Happy Birthday Ember!

Not Much else to say.

Yo.

Hey, everybody. I'm back from extended hiatus, and I hope you had a great holiday!

(Booing)

Well, the Staff will be posting like mad starting today, in the hopes of getting our post count up to 100 before the new year!

Today is my birthday, so I will be spending a lot of time working on the site today, ect, ect.

Anyway, I kind of broke my promise about posting through the holidays, as my family didn't really let me do that, and as I didn't really want to do that.

But anyway, I'm thinking about bringing a small and very low-tech forum to the site, so that we can talk about various things in an area meant for just that. Basically, it's going to be a re-do of the Ss Forum thing, and it's going to be comment-based, so you can post replies just as easily. This isn't a very complex deal, it's just an easier way of interacting with everybody.

Enjoy!

Until next time,

Ember

I'm baaack!

Since my schedule has cleared up, and I don't have to do anything today, I have some time to work on the site.
Yiiiipeee!
I'm probably going to bring back the fanfiction section, but this time it won't be so disorganized. I'm also hoping to contact Storm or Dovey about the chat, which, thankfully, has changed names from joustTalk to... nothing specific, but it doesn't need a name.
You can join in the disscussion, and to do so email me at ekaj.texas@gmail.com, and we will join you in*!
The disscussion topics aren't decided on yet, as I kept all of this crud written down in my notebook, which I lost somehow, so I have to remember what I had written down. Darn.
The first disscussion should soon be held at about 9:00 PM Saturday(That's 3:00 central US time).
See you then!

Until next time,
Ember

*You need a Google Talk account to join in.

I'm Better!

Just a sort of random post to tell what my life as a strep throat victim was. So...Wake up:Take 3 three pills, eat a small piece of toast, surf channels. 12:30: eat lunch, surf channels more. 2:00: watch Tom and Jerry untill I get a bad coughing fit and a hurting throat. Whatever time dinner is: Eat chicken noodle soup. And to top it all off... having a hard time sleeping!

Anyways, I got bored to death and felt like a walking germ, but I'm almost better now, so I can start posting again.

-Storm

Alright, alright!

I'm on Christmas break man, give me a break! but I'll post some more if you both are not able. (sigh) Okay, I'm going to come out of dream world and announce that i do not live in paris.(weep, weep, weep) I live in boring old Marietta Georgia.(weep some more)   

P.S. I never knew that one needed so much cloths on to go hunting!

Sorry.

Hey, everyone. I won't really be posting or updating today, as I've been out all day ferrying my grandmother to have a surgery, then shopping for christmas presents with my grandfather, and then falling asleep in the car, then picking up my grandmother, then going home and hanging out in the kitchen watching TV and being totally bored out of my mind.
Okay.
Well, I'd qualify this post as another random post that concerns my life/a little of the site.
Anyway, I have lame cartoons to watch, and so as you can see, I'm too busy doing nothing for the site today, sorry.
Storm has strep throat, and he can't get out of the bed and to the computer, so we can't do the joustTalk. In fact, Storm hasn't visited the site in a few days, explaining the absence of comments/posts from him.
Man, I feel sorry for him.
Instead, I will do a joustTalk with Dovey, so enjoy that when it is published!
Right now I am wearing my Guitar Hero T-shirt, my dark gray/black jeans, huge, heavily insulated snowboots, thick, long socks, giant blue gloves that make it hard to move my fingers, a huge camo double-layered coat, with the hood up, a brown gator wrapped around my ears, chin, neck and mouth, black baseball cap, and the hood closed over my mouth.
Yeah, that's me in the picture. My grandfather is getting my outfit ready for hunting tomorrow morning(We Brits love the hunt!), and I am wearing almost all of it.
Tomorrow morning, at about 3:15 AM, I'll be donning a sweater or two under the coat, and I'll also be wearing long underwear over my, um... unmentionables.
So, this funny, colorful discription of myself is all to say that you shouldn't be expecting any posts from me tomorrow, and then none Friday, as I am travelling for the holidays.
So, I guess that's a temporary hiatus for me, but Dovey and Storm will still be here, that is, if Storm recovers from strep, and if Dovey gets off her lazy butt and starts posting(Jk, jk).

