I discovered that we live relatively close to one another. We've met several times since then at this lovely restaurant/bakery/coffee shop that has a beautiful outdoor seating area. in May, Semper was off to England and Scotland, and I was bound for Italy. We each had fantastic--and long awaited, many ( Read more... )

Hi everyone. I'm a bit of a worrier. I don't forsee Livejournal going dark or drastically changing, but since LJ is Russian-owned, I have downloaded the entire sounis site to Dreamwidth as a backup. Bookmark it, in case sounis was to suddenly disappear. I'll keep up with regular transfers, to keep the Dreamwidth current.

https://queensthief.dreamwidth.org/ ( Read more... )

Just a little background. Although LJ was created in America, it was sold to a Russian media company in 2007 and in 2016-2017 migrated to servers located in Russia. The LJ Terms of Service are in line with Russian law, which caused some previous LJ users to migrate to other social media platforms. It all hit home for me last year when I had to pay ( Read more... )

Our little sounis community is all grown up. 15 years old, can you believe it?? We're old enough to act surly and roll our eyes, tear up our army enrollment papers, and go searching for Hamaithes' Gift.

This community formed just before King of Attolia was published and has remained active pretty steadily over the years. With the publication of the last ( Read more... )

The author visit with MWT, Holly Black, and Marie Lu last night was great! There's a video of it on Old Firehouse Books' Facebook page, for those who couldn't make it. At one point, she talked about the dedication of RotT to sounis, which was heartwarming to hear. That starts at about 35 minutes into the video. There were very few "Not Tellings," and a ( Read more... )

Is anyone interested in helping create a "timeline" of events for the entire QT series?

*SPOILERS WILL ABOUND*

I realize many of the events have no specified time, but I still want to get things as straight as possible. I looked into different timeline creators online, but most of them demanded actual dates and few of them would be collaborative. ( Read more... )

I've been an official part of this fandom since 2009 (I lurked for a while before that), and more good things have come of it than I could ever have imagined. (Thank you, MWT.)

I hope an_english_girl doesn't mind me saying this, but her friendship is one of those good things. We've become transatlantic pen-pals with a tradition of exchanging fan fics on ( Read more... )