Simon & Schuster Online is planning to release the KNIFE OF DREAMS prologue entitled "Embers Falling on Dry Grass" as an eBook. A date for the release has not been set, but the estimate is currently late June to early July of this year.
The eBook is currently set to be priced at US $3.50. Supported formats will be Adobe Reader, Microsoft Readers, eReader (Palm), and MobiPocket
The eBook prologue will also contain bonus material not found anywhere else. What this is hasn't been d
Dabel Brothers Production and Red Eagle Entertainment have posted a sample, the first six pages of the first issue of the comic book adaptation of New Spring: The Novel, on the
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Tor Books, the US publisher for Robert Jordan's novels, has announced that KNIFE OF DREAMS will be released on October 11, 2005.
Technically that date is subject to change, but it's pretty likely that October 11th is the date we'll all be reading the next WoT novel.
Tor has plans to send Robert Jordan on a national US tour, starting on that day. The list of cities and stores he's visiting has not been announced. When Tor releases them, we'll publish them here.
As of this news art
Dabel Brothers Production and Red Eagle Publishing are adapting Robert Jordan's short novel New Spring: The Novel to a series of six comics. The first issue of The Wheel of Time: New Spring will be on sale July 2005. Here is some information on how to order/where to buy them.
On the website for May Previews magazine from Diamond Comic.
You can also order a subscription directly from Red Eagle Publishers.
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Knife of Dreams, book eleven of the Wheel of Time series has finally been added to Amazon's website. As always, Amazon's release date and page count are just their best guess. Tor has yet to release that information.
Amazon has also posted a description, which seems very detailed and specific. We're not sure yet if this is an actual description of the book, or just more guess work on Amazon's part. We're working to get confirmation and we'll update this article once we have more information
Charles Keegan, the award winning artist of the Young Adult editions of the Wheel of Time novels has been selected as this year's Art Guest of Honor for Trinoc*coN. Charles has won the Best In Show Award from the World Fantasy Convention, held in 2000 and the Judges Choice Award for the 1998 WorldCon. He also been nominated for the Chelsey Award.
Trinoc*coN is an annual speculative fiction conference held in Durham, North Carolina. They support the exploration of the science fields, their
Robert Jordan emailed us today with the following:
For months, Jordan has been saying that he would like to be finished with the Knife of Dreams manuscript by April, so that he and Tor can spend the summer giving it the full editorial treatment. This has not been done since The Lord of Chaos . Usually, they do a quick and dirty editorial process to get the book in the store for us as quickly as possible. From this, it sounds like he is right where he wants to be and we can expect t
For years Robert Jordan has commented on another series of books he's been planning. We finally have something concrete. From the April 2005 issue of Locus magazine we learned the following:
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Robert Jordan's next fantasy series, entitlted INFINITY OF HEAVEN, will (as of right now) be 6 books long. He will finish THE WHEEL OF TIME before focusing on this new world.
Dragonmount was able to talk to Robert Jordan and get some preliminary info:
DRAGONMOUNT: Is this the
1/31/05: Audio Renaissance plans to release the Knife of Dreams audio book in October 2005. Hardly a surprise, but now it's semi-official. Books in Print lists two ISBNs with that date, 1-59397-765-4 as Knife of Dreams audio cassette priced at $69.95 and 1-59397-766-2 as Knife of Dreams audio cassette priced at $41.95. Our best guess is that the pricier one is actually the CD. As of this morning neither Amazon.com nor Barnes&Noble has them listed yet.
Update 3/31/05: The Knife of Dreams
Newsarama.com has posted an interview with Les Dabel, one of the founder of Dabel Brother Productions. The interview talks about the NEW SPRING graphic novel, and other projects that the Dabels have lined up.