Until next time,
Ember

New stuff(Just another 'Updates' post in disguise)

One major thing that we have now is the labels(I just added them today). These suckers took a long time to do, so I hope you like them!
Another thing is the 'Updates' section of the site. This will be on the homepage, and will show the most recent things done to the site so I don't have to keep putting out posts for this. Sound cool?
Anway, back to the labels.
Each post is now filed under a certain category. You can click on the label(It appears at the bottom of each post), and it'll take you to every post labeled under that category. This is helpful if you want to read the thoeries and don't want to skim through the other stuff.
I did this since the search bar on the site is pretty lame, so this should help you. Also, it helps me to get organized. Another newthing is the joustTalk, something Storm and I(Sometimes joined by Dovey) will do a google talk chat and record it, and then I'll post our conversation, as a prelude to the podcast. Every chat will be posted on the homepage and in the new section that'll be devoted to this. This will go live soon, so enjoy!

Oh, and one last thing is the poll that was on the top of the site, it has finished and 'Speechless' and 'It's great' tied(Not counting my vote in "Speechless', of course). What I don't get is why all the people who voted don't or didn't comment!

Until next time,

Ember

The Fourth Apprentice(Again)

I would like to inform you that the new series, previously thought to be called "The Fourth Apprentice", is now "Omen of The Stars". The has been confirmed by Vicky herself, as well as the two titles of the first two books, "Ambush", and "The Fourth Apprentice".
The order of these two has not been confirmed.
It has also been noted that Firestar, previously thought to have died permanently in the first book of this series, but Brambleclaw doesn't succeed him, it has been noted that this may mean that Firestar just loses a life.
This is just an update on the new series, the theories will come later.
Thanks for reading.

Until next time,
Ember

Book reviews!

I have been given a great idea by Earthfire, a commentor of our site.
Her idea was to do reviews of all of the special editions/manga of Warriors, and I loved it.
So I'm taking it to the next level. Instead of just doing the reviews, I'm going to set up a whole new section of the site to review all of the Warriors books, and I want more reviews than just ours. If you have a review, write it out and send it to me via email, and I will post it, once again, giving you full credit for it.
Sound cool?
The new section of the site will be up soon. Like, today.
Enjoy!

Until next time,
Ember

The Greatest Battle

Okay, I know that I said I'd write this article on the poll winner, but right now I'm on vacation and I don't have Eclipse with me. I will write it though. This post is really just some clarification on the subject.
Storm won't be writing it because he doesn't have Eclipse(I wasn't thinking about this when I said he would be doing it). He will be doing the other three for the Tactics section, though.
That's really all for now.

Until next time,
Ember

Tigerstar & Sasha

This is the new cover for the second Tigerstar & Sasha manga, which is due for release 12/23.
Please note that this review isn't a good one. If you have read and enjoyed the first T&S book, then prepare yourself, because I am about to totally crush it. If you liked it, fine by all means. I don't want to offend anybody.
Okay, let's begin.

I'm going to go ahead and say that this book deserves a 3/10, and, like the Seekers review, that's only because it's coming from the Erins. If it weren't it would be a -1/10.
The reason I'm able to say this befiore the book actually comes out is the fact that I've seen the artwork for the book already.
And in a manga(Or anything else in a comic format), the art is more than half of the book. You want it to look good, right?
Well, I'm going to be blunt about it.
The artwork in the last one made me sick.
And the artwork in this one made me sick as well.
There you go. Blunt as could be. Now, moving on.
The story is okay, but the artist doesn't even draw in the manga style. And, yet again, this series isn't real manga(Which reads right to left).
I was going to include a sample page here, but, due to some errors, you'll have to look for yourself, here.
As you can see, the artist, Don Hudson, draws people better than cats. In my opinon, this was dumb choice to make for an artist. I mean, this is about cats. 'Nuff said.

From what I can see, Sasha spends the first part of the book arguing with Tigerstar(Who, by the way, looks like a 7-year-old drew him. In fact, all of the cats look like 7-year-olds drew them), then leaves him to fins Ken, her owner who abandoned her for unexplained reasons.
Long story short, she doesn't fins him and sets into Twolegplace, where alley cats attack her, ect., ect.

