FREE E-BOOK: Robin Hobb, SHAMAN’S CROSSING

Eos is 10 years old! To kick-off our yearlong anniversary party, we’re giving away free e-books! Every two months for 2008, we’ll give away a new free e-book at www.harpercollinsebooks.com/eos10.

We’re thrilled to announce the inaugural title:

SHAMAN’S CROSSING, Robin Hobb

Book One of the Soldier Son trilogy, SHAMAN’S CROSSING tells the story of Nevare Burvelle, destined from birth to be a soldier.

The second son of a newly anointed nobleman, he must endure the rigors of military training at the elite King’s Cavella Academy–and survive the hatred, cruelty, and derision of his aristocratic classmates–before joining the King of Gernia’s brutal campaign of territorial expansion. The life chosen for him will be fraught with hardship, for he must ultimately face a forest-dwelling folk who will not submit easily to a king’s tyranny. And they possess an ancient magic their would-be conquerors have long discounted…a powerful sorcery that threatens to claim Nevare Burvelle’s soul and devastate his world once the Dark Evening brings the carnival to Old Thares.

FOREST MAGE and RENEGADE’S MAGIC are out now.

Erikson’s publicist just forwarded me a press release which indicates that 2008 will be a busy year for Steven Erikson and The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Here’s what they have on tap:

February will bring the reissue of the series’ opening chapter, Gardens of the Moon, with the new cover art and an exclusive introduction, all for a bargain price to entice new readers to pick it up.

April will bring the paperback edition of Reaper’s Gale, and will include a teaser from Toll the Hounds.

June will see the release of the eagerly anticipated Toll the Hounds. For the very first time, this latest Malazan volume will get a hardback release. Indeed, the trade paperback of Toll the Hounds won’t hit the stores until the fall.

Even better, Steven Erikson will visit the UK around the publication of Toll the Hounds, and will thus attend bookshop signings, readings, and related events.

As if this wasn’t enough, the icing on the cake will be the publication of Ian Cameron Esslemont’s Return of the Crimson Guard, first as a limited edition from PS Publishing this spring, and then with the “official” release coming later in the summer.

All in all, quite a good year from Malazan fans!:-)