Fan Art Tuesdays: TiffanyTiger
Over at DeviantART, you can see more of her work. Below is her depiction of Teia from The Lightbringer Series:
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A Christmas Greeting (And Update!)
The Broken Eye = Spheres of Power (in German)
Whenever you translate a book from English into German, certain things get added. And by “things”, I mean the book suddenly becomes nearly twice as big as it was in the USA. And when you write a novel that’s more than 350,000 words in English, this can cause problems — like book bindings breaking!
Due to the length of The Broken Eye — and the additional length of translation a book into German — my German publisher has decided to publish the first half on August 17, 2015. We plan to follow with the second half in Winter 2015.
Here’s the cover for Sphären der Macht, part 1! Pre-order HERE.
Cover design and illustration: © Isabelle Hirtz, Inkcraft, with usage of a photo by Larry Rostant
Fan Art Tuesdays: Nele Klumpe
Fan Art Tuesday: Mario Fernandes
Artist Mario Fernandes has some amazing drawings of characters from The Night Angel Trilogy and The Lightbringer Series. You can go HERE to see his depictions of Vi Sovari, Andross Guile, Ironfist, and more.
Below, two pieces from his gallery:
Mario notes: “Brent Weeks’s writing takes me on a journey so vivid, populated with such compelling characters that I can’t help but explore it further through drawing.”
A Night Angel Love Story…?
A reader’s mom wrote me recently:
They “met on a Bart Train in SF California, my son was reading this book and she had just finished it…so she introduced herself….and a love story began. He proposed in a book store [Four-Eyed Frog Books, where he arranged with the store owner to put The Way of Shadows in a place she would find it]. He carved the center out, placed his engagement ring in the center of the book….and when she found it he proposed.”
We all wish you the greatest happiness! Thank you so much to Connie for sharing these stories and the pictures. (And thanks to Four-Eyed Frog Books for facilitating this. Hooray for awesome booksellers!)
Amazon’s Best SFF of 2014
Amazon has put The Broken Eye on their 2014 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy List! Check it out:
Of course, since you’re here on my website, you probably already know about my books. The great thing about a list like this is that it will give you all sorts of ideas for other great books.
Barnes & Noble: Best Pick of the Season
Barnes & Noble has just released a list of the season’s best new science fiction and fantasy — and The Broken Eye is on it!
Goodreads Semi-Finals & Giveaway
Good news! The Broken Eye has made it to the semi-final round of the Goodreads Choice Award (pick for Best Fantasy). Thanks to all who voted! If you’d like to help get me to the next round, go HERE to vote.
To celebrate The Broken Eye being nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award, my publisher is giving away 5 copies. Anyone in the US, Canada, UK and Ireland is eligible. Go HERE to enter. The giveaway closes December 1, 2014.
2014 Halloween Costume Contest Winners
We received many excellent entries. Though we didn’t have space to include every submission in this post, many thanks to all who participated! There was much gnashing of teeth, several fist fights, and one trip to the ER as we calmly and rationally debated the merits of each costume.
First, we had the smart-alecks. Of course we did:
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- Shimmercloak in Florida (C. Robins)
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- Teia as a Mist Walker (Meryl K.)
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- Murder Sharp (Jessie P.)
Fourth Place (Nick C.):
Third place (Ollie O.):
Second place (Nicola R.):
Grand Prize Winner (Dominika P.):
Honorable Mentions:
I’ll be sending each of you a Lightbringer bookplate! (Click to enlarge — for some reason with the larger files you’ll need to click and then click again.)
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- Vi Sovari (Jordanne H.)
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- Green Wight, Blackguards (Tarje B.)
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- Green/Superviolet Blackguard (Sarah W.)
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- Corvan Danavis and the Third Eye (Melanie A.)
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- Blue Drafter (Paul J.)
So what do you think? Did we get it right or did we mess up? Let us know over in poll –> and we’ll send a special prize to the fan favorite. (We’ll close that poll for voting purposes next Monday.)