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DM launches new beta community site

Dragonmount is excited to announce the opening of its new beta-version community site.   http://community.dragonmount.com is an experiment in mixing a light-weight forum with elements of live chat and social networking. You can use your existing Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, or Yahoo ID's (not to mention your DMail account!) to login.   This is a live beta, meaning we'll be working on things as we go. There's a place for you to leave feedback, and we'd love to hear from you.   Hope to see
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Red Eagle Games partners with Obsidian

Red Eagle Games, the company that currently holds the video game and movie rights to the Wheel of Time, announced this evening that they have entered into a partnership with Obsidian Entertainment with the intent of producing high-end electronic role-paying games.   Here's the full press release: RED EAGLE GAMES SELECTS OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT AS GAME DEVELOPMENT PARTNER   Noted RPG Developer to Assist Red Eagle Games in Building Video Games Based on Robert Jordan’s Fantasy Series “Th
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Call for web designers

Although this isn't directly related to The Wheel of Time, I wanted this call to go out as many people as possible to take advantage of the wide diversity of fan skill sets out there.   About Dragonmount.com is currently in the early stages of a major site overhaul. For nearly 12 years we have existed by using our own homebrewed HTML and design. While the site has never been unpleasant to visit (I hope!), it could use the touch of a professional designer with experience in crafting dynamic w
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eBook cover art for THE FIRES OF HEAVEN

Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of THE FIRES OF HEAVEN, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.   With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the "cover". A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the a
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Video interview with Brandon Sanderson

A beautiful new video interview has been posted online by Mythmaker Films, a production company based in southern California.   You can view it below, or click over to this link to see it in full High Definition.   This video was created while Brandon was on tour for The Gathering Storm. One of the Storm Leader for the Los Angeles book signing event, Tess Ortbals, works with Mythmakers and took the time to gather her troops to make this awesome video. Thanks, guys!    
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Amazon delists all Wheel of Time books...sorta

In a strategic business move that has the whole publishing industry (not to mention the blogosphere and Twitter) on fire, Amazon.com intentionally de-listed all print and electronic books published by Macmillan, one of the country's six largest book publishers. Tor Books, who publishes The Wheel of Time in the United States, is an imprint of Macmillan, which means that all of their books (including WoT) were taken offline.   The reason for the delisting is due to an on-going feud between Amaz
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JordanCon Progress Report Now Online

JordanCon is the only fan run run Wheel of Time convention in the world. 2009 marked the very first one, with appearances by Brandon Sanderson, Harriet McDougal, Wilson Grooms, Tom Doherty and the rest of Team Jordan. Over 250 people attended, and more than $3,000 was raised on behalf of the Mayo Clinic. Programing included here.   We have recently passed our 100-day mark until JordanCon II: “The SeanCon Invasion.†As the staff finalizes the details, we’ve prepared a progress report
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Status report on the Dabel Brothers and the WoT comics

Article revised since original posting. For the last several years, Dabel Brothers Publishing has been the company behind the creation of various Wheel of Time comic books. They have produced six issues which collectively tell the story of New Spring. There are two more as-of-yet unpublished issues which will complete New Spring. In addition, they have released two issues for The Eye of the World.   Over the course of these past years, there have been production halts, artist changes, and
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eBook cover art for THE SHADOW RISING

Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of THE SHADOW RISING, the fourth book in the Wheel of Time series. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.   With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the "cover". A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the ar
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eBook cover art for THE DRAGON REBORN

Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of THE DRAGON REBORN, the third book in the Wheel of Time series. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.   With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the "cover". A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the art
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Storm Leader report: New York City

This is the seventeenth of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for The first humorous moment of the evening came when we had to call our fellow Storm Leader and Tor.com contributor, Leigh, who was conspicuously absent from the event up till that point. Brandon caught on and proceeded to make light of her unexpected absence by Twittering about it from his blackberry! Suffice it to say a slightly winded Leigh arrived shortly after. After things wound down a b
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Storm Leader Teaser: Half Moon Bay

This isn't exactly one of our Storm Leader reports that we've been posting throughout the U.S. book tour for Sometimes, things got out of hand.[/b] We will have a full report with photos and possibly video for Brandon and Jason's epic Magic battle later on. An explanation of what is going on can be found here, here and here. Prior Storm Leader reports .   News Flash: Apparently feeling a need to bring some excitement to our otherwise placid pre-signing dinner in Half Moon Bay last night, Jason
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Bonus Storm Leader Report: Microsoft

