New eBook Release: A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

About A Memory of Light: Since 1990, when Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time® burst on the world with its first book, The Eye of the World, readers have been anticipating the final scenes of this extraordinary saga, which has sold over forty million copies in over thirty languages.

When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. WithThe Gathering Storm (Book 12) and Towers of Midnight (Book 13) behind him, both of which were # 1 New York Times hardcover bestsellers, Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind.

Edited by Jordan’s widow, who edited all of Jordan’s books, A Memory of Light will delight, enthrall, and deeply satisfy all of Jordan’s legions of readers.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass.
What was, what will be, and what is,
may yet fall under the Shadow.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

See upcoming releases.

The Rithmatist Sweepstakes

The Rithmatist releases May 14 but we have a chance for you to win one of six advance reading copies now. And that’s not all, winners will also get a Rithmatist goody bag filled with chalk and a Memory of Light backpack! Comment below to enter for a chance to win.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C. to enter. Promotion begins April 1, 2013 at 9 a.m. ET. and ends April 5, 2013, 12:00 p.m. ET. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law. Please see full details and official rules go here. Sponsor: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

The Week in Review

Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.

 

• Rumors are flying about new Star Wars movies, including the origin story of Han Solo. Tor.com wants to know: who do you think should play a young Han Solo?

• Because you needed more books to add to your TBR list: io9 has posted their list of books you can’t afford to miss in February.

• The Wheel of Time reread continues with the final volume, A Memory of Light!

• All young scientists start somewhere, and this girl has a great story – and video! – of where her future science career will begin. She sent a Hello Kitty doll into space.

• Are you following along with Ron Hogan’s read of The Human Division, by John Scalzi? They’re up to Episode 4, “A Voice in the Wilderness.”

• Flavorwire compiled a list of some truly amazing fictional libraries. What did they miss?

• Tor.com has announced that they’re expanding their short fiction program. Submit your stories now!

 
The Tor/Forge newsletter went out this week! Check out these fascinating articles from our authors:

• Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz
• An Interview with Lady Trent, Dragon Naturalist by Marie Brennan
• Speechless: Writing Dialogue for Characters Who Don’t Speak by Evie Manieri
• A Demented Labor of Love by James Frenkel, Senior Editor

 
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!

• Waiting on Wednesday: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett (Ends 2/12)
• Goodreads First Reads: Deep Down by Deborah Coates (Ends 2/13)
• Goodreads First Reads: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett (Ends 2/13)
• Goodreads First Reads: The Six-Gun Tarot by R. S. Belcher (Ends 2/15)
• Goodreads Giveaway: Eve of Destruction by Sylvia Day (Ends 2/26)
• Goodreads First Reads: Pandemonium by Warren Fahy (Ends 2/27)
• eBook Sale: The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 2/28)
• Goodreads First Reads: Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal (Ends 3/1)
• Goodreads First Reads: Kitty Rocks the House by Carrie Vaughn (Ends 3/1)

The Week in Review

Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.
 

 

• Check out the book trailer for The Six-Gun Tarot, by R. S. Belcher. Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasy.

• Here’s another amazing book trailer for you: meet the Hugo Award-winning author who’s also…a mad scientist!

• Brandon Sanderson did a #TorChat this week! If you missed it, Tor.com collected some of his answers to fans’ questions.

• Artist Michael Whelan talks about the process he went through creating the cover painting for A Memory of Light.

• Across the pond, Tor UK talks to Cherie Priest about her Clockwork Century series. And, speaking of Tor UK, we’re delighted to report they now have a Facebook page!

• And last, but definitely not least, “Walk the Plank,” the second episode in John Scalzi’s ebook experiment The Human Division, released this week. Follow along with Ron Hogan’s read-along on Tor.com.

 
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!

• Waiting on Wednesday: Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons (Ends 1/29)
• #TorChat January Sweepstakes: Win a copy of Brandon Sanderson’s The Rithmatist (Ends 1/30)
• Goodreads First Reads: The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Firebrand by Gillian Phillip (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Deep Down by Deborah Coates (Ends 2/13)
• Goodreads First Reads: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett (Ends 2/13)
• eBook Sale: Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn (Ends 3/6)

#TorChat January 2013 Sweepstakes

Did you participate in today’s #TorChat? We hope you enjoyed it and look forward to your participation in next month’s chat on February 20th!

In the meantime, here’s your chance to win a prize! Two lucky winners will receive an advance reading copy of The Rithmatist, plus A Memory of Light bag and iPhone cover. Leave a comment below to enter.

And again we’d like to thank Brandon Sanderson for joining us on Twitter today.

Sweepstakes closes to new entries on January 30th at noon.

And don’t forget to come and join us next month, on February 20th, at 4 PM Eastern!

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C. to enter. Promotion begins January 23, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. ET. and ends January 30, 2013, 12:00 p.m. ET. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law. Please see full details and official rules go here. Sponsor: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

January #TorChat Lineup Revealed

You guessed right…it’s Brandon Sanderson month!

Tor Books (@torbooks) is thrilled to announce January’s #TorChat, part of a monthly series of genre-themed, hour-long chats created by Tor Books and hosted on Twitter.

January 8, 2012 was one of the most anticipated days of the last two decades: it saw the publication of A Memory of Light, the final book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Joining us to talk about the series will be Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author hand-picked to take up Robert Jordan’s mantle.

