New Releases: 11/10

November 9, 2009 Leave a comment

The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw

The Authorized Ender Companion by Orson Scott Card and Jake Black

Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe

Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner

An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe

Good Night, Mr. Holmes by Carole Nelson Douglas

The House of Caine by Ken Eulo

The House of the Stag by Kage Baker

Jaclyn the Ripper by Karl Alexander

Journey to the Light by George Noory and William J. Birnes

Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising by Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice

Wings of Creation by Brenda Cooper

A Young Man Without Magic by Lawrence Watt-Evans

The next 3 months of releases are listed here.

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The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson is a #1 New York Times bestseller!

November 5, 2009 3 comments

The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson is a #1 New York Times bestseller!

Publisher Tom Doherty began working with Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan’s widow and editor, more than forty years ago. Many people at Tor have worked with the series for more than twenty years. Still others have watched Brandon Sanderson grow from unknown writer to the amazing talent that he is today. And readers of all ages, who deserve our unending thanks, have grown up with these books and shared them with others.

Congratulations to Team Jordan and everyone involved!

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The Gathering Storm: Reviews and Interviews

November 4, 2009 Leave a comment

Here is a round-up of reviews and interviews for The Gathering Storm. If you have a review you’d like to add to our list, please add it to the comments or contact us on Twitter.

REVIEWS (warning — some of these reviews may contain spoilers)

INTERVIEWS

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Book Trailer: Imager’s Challenge by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

November 4, 2009 Leave a comment

Imager’s Challenge takes up immediately after the conclusion of Imager. Still recovering from injuries received in foiling the plots of the Ferran envoy, Rhenn is preparing to take up his new duties as imager liaison to the Civic Patrol of L’Excelsis. No sooner has he assumed his new position than he discovers two things. First, the Commander of the Civic Patrol doesn’t want a liaison from the infamous Collegium, and soon has Rhenn patrolling the streets of the worst district in the city. Second, Rhenn receives formal notice that one of the High Holders, the father of a man Rhenn partly blinded in self-defense, has declared his intention to destroy Rhenn and his family.

Rhenn’s only allies are the family of the girl he loves, successful merchants with underworld connections. In the end, Rhenn must literally stand off against gang lords, naval marines, Tiempran terrorist priests, the most powerful High Holder in all of Solidar, and his own Collegium—and find a way to prevail without making further enemies and endangering those he loves.

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Book Trailer: Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe

November 4, 2009 Leave a comment

Alex Bledsoe’s first novel,The Sword-Edged Blonde, drew rave reviews for its ingenious blend of fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. Now Bledsoe returns with an all-new tale of mean streets and medieval intrigue.

Above Angelina’s Tavern in down-and-dirty Neceda you’ll find the office of Eddie LaCrosse, a freelance sword jockey who, for twenty-five gold pieces a day, will take on any task short of murder for hire. Eddie’s on his way back from a routine investigation when his horse almost runs down a half-naked blonde in serious trouble. Against his better judgment, he promises to protect the frightened young woman, only to find himself waylaid by unknown assailants and left for dead beside her mutilated body.

Eddie isn’t the kind of guy to just let something like this pass. But who killed Laura Lesperitt? Eddie’s quest for payback leads him to a tangled mystery involving a notorious crime lord, a backwoods dragon cult, royal scandals, and a duplicitous femme fatale who has trouble keeping her clothes on. As bodies pile up, attracting the unwelcome attention of the king’s guards, Eddie must use all his wits if he hopes to survive . . .

http://us.macmillan.com/burnmedeadly
http://www.alexbledsoe.com

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New Releases: 11/3

November 3, 2009 Leave a comment

The Breath of God by Harry Turtledove

Chance Fortune in the Shadow Zone by Shane Berryhill

Crimson by Jordan Summers

The Gun Fight by Richard Matheson

Halo: The Cole Protocol by Tobias S. Buckell

Jesus by Andrew Greeley

Keyholders #3: Inside the Magic by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones

Keyholders #4: The Wrong Side of Magic by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones

Leopards Kill by Jim DeFelice

The Lord-Protector’s Daughter by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set by Brandon Sanderson

Odd Girl Out by Timothy Zahn

People of the Earth by W. Michael Gear and Kathlean O’Neal Gear

People of the Fire by W. Michael Gear and Kathlean O’Neal Gear

People of the Thunder by W. Michael Gear and Kathlean O’Neal Gear

People of the Wolf by W. Michael Gear and Kathlean O’Neal Gear

Vulcan’s Fire by Harold Coyle and Barrett Tillman

The next 3 months of releases are listed here.
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The Breath of God by Harry Turtledove

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Giveaway: Home for Christmas by Andrew M. Greeley

October 29, 2009 1 comment

Enter for a chance to win an advance reading copy on Goodreads!

