missing septimus

i read the first 4 septimus heap books - magyk, flyte, physik, and queste. read them one after the other, and enjoyed it immensely. the world created by angie sage in these books is compellingly real. i mean, not real-real as in magyk & charms & flying & dragons. not real as in dragon boats & cloaks & horses & candles & treehouses. not like that. more like... completely constructed in such a way that it holds together & becomes real. a most wonderful set of tales. i really miss that world & the people in it. now, i am reading king of lies by john hart. it's set in present day, told in the first-person from the point of view of a cynical, disillusioned male lawyer. ::sigh:: it is simply no where near as delightful. it seems like it will be a good story, but simply not.the.same.

i am trying to find out if septimus heap will have another book in the series, but no luck finding this out yet. queste was just recently published - april 2008 - so it will be probably a year or so before there is another one. what to do in the meantime? there will be another in the kingkiller chronicle series - the name of the wind was book one. the wise man's fear will be book 2, but it won't be out until april 2009. at least we know the title & know it will be out. for septimus, we don't even know anything at all yet.

except i did find this out -- warner bros has purchased the septimus heap stories and will turn them into movies. yay!

septimus is supposed to have blond curly hair, so i am not sold on that top picture as a good likeness of his character. this drawing is nice, eh? well, i like it, anyway.