One of my favourite features every year has always been the kickass annual year-end review that Rob Bedford (from SFFWorld and Rob’s Blog o’ Stuff Hobbit (from SFFWorld) put together for their readers at SFFWorld.

So, it was with great surprise and delight when they asked me (along with several other of my blogging friends) to be a part of this year’s Annual Review!

Besides my self, the crew consists of:

• Rob Bedford
• Werthead
• Graeme
• Fantasy Book Critic
• Hobbit

We cover everything from whether the bestsellers of the year lived up to the hype, favourites of the year, surprises and more. It’s definitely worth the read. I just hope I don’t come off as a lightweight with such well-read and prominent bloggers as company!

You can find Part One HERE.

Alright, this is pretty cool.

Amazon.com has recently acquired a hand-scribed copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, one of only seven copies of a story that astute Potter-fans will recognize from the seventh novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Amazon.com spent a whopping £1,950,000, further proving that they have way too much money. The coolest thing about it, though, is that Ms. Rowling will be donating the proceeds to The Children’s Voice campaign. Here’s a bit pulled from the Amazon.com page about the auction.
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Being reported at, well, basically every SF/F web site worth mentioning, Brandon Sanderson, author of Elantris and the soon-to-be-finished Mistborn Trilogy has been selected by Robert Jordan’s wife and editor, Harriet Popham Rigney, to finish Robert Jordan’s magnum opus, The Wheel of Time

Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney, Jr., passed away during the completion of the final volume of his genre defining, multi-volume series. Since his death, fans have been in the dark about the fate of the final novel and how it would see completion.
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Stephen Hunt, author of The Court of the Air and bigwig behind the SF Crowsnest, recently approached me hoping to include my blogger interview (PART ONE | PART TWO) in the December issue of his megahuge online magazine.

The November issue saw over 700k readers and over 39 million hits. That’s big business and I jumped on the opportunity to spread the word about all the bloggers I gathered together for the interview.

You can find the interview HERE. But be sure to check out the rest of the issue, there’s a lot of great stuff in there!

Pat, from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, recently contacted Betsy Wollheim at DAW Books in regards to the release of Patrick Rothfuss’s second novel, The Wise Man’s Fear.

Most of you will remember that Rothfuss actually wrote his first trilogy as a novel before having it split up into three volumes after being picked up by Matt Bailer (SF/F Agent extraordinaire). This was a good thing, it meant that Rothfuss had at least a rough draft of the final two novels in the trilogy completed. One would think this would result in a quick release schedule of the three novels.

Not so much, I guess. Here’s Betsy’s reply to Pat:

It’s disappointing that we’ll have to wait so long. But, like Pat mentioned, it’s also nice to know that DAW isn’t screwing around with what is sure to be their most successful trilogy since Tad William’s Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Rothfuss has a good thing going on and I want it to be the best damn trilogy it can be.

Meanwhile, I’ll just keep cracking away at all the other terrific novels out there…