About Home for Christmas: Petey Pat Kane and Mariana Pia Pelligrino have been in love with each other their whole lives. But on a night that is supposed to be one of the best of their lives, Peter makes a choice that forces him to leave Chicago—and Mariana—behind. Guilt leads him into the Army, where he becomes Captain Kane, war hero. But nothing can make him forget his love for Mariana.

On his third deployment in Iraq, Peter is injured and finds himself both alive and dead on a wondrous spiritual journey where he is given a second chance at life from God Himself. With Christmas approaching, time is running out for Peter to complete the most important mission of his life: convincing himself that he and Mariana were meant to share a special message of love with the world.

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Giveaway: The Hadrian Memorandum by Allan Folsom

October 29, 2009 Leave a comment

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About The Hadrian Memorandum: John Barron was once a top detective in the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite 5-2 Squad. A deadly shootout with fellow officers changed his world forever.

Taking a new identity, he fled the country he loved and as Nicholas Marten became a landscape architect in the north of England determined to put a life of violence behind him forever. Then suddenly he found himself in Spain ensnared in a massive global conspiracy where he saved the life of John Henry Harris, the president of the United States. Not long afterward the president came calling again.

Sent to the West African country of Equatorial Guinea to gain information on alleged collusion between a U.S. oil company and mercenaries hired to protect its workers, Marten is caught up in a bloody civil war between rebellious tribesmen and a merciless dictator. Soon he meets a priest who has clandestine photographs that show the mercenaries supplying arms to the rebels. In a blink the priest is captured by army troops and Marten flees for his life, determined to find the photographs and turn them over to the president before they are made public and ignite a global firestorm of protest and propaganda. But others are close on his heels. Among them; Conor White, a highly decorated former SAS commando turned elite killer; Sy Wirth, the arrogant president of the oil company; the alluring and dangerous oil company board member, Anne Tidrow; and, quietly, operatives of the CIA.

Murder, suspense, and deceit shadow Marten every inch of the way as his harrowing journey takes him to Berlin, to the Portuguese Riviera, and finally to the always-mysterious Lisbon. At stake is the struggle for control of an ocean of oil, and with it the constantly shifting line between good and evil, love and hate, law and politics. Its cost, thousands of human lives. Its cause, a top secret agreement called The Hadrian Memorandum.

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The Gathering Storm on the front page of USA Today/ Life section

October 29, 2009 Leave a comment

USA TODAY puts Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson and The Gathering Storm on the front of today’s Life section.

The piece features great quotes from Harriet McDougal (“I do think Brandon Sanderson has a natural feeling for the ethical and moral issues of life.”) and the incomparable Brandon Sanderson (“Robert Jordan’s material ‘was like stepping into Da Vinci’s workshop after he just walked off … I know I can’t replace him. The person who should have written this book was Robert Jordan. He was the greatest fantasy writer of my generation.”)

Congratulations, Team Jordan!

Read the article here: Robert Jordan’s ‘Wheel of Time’ saga comes full circle

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The Midnight Storm!! (Wheel of Time)

October 28, 2009 Leave a comment

October 27th, 2009. Midnight Release Party. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, Book 12 of the Wheel of Time.

Break it down, Provo, UT!! Big props to the BYU Bookstore and the Midnight Storm Leaders headed up by tech wizard Matt Hatch (Theoryland)

500+ people. Impending snow. And the Wheel of Time.

Watch as the camera snakes through the line and runs into a few people (see if you can spot Brandon Sanderson!) and Storm Leader shout-outs (dont take my shirt!)

WoT fans and Storm Leaders hang out in the stores labyrinthine line and entertain themselves with I Killed Amodean bumper stickers! Trivia games! (no spoilers)

Footage taken by: Lironah (roving filmmaker extraordinaire)
Storm Leaders from: Dragonmount

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