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Lightbringer Reissue – Cover Reveal!

Orbit Books is putting together a special reissue of the Lightbringer Series in trade paperback. The epic saga we know and love is getting new covers and some exciting new interior features (including some new character icons and the most updated map of the Seven Satrapies from the first edition BURNING WHITE).

These editions are available to pre-order now for delivery to you on September 19, 2023–just a few short weeks away! Click through the images to pre-order links

(Links in the images below are Amazon Affiliate.)

Retailer Roundup for NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS

We are just about one month away from the long-anticipated release of NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS! That means you still have time to pre-order your copy– maybe even a signed copy– of the first book in The Kylar Chronicles. (OOoooooOOOOOOoooo!)

Now, you may be thinking, “My mind needs a good flaying! CAPSLOCK, where can I get one of these sweet, sweet hardcovers, so that I might run my emotions through a Midcyru meat grinder?”

Mighty crabs! Oh, and tip-ins for the pre-signed copies of Nemesis.

You’ve come to the right place, friend! See below for a list of retailers taking pre-orders. Please note that since some of these stores are tour stops, be mindful of which edition you are looking for when asking about availability (the pre-signed fancy-paged edition, or the not-yet-signed but gonna-show-up-for-the-man-himself-to-sign edition).

If there are any updates or changes, they’ll be noted right here. Go forth, minions!

Order Online (availability may vary):

The Signed Page (Online only, ships worldwide, signed copies) 

Barnes and Noble (signed copies available; pre-order to enter their Nemesis Sweepstakes! Click through link for details.)

Books-A-Million (signed copies available)

Amazon (affiliate link)

*Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)

*University Bookstore (UW, Seattle, WA)

*Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA)

*Tattered Cover (Denver, CO)

*Joseph-Beth Books (Cincinnati, OH & Lexington, KY)

Bookish (signed copies available; King of Prussia, PA)

VJ Books (signed copies available; Tualatin, OR) 

Auntie’s Bookstore (Spokane, WA)

Schuler Books (Grand Rapids, MI)

Third Place Books (Various Locations, WA)

The Bookloft (Great Barrington, MA)

Vroman’s Bookstore (Pasadena, CA)

Indigo Chapters (Canada)

Forbidden Planet (UK; pre-order for a chance to win a signed map of Midcyru)

Waterstones (UK) 

Big Green Bookshop (online, UK-based)


*Brent will be signing books in person at this location as part of the Nemesis Book Tour.

NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS Special Edition from The Broken Binding

Hello friends! Team Weeks is thrilled to announce that The Broken Binding (EU link here) is offering a beautiful limited edition hardcover of NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS.

Isn’t it gorgeous?! (HERE’s the link for fans in the EU)

Broken Binding is offering a mere 1500 signed and numbered copies (EU link here) of this beauty. It will feature block sprayed edges, foil on the front, a royal hardback, and head and tail bands.

These books won’t last long, so go pre-order your copy (EU link here) now!

Cover Launch: NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS & the Night Angel Trilogy

In case you hadn’t already heard, we are returning to the New York Times-bestselling world of Midcyru in Night Angel Nemesis, book one of the Kylar Chronicles. Check out this fantastic cover!

Cover design by Will Staehle/Unusual Co

Preorder: US | UK 

And to celebrate the return of the Night Angel, in January 2023 Orbit will release the original trilogy in trade paperback with stunning new covers. (See below for pre-order links.)

Preorder: US | UK

Preorder: US | UK

Preorder: US | UK

As a reward for reading all the way to the end, here’s more about Night Angel Nemesis:

Brent Weeks returns to the New York Times bestselling world of the Night Angel in Night Angel Nemesis, following master assassin Kylar on a new adventure as the High King Logan Gyre calls on him to save his kingdom and the hope of peace.

After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He’s determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can’t let walk free. He promises himself this is the last time. One last hit to tie up the loose ends of his old, lost life.

But Kylar’s best–and maybe only–friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan’s new kingdom, and the king’s twin sons, he needs Kylar to secure a powerful magical artifact that was unearthed during the war.

With rumors that a ka’kari may be found, adversaries both old and new are on the hunt. And if Kylar has learned anything, it’s that ancient magics are better left in the hands of those he can trust.

If he does the job right, he won’t need to kill at all. This isn’t an assassination—it’s a heist.

But some jobs are too hard for an easy conscience, and some enemies are so powerful the only answer lies in the shadows.

