Adventures Dawn News

Wheel of Time - A Gathering Storm, Ch1 Online

The first chapter to the Wheel of Time's upcoming book, The Gathering Storm is now available online on the TOR website, and can be found here. This book is the first of the last three that will be co-written by Brandon Sanderson, after Robert Jordan, after passed away in September 2007.

A Song of Ice and Fire Video Games

From Eurogamer we learn, "French developer Cyanide has signed the exclusive rights to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books.

Development on a game for PC and "next-gen consoles" has begun, and George R. R. Martin will help out. Cyanide mentions that the source material is "an ideal background for numerous genres of videogames", but gives no further detail."

This is in addition to the older news that HBO is producing a television series based on the books as well.

Terry Goodkind - The Law of Nines

Terry Goodkind has announced the title of his next book, the first after his Sword of Truth series. The book The Law of Nines has an anticipated release date of September 8, 2009. No book synopsis is available yet, but the authors website (www.terrygoodkind.com) suggests Law of Nines will be a modern day thriller.

Wheel of Time - A Memory of Light to be 3 books

Tor announced that A Memory Of Light, the final book of the Wheel of Time has been broken into 3 books. The first book, The Gathering Storm is set to be released on November 3rd, 2009. More information can be found on the Tor website (www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=19734) as well as Brandon Sanderson's website (www.brandonsanderson.com/article/56/Splitting-AMOL). Brandon Sanderson was the author tapped by Tor (and Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan's wife) to finish the series after Robert Jordan passed away in 2007.

Dresden Files - Turn Coat preview

The first chapter of the new Dresden Files novel, Turn Coat, is up here. There will be a new chapter every week for the next 5 weeks. Turn Coat is schedule to be released April 7th, 2009.

Deadline Dames Blog

Deadline Dames is a new blog run by a whole slew of contemporary female authors - Keri Arthurs, Toni Andrews, Jenna Black, Rinda Elliot, Jackie Kesslar, Karen Mahoney, Devon Monk, Lilith Saintcrow, and Rachel Vincent. The blog can be located at www.deadlinedames.com/ and is updated on a daily basis.

Jim Butcher - 6th and Final Codex Alera Book

The sixth and final book of the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher has been officially announced from the Jim Butcher website. The book, First Lord's Fury has a tentative release date of December 2009.

Patricia Briggs - Mercedes Thomspon Graphic Novel

Patricia Briggs has posted, on her website www.patriciabriggs.com, a preview of the Mercedes Thompson graphic novel! The preview can be found at www.patriciabriggs.com/books/comics/Mercy-preview.pdf. Thanks for the find Gyrid!

Traci Harding Signing

Courtesy of Temperance, we learn that there will be a Traci Harding signing on July 19th, 2008. Specifically:

The Black Madonna
by Traci Harding
19th July,
Camden Library, John St (Camden, Sydney, NSW)
12.00pm - whenever we finish chatting!

Dresden Files Book 11 - Turn Coat

Based on content from the official Jim Butcher website (www.jim-butcher.com), it appears the title for the 11th Dresden Files installment might be Turn Coat.