This year's annual Dragon*Con event came and went over the US Labor Day holiday. The year's largest Wheel of Time event was attended by a lot of fans. If you have a report about the event, be sure to tell us! Share your experience here, or on our forums.
If you have pictures, please upload them to our Gallery.
The 4th Age Podcast (hosted here on DM) recorded a special show on scene. You can listen to it on their page at http://www.dragonmount.com/Podcast.
For more info on the WoT t
AMC (yes, the cable TV channel) has posted a new interview with Brandon Sanderson today. They ask him about his feelings on taking over for another writer, how it's affected his writing style, and whether or not he thinks Jordan could have finished the series with "just one more book".
AMC article
Enjoy!
For all you wotmaniacs who are suffering from wotmania.com withdrawl: have no fear. I spoke to Mike earlier and he wanted me to let you all know that there was a power outage in the area and so the provider's network is down. The wotmania server, along with all your theories, posts, and rants are saved. Except for Dodge's. But nobody will miss him. ;-)
Hopefully things will be back online later today for the site. In the meantime, go outside and get some fresh air. Or visit our messa
Issue #1 of The Wheel of Time: New Spring is scheduled to go on sale the third week of July. The comic is produced by Dabel Brothers Production and published by Red Eagle Entertainment. The following issues will come out on a monthly basis, Issue #2 in August and Issue #3 in September. Robert Jordan has worked closely with the producers and artists so this comic should be true to his vision!
Here is some information on how to order/where to buy them. On the website for May Previews magazine
Locus, a well-respected magazine in the publishing industry, is featuring Robert Jordan on the cover of their March 2006 issue. The magazine also features an in-depth interview with RJ, who talks about the entire series, where its going, and what he has planned next.
The issue is availble for purchase online for $6.50 (US). Locus is offering a special promotion for online fans where you will get free shipping (save $2.00) if you order through the links below. Alternatively, if you subscri
I need a few people who are not going to submit stories to help reading the stories, judging them so that things are fair to all participates.
If you are interested please email me at matalina@gmail.com. You will be asked to read several short stories and judge them on a specific set of criteria.
Please include in the title that this is for the DM Anthology.
Thank you.
*edited*
I don't need anymore volunteers I've more than enough. I've not emailed everyone back who has appl
Our beloved author and friend Robert Jordan is celebrating his birthday today, October 17th.
Doubtless he is out celebrating by going to book signings. If you happen to see him in the next few days, wish him a happy birthday from all of us. Feel free to sing "Happy Birthday" with a very large crowd. :)
The 4th Age podcast has been nominated for a Parsec Award in the category of Best Fan Podcast! These awards will be presented as part of the Podcasting: Now and Beyond track at the Dragon*Con convention in Atlanta this year.
Congratulations to Jayson, Carrie, and Ben for making such a great show each week.
This is only the first round for our podcasters. After all nominations have been gathered, the awards commitee (Michael R. Mennenga, Mur Lafferty and Tracy Hickman) will narrow the l
In an article about modern fantasy novels, USA TODAY mentioned Dragonmount and quoted yours truly. Although they spelled my name wrong.... (Grrrrr)
Here's a copy of the article. But check out the LIFE section if you get USA TODAY
More info:
[ USA Today article ]
[ Proper Spelling of Jason's last name: Denzel, (not Dengel) ]
Drum Roll Please!
The Dragonmount Short Story Anthology volume 1 is ready to be purchased. You may do so at our cafepress store here at Dragonmount. Here is the Direct Link to the book.
Once again I would like to thank all the authors of the short stories, the reviewers and the two editors we had working on this project. All proceeds will be going to the Mayo clinic for Amyloidosis research.
Please show your support for the cause and view our stories by purchasing the first of man
Well, somehow, we survived the KoD rush. Our traffic was higher than ever and our poor, under-powered server was beat to death. But we survived and had no downtime. (Everyone please give the server a gentle pat and thank it.)
Because all of you were kind enough to purchase your copies of KoD through our links, and because you were kind enough to visit our sponsors by clicking on their banners, we have a little cash lying around and its time to do a server upgrade. Here's the plan as of r
The Sci-fi website has posted an article about Brandon Sanderson beginning work on A MEMORY OF LIGHT. Brandon makes some interesting comments in the article. It's definitely a good read. Here's a small excerpt:
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[ Read the Article ]
[ A Memory of Light info page ]
Hi everyone,
We just heard that the Storm Leaders have setup a live feed for the Minneapolis book signing. It's already underway, but if you happen to be online for a few more hours, here you go.
Stream videos at Ustream
Look for the Storm Leader recap sometime in the next few days.
Tor Books sent out the following notice about Week 4 of the Knife of Dreams Internet Hunt
For more information about the KoD Internet Hunt, visit www.knifeofdreams.com.
For New Players
If this is your first week playing, that's just fine. Make sure you register with the Knife of Dreams website, and follow the directions in the email provided when you sign up.
Returning Players
You know the drill. Your starting point this week is the page you left off at last week. Af
At Robert Jordan's request, we have turned on comments for his official blog.
A few weeks ago we activated RJ's blog, which allows him to share his thoughts with his fans. The blog is hosted here on Dragonmount, but is being syndicated by other WoT websites. You can read it on this website, on one of the other sites running it, or use your own RSS reader.
As of now, comments are enabled so you can reply to his posts. Yes, he will probably read them. So be nice!
More Info
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Just a reminder the deadline for short stories is August 31. For more information about the anthology please check out our June 30th article.
All proceeds will go to the Mayo Clinic.
Hi everyone. This is just a quick notice to let you all know that on Saturday, May 6th (this coming Saturday), Dragonmount.com will be offline for a few hours. I need to take the server offline to install a new rear fan into it. Everything is running great, but the fan is not doing too well and I'd like to replace it. I will also use that time to do some system-level adjustments to further improve the stability and speed of the server.
Thank you to everyone for your visiting the site. If
It has now been one year since Brandon Sanderson was tapped to complete A MEMORY OF LIGHT, ther final novel in The Wheel of Time saga.
To commemorate that, and to show how far he's come in the last year, Brandon offered to re-answer the original questions we sent him when he had been given the job. You can view the original interview here.
You can also click here to read Brandon's blog post regarding this newly updated interview.
You can read the updated interview here.
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.
More info on:
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[ New Spring comic ]
We received two reports so far from the Dayton, OH signing, which seemed to be a big success.
Tim Kington writes:
And then we heard from Steve:
More reports to come....
Update:
On August 2nd at 3:00 PM EST (-5 GMT), Tor Books launched their Knife of Dreams Internet Hunt.
Dragonmount designed the page and artwork for week 2 (Eye of the World) and week 7 (Lord of Chaos)
For all the info, as well as the registration form, check out KnifeofDreams.com
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The Game of Stones website has finally, after 2 years of development and testing, launched its official 1.0 gaming environment. Check out their website and take part in playing this free browser-based Wheel of Time MMORPG.
While you're there, check out one of the Dragonmount "clans". If you can't find one, then start one and let everyone know about it by replying to this news article.
Enjoy
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From AgeofLegends.net
Brandon Sanderson, the author chosen to complete A MEMORY OF LIGHT, is scheduled to attend Dragon*Con 2008.
Brandon's current fantasy series is the Mistborn Trilogy, the final volume of which will be published in October 2008. His first novel, ELANTRIS, was picked by Barnes and Noble editors as the best fantasy or science fiction book of 2005, and is forthcoming in fourteen languages. He released his first children's book, ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS, in 200
