Though it’s been floating around for a while, the cover art for Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker is just too damn cool not to post.
You can find out more about Warbreaker and even download a FREE e-book version of it on Sanderson’s web site HERE.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
How on the heels of the news that Neil Gaiman’s latest novel, The Graveyard Book, won the Newberry Medal, I discovered that the entirety of The Graveyard Book is available on the Interwebs for free. The best part, it’s a ten-part video series of Gaiman himself reading the novel.
Gaiman’s well known for doing many of his audio books himself, so it’s certainly a treat to get a glimpse at the man behind the words. You can find the series of videos HERE.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who loved Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. Gaiman’s latest novel is the latest recipient of the ALA Newberry Medal and he’s pretty damn excited about it.
From Gaiman’s blog post:
It was 5:45 in the morning. No-one had died, though, I was fairly certain of that. My cell-phone rang.
“Hello. This is Rose Trevino. I’m chair of the ALA Newbery Committee…” Oh. Newbery. Right. Cool. I may be an honors book or something. That would be nice, “and I have the voting members of the Newbery Committee here, and we want to tell you that your book…”
“THE GRAVEYARD BOOK,” said fourteen loud voices, and I thought, I may be still asleep right now, but they probably don’t do this, probably don’t call people and sound so amazingly excited, for Honors books….
“…just won…”
“THE NEWBERY MEDAL” they chorused. They sounded really happy. I checked the hotel room because it seemed very likely that I was still fast asleep. It all looked reassuringly solid.
You are on a speakerphone with at least 14 teachers and librarians and suchlike great, wise and good people, I thought. Do not start swearing like you did when you got the Hugo. This was a wise thing to think because otherwise huge, mighty and fourletter swears were gathering. I mean, that’s what they’re for. I think I said, You mean it’s Monday?
“You can tell your agent and your publisher, but no-one else,” said Rose. “And it will be announced in about an hour.”
And I fumfed and mumbled and said something of a thankyouthankyouthankyouokaythiswasworthbeingwokenupfor nature.
A big congrats to Neil and all the other folk involved in The Graveyard Book! You know an award’s a big deal when a grizzled veteran ( *snicker*) like Gaiman gets excited about it. Now get out there and read The Graveyard Book, it’s that bloody good!
Suvudu gave us a glimpse at the near final version of the cover art for R.A. Salvatore’s The Dame, the newest volume in his Saga of the First King.
Despite my disappointment in his previous effort in the Saga of the First King, I was a big fan of the novel that kicked of the saga, The Highwayman. I still hold out hope that the next volume, The Dame will recapture some of the heart and craft that was lost in The Ancient.
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is one of my favourite novels. Not only is it a chillingly beautiful read, but it’s the perfect example of how YA can mix with adult fiction and appeal to readers of all ages. Surprisingly, the movie adaptation of the novel seems like it might just do justice to the source material.
From Gaiman’s blog:
It’s hard to promote a film that’s as much for adults as it is for kids, easy for something like this to bomb — or to be perceived as having bombed, which is not the same thing. The advertising is out there for another couple of weeks, and it’ll probably get more pervasive as we get closer to the 6th of February, and will not please your friends. And the run up to Coraline will take over this blog more or less completely, I expect, because it’s all I’ll be doing. And then, after Feb 6th, it will all trail off, and the advertising will die away completely, and it will fade from the blog with occasional splashes of mention if the film does something interesting, or if I go somewhere to help promote it.
I’m always wary about book to movie translations, but it’s hard not to get excited about a project when the author themselves seem to fully support the visual version of their story. Too often movies are more or less ignored by the authors whose work they’re based on, but Gaiman seems fully behind Coraline and that has me fully excited.
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