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Dragons
We know you’ve all been waiting for this—at long last, here’s the cover for INHERITANCE, Book Four in Christopher Paolini’s #1 bestselling Inheritance Cycle. It’s out November 8, 2011 so let the countdown begin!
You can read all about it, visit Alagaesia.com, or check out the Facebook page, where other fans are talking all about [...]
Here are two recently released trailers for HBO’s adaptation of A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. Both are equally compelling. It’s amazing that we have a mere month before Game of Thrones is unleashed on the world.
This week’s excerpt comes from His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik…click that READ MORE button to get your fix…
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There are some really cool geeky items out there and this is the season I begin thinking, “Wouldn’t it be neat if I had X or X?”
For the month of December I’ll post some of my own personal picks for holiday gifts, some of which I’m sure will also excite some of you, maybe to the point you add them to your gift lists!
Day 14: Todd Lockwood Artwork
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Hello, this is Todd McCaffrey, author of Dragonsblood, Dragonheart, and the recently released Dragongirl as well as co-author of the forthcoming Dragon’s Time and its sequel, Dragonrider.
The folks at Del Rey have asked me to engage in an interview with Fiona, queen rider of gold Talenth, as she journeys between times back from Igen Weyr [...]
To celebrate today’s publication of Tongues of Serpents, Book 6 in the Temeraire series (which reimagines the Napoleonic Wars as fought with the aid of dragons), Naomi Novik has announced a fanart competition. Five winners and ten runners-up will be selected by the judges (the author, yours truly, and Del Rey art director David Stevenson), [...]
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It’s hard not to see this cover and not go: That’s an awesome cover (which is why I left it so big on this post). I think Steve Youll has done some great work for Spectra over the years, but this is by far and away my favorite of his covers for one of our novels, and it couldn’t have happened to a cooler book. I’m sure Anne, below, is going to talk about how Havemercy came to be, so I’m just going to say this: Jaida and Dani are the kinds of authors that make me jealous, because they, well, they’re authors at such a young age and I’m not!
Read MoreA book editor’s job is to winnow through manuscript submissions and choose those that will please the most readers. For every manuscript we buy, we read many, many more that we turn down. One reason for rejection is that the concept has been overused–the young orphan boy who discovers his special heritage and must go [...]
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