{"id":2114,"date":"2013-09-06T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:34:43","slug":"tamora-pierce-fandom-i-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/09\/tamora-pierce-fandom-i-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamora Pierce fandom! I need your help."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so, I am sounding the TAMMY PIERCE BATCALL or something. I am soon to finish\u00c2\u00a0<em>Protector of the Small<\/em> in the next month or so, and then there are\u00c2\u00a0<em>a million more books to read<\/em>. Which is great! However, it&#8217;s been brought to my attention that many of the upcoming Tortall\/Circle of Magic books do not have traditional chapters. How will I split these books up? How will commissions work?<\/p>\n<p>I figured that y&#8217;all were the best resource for this, so I am requesting your help! I would like to build a master schedule for the remaining Tortall\/Emelan books that come after\u00c2\u00a0<em>Lady Knight<\/em>. Essentially, I want to know what order I&#8217;ll be reading the rest of Tamora Pierce&#8217;s books. On top of that, for non-chapter books, I would love it if the fandom could come up with a coherent way of splitting up the books so that they are digestible for me\u00c2\u00a0<em>and<\/em> so that we can have a master post for folks who&#8217;d like to commission them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some qualifications that I hope will help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In general, a single commission covers no more than 25 pages in a book, so keep this in mind when splitting up chapters. Giving me a 45 page chapter is a bit much. (Some of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>John Dies at the End<\/em> commissions were unearthly large. One took seven videos, I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING. Let&#8217;s not do that again.)<\/li>\n<li>Please do not\u00c2\u00a0<em>maliciously<\/em> cliffhanger me. What I mean by this: There are natural breaks in every book. A cliffhanger is fine. Do not pick a break that&#8217;s like&#8230; in the middle of a paragraph. I KNOW YOU WILL WANT TO. Don&#8217;t make it artificially painful! I am positive I will break\u00c2\u00a0<em>regardless<\/em>, but try to make the cuts\/break make sense.<\/li>\n<li>You should use page numbers to denote where these breaks will happen! Obviously, sometimes I&#8217;ll need to stop in the middle of a page. In this case, you are welcome to denote that I am to stop at the sentence ending with, &#8220;&#8230;. example example example.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ideally, what I will do is create a new post once we&#8217;ve figured this out, and it will list the entire order with all the splits for non-chapter posts. That way, I can direct folks who wish to commission things to the post and they can choose the part they want! When I make this post, instead of using chapter titles, we can call them each &#8220;Part 1,&#8221; &#8220;Part 2,&#8221; etc. and so on. Then the schedule will say which part is going up when, and commissioners can say, &#8220;I&#8217;d like Part 4 of\u00c2\u00a0<em>X<\/em> book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given how complicated this might be,\u00c2\u00a0<strong>YOU ARE ALLOWED TO POST SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS<\/strong>. I will largely ignore the comments, so everyone else who is a newbie like I am:\u00c2\u00a0<strong>THE COMMENTS ARE LITTERED WITH SPOILERS. THERE IS NO ROT13<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If y&#8217;all find that you need some clarification or need to ask me a question, send a chosen delegate to Twitter and ask me! (Only one of y&#8217;all, not 40 at once, LOL). I&#8217;m @MarkDoesStuff on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>I HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE. And I&#8217;m so excited to read all these books with y&#8217;all. This has been so pleasant and satisfying, so I&#8217;m glad that the Tamora Pierce fandom gets the distinction of being the first fandom to convince me to read an author&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<em>entire bibliography<\/em>. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so, I am sounding the TAMMY PIERCE BATCALL or something. I am soon to finish\u00c2\u00a0Protector of the Small in the next month or so, and then there are\u00c2\u00a0a million more books to read. Which is great! However, it&#8217;s been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/09\/tamora-pierce-fandom-i-need-your-help\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tortall-2","tag-tamora-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->