On September 16th, 2007 best selling fantasy author Robert Jordan passed away. Jordan struggled for several years with cardiac amylodosis, a rare blood disease that affects eight out of one million people. He will be missed by millions of fans around the world.
In honor of his remarkable achievements and the significant impact he had on his fans, Age of Legends is sponsoring an International Wake. The wake will take place on or around Oct. 17th, 2007, which would have been his fifty ninth bi
Age of Legends, LLC is pleased to announce the guests for our inaugural JordanCon will include Harriet McDougal as Guest of Honor and Wilson Grooms as Fan Guest of Honor. JordanCon will be held at the Alpharetta Embassy Suites April 17-19th, 2009. Information about badges will be forthcoming.
Harriet McDougal is the wife of the late Jim Rigney, best known as “Robert Jordan†and the editor of her husband’s works. An accomplished poet, as well as editor, she has worked in publishing hou
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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MIKE S. MILLER, ROBERT JORDAN LAUNCH NEW LITHO LINE
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World renowned fantasy author and popular fantasy/comic book artist make beautiful images together!
Robert Jordan, #1 New York Times best selling author, and one of the most widely regarded fantasy writers of all time strikes a deal with comic book and fantasy artist Mike S. Miller to produce a line of lithographs based off of his best-selling beloved fantasy series, The Wheel of Timeâ„¢.
"I am very much looking fo
For those of you who missed it, the first annual JordanCon convention kicked off last weekend to a huge success. Be sure to check out our coverage of the event, which will likely contain a YouTube video or two in the very near future.
Attending the convention were Harriet, Brandon Sanderson, Tom Doherty (the president of Tor Books), and various other people involved closely with the MEMORY OF LIGHT project. A lot of information was shared with people attending the convention, and we'd like
Tor Books announced today that The Wheel of Time[/i] series, will be initially released as three separate volumes. The first volume will be entitled THE GATHERING STORM and will go on sale October 27, 2009. ()
Here's the press release:
Tor announces The Gathering Storm, Book Twelve of Robert Jordan’s legendary Wheel of Time® fantasy series
Tor Books is proud to announce the November 3rd, 2009 on-sale date for The Gathering Storm, Book Twelve of The Wheel of Time and the first of th
Tor Books, the US publisher of The Wheel of Time, is now suggesting that A MEMORY OF LIGHT, the 12th and final novel in the series, may be published in November of this year.
The publisher has published a "widget" that anybody can post on their website. This widget (seen here below) counts down to November.
www.createyourcountdown.com
No official word has come yet from Tor about a more specific release date, or even whether or not November is just when they hope the book will be rea
Audio Renaissance, the publisher of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time audiobooks, is planning to release the unabridged version of A CROWN OF SWORDS at the end of this month.
This is welcome news to many fans because for quite a while there has not been a way to get a copy of the unabridged version of this audiobook. This new version is read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, who have read the rest of the series unabridged. Michael and Kate are the husband-and-wife actors who were personally ap
News from . Winter's Heart is available in unabridged format from audible.com, however A Crown of Swords and The Path of Daggers are only available in abridged format read by Mark Rolston.
The orginal unabridged versions of A Crown of Swords and The Path of Daggers published by Books on Tape occasionally show up on the secondary market but they are uncommon and expensive. We'll update you whenever we learn more!
Update: Thanks for catching that, Tom! The abridged versions of A Crown of
Amazon.com is now accepting pre-orders for the 2009 Wheel of Time Calendar. This calendar is being published by Tor Books as the result of the competition that Robert Jordan himself began before he passed away. RJ hand-chose the winning entries just weeks before he passed.
Proceeds from this calendar will be going to the Mayo Clinic charity fund to research cures for Amyloidosis, the disease Robert Jordan fought in his last days.
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Order the 2009 Wheel of Time Calendar from
It's that time of year again to begin accepting submissions for the Dragonmount Anthology.
Before I get into details about this one let me inform you that the first one has NOT been forgotten. We have the final formatting done and we only await cover art. Now that we have the process down, I hope that this one will not take nearly as long to get published.
Short Story Submissions should be from 7,500 to 20,000 words. Any Wheel of Time fan fiction will be rejected with out ever being
We as the Illuminators Guild would like to open up submissions for our bi-annual Dragonmount Anthology. This anthology will focus on Poetry. Multiple submissions are welcome. All works must be original pieces, they may be odes to your favorite author but please do not write with in their worlds, about them yes, in them no. For example you can write a poem about how the Wheel of Time books make you feel, but you cannot write a poem depicting Rand's escape from the box at Dumai’s Wells. You will
The LORD OF CHAOS. In the interview, RJ gives many of his trademark responses (like how he's known the end of the series since before he wrote the first book). But nonetheless, the interview is insightful, well conducted, and more than a little heart-breaking when you think of Jim's all too early passing.
You can listen to the interview at the Reality Break podcast website.
Age of Legends, LLC is pleased to announce program highlights and guests for the upcoming JordanCon. JordanCon is the first convention dedicated to exploring the late Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series and his rich, literary legacy. JordanCon will feature appearances this spring by Harriet McDougal, Jordan’s wife and editor of his novels, as well as Brandon Sanderson, the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete the final novel in Jordan’s epic saga. The convention wil
