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WoT Calendar competition winners announced

Tor Books has announced the winners of the Wheel of Time calendar contest. The artwork listed below will be published as part of a 2009 calendar that will be availalbe in most book stores. The proceeds of the calendar will go to fund Amyloidosis research at the Mayo Clinic.   FINAL ART HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR ROBERT JORDAN’S WHEEL OF TIME® 2009 CALENDAR! January28, 2008: Last spring, Robert Jordan announced a competition on his blog (www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan) where artists wou
Guest Jason

Brandon Sanderson talks EYE OF THE WORLD

Brandon Sanderson, the author chosen to complete the final novel in The Wheel of Time series, is currently re-reading the entire series before embarking on his journey into A MEMORY OF LIGHT. As he writes, he's sharing some of his thoughts and observations with fans via his blog. We'll post these excerpts as he writes them.   Be sure to read his introduction first.   I'm hoping to be able to do more than one post per book, but I'd already started EYE OF THE WORLD when I finally got tim
Guest Jason

JordanCon to be Promoted at ChattaCon this Weekend.

Age of Legends LLC, the parent organization of JordanCon sent us this announcement today.       JordanCon representatives will be at Chattacon 33 to promote the first JordanCon, scheduled to take place in April, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. We’ll have a table in the Concourse area and we’ll be playing a rousing game of “Darkfriend Hunt†in the Consuite Saturday night. Feel free to stop by and say hello.   Chattacon will be held January 25-27, 2008 at the historic Chattanooga Cho
Guest Kathana

New FAQ from Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson updated his site today with some of his most frequently asked questions since the recent news that he would be completing A Memory of Light.   He gives a good description of what writing AMoL feels like to him.       Pretend you have purchased an expensive violin from a master craftsman. It probably wouldn't surprise you to discover that one of the craftsman's apprentices helped create that violin. The master may have had the apprentice sand, or apply varnish, or pe
Guest Kathana

Upcoming Brandon Sanderson book signing

After visiting Charleston, SC to visit Robert Jordan's home, Brandon Sanderson will be going on book tour to promote his currently published novels.   His first public appearance after today's annoucement will be at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Pittsburgh, PA. Here are the details of the event: BRANDON SANDERSON discusses & signs The Well of Ascension Thursday, December 13 at 7:00 PM   Sanderson's sequel to The Final Empire, his first Mistborn novel, continues as Eland Venture must
Guest Jason

Author chosen to finish the WHEEL OF TIME series

Tor Books has announced that Brandon Sanderson has been selected to completeA MEMORY OF LIGHT, the final novel in the Wheel of Time saga. Here is the official press release:   Tor announces that the final novel in bestselling Robert Jordan’s legendary Wheel of Time® fantasy series will be completed by author Brandon Sanderson. New York, NY: Friday, December 7, 2007   Tor Books announced today that novelist Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to finish the final novel in Robert Jordan’s
Guest Jason

WoT jewelry now on sale on Dragonmount

Dragonmount has just opened up a new part of its online Store to offer officially-licensed Wheel of Time jewelry items from Badali Jewelry. If you order through the DM store, you get 20% off retail... a deal you won't find anywhere else online.   Items offered for sale are: - Aes Sedai Rings - Ajah pendant necklaces for every ajah (even the Black) - Asha'man pins (sword and dragon) - Mat's foxhead medallion - The Horn of Valere necklace - Ancient Aes Sedai symbol necklace - saidin nec
Guest Jason

Poem from Harriet online

Among the many news reports and media coverage surrounding Robert Jordan's death is a wonderful report from the Charleston Post and Courier. It contains a poem that Harriet (RJ's wife) wrote in memory of him. The poem is entitled "Arachne".   Here is the link to view the article and poem.   Arachne   Outside the hospital, among the glittering cars, tears come so heavy they obscure the sun, December’s burning glass.   By the elevators that go to Cardio, machines will sell the mor
Guest Jason

Happy Birthday, Robert Jordan

Wednesday, October 17th would have been James Rigney (aka Robert Jordan)'s 59th birthday. There are several upcoming events (including several today) where you can get together at local book stores to meet up with fans and discuss Robert Jordan, his life, The Wheel of Time and anything else. Click here for more info on those events. Happy Birthday, RJ. We miss you.
Guest Jason

Age of Legends, LLC to Hold an International Wake for Robert Jordan-- UPDATE

On September 16th, 2007 best selling fantasy author Robert Jordan passed away. Jordan struggled for several years with cardiac amylodosis, a rare blood disease that affects eight out of one million people. He will be missed by millions of fans around the world.   In honor of his remarkable achievements and the significant impact he had on his fans, Age of Legends is sponsoring an International Wake. The wake will take place on or around Oct. 17th, 2007, which would have been his fifty ninth bi
Guest Matalina

International Wake for Robert Jordan

Age of Legends, LLC to Hold an International Wake for Robert Jordan On September 16th, 2007 best selling fantasy author Robert Jordan passed away. Jordan struggled for several years with cardiac amylodosis, a rare blood disease that affects eight out of one million people. He will be missed by millions of fans around the world. In honor of his remarkable achievements and the significant impact he had on his fans, Age of Legends is sponsoring an International Wake. The wake will tak
Guest Matalina

