{"id":11,"date":"2010-11-17T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-11-17T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:35:49","slug":"welcome-to-the-future-of-the-mark-reads-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2010\/11\/welcome-to-the-future-of-the-mark-reads-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the future of the Mark Reads series!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been under contract with Buzznet for the MRHP series and couldn’t reveal this until now, which is why I stopped posting and there’s been such a large gap in reviews and such. I still have one final post to make this weekend, which will be the recap of the Deathly Hallows<\/em> meet-up, and then everything else will exist here: the liveblogs, the re-read of the series, etc. I was saving them because I did not want to waste them on Buzznet when I did not need to post them there.<\/p>\n

If you’re curious what is happening to the old reviews, have no fear: They are staying precisely where they are. I not only wanted to avoid any contractual nastiness, but I felt that separating the reviews from their respective comment threads was completely removing the context they had. The conversations we had are as much a part of the review as the review itself. There are now full archives for both series (including the much-desired archive of Mark Reads Twilight, complete with new commentary), which you can view here:<\/p>\n

Mark Reads Harry Potter archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Reads Twilight archive<\/a><\/p>\n

This is not the final design of the site, as I’m waiting for the custom template to be finished, but this is the home for all future Mark Reads projects.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, let me formally and publicly announce my next project: Mark Reads The Hunger Games <\/em>trilogy. I was initially going to do The Lord of the Rings, but feared its density might be too much to tackle just yet. I was intrigued by the idea of doing something that was less known so that more people could actually read along as well.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, please chime in throughout the process over the next week or two as the design kicks in to place. I’ve removed the restriction that required you to register to post a comment. You don’t need a WordPress\/IntenseDebate account anymore; you can just provide your email\/name instead. For now, though, you must have at least one comment approved by a moderator before your comments will appear instantly without approval. I think that’s a pretty fair system, but I am willing to hear other options!<\/p>\n

Thank you, again, for your endless support. You made this site (and it’s twin brother, Mark Watches<\/a> OH THAT’S RIGHT, TWO FUCKING SITES<\/em><\/strong>, HOLY SHIT.) a reality. Soon, we will have a forum attached to this place so we can discuss spoilers and other nonsense; there will be contests, a new liveblogging tool, and FINALLY, I will be able to run multiple series AT THE SAME TIME.<\/p>\n

I will have plenty of introductory posts this week, but we’ll get started with the Harry Potter<\/em> re-reads and The Hunger Games<\/em> sometime next week. (I might wait until after Thanksgiving, but we’ll see.)<\/p>\n

Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"