Those folks at Tor are good sports — they’re offering a copy of The Gathering Storm to the winner of our renaming contest (see post below), so be sure to enter with all of your ideas! Thanks, Tor!!
Bill is looking forward to judging your titles as he’s reading the book. As for me, I’ll be purchasing The Gathering Storm on Tuesday from Audible.com. ~Kat
October 25th, 2009. FanLit | Giveaway! | no comments |
Everyone’s talking about Tor’s upcoming release of The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.
Bill‘s got a copy in his hot little hands and we’ll be posting his review on October 27 at 12:01 am.
Meanwhile…. some of us aren’t too crazy about this cover art…
So, let’s have some fun with it! Can you suggest a BETTER title for a book with this cover? Put your title below. You may enter as many titles as you like.
October 24th, 2009. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 29 comments |
FanLit’s own Robert Rhodes was recently interviewed by Jason M. Waltz, founder of Rogue Blades Entertainment (RBE). RBE publishes Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic Adventure which includes Rob’s story “To Be a Man”. You can read Greg’s review of Return of the Sword here. This interview is reprinted here with Mr Waltz’s permission.
Jason Waltz: What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art,
February 2nd, 2009. FanLit | Robert Rhodes | Author Interviews | 1 comment |
Joe Abercrombie‘s The Last Argument of Kings and Brandon Sanderson‘s The Hero of Ages (both trilogy enders) top our list this year. In fact, those of us who read any Abercrombie or Sanderson novels named them as favorite authors this year. Another mention goes to last year’s favorite: Patrick Rothfuss. Those of us who finally got around to reading his 2007 debut novel this year put it at the top of our lists.
Children / Young Adult
January 1st, 2009. FanLit | Best of the Year | no comments |
We’ve named Patrick Rothfuss‘s The Name of the Wind as FanLit’s Favorite Book of 2007. Since this is our first year in existence, this is our first award ever. Mr. Rothfuss’s response: “That’s so cool. I’m proud to be your first….”
January 1st, 2008. FanLit | Best of the Year | 2 comments |
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