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March 7, 2017
Fan Art Tuesdays: @avacairen
Kip Guile, as fierce as ever:
A photo posted by @avacairen on Nov 26, 2016 at 2:30pm PST
See more of the artist’s work on Instagram and Twitter.
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March 6, 2017
What I’m Playing: Battlefield 1
Battlefield 1. I love the Battlefield games. The strength of Battlefield is that you can do very well even if you’re not a 13-year-old with fast reflexes who plays eight hours a day. With intelligence, and even more so with communication, you can win and have fun. Battlefield 1 is the best so far at trying to help players focus on PTFO—playing the f’ing objective. Not only do you get points for things like giving ammo or health to your squad or capturing objectives, they also intentionally bury the Be All, End All stat of most first person shooters: the K/D ratio. “Oh, you’ve only got a 1.14? How long have you been playing?” “You have less than 1.00? You can never be on my team.” Getting in a tank with three buddies and calling out—and killing—enemies is amazing fun.
But if you ever play and your squad has three snipers… those guys are clueless. Switch immediately.
p.s. SUPER weird thing about this Battlefield iteration—the single player mode is actually pretty great!
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February 28, 2017
Fan Art Tuesday: Mo Potter
Check out this fantastic sketch of The Night Angel by Mo Potter:
See more of the artist’s work on DeviantArt and Instagram.
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February 27, 2017
New Audio Guide!
Thanks to the formidable skills of our audiobook narrator and multi-Audie-winner Simon Vance, we now have an audio guide for all the new characters and new terms in The Blood Mirror! Click the links below to get the official pronunciation of all those crazy terms you’ve been wondering about!
The Blood Mirror: Glossary of New Terms
And if you missed The Broken Eye Character List and Glossary, you can find the complete Audio Guide HERE.
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February 22, 2017
The Blood Mirror: Locus Bestseller!
We are very pleased to announce that The Blood Mirror is #1 on the Locus Bestseller hardcover list for February! Many thanks to all the readers and the independent bookstore staff who helped put it there.
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February 21, 2017
New Writing Advice: Prologues
Brent’s posted some new writing advice! To read his thoughts on Prologues, go HERE.
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Fan Art Tuesday: @gpdavix
Another great piece by @gpdavix on Instagram! Check out his other work here.
A photo posted by David Myers (@gpdavix) on Dec 12, 2016 at 11:41pm PST
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February 15, 2017
What I’m Playing: Skyrim SE
Skyrim SE—I played Skyrim on Xbox when it first came out, finished the campaign, did the Dark Brotherhood quests, became Archmage—the whole nine yards. Why buy a game I’d already bought? Mods.
Here is where our sneering PC Master Race brethren are somewhat justified in their sneering contempt for those of us with inferior consoles (which cost less than their graphics card). With mods, Skyrim can be pretty. And it still is what it always was: fun. This is what the Assassin’s Creed games have missed. Beautiful art and an intriguing premise can only carry you to a couple dozen million sales. If you want players to pick up your game (for full retail price) a second time, five years later, and put many hours into it again, the game has to be fun.
Somehow, though, I ended up as a mage/stealth-archer AGAIN.
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February 14, 2017
Fan Art Tuesday: @flyboy_elm
Check out this awesome depiction of Ben-Hadad and Cruxer!
My take on Ben-Hadad and Cruxer from the Lightbringer series, such GOOD BOOKS!! Read them all last month, was WILD! Loved it! @BrentWeeks pic.twitter.com/jICDTVX2e0
— Elm (@flyboy_elm) January 2, 2017
Follow him on Twitter to see more of his work.
February 13, 2017
2017 Audies: Black Prism Nominated!
Congrats and thank you to Simon Vance, the talented narrator of The Lightbringer Series. He’s up for a potential 14th win with his narration of The Black Prism. So delighted to be in the company of Brandon Sanderson, Richard Kadrey, Drew Magary, and Naomi Novik!
