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Jason
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September 4th, 2010 in the
Brandon Sanderson, Tor Books, Towers of Midnight category
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Tor Books is proud to present the book trailer for TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT, the penultimate thirteenth novel in The Wheel of Time series, written by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.
Produced by the creative forces of Dragonmount and Mythmakers Entertainment, this video is the first-ever official video representation of Robert Jordan’s masterpiece series. The majority of the crew for this project were fans themselves, and were led by Dragonmount founder Jason Denzel, who directed the short.
WARNING: The book trailer contains SPOILERS! However, if you are very familiar with the story and have seen the US Book cover, then these spoilers are not that bad.
If possible for your computer, we highly suggest watching this in YouTube HD. Also… use your good headphones or speakers and turn up the volume!
Enjoy!!!
We will have an exclusive feature on Dragonmount next week with extensive behind-the-scenes features related to the making-of the video. In addition, the Outta-this-world video blog will have video interviews with myself and the cast and crew.
So enjoy the trailer (produced with YOU–the fans– in mind), and check back next week for all the behind-the-scenes features.
CREDITS
Directed by
Jason Denzel
Produced By
Tess Ortbals
Mythmaker Entertainment
Screenplay by
Brad Kane
Directory of Photography
Marlon Torres
Torres Studios
Actress
Sarah Barnard
Voice-Over
Kate Reading
First Assistant Director
Andrea Bales
Script Supervisor
Jennifer Denzel
Visual FX
Marlon Torres
Darby Edelen
Jason Denzel
Sound Design & Mixing
Patrick Knipe
Concept Art & Matte Painting
Seamas Gallagher
Editor
Jason Denzel
Production Assistants
Tim Collins
Jeffrey Denzel
Matt Hatch
Special Thanks
Tor Books
Dot Lin
Brandon Sanderson
Harriet McDougal
Charlene von Uhl
Kristen Nedopak
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Posted by
Jason
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September 4th, 2010 in the
Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm, Tor Books category
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Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of The Gathering Storm, the twelfth book in the Wheel of Time series, and the first co-written with Brandon Sanderson. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.
With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the “cover”. A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the art team at Tor a chance to provide us fans with a variety of styles.
This month, the artwork is by Todd Lockwood. The ebook will be released on November 2nd.
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As with the previous covers that were released for the ebooks, Tor Art Director Irene Gallo has done a write up about the process behind creating this image. Be sure to check out the full article. Here’s an excerpt:
To the newbie, the cover promises a book full of action and magic. For Wheel of Time fans, however, this book was a long and tragic wait. Being the first book in the series to be partially written by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan’s successor, a cover depicting a moment of triumph seemed fitting.
Wheel of Time eBook News and release schedule
Tor Books plans to re-release each one of the Wheel of Time novels as ebooks according to the schedule below. Each will have new cover art, specially commissioned for the eBook format. Each will feature a different artist.
So what do you think of this new image? Leave your comments below. Remember, we’ll have a more detailed report on the overall future of the Wheel of Time print-edition covers at a later time.
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Posted by
Jason
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September 1st, 2010 in the
Dragon*Con, Movies and TV, Towers of Midnight category
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On Saturday, September 4th, the book trailer video for Towers of Midnight will go online after initially premiering at DragonCon and WorldCon. This promotional video, produced by Dragonmount and Mythmaker Film is a live-action “movie” of sorts to help advertise the upcoming novel.
Embedded below is the first of a series of Behind-the-scenes videos made for the Outta This World video blog. related to the making of the trailer. There are no spoilers in this behind-the-scenes video.
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Posted by
Jason
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August 30th, 2010 in the
Book Tour, Brandon Sanderson, Towers of Midnight category
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Tor.com and Brandon Sanderson have teamed up to launch a scavenger hunt they’re calling “The Great Hunt.” The basic idea is that Brandon will hide clues at various bookstores on his book tour for The Way of Kings, his latest non-Wheel of Time novel which is now available. Each one of these clues will be a small part in unlocking some exclusive “prize” related to Towers of Midnight.
Here’s what Tor.com says about the contest:
To unlock it, fans will have to hunt down the many unique digital codes, printed on the back of Wheel of Time bumper stickers that Brandon will hide inside copies of The Way of Kings along each stop on his tour. (Which kicks off tonight!)
