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Michael Whelan Covers + Updates
Categories: People In SF Books Mistborn 3 Podcast The Way of KingsI've posted my thoughts on getting a Michael Whelan cover. Continue Reading...
THE WAY OF KINGS cover by Michael Whelan, I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER book trailer, Fan Sites + Updates
Categories: People In SF Books Reviews Mistborn 3 Podcast The Way of KingsTor.com has released Michael Whelan's cover art for THE WAY OF KINGS. Continue Reading...
Photoshop Contest - Win a New Tor Book
Categories: People In SF Scalzi Books Free Games The Gathering StormBy now you're probably very familiar with the whole AmazonFail deal that has been going on. Today, Scalzi made a shout-out for author support. I think that was a fine thing to do. Continue Reading...
David Gemmell Legend Award, Updates, THE SPEED OF DARK
Categories: Warbreaker People In SF Books Mistborn 3 Podcast The Gathering StormFirst off, a note about the David Gemmell Legend Award. Named after the late, great UK writer of heroic fantasy, the award is in its second year and seeks to showcase novels "in the spirit or tradition of David Gemmell's own work" (for what that means, see here). Titles are nominated by publishers and then whittled down by online voting from fans. This year Tor has nominated both WARBREAKER and THE GATHERING STORM along with 11 other deserving books, making for a long list of 60 titles from all nominating publishers. Online voting on the long list of nominees has just begun and will continue through the end of March. At that point they'll tally up the top five vote-getters and start a new vote (vote totals don't carry over from the first round). I made the short list last year with HERO OF AGES (which wasn't even out in the UK at the time) and expected to get soundly beaten by Joe Abercrombie's LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS, but instead the final nod went to BLOOD OF ELVES by Andrzej Sapkowski. Anyway, if you'd like to vote on the 2009 book you feel best fits the criteria, you can do that here. The committee has also started two new awards this year, the Morningstar for best newcomer and the Ravenheart for best cover art. Continue Reading...
WARBREAKER at GoodReads, B&N, and Romantic Times
Categories: Warbreaker Books Mistborn 3 Interviews PodcastOver at the Book Smugglers they've posted a guest spot from me on my favorite reads of 2009. As I've said before, I was sad that unlike a lot of you I didn't get to rush out and read a new Wheel of Time book this October. On that blog I share a list of what I did get to read instead. Continue Reading...