We actually received this last month, but for various reasons, we just never got around to posting it before. (Sorry about that!)
The Dabel Brothers and Tor Books are due to release "Issue 0" of their EYE OF THE WORLD graphic novel. Below is the press release, along with some sample artwork featuring work by popular fan artists Seamas Gallagher, and Jeremy Saliba.
Tor & Dabel Brothers Announce Wheel of Time® Comics Schedule
Robert Jordan's beloved series of novels being adapte
It would be an understatement to say that a lot has happened since Knife of Dreams. It's been nearly four years since the release of what Robert Jordan believed was going to be his penultimate novel in The Wheel of Time series, and nearly two years since he passed away. Two very long years. But the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The story is not yet done, and there is more to be told. Much of Robert Jordan's life was tied to these books, and it was important to him, I believe, to see them do
Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of THE FIRES OF HEAVEN, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.
With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the "cover". A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the a
Wednesday, October 17th would have been James Rigney (aka Robert Jordan)'s 59th birthday.
There are several upcoming events (including several today) where you can get together at local book stores to meet up with fans and discuss Robert Jordan, his life, The Wheel of Time and anything else. Click here for more info on those events.
Happy Birthday, RJ. We miss you.
In a strategic business move that has the whole publishing industry (not to mention the blogosphere and Twitter) on fire, Amazon.com intentionally de-listed all print and electronic books published by Macmillan, one of the country's six largest book publishers. Tor Books, who publishes The Wheel of Time in the United States, is an imprint of Macmillan, which means that all of their books (including WoT) were taken offline.
The reason for the delisting is due to an on-going feud between Amaz
2005 promises to be a huge year for the track, as we celebrate our fifth anniversary as part of Dragon*Con, as well as look forward to “The Knife of Dreamsâ€, the eleventh book in the series. As we are still wrapping out this year’s show, we do not have many details about what to expect for next year yet, but have already begun to confirm guests. The following people WILL be attending Dragon*Con 2005:
Charles Keegan
Teresa Patterson
Harriet McDougall
Robert Jordan
Today is Robert Jordan's brithday! Happy Birthday to the Creator of this world we all know and love.
Here's to many more celebrations of life and good health!
Happy Birthday, RJ!
The second annual JordanCon convention, for fans of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series will occur next month, April 23-25, in Atlanta, GA. The organizers have released a schedule of events, along with some program highlights.
Age of Legends, LLC is pleased to announce the schedule for this year's JordanCon, the world's only Wheel of Time focused convention is now online. JordanCon will take place April 23-25 in Atlanta, GA.
Guests this year include Guest of Honor Brandon Sanderson
A beautiful new video interview has been posted online by Mythmaker Films, a production company based in southern California.
You can view it below, or click over to this link to see it in full High Definition.
This video was created while Brandon was on tour for The Gathering Storm. One of the Storm Leader for the Los Angeles book signing event, Tess Ortbals, works with Mythmakers and took the time to gather her troops to make this awesome video. Thanks, guys!
Audio Renaissance, a producer of audio books, has released unabridged versions of The Eye of the World and The Great Hunt. Previously it was hard (if not impossible) to come by unabridged copies of these audio books.
According to Audio Renaissance, they plan to roll out the rest of the series in the coming months:
Both are read by Kate Reading (who reads the female POV's) and Michael Kramer (who does the males). Both CD sets include a bonus interview with Robert Jordan.
Bo
Brandon Sanderson, the author chosen to complete the final novel in The Wheel of Time series, is currently re-reading the entire series before embarking on his journey into A MEMORY OF LIGHT. As he writes, he's sharing some of his thoughts and observations with fans via his blog. We'll post these excerpts as he writes them.
Be sure to read his introduction first.
These are some MORE of his throughts on THE SHADOW RISING
I know these posts are getting mirrored around to a lot of
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
Red Eagle Entertainment has announced that The Wheel of Time: New Spring, the comic adaptation of New Spring: The Novel, will be extended from six issues to eight. The comic is produced by Dabel Brothers Production and published by Red Eagle Entertainment. Here is the full press release.
More info on:
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[ New Spring comic ]
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WotMUD has been online for as long as WoT and mud have existed. Which is quite a while. It is therefore a pretty cool deal when this established and mature game releases a new major version of their software. Here's the info that we were sent.
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.
More info
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[ Dragon*Con Wheel of Time Track Schedule ]
[ Age of Legends Website ]
[ http://www.dragoncon.org/]Dragon*Con' 2005 Website ]
Brandon Sanderson has launched a new podcast called "Writing Excuses". Check out the podcast website here. You can listen with your browser or subscribe with a podcast listener such as iTunes.
"Writing Excuses" is a not a podcast that will focus on A MEMORY OF LIGHT. It's probably safe to assume it will be brought up, but just be aware that this is not a WoT-centric podcast.
More Info
"Writing Excuses" podcast website
Dragonpage, a popular fantasy-based podcast, had an opportunity to do an audio interview with Robert Jordan. It's pretty interesting, and an enjoyable program to listen to. Beware of KoD spoilers though! RJ comes right out and blatantly gives away several plot points.
One interesting tidbit is about how RJ is considering writing a non-WOT short story for a fantasy anthology.
More Info
[ Dragonpage issue #189 with Robert Jordan ]
Brandon Sanderson, the author chosen to complete the final novel in The Wheel of Time series, is currently re-reading the entire series before embarking on his journey into A MEMORY OF LIGHT. As he writes, he's sharing some of his thoughts and observations with fans via his blog. We'll post these excerpts as he writes them.
Be sure to read his introduction first.
These are some MORE of his throughts on THE GREAT HUNT
I know that this book is the favorite of a lot of readers, an
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
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
Encyclopaedia WoT, the preeminent reference site for the Wheel of Timeâ„¢, is now updated for Knife of Dreams.
UPDATE: The Characters and Geography sections are now complete.
Stop by for a visit! And please let us know if you find anything amiss. There's no way we can get everything right the first time. The more correcting and tuning we do, the better the site will be for everyone!
More info
[ Encyclopaedia WoT ]
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
Brandon Sanderson has reached a milestone in his writing of A Memory of Light. On his blog, he talks openly and honestly about the progress he's made so far, and what he hopes to get done in the near future.
Click here for the link to his original blog post. Or, for your convenience, it is copied here:
I've officially hit 300k words on A Memory of Light. This is an important milestone, and it's probably time to pause and answer a few questions as frankly as I can.
Q1: Does it re
A MEMORY OF LIGHT is expected to probably be published.
Leigh Butler is a long time fan of the series, and one of the primary people behind the "infamous" WoT FAQ. She's also a great writer and has excellent knowledge and insight into the series.
You can read the introductory post here, and expect to see the first commentary begin tomorrow.