We're pleased to bring you an unexpected BONUS Storm Leader report from Seattle, Washington, the home of computer giant Microsoft. Brian T. Hill, a Microsoft employee and big fan of Brandon's, was kind enough to send us this report only hours after the event. Thanks, Brian! Consider yourself an honorary Storm Leader. We'll get you and your son a t-shirt.   Report by Brian T. Hill   I’m not really a Storm Leader, but I kind of played the part today. Sanderson said I should go ahead and
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Storm Leader Report: San Diego

This is the sixteenth of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for [/url]   Brandon began by telling the story of how he ended up being chosen to write the ending of The Wheel of Time. He started back in 1990, when he was 15 years old and saw a paperback of The Eye of the World on the shelf. Thinking that it was huge and had a “good page to dollar ratio†he returned to the bookstore a few days later to purchase Book One of The Wheel of Time. It was becau
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Storm Leader Report: Dallas, TX

This is the fifteenth of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for   This was the first Wheel of Time book signing ever to occur in Texas, and the fans were certainly excited! People began arriving before 10 AM to secure their places in line. Storm Leader Claire brought a Wheel of Time trivia quiz, crossword, and word search to keep folks entertained until the signing, scheduled for 2:00. During the next few hours, over 200 fans had their books signed. In
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Live stream for the Arizona book signing

Brandon Sanderson will be doing a book signing in Phoenix, Arizona this evening (November 16th). Here is the live video stream for the event, provided by the local Storm Leaders. If you're around, come by and watch, and chat with fellow Wheel of Time fans. Brandon has also taken questions submitted online at previous events like this. Join the live chat to see if he'll do it this time as well.   Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV
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Storm Leader Report: Norcross, GA

This is the fourteenth of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for   Brandon started off by talking about how he got this job, finishing our book. If you’ve been paying attention, you already know the story, but I pulled out some quotes that I thought were entertaining. * When discussing the book store where he found The Eye of the World. “The new books are right in the front and right there was a copy of a “VERY BIG BOOK.†I like very good books.â€
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Storm Leader Report: Dayton, OH

This is the thirteenth (posted on Friday the Thirteenth!) the of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for [/url] Fans awaiting Brandon's arrival   He recommended Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and most of the table had read it and agreed.  He said that with writers starting out, there are two basic ways they tend to go - one is to keep writing different things like he did.  The other is to work on one book, rewriting and improving it for a long time
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Storm Leader Report: Lexington, KY

This is the twelth of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for The Gathering Storm, Warbreaker, readandfindout.com. I met Bradley first, of Elizabethtown and Theoryland. Then Mark from Tennessee and Dragonmount. Finally, Ben and Shannan from Cincinnati and We proceeded as a group (Brian Delambre, Storm Leaders, Brandon and Harriet) up to the bistro attached to the bookstore for our six o’clock dinner. A group photo was taken at the dinner table which I do n
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eBook cover for THE GREAT HUNT is released

As The Gathering Storm hit, Tor is releasing the entire Wheel of Time[/i] series in eBook format. Each month, beginning last month (October), they will release the next book in the series. THE EYE OF THE WORLD has already released been released and is .   This month, THE GREAT HUNT will be released. Here is a sneak peak at the cover that will be released with it. The artwork is by Kekai Kotaki. [caption id=attachment_1005" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="The Great Hunt by Robert Jo
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Storm Leader Report: Boston

This is the eighth of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for [/caption]     Other information that we gleaned from dinner included learning that Aviendha is the favorite out of the three in Rand’s “harem.†Hopefully we’ll get to see more of Pevara being awesome, but that could possibly appear in a novella on Brandon’s web page that will fill in some missing holes. But no promises! And one last interesting fact, in order to get the Illianer and Tar
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Storm Leader Report: Washington D.C.

This is the seventh of our Storm Leader reports we'll be posting throughout the U.S. book tour for A "birthday present" for Brandon   "Who is your favorite WoT character?"     "I killed Asmodean"   There were also several young kids who asked sincere questions about the Alcatraz books, and Brandon gave hysterical answers. He said he wrote the books wanting to make glasses cool, and breaking things an asset. He also expressed his everlasting hatred of fish sticks, contrasted wit
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