Yesterday morning, Brandon Sanderson tweeted that he had finished the draft of A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and final book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. He estimates that the revision period should be six months, so the book is likely to be released in the fall of 2012, though Tor has not [...]
Warner Brothers has posted the announcement trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to their YouTube channel, as of December 19th. The film, slated to be released on December 14, 2012, will be the first of the two movies planned to tell the story from Tolkien’s The Hobbit, along with some additional material from other [...]
Author Neil Gaiman recently interviewed Sir Terry Pratchett, following the release of Snuff, and the resulting dialogue has been published on BoingBoing.net. It’s worth a look if you’re a fan of Discworld. NG: The Watch fascinate me. You get to do hardboiled police procedurals while still writing funny smart books set in a fantastic world. [...]
Fantasy Faction has recorded a half-hour video interview with Brandon Sanderson while he was in Europe recently. The interview has some interesting discussion about The Way of Kings, the upcoming Mistborn sequel, and some of Brandon’s book recommendations. There was also some fresh Mistborn news. The Mistborn (pen-and-paper?) RPG “is a go” and should be [...]
More owls slowly appeared on J.K. Rowling’s YouTube channel as the countdown ticked closer to the deadline today. After the clock reached zero, a video was uploaded with an announcement. Pottermore, as it turns out, is not a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game, sadly. It might be the next best thing, though. Pottermore.com will be, [...]
Four years after the publication of the seventh Harry Potter book, and about a month before the final movie, J. K. Rowling once again is…up to something. A new website, Pottermore.com, has gone up. It’s pretty much a fancy “coming soon” page, with an accompanying Twitter profile and a countdown on Rowling’s YouTube channel. Some [...]
The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is now online, featuring a few clips from the huge battle at Hogwarts, as well as the Gringots break-in. Apparently the final fight between Harry and Voldemort has been…embellished a bit. The Leaky Cauldron, as usual, has links to high-quality QuickTime, Windows Media, [...]
Garth Nix is currently writing Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, the much-awaited sequel to the Old Kingdom Trilogy (first book: Sabriel). He is currently estimating a 2013 release date. I’m writing CLARIEL: THE LOST ABHORSEN at the moment. It is set about 300 years before the events of SABRIEL, in an extremely settled era of the [...]
Syfy has finally released the air dates for the season premiers of Warehouse 13 and Eureka. Both will air on July 11, 2011. Warehouse 13 is entering it’s third season, and Eureka will be continuing its fourth. (Eureka has a strange split-season thing going on, where Syfy airs half a season and then waits several [...]
Information about Brandon Sanderson’s new Mistborn novel are starting to surface. The Alloy of Law, set 300 years after the Mistborn trilogy, is set in a world transforming from a medieval-style setting to something more along the lines of the 1800s. Electric lighting and railroads have come to Scadrial, but the Allomancers and Feruchemists haven’t [...]
