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New novella "Legion" up for preorder at Subterranean Press
Categories: Other Books Short Fiction"Legion" is a novella I wrote on the flight home from France last summer. It came from an idea I'd been kicking around in my head for a few months, and the time seemed right to explore it on paper. Continue Reading...
Updates + Hugo-Eligible Works & Gemmell Award Nomination
Categories: Mistborn People In SF Other Books Podcast Conventions Short Fiction The Alloy of LawMy assistant put up another chapter of my abandoned 2001 novel MYTHWALKER. This one is exciting. There's just one chapter left. Continue Reading...
Stormlight (or other) Naming Rights Charity Auction
Categories: Short Fiction The Stormlight ArchiveI know we just finished one of these for A MEMORY OF LIGHT and JordanCon, but while I was in the UK, Marcus from Gollancz/Orion told me about the charity auctions they were going to be doing. 100% of their proceeds go to the Samaritans charity there in the UK, and they're auctioning off items like getting thousands of words of your writing reviewed and edited by specific Gollancz editors, lunch with editors and an author, every Gollancz proof or ARC for 2012, etc. Anyway, it seemed like a good cause, so I agreed to do another name auction for them. I also signed a bunch of books and a shirt and posters among other goodies. Continue Reading...
More of "I Hate Dragons"
Categories: Short FictionThank you all for helping me out with the Delta situation (and for helping my brother win his goofy contest). I wanted to do something nice, so I dredged up the chapters I wrote of "I Hate Dragons" as a writing exercise a few months back. Continue Reading...
Wrapping Up My Time Off
Categories: The Rithmatist Other Books A Memory of Light Short Fiction The Alloy of LawAs I stated in a blog post in the early fall, I took the months of September–December inclusive off from major projects. I do this to give myself some breathing room creatively and work on projects I don't have a contract for. I also like to do writing exercises, try new things, and generally relax and let myself be creative without deadlines or expectations. Continue Reading...