Lightbringer 10th Anniversary Extravaganza: Updates

Featuring covers from all 5 Lightbringer books

We have exciting news to share with all of you (and who doesn’t need a bit of good news right now?!) regarding the Lightbringer Series and THE BURNING WHITE.

Throughout the month of August, we will be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of THE BLACK PRISM being unleashed upon the world, as well as the trade paperback release of THE BURNING WHITE–the stunning finale to the series.

THE BLACK PRISM ebook will be discounted to $2.99 through the end of the month. (This is Brent’s Amazon Affiliate link.) The trade paperback edition of THE BURNING WHITE is available now!

On release day (August 11), Brent was in conversation with the incomparable Joe Abercrombie, via Orbit Crowdcast. You can watch the replay on the home page.

Brent will ALSO embark on a virtual book tour via Crowdcast! He will be in conversation with more fantastic Orbit authors as follows:

Andrea G. Stewart, author of THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER
Friday, August 21 at 7pm PDT
Sponsored by Mysterious Galaxy
Register for the event on Crowdcast

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Django Wexler, author of ASHES OF THE SUN
Tuesday, August 25 at 6pm PDT
Sponsored by Powell’s Books
Register for the event on Crowdcast

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K.S. Villoso, author of THE WOLF OF OREN-YARO & THE IKESSAR FALCON
Tuesday, September 1 at 3pm PDT
Sponsored by Joseph-Beth Books
Register for the event on Crowdcast

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Evan Winter, author of THE RAGE OF DRAGONS & THE FIRES OF VENGEANCE
Wednesday, September 9 at 4pm PDT
Sponsored by Tubby & Coo’s
Register for the event on Crowdcast

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More information regarding these events will be shared as they become available. Some details are subject to change, so stay tuned.

Celebrate Gavin, Kip, Andross, and company with us!

Fan Art Tuesday: A Stunning Lightbringer Bookcase

Patrick Heffernan (of Mysterious Galaxy infamy) made this striking board and vinyl case that perfectly holds all five Lightbringer hardcover books.

The picture doesn’t do it justice!
In case you can’t see it, LIGHTBRINGER is the vertical word, and BRENT & WEEKS are the horizontal words.
Like a glove.

Not much else to say about this one, except well done, Patrick! He gave this one-of-a-kind case to Brent during his book tour stop in San Diego last year.

Ahhh, I remember book tour events… And bookstores… Book signings… Book festivals… Author speaking engagements… Browsing library stacks… Eyeballing tchotchkes and board games and socks at Powell’s… Lurking among the packed and crooked shelves that made the too-narrow aisles in my favorite used bookstore, petting the shop cat while I chatted with the staff, the smell of old paper lingering on my shirt after I left.

Sorry, I wandered off there.

Any way, hold fast and stay the course, friends. We’re all doing this quarantine thing for each other.

THIS I did not expect.

Every year, Goodreads runs an awards competition. Basically, Readers’ Choice Awards. I’ve been a finalist before (thank you!), but as Goodreads has tweaked which books are counted into which genres, it’s gotten significantly more difficult for my kind of work to land on the list. When hugely-popular crossover writers like Nora Roberts (400 million copies sold!) show up in your pool of competitors, a win simply isn’t going to happen.

Which is fine. Ms. Roberts works incredibly hard and has earned every fan she has.

Additionally, this year, THE BURNING WHITE published just a couple weeks before the end of the eligibility period. And as you may have noticed, THE BURNING WHITE also happens to be a rather lengthy novel, so it didn’t surprise me in the least that I didn’t appear on the longlist.

But then something happened that did surprise me.

Some of you wrote me in.

ENOUGH of you wrote me in that I made the Semi-Finals–despite not even showing up on the longlist!

Very, very cool. Thank you.

The cover image to The Burning White by Brent Weeks

Now, two things: one selfish, one not. First, I’m not winning this thing regardless, but it WOULD be sweet to be a finalist again, especially if Joe Abercrombie isn’t.

Second, even if you don’t vote for me (which is totally fair, so long as you don’t vote for Joe), the list is a great place to find books that OTHER readers are loving. Not just in fantasy, but in all genres. So it’s worth clicking through to find some great books for your TBR pile–and look up readers’ reviews of ones that sound interesting.

This round of voting ends Sunday, November 17, so check out all the Semi-Finalists HERE. And thanks again.