Now, if you like T&S, as said above, you can buy it and love it to death, as you would any other warriors book. That's fine with me.
But I won't be doing that. I would never spend my own money on it, and I really do hope I don't get given it as a present for christmas. *Shiver*.
I think they should hire Bettina Kurkoski(The one who did The Rise of Scourge)
But that's just my opinon.

Until next time,
Ember

Please note that this is the first of all of the manga/special edition reviews for the site, the rest of which will be put into a new section just for book reviews. The idea to do this was given to us by Earthfire, a frequent visitor of the site.

Improvements?

I'm really at a loss of what to do on the site right now. I'm just kind of waiting for Storm to get Skype, and then I can start on the podcast, but other than what we have already, I can't think of anything to do!

So, here's what I want from you(The fan/reader/site visitor). I need some new ideas, concerning site content, polls, projects, whatever. I will accept pretty much any good idea, and I WILL GIVE YOU CREDIT FOR IT.
If you want to help out and provide some muse for us, please do!
And, I'm going to say this one more time. If you visit the site, please leave a comment. We only have about one person who frequently comments, and she said she was getting lonely being the only one. I know you're out there! I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!! (Jk)

Until next time,
Ember

Jay(paw)

Yes, yes, I know what his name is, I'm just not going to say it for fear of spoiling it for some people who don't know.
A while back, I covered this theory in the post "News and sneaky sneak peeks!". I stated,

"Will Jaypaw be reincarnated?
We know that Cinderpaw was the reincarnation of Cinderpelt, simply because she had a destiny, then another one was forced upon her. Then she went and broke her back leg and all that goodness. I don't know about you, but I was expecting a bit more of a reason to reincarnate her, but whatever. Now, we all know Jaypaw hates being a medicine cat, right? He wants to be a Warrior, but can't because he's blind. Does this give him a reason to be reincarnated?"

And guess what? Before I continue, it's time for another...
SPOILER ALERT!
Do not keep reading if you haven't finished Long Shadows(Or don't care about being spoiled whatsoever)!
Anyway, it turns out that Jayflight(Yeah, I said it), is reincarnated already!
Jay's Wing, his ancient double is, well, his ancient double.
But, that doesn't answer the question of will he be reincarnated later, unfortunately.

Until next time,
Ember

The new year for Shadows in The Light

Hey, everybody. As we all know, this month is the holiday season, whether you are celebrating Christmas, Hannukah(Probably spelled it wrong), Kwanza, or many others, we at Shadows in The Light would like to wish you happy holidays.
And, of course, after the holidays comes New Year's, and that will mean some changes for SiTL.
Right now I'm looking back to when we started, with the very first post, "I love Warriors"(That is thanfully now deleted). And even though we have only ben around about four or five months, we've come an long way from "I love Warriors".
Coming 2009, we'll have(probably) a new staffer, who's identity I'm not going to reveal just yet, and StarClan Speaks, our podcast, is still in the preparation stage, but it's almost ready.
This layout is going to stick for a while, and then I'm going to estabilsh a renovation schedule for us.
This will be every four months or so, and then a new layout for you(Unless I like one too much and I marry it and never change it). I am on christmas vacation right now, so I will have more time to work on the site(Yay).
And the gallery needs you! Email me your pictures and graphics, and we will post them there(Giving you full credit, of course). I would let you just log into the site to post them yourself, but that would be way too much of a hassle, believe me.
And we're always looking for Warriors news, so email us that as well, mmm K?
Now, onto some news concerning the site.

All of the subsites and sections of the site(Exlcuding the home page) have been changed, so if you visited just one section of the site, the URL is different. The new URLs are as listed:

Gallery: Used to be sitlgallery.blogspot.com, now is sitlgallerysection.blogspot.com.
About: Used to be aboutsitl.blogspot.com, now is sitlaboutsection.blogspot.com.
Tactics: sitltacticssection.blogspot.com.
Theories: used to be theories.blogspot.com, now is sitltheorysection.blogspot.com.
(Also, you can just use the site links)

The reason I did this was because all of the URLs were jumbled up and different, now they're uniform and easier to use and remember. Something else concerning this is that I updated the site links and got them into order, so now you can actually navigate the site!

We also put up two polls recently. I'm trying to find out what you think of the site and how you found out about it.
If you participate in the one on the top of the home page, then please tell me what you voted and why. You can comment in any post to do this, or email me.

