Press Release
Posted on 04.06.05Categories:NoneHere's a sneak peak of the ELANTRIS press release we're working. This will be themed toward the venue it is sent to, and this is obviously the BYU newspaper version.
We plan to begin sending this out by the end of the week, so if you have any suggestions, hop over to the forums and let me know!
BYU Student Publishes Fantasy Novel
Tor Books—publisher of such best-selling authors as Robert Jordan and Orson Scott Card—is proud to announce the release of Brandon Sanderson’s debut novel ELANTRIS. ELANTRIS will be a major hardback release, available everywhere in the U.S. on May 1st, 2005.
Brandon Sanderson is currently a graduate student at Brigham Young University, where he is also a part-time faculty member. He teaches the science-fiction and fantasy creative writing class on campus. ELANTRIS is his first published novel. In 2003 he signed a major multi-book deal with Tor Books, a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.. He has subsequently also signed deals with publishers in France, Germany, and Russia—a feat almost unheard of for an author whose first book hasn’t even been released in America yet—and earlier this year, ELANTRIS was chosen as the Science Fiction Book Club’s featured alternate for May.
ELANTRIS is a stand-alone fantasy novel that centers around the dark city of Elantris. Once the city of the gods—populated by mystical radiant beings—Elantris inexplicably fell ten years ago. Its magics stopped working, and its inhabitants became decrepit, suffering from a leprosy-like disease. Now, Prince Raoden of Arelon—afflicted by the same strange disease—must live amongst the fallen lords of Elantris, struggling to bring civilization and hope to a people who lost both ten years before.
Fellow authors in the field have the following to say about ELANTRIS:
"Elantris is the finest novel of fantasy to be written in many years. Brandon Sanderson has created a truly original world of magic and intrigue, and with the rigor of the best science fiction writers he has made it real at every level."
—Orson Scott Card (Read the entire review at: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2004-10-31.shtml)
"Brandon Sanderson is the real thing—an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years."
—David Farland
"While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a unique, different, and well-thought-out fantasy world, with a few nifty twists as well."
—L. E. Modesitt Jr.
"Brandon Sanderson's Elantris is a marvelous, magic monster of a book, packed full of intrigue and daring, based around a killer high concept. When the city of the gods becomes a city of the damned, who and what do you believe in? The story twists and turns, characters bait traps for one another as they vie for secular and religious power, and no-one is necessarily who or what they seem. Royal houses rise and fall, the fate of all Humanity is in the balance, and maybe, just maybe . . . the gods are coming back. All this and a genuinely touching love story too. Elantris; the book that put epic back into fantasy."
—Simon R. Green
"ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters."
— Kevin J. Anderson, NYT best-selling co-author of DUNE: THE BATTLE OF CORRIN.
Elantris, Brandon Sanderson’s excellent debut novel, is marked by vivid and strongly drawn characters (including a memorable female character) and ingenious plot twists that will keep the reader turning pages. Don’t miss it! — Katherine Kurtz
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BYU Student Publishes Fantasy Novel
Tor Books—publisher of such best-selling authors as Robert Jordan and Orson Scott Card—is proud to announce the release of Brandon Sanderson’s debut novel ELANTRIS. ELANTRIS will be a major hardback release, available everywhere in the U.S. on May 1st, 2005.
Brandon Sanderson is currently a graduate student at Brigham Young University, where he is also a part-time faculty member. He teaches the science-fiction and fantasy creative writing class on campus. ELANTRIS is his first published novel. In 2003 he signed a major multi-book deal with Tor Books, a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers Ltd.. He has subsequently also signed deals with publishers in France, Germany, and Russia—a feat almost unheard of for an author whose first book hasn’t even been released in America yet—and earlier this year, ELANTRIS was chosen as the Science Fiction Book Club’s featured alternate for May.
ELANTRIS is a stand-alone fantasy novel that centers around the dark city of Elantris. Once the city of the gods—populated by mystical radiant beings—Elantris inexplicably fell ten years ago. Its magics stopped working, and its inhabitants became decrepit, suffering from a leprosy-like disease. Now, Prince Raoden of Arelon—afflicted by the same strange disease—must live amongst the fallen lords of Elantris, struggling to bring civilization and hope to a people who lost both ten years before.
Fellow authors in the field have the following to say about ELANTRIS:
"Elantris is the finest novel of fantasy to be written in many years. Brandon Sanderson has created a truly original world of magic and intrigue, and with the rigor of the best science fiction writers he has made it real at every level."
—Orson Scott Card (Read the entire review at: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2004-10-31.shtml)
"Brandon Sanderson is the real thing—an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years."
—David Farland
"While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a unique, different, and well-thought-out fantasy world, with a few nifty twists as well."
—L. E. Modesitt Jr.
"Brandon Sanderson's Elantris is a marvelous, magic monster of a book, packed full of intrigue and daring, based around a killer high concept. When the city of the gods becomes a city of the damned, who and what do you believe in? The story twists and turns, characters bait traps for one another as they vie for secular and religious power, and no-one is necessarily who or what they seem. Royal houses rise and fall, the fate of all Humanity is in the balance, and maybe, just maybe . . . the gods are coming back. All this and a genuinely touching love story too. Elantris; the book that put epic back into fantasy."
—Simon R. Green
"ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters."
— Kevin J. Anderson, NYT best-selling co-author of DUNE: THE BATTLE OF CORRIN.
Elantris, Brandon Sanderson’s excellent debut novel, is marked by vivid and strongly drawn characters (including a memorable female character) and ingenious plot twists that will keep the reader turning pages. Don’t miss it! — Katherine Kurtz
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