Badali Jewelry sent the following email to their customers yesterday:
Dear Customer,
We are proud to announce the debut of our newly licensed Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time jewelry. The jewelry will be debuting at Comic Con International in San Diego, CA July 19-23. We will be located in the dealer's room in booth 530.
The new Wheel of Time jewelry will appear on the website a few days after Comic Con (between July 26 - 28).
The newly licensed Wheel of Time pieces are as
Age of Legends, LLC to Hold an International Wake for Robert Jordan
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 tak
We are just one week away from the release of THE GATHERING STORM, book 12 of The Wheel of Time series!
Where do I get the book?
Read our previous blog post on where you can get the book.
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How do I get a signed copy?
If you would like to get a signed copy of this book, you have a few choices:
Go to a Book signing event
Order a copy from SignedPage.com
Enter this contest from Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Order one of the collector's editions. (Available at a later date)
Newsarama.com has posted an interview with Les Dabel, one of the founder of Dabel Brother Productions. The interview talks about the NEW SPRING graphic novel, and other projects that the Dabels have lined up.
More Info
[ Interview ]
It's 7:00 PM, EST in the United States. Brandon and Harriet are all set to appear at the local event in Charleston, South Carolina; Robert Jordan's hometown.
Check out this live feed of the event, provided by the Storm Leader team on site. Be on the look-out for: Brandon and Harriet (of course), our very own Jennifer Liang, Melissa Craib (the founder and Amyrlin of Tarvalon.net, Bob Kluttz from Encyclopedia-wot.org, Wilson Grooms, Maria Simons, and Alan Romanczuk.
Here's the live feed
On April 18th, Tor.com will be making some WOT artwork images available to the public. As I understand it, they will be high resolution images that you can download and use as desktop wallpaper, etc.
Wheel of Time wallpapers available for the first time on April 18th
Two Wheel of Time wallpapers will be available for download this Friday, April 18th, at tor.com (www.tor.com). This will mark the first time that these WOT wallpapers have been legally available for download.
Anyone w
Prolific fantasy artist Darrell K. Sweet will be attending Dragon*Con 2005. Sweet is best known to Wheel of Time fans as the cover artists for that expansive series of novels. Additionally, he has done covers for Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Stephen Donaldson, and Robert Heinlein. He is also noted for his contributions to the Tolkien Calenders, including the entire 1982 edition.
Darrell K. Sweet was born and raised in Highland Park, NJ. A graduate in Art at Syracuse University. He also serv
Robert Jordan emailed us today with the following:
For months, Jordan has been saying that he would like to be finished with the Knife of Dreams manuscript by April, so that he and Tor can spend the summer giving it the full editorial treatment. This has not been done since The Lord of Chaos . Usually, they do a quick and dirty editorial process to get the book in the store for us as quickly as possible. From this, it sounds like he is right where he wants to be and we can expect t
You should not be reading this article. Go out and buy KNIFE OF DREAMS, the 11th book in the Wheel of Time series. It is now available in every bookstore in the US and Canada. If it's not in local bookstore, then your local bookstore is either behind the times or is actually a cooking store.
After you've read the book, be sure to come back and discuss everything on our message boards. Also, check out Robert Jordan's US tour schedule to see if he's coming to a city near you. If you go to
Here is the press release from Tor:
Dragonmount.com is creating the web pages for weeks two (The Eye of the World) and seven (Lord of Chaos). There is a complete list of participating sites on the Knife of Dreams website.
Update:
Publisher's Weekly, one of the large trade magazines in the industry, has published an article in this week's issue about this Internet Hunt. It features our artwork for the "Eye of the World" week we'll be doing. The artwork was done by Sarah Eller
Tor Books has a promotion going where you can get free copies of THE EYE OF THE WORLD and MISTBORN. You can request one for yourself, or to send it to a friend.
The promotion ends tonight, so be sure to check it out. Here's the specific info:
“Fantasy Firsts†Book Giveaway: Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World and Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn
In honor of The Gathering Storm‘s release, Tor has been hosting a sweepstakes giveaway of 1000 sets of The Eye of the World and Mist
Robert Jordan sent a copy of his tour schedule directly to a few fan websites. All of these dates are confirmed. The only one up in the air is the signing in Anchorage, Alaska. That will happen next June (yes, June 2006) during the fishing season. Hey, it's RJ. What do you expect?
Click below for the tour schedule
More Info
[ Robert Jordan 2005 Tour Schedule ]
We received this press release this morning from Red Eagle Games stating that they've signed a deal with Electronic Arts (EA) to distribute all of the WoT video games they plan to produce.
RED EAGLE GAMES SIGNS WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH EA PARTNERS
EA Partners Signs on as Distribution Partner for
Games Based on Robert Jordan's Fantasy Series The Wheel of Time
Malibu, Calif. – January 15, 2008 – Red Eagle Games today announced they have signed a strategic distribution ag
The Storm Leaders from Denver have setup a live feed for the book signing at the Tattered Cover. It's already underway, but if you happen to be online for a few more hours, you can view it as it happens.
Live Videos by Ustream
Look for the Storm Leader recap sometime in the next few days.
Dragonmount is excited to announce the opening of its new beta-version community site.
http://community.dragonmount.com is an experiment in mixing a light-weight forum with elements of live chat and social networking. You can use your existing Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, or Yahoo ID's (not to mention your DMail account!) to login.
This is a live beta, meaning we'll be working on things as we go. There's a place for you to leave feedback, and we'd love to hear from you.
Hope to see
The Dabel Brothers have posted a link to view a Flash trailer for their upcoming NEW SPRING graphic novel. Head over to their website and click the link to launch the window.
More Info
[ Dabel Brothers website ]
-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.
Brandon Sanderson's new novel, THE HERO OF AGES is released today to book stores everywhere. If you're looking to see how well Brandon can end a series, this is the book to check out. HERO OF AGES is the third and final novel in the Mistborn trilogy.
To help promote this novel, Brandon is going on a U.S. book tour. Here's where he'll be going. If you live nearby, go and introduce yourself, ask him some questions about A MEMORY OF LIGHT, and tell him you're a Dragonmount visitor!
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Earlier this week JordanCon posted their progress report on their website. Highlights include a "Cairhienin Ball", sword form lessons, appearances by Brandon Sanderson and Harriet McDougal, and a preview of A Memory of Light, the final novel in The Wheel of Time series.
JordanCon is the first convention dedicated to exploring the literary legacy of Robert Jordan and his ground breaking The Wheel of Time series. JordanCon takes place April 17-19, 2009 at the Alpharetta Embassy Suites in Alp
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
Pre-Order Knife of Dreams (and s
On Monday, December 12th, Dragonmount will launch a 13 day event called The 13 days of Christmas. Each day we'll release a little something special to help celebrate the holidays. What that "something" is will have to wait until Monday. You can RAFO. :)
Robert Jordan does have a hand in this feature, and this will be the exclusive location to get the content.
But please... don't expect TOO much. We won't be releasing early chapters from Book 12 or anything like that.
BTW-- Alt
