Patrick Rothfuss's Blog
December 28, 2009
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Third time's a charm folks. Here's the third and final blog full of books from DAW. We've got stuff from some big-name authors. Both ARCs and some hardcover sets.
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An ARC of The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams.
From Publishers Weekly, "Travel into another dimension is a popular fantasy ploy, but rarely accomplished with such humor, terror and even logic as in this stand-alone by bestseller Williams."
An ARC of Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman.
"Trul...
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Okay folks, time for the rest of the DAW books. This blog has mostly ARCs. (Advance reading copies)
ARCs are cool because sometimes they're different from the original published book, and quite frequently they're "Uncorrected" which means that you can find typos in them. Remember, nothing makes you feel more superior than catching an author using "it's" when it should be "its."
An ARC of Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
From Kirkus Reviews, "This smoky mix of...
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It should come as no surprise that DAW has a special place in my heart. They are my publisher, after all. And without my lovely editor Betsy, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Continuing a long chain of generosity and kindness, the folks at DAW have donated boxes and boxes of books to Worldbuilders this year: signed books, out of print books, ARC's....
The truth is, they sent so many books that I can't fit them all into one blog. So this first one will just be the sig...
December 25, 2009
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That's right. I said plethora. You want to make something of it?
Today we have even more delicious books as prizes for the fundraiser. All of these have been donated by the authors themselves. This means two things:
1. All these books are signed.
2. These authors are cool as hell.
Oh sure, I know. You're thinking that ALL fantasy and Sci-Fi authors are cool as hell. And yeah, that's pretty much true. But these folks have taken it to the next level. They're doubleplus ...
December 15, 2009
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Imagine my delight when, for the second year, we received several hefty boxes of donations from Bad Moon Books.
Want to see them? Of course you do...
You'll forgive me if I'm not my normal verbose self today. Little Oot is sick, and I've got a lot of Christmas-is-coming things going on right now. Next year, I'm definitely starting the fundraiser earlier....
Three signed limited editions, one in traycase cover, of The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His...
December 14, 2009
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Last year, as part of the fundraiser, I offered to read people's manuscripts and give them feedback if they made a sizable donation to the Heifer.
The response was much more enthusiastic than I expected. Several people took me up on the offer, with some donations going over three thousand dollars.
So this year I decided to expand things a bit. I've gathered a few professionals willing to donate their critiquing skills to the cause. ...
December 11, 2009
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Normally I like to wait at least a day between posts here on the blog so that one post doesn't accidentally bury another.
Fair warning, I'm breaking that rule today. That means if you're not careful you might miss yesterday's post that shows all the lovely books my UK publisher donated.
Okay. On to the new stuff. The time-sensitive stuff, we've got some auctions and they've only got five days left....
Last year when we ran the fundra...
December 10, 2009
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Well folks, the fundraiser's been going for just a little more than 10 days, and we've already hit 25,000 dollars. I think that means that we are awesome.
Well... almost. We're just a couple bucks short, but I'm calling it 25,000. Because that gives me an excuse to post up a celebratory blog full of more donated books.
Gollancz is my UK publisher. It is there, in ye olde London, where Gillian, my lovely UK editor, works.
When I was s...