Until next time,
Ember

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Okay. That's out of my system. Ugh.
Anyway, this post DOES NOT concern the site or Warriors at all. Read this only if you care about some weirdo who is broadcasting his personal life(And the squirrel he ran over while going to the bookstore) over the internet, and through a medium that has nothing to do with it.
Today I went to the bookstore before school, and bought a few things(Not Warriors... boo hoo...). Then I went to school and somehow arrived on time, then got out of school and had to go to the grocery store, where I sat in the car instead of going in. Then I got home and crashed on the couch, picked up one of my new books, and watched television while I read.
Then I discovered that my grandfather was going to lose his job, and then I ate some spaghetti and meatballs, and now I'm writing this post.
And now I'm listening to frogs croaking 'we wish you a merry christmas'.
What a day.

Until next time,
Ember

Kate Cary!!!

Okay, as you might have seen in the previous post's comments, Kate Cary declined my interview. She got my name wrong! It was so cool to see her comment on my blog! Wow!
Anyway, I suppose there won't be a Kate Cary interview or anything here, but I can't belive she replied like that!

Wow.

Hello again!

I'm back after a brief day's respite. Hope you all are having a good weekend.
Anyway, this post won't be long, because I satyed up all night finishing the next book in the Inheritance cycle, Brisingr. I cried at the ending. Man, was it good.
Anyway, after waking up at 11:30 this morning, I am now ready to get back to the site!

Well, the Tactics section is completely finished, and it was only me being lazy yesterday that I didn't complete it then. Witht his new layout it makes it easier to work with, meaning that it only takes 10 minutes tops to make a new section or whatever.
Concerning this is the poll we just finished a day or so ago. The winner was the Great Battle in Eclipse, as I've said before. There's been a mix-up concerning who's going to wirte this, and I will hand the task over to Storm, so look for the article in the Tactics thing.
If he wants to, he might write an article about all of the other battles featured in the poll, but that's intirely up to him.

Second order of buisness: Lurkers!
All right, we have recieved several visits, and when we have them, poll votes.
But, no one is commenting, so I have no idea who these people are! This is called lurking. I plan to de-lurk the site, and that starts here.
Who the heck are you? Yes, I'm talking to you.
If you visit the site, please please please please comment or email us! True the commenting is moderated(Parents), but I still want to read them, and have others read them.
It's extremely annoying when people lurk but don't comment. We're going to have a survey/poll to find out that you think of the site. Participate in that, okay?

Until next time,
Ember

Poll: The best battle sequence

Well, you've voted, and the results are in!
Of the four battle sequences given, The Great Battle(From Eclipse) has won! Either I or Storm will write about this one, and that gives me the chance to unveil a new project: Tactics Review.
Storm will have his own section of the site up, and he'll write about and review battles and fights in the Warriors series. This is now live, so enjoy!

Update confirmation

Ah, we have the new layout up, as well as the Theories Section, which is, like the gallery, is run by Dovey. I'd like you to check this out, as Dovey is the place I get most of my theories from.
Next is the new layout! Although I've mentioned it before, I haven't gone into detail on it.
First of all, its coding is much easier to handle, so it will be easier to set up more of the site, which means... more stuff!
YAAAAY! *Hugs easy HTML codes*
Anyway, the header, as usual, isn't done yet. I just wanted to put something up there that wasn't junk, so this looks good for the time being.
Enjoy the site, and remember to tip your waitresses!

Until next time,
Ember

The Fourth Apprentice

Many of you have heard of the next Warriors series, titled The Fourth Apprentice.
Little is known about this series, as we are just into the fifth book in Po3, but I'm here to shed some light on it, mainly dealing with Firestar.
According to Wikipedia and other sources,

"It has been confirmed that there will be a fourth series of the main 'Warriors' novels. It will follow most of the same characters from 'Power of Three', and will carry on from where Power of Three book six leaves off. Also confirmed is that the series will follow Firestar's kin. The first book in the series has a release date of Autumn, 09. It has been said that the first book will be titled Ambush and Firestar will die in that book, but Brambleclaw will not suceed him."

Read that last part: ..."Firestar will die in that book, but Brambleclaw will not suceed him."
Woah. Then who will?
My guess is as good as yours, my friend. But, now we know the release date(August 09), and several things about this new series.

Until next time,
Ember