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

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!

The Gathering Storm: Reviews and Interviews

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)

• Tor.com (Heavy spoiler alert — read at your own risk)
• Adventures in Reading
• Babel Clash
• Fantasy Literature
• Grasping for the Wind
• Keeping the Door
• Neth Space
• OF Blog of the Fallen
• Only the Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist
• ScienceBlogs
• SF Examiner
• The Wertzone

INTERVIEWS

• Sacramento Book Review
• Eye on Books: Interview with Brandon and Harriet
• VoiceAmerica
• Details Magazine
• GeekDad

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

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

The Midnight Storm!! (Wheel of Time)

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

Details Magazine Feature Interview with Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson was interviewed for the November 2009 Details Magazine, which just recently hit newsstands.

Q&A With Brandon Sanderson

Author Robert Jordan’s unfinished Wheel of Time series has sold more than 44 million copies. Sandserson reveals how he picked up the mantle for conclusion.

By Ruth Baron
October 27, 2009

If the epic-fantasy genre seems suited only to people who play Magic: The Gathering and own Star Wars bedding, consider this: Robert Jordan’s unfinished Wheel of Time series has sold more than 44 million copies. That’s a lot of readers who were left on the edge of their seats when the author died in 2007—including Brandon Sanderson, the 33-year-old writer who was chosen by Jordan’s widow to complete the series using the notes her husband left behind. Today, Sanderson is releasing the first of the three concluding volumes, A Memory of Light: The Gathering Storm (Tor, $30), and is facing expectations from fans who make a tween girl’s passion for the Jonas brothers look like what it is: child’s play. Ruth Baron

Continue reading Brandon’s interview on Details.com!

The Storm is Here! — The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Releases Today!

Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.

In this epic novel, Robert Jordan’s international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward–wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders–his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.

Egwene al’Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower–and possibly the world itself.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

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Meet Brandon Sanderson, and in select cities, Ms. Harriet McDougal and other members of Team Jordan!

Visit the tour website for exact times, location and other details: GatheringStormTour.com

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When you get The Gathering Storm, use #TGS on twitter to share your thoughts, review, or book signing experience!

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Related links:

• Midnight Reviews posted on Dragonmount’s Forum
• Watch Team Jordan interviews
• Where to get The Gathering Storm
• Charleston Post & Courier Article
• When Fans Become the Book Tour’s Support Crew

Early Reads:

• Jason from Dragonmount
• Melissa from TarValon.net
• Jennifer, JordanCon Chair
• Larry from OF Blog of the Fallen

More links:

• Brandon Sanderson
• Dragonmount
• Encyclopaedia WoT
• TarValon.net
• Theoryland
• Age of Legends
• The Thirteenth Depository
• The Wit of the Staircase
• Read and Find Out
• WoT on Facebook
• WoT Re-Read on Tor.com
• Wheel of Time Challenge 2010

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Four New York Times bestsellers for Tor/Forge

Four Tor/Forge titles, including three debuts, are New York Times bestsellers this week.

The War After Armageddon (Ralph Peters) debuts at #19, The Phoenix Transformed (Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory) debuts at #21, Ground Zero (F. Paul Wilson) debuts at #28, and First Daughter (Eric Van Lustbader) moves up in its second week on the Mass-Market fiction list, landing at #23.

Congrats to all the authors!

New York Times (The War After Armageddon)
October 4, 2009 #19 (Hardcover Fiction) (Debut)

New York Times (The Phoenix Transformed)
October 4, 2009 #21 (Hardcover Fiction) (Debut)

New York Times (Ground Zero)
October 4, 2009 #28 (Hardcover Fiction) (Debut)

New York Times (First Daughter)
September 27, 2009 #27 (Mass-Market Fiction) (Debut)
August 30, 2009 #23 (Mass-Market Fiction)

First Daughter is a New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

Eric Van Lustbader’s First Daughter is a New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller in Mass Market.

Congratulations to Eric Van Lustbader!

The New York Times
September 27, 2009 #27 Mass Market Fiction (Debut)

USA Today
September 13, 2009 #127
September 6, 2009 #157

Richard Matheson’s Somewhere in Time coming to Broadway

The Broadway musical adaptation of Richard Matheson’s Somewhere in Time has been announced!

From Variety:

“The developing tuner version of “Somewhere in Time” has set its creative team, with original novelist-screenwriter Richard Matheson co-writing the book and Leslie Arden on board to pen songs.

Producer Ken Davenport will co-write the book with Matheson. Stafford Arima, who helmed the Off Broadway longrunner “Altar Boyz” (of which Davenport also is a producer), directs.

It’ll be the first tuner for Matheson, whose books have yielded a slew of movie titles including “I Am Legend,” “Duel,” “Hell House,” “Stir of Echoes” and 1975 novel “Bid Time Return,” the time-traveling romance filmed in 1980 under the title “Somewhere in Time” (for which Matheson wrote the screenplay). His TV credits include several well-known episodes of the original run of “The Twilight Zone.””

Look for updates at: somewhereintimethemusical.com

Related links:

• Broadway Buzz: Musical Adaptation of Somewhere in Time in the Works
• BroadwayWorld.com: Arden, Arima & Matheson Announced as Creative Team for SOMEWHERE IN TIME Musical
• Playbill News: Arima Will Direct Stage Musical of Somewhere in Time, With Songs by Arden
• Theater Mania: Leslie Arden, Stafford Arima, Ken Davenport, Richard Matheson Set for Broadway-Bound Musical Somewhere in Time

Starred PW Review for Alex Bledsoe’s Burn Me Deadly

Alex Bledsoe’s Burn Me Deadly receives a *starred review* in today’s issue of Publishers Weekly.

They say: “Bledsoe effortlessly draws readers into his created world and manages to stay true to both fantasy and mystery traditions.”

Full review:

Burn Me Deadly
An Eddie LaCrosse Mystery
Alex Bledsoe
Tor, $24.99 (320p)
ISBN 978-0-7653-2221-0

Proving that 2007’s The Sword-Edged Blonde was no fluke, this sequel gives every evidence that Bledsoe’s combination of sword and sorcery with hard-boiled detection will have a long and successful run. Eddie LaCrosse, a former noble who gave up his title and now works as a freelance sword-jockey, is flagged down by a damsel in distress, Laura Lesperitt. Before LaCrosse can get Lesperitt to safety, they are ambushed, an encounter that leaves her dead. When he recovers, LaCrosse’s search for those responsible for the murder brings him into contact with powerful thug Gordon Marantz, the king’s Special Office of Domestic Security and a dragon-worshipping cult. Bledsoe effortlessly draws readers into his created world and manages to stay true to both fantasy and mystery traditions. (Nov.)