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Prolific fantasy artist Darrell K. Sweet will be attending Dragon*Con 2005. Sweet is best known to Wheel of Time fans as the cover artists for that expansive series of novels. Additionally, he has done covers for Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Stephen Donaldson, and Robert Heinlein. He is also noted for his contributions to the Tolkien Calenders, including the entire 1982 edition.
Darrell K. Sweet was born and raised in Highland Park, NJ. A graduate in Art at Syracuse University. He also serv
NOTE: By mistake, we published this article about the possible WoT movie not realizing that it was old news BY A YEAR! (Oops...) See our Red Eagle Website ]
The Dabel Brothers have posted a link to view a Flash trailer for their upcoming NEW SPRING graphic novel. Head over to their website and click the link to launch the window.
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The Comic Book Resources website has a nifty article about the NEW SPRING graphic novel. It also includes an interesting interview with Robert Jordan where he talks about his love of comic books.
Definitely a good read.
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Dragonmount, along with a few other fans sites, received this press release from Red Eagle Entertainment and the Dabel Brothers, the producers of the NEW SPRING graphic novel:
The most interesting part of this news is this little tidbit right here: "[Red Eagle] holds
the worldwide film and television distribution rights to Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World" ... "intends to expand ... with a tightly-linked combination of quality entertainment programming coupled with a wide as
Recently, we were able to have a conversation with Teresa Patterson, Co-Author of "Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time", or "The Guide".
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Audio Renaissance plans to release the Knife of Dreams audio book in October 2005. Hardly a surprise, but now it's semi-official. Books in Print lists two ISBNs with that date, 1-59397-765-4 as Knife of Dreams audio cassette priced at $69.95 and 1-59397-766-2 as Knife of Dreams audio cassette priced at $41.95. Our best guess is that the pricier one is actually the CD. As of this morning neither Amazon.com nor Barnes&Noble has them listed yet.
Update 3/31/05: The Knife of Dreams audioboo
Bowker's Books in Print now lists a Tor trade paperback edition of New Spring: The Novel due out in January 2005. ISBN: 0-7653-1467-3. List price $9.95. However, no other databases including Amazon and Barnes&Noble list this new edition so we're not sure if it's for real or not. We'll keep you posted as we learn more.
Update: Michael has it right. The book itself is exactly the same and the dustjacket is the same except for the addition of judiciously placed stickers. If you were waitin
The December 2004 issue of Locus Magazine lists forthcoming books through September 2005. The Tor mass market paperback of New Spring: The Novel is listed for June 2005. The Orbit edition went on sale December 2 and is readily available. Tor typically releases Jordan mass market paperbacks a couple of months before the next hardback, so this continues to bode well for a Fall 2005 appearance for Knife of Dreams.
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There are some tidbits on Robert Jordan in Orbit-Ezine # 75. The first is confirmation that Book 12 will conclude the main sequence.
"One question we get asked on a weekly basis is 'How long is The Wheel of Time series going to be?' Well, it appears that we might be able to shed some light on that particular issue at last. Latest information from the man himself, Mr Robert Jordan, suggests that book 12 will be the final book of The Wheel of Time."
They also state that there is a ne
Robert Jordan and his wife (and editor) Harriet are in Istanbul, Turkey for the 22nd Annual TUYAP Book Fair. The event began on October 23 and ends on Octocber 31st.
Afterwards, RJ will be doing some sight-seeing in a few other countries but not doing any public appearances. When he returns, he'll be back to work immediately on Knife of Dreams
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The Dabel Brothers, aka DB Pro, have released several new pictures from the New Spring comic book. Before today, most these pictures were only available as sneak peeks at conventions and within their development teams.
The first comic book is set to be released in January, 2005.
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Halloween is approaching, and so I thought it would be appropriate to share with you some pictures that Robert Jordan sent us of his Halloween costume from last year.
He dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow, (the pirate played by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. RJ's lovely wife Harriet is in the other pictures shown here.
Take a look at the full pictures by clicking on each of the thumbnails:
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Regarding the holiday last year, RJ s
