Hello! Just a quick note to say that I'M BACK at Bartiforums, and to apologise for my innordinately long nap. The last year or so's been a Lockwood-shaped blur, but I'm planning to mend my ways and get thoroughly re-involved. Bartiforums is THE best fan site around and it's always a delight for me to visit. I can see I've got a back-log of a zillion questions to answer, so I'll start tackling them soon, but if you'd like me to get involved in other conversations occasionally, just say the word. Meanwhile, thanks very much, as ever, for all your support. I'm a very lucky author.

Jonathan :)

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Ooh, might have to adjust my aged accompanying photo some time. I'm much more haggard and jaded now.

You should totally join the night police game :P

Welcome back!

We're looking forward to the Lockwood launch! We should have extra sections for Lockwood ready to go when the book launches at least, and we're looking into sprucing things up a little more.

Welcome back!

Can't wait for the new book, and I'm glad to see a studio picked it up!

Wait.........wait............. oh.........my..........GAWD!!!!!!!!!!

hi :)

Welcome back! Please join us in the BTF reread if you have time.

*Reads the first post*
*Faints*

OMG, he's back? Our great author, our almighty leader, our most beloved writer? Oooh, I should prepare all my questions! And welcome back Mr Stroud. Sir, I'm so happy that you're here again. With you here, members will come here from all over the world, and this forum shall become alive again

I'm thinking that some time I should maybe take part in a live forum chat, if anyone's up for that.

That'd be awesome. Timezones might be an issue though. We'd need a time when the most people could participate. Evening UK time/afternoon American time is probably the best bet for coverage I guess - anyone have any better ideas?
We've got a real-time chat system set up already (the IRC link at the top), and could publish the transcript afterwards.

Yes an IRC chat sounds awesome!
Better to sync it with the time you said unless there are some Australians who would like to chat. Cause it might be past midnight for them then. In that case, afternoon UK time/morning American time?
Really excited about having you join in properly Mr Stroud. :D

Do we even have any australians?

We had a few. But not anyone I know now. But again, I don't know about the newbies.

Wow, this is so cool. :D I should probably get to thinking of questions...

N&b wrote:We had a few. But not anyone I know now. But again, I don't know about the newbies.

Yeah, there were at least three that I can remember. No one here now, I think, however isn't Indonesia (Aggron) a similar time zone? We should have a "Where are you from" thread or something (optional of course).

Well, I'm in GMT+7, I dunno about those Australlians
there was another Indonesian here (username: Knightinred) she PM me once, asking about RoS, tough she never post here

Welcome!

The obvious solution is to have Stroud on the chat for 24hrs. That's a lot of CAH, guys.

Well, it's gonna ruin his life if we open it for 24 hours