Update:
Updates to the Dragonmount.com server have been completed. We'll probably need to do more in the near future.Questions, concerns, complaints, and (of course) compliments are all welcome: webmaster@dragonmount.com
Dragonmount.com has successfully been moved to a brand new server. No data was lost in this transition and (multiple) back-ups were made.
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For those of you who are interested...
This is the first server upgrade we have had since 2002. The old server ("saidin") ran nearly non-stop, 24-7 for about 5 years. It hosted this site as well as several other smaller sites. (While I'm at it, check out www.Spectre-Movie.com)
When one of the hard drives on saidin crashed last week, I moved
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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The Dragonmount.com website will be migrating to a new server later this week. As a result, I'll be pulling the site offline in order to safely migrate all the data over. I do not forsee the loss of any data, and will take every precaution to ensure that nothing gets lost in translation.
Thanks for bearng with us as we migrate over.
September 24, 2008- Brandon Sanderson Officially On Guest List for JordanCon
Age of Legends, LLC is pleased to announce Brandon Sanderson to the JordanCon guest list. Last December, Sanderson was announced as the chosen author to finish the final novel in Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time fantasy series.
Brandon Sanderson received his Bachelor's in English from Brigham Young University and later his Master's from BYU in creative writing. It was during the middle of his gradua
As part of the Red Eagle Entertainment and Dabel Brothers Production promotion of the New Spring comic, Robert Jordan will be one of the Guests of Honor at Comic*Con 2005 in San Diego, July 14-17. Comic-Con has started posting the schedule. Here is the blurb for Thursday's panel session with Robert Jordan.
And his Friday session.
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Robert Jordan, the New York Times #1 best-selling author of "The Wheel of Time", passed away on Sunday September 16th at 2:45 PM EST.
His passing was announced by his cousin Wilson on his official blog, hosted here on Dragonmount.
Click here to read the original notice of his passing.
Robert Jordan's wife Harriet has written a letter to all of his fans. You may read it here and reply to her using the comments section.
Funeral services for Robert Jordan were held on Wednesday,
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
During Jordan's recent US tour, he made time to chat with Fast Forward TV, a show dedicated to science fiction and fantasy reviews that airs in parts of Virginia and Maryland. He talks quite a bit about his experience writing the books, working on the New Spring graphic novels, and his blog that we host for him. He even manages to pronounce Jason's name correctly.
You can download the interview in either Quicktime or MP3 format by going to Fast Forward's website and navigating to the Dece
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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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
We've received two reports so far from people who attended the book signing in West Chester, PA today. The first one came from Jennifer:
Thanks for the full report, Jennifer, and for the pictures. And kudos to whoever it was that started the happy birthday song for RJ. I wonder if our news article that reminded them, or just a very attentive fan?
The second report comes from Zach, who gave us this tidbit, and plans to send an audio clip of the event. Check back here soon to
Although it's several days late, here are two very good reports from the Santa Cruz, CA book signing event. Both are from people who drove several hundred miles to go to the event. (Note to DM staff...next time, organize a ride share!)
The first report is from Jeremiah:
The second report is from Sean:
Thanks to both of you guys!
Our first signing report from Robert Jordan's Knife of Dreams Tour. David Funke reports from the Barnes&Noble in Manhattan.
We also received this report from Byryn:
More reports to come! Please send them into
Jarrod send us this lengthy report on the Lexington, KY book signing.
Thanks, Jarrod!
Another report came in from Robert MacCloud who briefly said that another customer asked Robert Jordan about his time in Saudi Arabia. Turns out that the person had mistaken him for Robert Jordan, the US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia who had been appointed by President Bush!
Yet another report comes in from Kevin Dean, one of Dragonmount's staff members who attended the event.
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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....
-Allentrace- sent us this report from the Robert Jordan book signing in Cincinnati, OH.
Glad you had a nice time! Thanks for the report.
More reports as the tour continues.
