From the Vampirates blog
"Lead news this week is that I now know three out of the four US cities I’ll be visiting in September this year on my second US tour. These are (drum roll please)… Seattle (September 21st), Denver (September 22nd) and Chicago (September 27th/28th)"

My hubbie's launch of Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot at PrairieCon in Brandon, Manitoba is now up on their website. See http://zenzombie.com.

Justin has asked on facebook "OK, so what's going on with Jasmine Peacock? Should she be with Jacoby or do you think she should choose Connor? Share your thoughts on the discussion board of my other official Facebook page - Vampirates: Women of the Ocean."
To join in please see http://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/Justin-Somper-Vampirates/113429940608?v=wall&__a=3

My daughter (Swabbie Calico Bess Flint) and I saw Robert Munsch for the pre-school outing. He is a great story teller and kept all the kids captivated. It seemed to be based on his published books with him retelling them with names from kids from the audiance in a pantomine fashion. My daughter loved it and so did the rest of the audience which went up as the layers of the theatre went to. I am sure grade eight (or higher) were on the third floor (yes the TCU centre was full as the local schools got a good discount, so almost all school trips).

My hubbie launched Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot yesterday from 9.30am to 12 noon at PrairieCon in Brandon, Manitoba. See http://zenzombie.com/category/news/. One set of t-shirts had arrived but the other (better made set) I guess are stuck in customs. But my boys had a great tome at the games conference demoing the game which can now be bought online.

Justin has published a new blog entry. He has "started writing the sixth VAMPIRATES book. The working title is IMMORTAL WAR. What do you reckon? If you’ve read EMPIRE OF NIGHT, I think you’ll understand why the next book has the word WAR in its title."

I think with the direction Sidorio is going, the word war would appear eventually. The human race does have a history of going to war to be in control of an important area or important commodity.

My son (Powder Monkey Black William Flint) yesterday went round the Apple store in Edmonton loading up the following page on every apple product he could lay his hands on. See http://zenzombie.com/category/news/. He seems to really like the game James and Aidan designed. While working out the steps for the computer player online version we were playing with cut up pieces of paper. For the ninja my son had dressed up as a ninja; and the pirate, was of course a picture of me dressed as Ma Kettle.