Huge Tor Giveaway!

One of the blogs I follow is Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. This guy does an incredible job of keeping up with the world of fantasy and sci-fi fiction. He also frequently sponsors giveaways, no strings attached. If you’re interested in fantasy and sci-fi fiction, you might want to check this guy out.

Now, to give you the details promised in the headline above. Pat is offering on his website a huge prize pack being offered by Tor Books. To enter, visit Pat’s blog to get the details:
http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2009/12/tis-season-giveaway-tor-books.html

Here are the books in the pack:

- Signed copy of Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker
- Signed copy of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Final Empire
- Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s The Gathering Storm
- Three The Wheel of Time comics (Dabel Brothers)
- Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon
- ARC of Steven Erikson’s Dust of Dreams
- Richard Matheson’s The Box
- Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker
- R. Scott Bakker’s Neuropath
- R.A. Salvatore’s The Ancient
- Glen Cook’s Chronicles of Black Company
- Glen Cook’s The Return of Black Company
- Glen Cook’s The Books of the South
- Charles de Lint’s Muse and Reverie
- John Brown’s Servant of a Dark God
- Ian Cameron Esslemont’s Night of Knives
- Kate Elliott’s Spirit Gate and Shadow Gate
- Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Bones of the Dragon
- L. E. Modesitt, jr.’s Imager
- L. E. Modesitt, jr.’s Imager’s Challenge

I recommend you stop by Pat’s blog and register for this prize pack. You may never see another one this big.

Win a Copy of Mistborn and Eye of the World From Tor

Tor is giving away a copy of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and Robert Jordan’s Eye of the World in honor of the upcoming release of The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan on October 27, 2009.

Mistborn is Book 1 in Sanderson’s trilogy by the same name. Eye of the World is also Book 1 but in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. After Robert Jordan’s untimely death, Brandon Sanderson was asked to complete the Wheel of Time series. The Gathering Storm is one of the three final books in the series.

For details on the contest, visit Tor at: http://us.macmillan.com/tor/promo/mistborneotw

Free Warbreaker Wallpaper

I neglected to mention yesterday that you can download free wallpaper for your computer screen or iPhone showing the cover of Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker, compliments of Tor Books. All that is required is a free registration to the Tor.com website. Click here.

Don Dos Santos Paints Warbreaker Cover

In a follow-up to yesterday’s coverage of Brandon Sanderson’s soon-to-be-published Warbreaker, I want to draw attention to the artist who painted the beautiful cover. Don Dos Santos has made available a five-minute video demonstrating the process behind the Warbreaker oil painting. What an incredible talent!

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

[amazon-product alink="0000FF" bordercolor="000000" height="240"]0765320304[/amazon-product]On Sale: 6/9/2009, Tor Books

After I stumbled across Brandon Sanderson’s debut novel (Elantris) in the library, this author quickly became one of my favorites. Soon after finishing Elantris, I purchased–and thoroughly enjoyed–Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy. Now his newest release, Warbreaker, hits the stores June 9. I had a chance to read a pre-release draft of Warbreaker and loved it so much that I can’t wait to purchase a hardcopy for my library. Here’s what publisher Tor Books has to say about Warbreaker:

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.

Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of  bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.