The 2005 ComicCon convention is in full swing today, and Robert Jordan is expected to start making appearances tomorrow. In the meantime, Red Eagle Entertainment has announced the official release of the NEW SPRING graphic novel. Here's the full press release.
As more stories come out of San Diego, we'll post them here, so keep checking back.
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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
The KNIFE OF DREAMS Internet Hunt hosted by Tor Books has been delayed until Tuesday, August 22nd due to technical reasons with their website.
On that date, at 3 PM EST, you'll need to log onto http://www.knifeofdreams.com/ to play.
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 p
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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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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
Robert Jordan will be signing books at Chapter 11 Books on Peachtree Battle in Atlanta, Wednesday, September 7 at 6:30 PM. More details to come!
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Robert Jordan will be a Guest at Dragon*Con, September 2-5, 2005 in Atlanta. The folks at Age of Legends have put together a full and exciting program so come on down and join the fun!
Here are details of Robert Jordan's schedule.
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Robert Jordan is a Guest at Dragon*Con in Atlanta this weekend and it sounds like a great time! Here is an overview of the action from Jennifer Liang.
Much more to come!
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Booklist has posted their review of Knife of Dreams. Here's the full review:
So far KoD has been receiving very strong reviews from both the media and fans. As more early reviews roll in, we'll post them here.
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Although he denies it, Robert Jordan loves lurking on all the various message boards and websites dedicated to his series. So, in order to get him to talk back with us a bit more, we've setup a blog for him to post his thoughts and commentary to.
Although it probably won't be very often, be sure to bookmark this address or subscribe to the RSS feed so that you can be notified when RJ posts.
Also, if you run a website and want to include this content, feel free to use the RSS feed to d
Update: There apparently was a snafu of some sort on the early release. The auction and the bookstore website now say the auction will be cancelled and a new one started with delivery on October 11.
The Other Change of Hobbit, a Berkeley, CA bookstore, is auctioning a signed copy of Knife of Dreams on
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Robert Jordan was the Guest of Honor for Dragon*Con 2005, which was recently held in Atlanta, Georgia. For the last five years I have had the honor of serving as the Director of Wheel of Time programming at this convention. Though Robert Jordan was a guest of the convention in 1996, this is the first time he has attended while I’ve been associated with it. We also had cover artist Darrell K. Sweet, Teresa Patterson, co-author of the Guide, and Les and Ernst Dabel, producers of the New Spring gra
Here is a report on the book signing last night at Chapter 11 Books in Atlanta courtesy of Jennifer Liang, one of the DM Admins and the lady in charge of the Knife of Dreams and The Eye of the World, and 2,000 Knife of Dreams bookmarks. We still had quite a few left after the convention and we don't want to store that many, so everyone who attended the signing got to take some of those with them.
The bookstore policy was that Jordan would sign only two books and they had to be purchased fro
Dragonmount has, let's just say, come to receive some information concerning KNIFE OF DREAMS. Here's what we've got.
761 pages, not counting the gloassary
783 pages including the glossary
37 Chapters (Chapter 2: "The Dark One's Touch")
2 new chapter icons
The opening epigram is: (Corrected, as per Robert Jordan's editors)
The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams. -- from Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin
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Dabel Brothers Productions, the company who produced the NEW SPRING comic, are now offering limited edition WHEEL OF TIME prints featuring scenes from the series.
Their first print shows the scene from THE FIRES OF HEAVEN where Mat fights Couladin.
The price is $150 US. Framing options are available. This item is the first in a series. More prints with different artwork will be made available in the near future.
Here is the full press release:
Simon and Schuster Online has released Embers falling on Dry Grass, the full text of the Knife of Dreams prologue. It is available for online purchase at a number of online retailers. The base price is $3.50, but some online stores are offering it for less.
A small portion of the prologue is already available for free from Tor Books. But the entire prologue (141 pages) will be available in full as part of this ebook. The prologue will, of course, also be included in the full length novel
Publisher's Weekly magazine released their "starred" review of Knife of Dreams. Here it is:
In addition to our review, various other websites and fans have begun posting their reviews of book 11. With under a month to go before the book is published, expect to see more reviews on a weekly basis.
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Tor Books has posted the schedule for Robert Jordan's book signing tour following the release of Knife of Dreams. It runs from October 11 through November 5.
Dragonmount will, of course, be bringing you as many reports as possible of all of these events. If you plan on attending any of these book signings, please
In regards to the cities and how they are chosen: Robert Jordan does not pick where he goes. Tor Books decides on locations that he goes on tour. If your city is not
Tor Books released an official press release today concerning KNIFE OF DREAMS, the 11th book in the Wheel of Time series.
Additionally, they sent us the cover art for the book. Without any further rambling, here it is:
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If you want to really see the details of the characters, here is a higher resolution "crop" of the artwork. Click the image below to see it even larger.
Robert Jordan's K
The Game of Stones is a self titled "MMORPG" (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) created by fans of the Wheel of Time. The game is free to play. You register your character and have the opportunity to accumulate weapons, powers, and gold.
Game of Stone is in a beta phase. Lots of new features will be added later. To create a character, go to the website and click on the main logo image.
The game is unaffiliated with Dragonmount, but if you look around, you'll probably
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!
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Seven years ago today Dragonmount.com open its doors to the public. At the time we were a small site, with small ambitions. We just wanted to give people a fun place to talk about their favorite books online. Then we started growing. And growing. And growing. Now with thousands of registered members, dozens of message boards, ten Organizations, two role playing games, a comprehensive, growing fan art gallery, chapter summaries, games and more, we are still growing and still just trying to have
Tor Books released to us today the artwork that will be found on the back of the Knife of Dreams book cover. Here it is:
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Amazon.com is now offering a free download of chapter 1 of KNIFE OF DREAMS if you pre-order the novel through their website.
The chapter is entitled When Last Sounds. (Thanks to Mand680 for pointing our the error in my original post)
Between the prologue being released as an eBook and now this preview of chapter 1, approximately the first 115-120 pages of the novel are available to be read now.
Note:
The events which take place in chapter 1 are influenced by what happens in th
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. :)