Brandon will be joining us to talk about how it felt to finish a story that has spanned more than two decades. It has been an emotional journey for everyone involved, from Team Jordan and Brandon himself, to all the fans of the series, many of whom have been there from the very beginning.

The chat will be loosely moderated by Sally Feller (@Sally_TorBooks), Brandon’s publicist at Tor. We hope Wheel of Time fans will come join us on Wednesday, January 23rd, at 4 PM Eastern!

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time!

About the Author
BRANDON SANDERSON (@BrandSanderson) grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University and lives in Utah with his wife and children. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Alloy of Law, Towers of Midnight, The Way of Kings, The Gathering Storm, Warbreaker, Elantris, the Mistborn trilogy, and the middle grade “Alcatraz” series. In December of 2007, Brandon was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s bestselling Wheel of Time series. The final book, A Memory of Light, was published on January 8, 2013.

For fascinating behind-the-scenes information on Brandon Sanderson’s work, visit him at www.brandonsanderson.com.

About #Torchat
#TorChat is a genre-themed, hour-long chat series created by Tor Books and hosted on Twitter. Guest authors join fans in lively, informative and entertaining discussions of all that’s hot in genre fiction, 140 characters at a time, from 4 – 5 PM EST on the third Wednesday of every month. Each #TorChat revolves around a different genre topic of interest, often of a timely nature, and strives to provide a new media opportunity for readers to connect with their favorite authors.

About Tor Books
Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books. Founded in 1980, Tor annually publishes what is arguably the largest and most diverse line of science fiction and fantasy ever produced by a single English-language publisher. In 2002, Tor launched Starscape, an imprint dedicated to publishing quality science fiction and fantasy for young readers, including books by critically acclaimed and award winning authors such as Cory Doctorow, Orson Scott Card, and David Lubar. Between an extensive hardcover and trade-softcover line, an Orb backlist program, and a stronghold in mass-market paperbacks, books from Tor have won every major award in the SF and fantasy fields, and has been named Best Publisher 25 years in a row in the Locus Poll, the largest consumer poll in SF.

The Week in Review

Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.
 

 

• A Memory of Light hits number one on the New York Times bestseller list!

• Audible.com is offering John Scalzi’s “The B-Team” audio for free if you like their Facebook page.

• Wednesday was National Appreciate a Dragon Day. To celebrate, Tor.com is offering a free download of Todd Lockwood’s cover for A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan.

• Nightmare Magazine has an interview with editor Ellen Datlow, the queen of anthologies.

• Jo Walton, the author of Among Others, asks if there’s a right age to read a book. What do you think?

• You can take a detailed tour of the international space station on io9. It’s a long video, but entirely worth it.

• Congratulations to Forge authors Rebecca Cantrell and Hank Phillippi Ryan, whose books A City of Broken Glass and The Other Woman have been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award!

 
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!

• Goodreads First Reads: The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Firebrand by Gillian Phillip (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Deep Down by Deborah Coates (Ends 2/13)
• Goodreads First Reads: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett (Ends 2/13)

A Memory of Light is a #1 New York Times bestseller!

A Memory of Light, the final book in The Wheel of Time series, has debuted at #1 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers list.

Congratulations Brandon, Team Jordan, and everyone involved!

The Week in Review

Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.

 

• A Memory of Light released this week, so we’re all Wheel of Time, all the time! Now that the book’s out, it’s safe for some of you to read Leigh Butler’s spoiler-filled review.

• And, now that the book is out, Tor.com has assembled their emailed Memories of Light and explained each one. See if your guesses and speculation were correct!

• Need another Brandon Sanderson fix? Check out an excerpt of his upcoming young adult novel, The Rithmatist.

• Sarah of Bookworm Blues was one the driving forces behind a newly-released anthology, Triumph Over Tragedy. It’s now available, the sales of the book will go to help victims of Hurricane Sandy.

• Paul Goat Allen, of the B&N Explorations blog, has put together a list of great sf/f novels that he’d love to see as movies. What books do you think would make great movies?

• Tor.com has released a free ebook with some of their best short stories of 2012. Check it out!

• Last but definitely not least, Hugo Award Nominations are now open. Details of how to nominate, plus details of what can be nominated, on their website.

 
The Tor/Forge newsletter went out this week! Check out these fascinating articles from our authors:

• Reading the Final Scene of the Wheel of Time by Brandon Sanderson
• Computers Made It Easier by Harriet McDougal
• The Wheel of Time: Legacy
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Eye of the World Graphic Novels
• The Turning of an Age, plus… Haiku by Jason Denzel
• Channelling Saidar by Jennifer Liang

 
And, just to make Friday that much sweeter, here’s a list of sweepstakes and sales we have going on!

• Waiting on Wednesday: Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons (Ends 1/15)
• Goodreads First Reads: Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams (Ends 1/16)
• Goodreads First Reads: Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons (Ends 1/16)
• Goodreads First Reads: Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri (Ends 1/31)
• Goodreads First Reads: Firebrand by Gillian Phillip (Ends 1/31)
• eBook Sale: A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell is on sale for $2.99 (Ends 2/6)
• eBook Sale: Titan and Venus by Ben Bova are now on sale for $2.99 each (Ends 2/6)

New Releases: 1/8/2013

See upcoming releases.