Robert Jordan's passing

Robert Jordan, the New York Times #1 best-selling author of "The Wheel of Time", passed away on Sunday September 16th at 2:45 PM EST.   His passing was announced by his cousin Wilson on his official blog, hosted here on Dragonmount.   Click here to read the original notice of his passing.   Robert Jordan's wife Harriet has written a letter to all of his fans. You may read it here and reply to her using the comments section.   Funeral services for Robert Jordan were held on Wednesday,
Guest Jason

New DMail service to roll out tomorrow

Just a reminder to everyone that the new DMail service (http://mail.dragonmount.com) will launch tomorrow. Existing mail users will no longer have access to their accounts from the old system. If you are an exsting DMail user you should have received your new password by now.   Update: The migration has been done, but it may take up to 48 hours for all the DNS records to update. Hopefully all mail durring that time will get moved over to the new system.   If you have any questions, plea
Guest Jason

WoT-themed Convention to be held in 2009

The following press release was sent out to a number of Wheel of Time fan sites this week. It concerns the formation of a brand new fan convention called "JordanCon" which will be held in April 0f 2009.   The masterminds behind this affair are none other than Dragonmount's own Jennifer and Jimmy Liang who also run the Wheel of Time fan track at DragonCon every year. We are pleased to announce the formation of Age of Legends, LLC, a company dedicated to promoting the Wheel of Time fandom a
Guest Jason

New Online Store

In order to provide visitors an up to date and easier-to-use online store, we have updated our bookstore on Dragonmount. This change will happen in multiple phases. The first part is already done: you can now visit our Online Store and easily browse any WoT product available on Amazon.com, as well as some other things you might enjoy.   The next phase after this will be updating our store with a fresh line of t-shirts, hats, mugs, etc.   The final phase is.. well... you'll find out. :)
Guest Jason

WoT Art Competition deadline approaching

Just a friendly reminder to all you Wheel of Time artists out there: the deadline for the WoT calendar competition is coming up. The deadline is August 15th. If you have a piece of artwork based on the Wheel of Time series, you can submit it for consideration to be included in the 2009 WoT Art calendar published by Tor Books.   Get all the details at www.wheeloftimecalendar.com/
Guest Jason

The "Old" Forums

When we first opened the new forums (forums.dragonmount.com) we promised time to backup the your important posts on the old forums.   You'll still have the opportunity to do that - my apologies for making the transition so rapidly without giving people warning.   As soon as I am able to make the old forums public and read-only (so no new posts can go there) you will be able to get back to them and copy your old posts over. If this doesn't happen today or tomorrow (Friday) it will CERTAINLY h
Guest Kevin Dean

Dragonmoun Anthology 1 & 2

Drum Roll Please!   The Dragonmount Short Story Anthology volume 1 is ready to be purchased. You may do so at our cafepress store here at Dragonmount. Here is the Direct Link to the book.   Once again I would like to thank all the authors of the short stories, the reviewers and the two editors we had working on this project. All proceeds will be going to the Mayo clinic for Amyloidosis research.   Please show your support for the cause and view our stories by purchasing the first of man
Guest Matalina

Breaking Dragonmount Warning

As soon as I get confirmation (which could be a day or two before I can get back to this) I will be making a major change to the dragonmount theme that will hopefully remedy some of the loading issues as well as the theme on the new boards.   However in doing so I cannot say will be an easy fix and I might have to fix things. If I cannot fix things at the time they break (ie: my kids need my attention) I will replace the old files to what they were so you won't have to deal with it. But duri
Guest Matalina

Wanted: Hard Cover Books!

The Bay City Public Library in Bay City, Texas wrote to Dragonmount.com asking for help. Robert Jordan is one of the library's favorite authors. In fact, it turns out Bay City is such a hotbed of Robert Jordan fandom that the library can't keep his books on the shelves! They scour regional bookstores as often as they can, but they still can't keep up with the "turnover".   If you have any extra hardcovers (full size, in good condition) and would be willing to make a donation, Janet would love
Guest Bob

2007 Short Story Anthology

It's that time of year again to begin accepting submissions for the Dragonmount Anthology.   Before I get into details about this one let me inform you that the first one has NOT been forgotten. We have the final formatting done and we only await cover art. Now that we have the process down, I hope that this one will not take nearly as long to get published.   Short Story Submissions should be from 7,500 to 20,000 words. Any Wheel of Time fan fiction will be rejected with out ever being
Guest Matalina

WoT Calendar competition now open

Robert Jordan and Tor Books have officially launched their Wheel of Time calendar competition. WoT Artists can submit their artwork to www.wheeloftimecalendar.com. Robert Jordan will personally choose the 12 finalists. The winning pieces of art will appear in a 2009 calendar to be published by Tor. The money raised by the calendar sales will go to benefit Amyloidosis Research at the Mayo Clinic where Robert Jordan is receiving his treatment from.   Here is the press release from Tor: ROBER
Guest Jason