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January 18, 2010
Writing Excuses, Annotation, GoodReads
Just a quick and dirty update for today. In this week's Writing Excuses podcast, the second episode of our new season, Dan, Howard, and I talk about heroism. And in the most recent MISTBORN 3 annotation I talk about eliminating metals. Continue Reading....
January 16, 2010
January 12, 2010
Signing in Eagle Mountain + Updates
This Saturday I will be signing at a recently opened independent bookstore in Eagle Mountain, Utah called Dragons & Fairy Tales Books and Games. It's not listed on my events page yet, but there is an event listing on Facebook. Since the store is located in such a new development Google maps doesn't yet have its address listed correctly in their database, but you can see the exact location here at the green arrow. The signing will be from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (closing time), and they should ...
January 11, 2010
Mistborn Movie News
I'm holding off on my regular Monday update until tomorrow in order to talk about the Mistborn movie deal press release that went out today and has popped up on a few genre news sites. Continue Reading.... 
January 4, 2010
Hugo nomination season, GoodReads Q&A, Pat Rothfuss's Worldbuilders charity drive, Updates
This year's World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) will be held in Melbourne, Australia from September 2nd through September 6th. Unfortunately, I won't be in attendance since I'll be going to Dragon*Con in Atlanta that same weekend. However, every year the members of Worldcon vote on and present the Hugo Awards, and I have three books that came out in 2009 that are eligible to be nominated in the Best Novel category: WARBREAKER (which you can download for free here—feel free to pass...
December 28, 2009
David Gemmell Legend Award, Updates, THE SPEED OF DARK
First off, a note about the David Gemmell Legend Award. Named after the late, great UK writer of heroic fantasy, the award is in its second year and seeks to showcase novels "in the spirit or tradition of David Gemmell's own work" (for what that means, see here). Titles are nominated by publishers and then whittled down by online voting from fans. This year Tor has nominated both WARBREAKER and THE GATHERING STORM along with 11 other deserving books, making for a long list of 60 titles from a...
December 21, 2009
WARBREAKER at GoodReads, B&N, and Romantic Times
Over at the Book Smugglers they've posted a guest spot from me on my favorite reads of 2009. As I've said before, I was sad that unlike a lot of you I didn't get to rush out and read a new Wheel of Time book this October. On that blog I share a list of what I did get to read instead. Continue Reading.... 
December 18, 2009
Happy Koloss Head-Munching Day! (Free Short Story.)
For the holidays this year, I thought I'd post a short story for you all. In fact, I'm posting "Defending Elysium," which I generally regard as the best short story I've ever written. Now, that's not saying a whole lot, as I'm a novelist. That's the form I've practiced, and writing short stories is a very different art. I'm constantly in awe of what great short story writers (like my friend Eric James Stone) can do with just a few pages. Continue Reading.... 
December 14, 2009
Tomorrow's the Last Day for Holiday Orders
Just to let everyone know, if you were planning on taking advantage of the holiday specials—the Mistborn Trilogy Holiday Bundle or the MISTBORN 7-Pack—or wanted to give any other item including the Mistborn Table of Allomantic Metals as a gift this Christmas, tomorrow's the last day to get your order in. Actually, for most items except for the holiday bundles and the poster it's already too late unless you contact Becky to upgrade to faster shipping (and for international fans there's not...
December 11, 2009
Upcoming Signings + Typical Rambling
A quick note about upcoming signings. Continue Reading.... 
