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Just wanted to let you all know that I switched my RSS feeds over to Feedburner, so if things get wonky just try readding my blog to your RSS reader.

In my neverending quest to make A Dribble of Ink a better publication, I decided to make a new feature, I Ask You, to get you guys, the readers, more involved in improving things.

My readership is constantly growing – from avid fans, to aspiring writers, to well established authors – and that’s a resource I’d be silly to pass up. To that end, I’ve got a couple of questions for everyone that drops by, and the theme this time is Interviews.

Readers: What kind of questions do you like to see? What do you like the author to talk about? How long do you like the interviews to be?

Authors: How can we, the bloggers, keep the interviews from getting stale? What do you most enjoy speaking about? What questions would you like to be asked, but never are?

Subterranean Press, everyone’s favourite specialty publisher, has some exciting news for fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In honour of Jack Vance, one of the genre’s greats, Subterranean Press is putting together an tribute anthology, Tales of the Dying Earth, for Vance and his Dying Earth series.

Songs of the Dying Earth will feature some of the genre’s best best and brightest authors including: Glen Cook, Kage Baker, Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Dan Simmons and (if the stars align properly) George R.R. Martin. If that isn’t something to get excited about, whether you’re a fan of Vance’s work or not, I don’t know what is!

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Over at his Official Web Site, Terry Brooks and Del Rey released the first chapter in his upcoming novel, The Gypsy Morph.

The Gypsy Morph is the concluding volume in Brooks’ The Genesis of Shannara trilogy. The trilogy acts as a bridge to connect his very famous Shannara series and his lesser known Word & Void trilogy. If the first two novels in the trilogy, Armageddon’s Children and The Elves of Cintra, are any indication, Brooks fans have a lot to look forward to!

Two further chapters will be released on July 1st and August 1st. In celebration of the chapter’s release I present you with another look at the ill-advised cover for the US edition of The Gypsy Morph!

You can find the chapter HERE. The link is located on the right side of the screen just underneath the cover art.

Brian Ruckley, author of Winterbirth, recently released an excerpt from his upcoming novel, Bloodheir. Bloodheir is the second book in The Godless World trilogy and the early reviews have been good (Chris the Book Swede, Grasping for the Wind, Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist), and it seems that Brian won’t let down fans of the first novel!

Brian also announced that the title of the final novel in the trilogy will be Fall of Thanes. Say one thing for Brian Ruckley, say he can come up with some great titles!

Brian and I are currently in the midst of working on an interview right now that I’m sure you’ll all find interesting and fun! Instead of the normal process of just sending Brian a bunch of questions, he and I are going to have more of a back and forth conversation about writing, the industry, cover art and everything in between. We’re hoping this will keep us away from the typical questions that he’s already answered in many other interviews.

In the meantime, though, you can find the prologue to Bloodheir HERE.

You can also watch a clip of Brian reading from Bloodheir HERE!