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November 14, 2012
Goodreads Choice Award: Semi-Final Round
by CAPSLOCK
Goodreads has now opened voting for the semi-final round of the Choice Awards! Five write-in candidates from the previous round have been added to each category, so make sure you take the time to vote for The Blinding Knife so that Brent makes it to the final round!
To vote, go HERE.
November 13, 2012
Lightbringer Costume Contest Winners
A big thank-you to everyone who submitted their costumes and to everyone who voted! There were some outstanding entries. Below are the winners.
First Place:
Liv Danavis: In a moment, yellow luxin filled her cupped hands. It sloshed like water.
The winner will receive a personalized, signed hardcover first-edition of The Blinding Knife, and five personalized bookplates.
Second Place:
Karris White Oak, with “hair as black as as her mood”.
The second-place winner will receive a signed copy of mass market paperback The Black Prism and five personalized bookplates.
Third Place:
A white robe blue color wight in Lord Omnichrome’s army.
The third-place winner will receive five personalized bookplates.
November 6, 2012
Re-post: Shindig Event TONIGHT
UPDATE: Thanks for a great event! It was a real joy to see you guys, and I hope we get a chance to see non-pixelated versions of each other soon! And thank you to Shindig for putting this together, despite the early hour and a hurricane!
- Brent
by CAPSLOCK
Don’t forget that Brent is coming to a computer screen near you TONIGHT! You can re-read the original post HERE for more details, but here’s the nitty-gritty:
Wednesday, November 7th: The Australia (Virtual) Book Tour Stop (hosted Shindig Events), 7pm Sydney, Australia time, 12am Pacific Standard Time.
Brent will be presenting a reading and then answering questions from participants. The event will last 1 hour.
What time is that for you? Check HERE. (Also has a button to add it to your Microsoft Exchange-Compatible Calendar.) Or add the event to your Google Calendar by clicking below:
P.S. Because Shindig and their servers are located in New York City, we may have extra technical difficulties because of the hurricane problems there. They tell me if your page freezes at any time to just “refresh” and things should be fine. If we run into more significant difficulties, Brent will reschedule for the future.
November 5, 2012
The Blinding Knife: GraphicAudio Version!
November 2, 2012
New Interview!
by CAPSLOCK
Tameri Etherton has just published an interview with Brent. You can find out what he’s reading now, where Brent falls in the Geek hierarchy, and which of his characters makes his skin crawl HERE.
November 1, 2012
Author D&D Video Now Available!
You can now watch the epic author D&D game from Epic ConFusion earlier this year! Authors who participated (in clockwise order) include Jim C. Hines, Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. Brett, Saladin Ahmed, Elizabeth Bear, and Myke Cole (in the mirror). Scott Lynch, Jay Lake and Pat Rothfuss and I were all wearing invisibility cloaks at the time of the first Youtube shot.
I’d also like to note that this was my very first D&D game. In the past, my friends were all so cool that they lost interest by the time we’d rolled characters.
(Erin McConnell and Peter V. Brett’s assistant Meg did an outstanding job preparing the video for public consumption and for editing three hours down to 30 minutes!)
Check it out:
October 30, 2012
Goodreads Choice Awards: The Blinding Knife Nominated
Two years ago I finagled my way into the nomination process for the Goodreads Choice award with The Black Prism. It looks like I’ve managed to do so again.
If you want to keep me looking like this cheesy…
I recommend you vote for The Blinding Knife NOW.
October 29, 2012
NW SciFi Authorfest 6
by CAPSLOCK
Brent will be participating in the sixth annual SciFi Authorfest this November 4th, from 4:30pm-6:00pm at Powell’s Books Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, Oregon. Other participating authors include Peter Orullian, M.K. Hobson and Todd McCaffrey.
Get your books signed by Brent and chat with him and other awesome SciFi authors!
More details HERE.
(Also, new poll!)
This photo re-posted (again) over Brent’s objections.
October 25, 2012
A (Virtual) Book Tour Stop in Australia
I couldn’t make it Australia for my book tour this time around, but some photons and electrons got together with a great idea to represent–REPRESENT!–me in Australia. Here’s the deal:
Shindig Events hosts live video chats for authors, and we have one scheduled on Wednesday, November 7th at 7pm Sydney, Australia time. (That’s midnight between the 6th and 7th, for me on the Pacific Coast of the U.S.!) All you have to do if you want to see my reading (mostly as seen on my tour, minus the interpretative dance–yes, interpretative dance, can’t do it while in my chair) is tune in at the right time. You only need a webcam, the latest version of Adobe Flash, and a good internet connection (no download or install required).
Of course, since this is an event on the internet, it isn’t limited to people from Australia. All are welcome. However, because of how time zones work, it will be hideously inconvenient for everyone else. That’s not a bug, that’s a feature. (Having a spherical planet is a good thing.)
After my reading, I will take questions, just like in a real live signing. Shindig is pretty cool in that–just like in a real signing–everyone else can see who’s asking the question, too. (You turn on your webcam, I call on you, everyone sees and hears what you ask. (So actually, a little better than real life, where the guy in the front asks the question and no one else has a clue why the author goes off on mitochondria for a few minutes.)
Because I’ll be reading from an upcoming work, there will be no video for those who miss it–and though I know there’s software out there that would allow others to tape the whole thing, I ask that you don’t. Being untaped gives me freedom to share more and still edit it in the future and change my mind on things, so if this experiment goes badly, in the future I will simply have to share less, both in Q-and-A’s and in internet readings.
Also, given that this is new tech, I can’t promise no glitches. Think of this as experimental. Shindig looks like it has an awesome thing going, but from experience Skyping to Australia, I know to expect small delays as the busy little electrons burrow their way through copper.
Book Reading: 30-ish minutes
Question and Answer: 30-ish minutes
Time: 7PM Sydney/12AM Pacific Standard/3AM New York/8AM London
To participate or to learn more, go HERE.
October 23, 2012
Epic: Now on Sale!
By CAPSLOCK
A few weeks ago, we told you about the Epic anthology and the foreword Brent wrote for it. Now, Epic: Legends of Fantasy is on sale! Pick up a copy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Contributors include Robin Hobb, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tad Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Michael Moorcock, Melanie Rawn, Kate Elliott, N.K. Jemisin, Carrie Vaughn, Trudi Canavan, Juliet Marillier, and George R.R. Martin.
And if you just want to read Brent’s foreword, you can check that out HERE.