Each bumper sticker/code will unlock a piece of the secret and it will require the work of many fans in many cities to unlock the entire page. The Great Hunt begins!
So here’s what you can do. If you live near one of the tour cities that Brandon will visit, stop by the bookstore he’ll be at and look for one or more Wheel of Time bumper stickers located inside copies of The Way of Kings. If you find it, share it with us here in the comments, on our forums, on Twitter, or anywhere else. As a group we’ll crack the code and figure out what the prize is.
Oh, and while you’re in these bookstores ruffling through the pages of their inventory, consider being polite and purchasing a copy of Brandon’s new book? Alternatively, you can purchase it here via Amazon links:
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(25 votes, average: 3.32 heron(s) out of 5)
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Posted by
Jason
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August 28th, 2010 in the
Publishing, Tor Books, Towers of Midnight category
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Tor Books has announced via Tor.com that the prologue to TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT, the thirteenth book in the Wheel of Time series, will be available for purchase on September 21, 2010.
The title of the prologue is “Distinctions”. Here’s the story description:
In the prologue, titled “Distinctions,” Lan Mandragoran rides on toward death; Perrin Aybara, Lord Goldeneyes, has a disturbing dream; Galad leads the Whitecloaks into harm’s way; one who has left humanity behind creeps through the Blight; and the Blight border faces invasion.
The prologue will be available in ebook format and available for all the major readers. The cost is $2.99 US.
Towers of Midnight will be released on November 2, 2010. Please continue to check back to our website for regular updated related to this novel. In the first week of September, Tor Books and Dragonmount will release a special video “book trailer”. We will have full coverage of that as we get closer.
In addition to the ebook prologue, it is likely that Tor.com will release several other free chapters to Towers of Midnight. This is just speculation based on what they’ve done for past books.
Pre-Order Distinctions, the eBook prologue to Towers of Midnight
Pre-Order Towers of Midnight
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Posted by
Kathana
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August 24th, 2010 in the
Community, Events, Other WoT sites, Towers of Midnight category
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The 68th World Science Fiction Convention will be held 2-6 September 2010 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. WorldCon is a “roaming” convention that is held in a different international location each year. This is the fourth WorldCon to be held in Australia. Each year, they feature a variety of events, panels, and discussions about science fiction and fantasy literature. They also give the annual Hugo Award, which is considered the highest award in speculative fiction.
This year, AussieCon will feature a panel discussion on the Wheel of Time series. Panelists will include Linda Taglieri, of the 13th Depository and Dragonmount’s own James Luckman. The panel will include the Australian debut of the TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT trailer that is also being shown at this year’s Dragon*Con. The panel will take place Monday, Sept 6th at 12 PM in room 2007 of the Melbourne Convention Centre.
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Posted by
Kathana
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August 18th, 2010 in the
Brandon Sanderson, Dragon*Con, Tor Books, Towers of Midnight category
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Dragon*Con bills itself as the “largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe!” Over 35,000 thousand fans will descend on Atlanta, Georgia for this annual event. Dragon*Con will take place this year September 3-6.
Dragon*Con includes a full track of Wheel of Time themed programming, sponsored this year by Tor Books. WoT programming highlights this year will include the annual WoT costume contest, trivia games, discussion panels, the annual “A Night at the Winespring Inn” party, and appearances by series co-author Brandon Sanderson and Tor’s Art Director, Irene Gallo. Brandon will be reading from TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT, the next book in the Wheel of Time series and premiering the TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT trailer made by Dragonmount’s own Jason Denzel. Brandon will also be doing panels and readings for his forthcoming The Way of Kings, the first book of the Stormlight Archive.
A complete listing of Wheel of Time events can be found here. You can visit the track’s official website wheeloftime.dragoncon.org for the latest updates. Also, Track Director Jennifer Liang (that’s me!) was recently interviewed by the Unique Geek as part of their “40 Days of Dragon*Con” countdown. You can listen to it here.
You can get the latest updates on Dragon*Con guests and schedule changes by following @Dragon_Con and @Daily_dragon. Jason and I will try to update @dragonmount as we can.
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Posted by
Jason
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August 17th, 2010 in the
Brandon Sanderson, Publishing, Tor Books, Towers of Midnight category
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Towers of Midnight, the thirteenth book in The Wheel of Time series, has been completed and delivered to Tor Books for copyediting and publishing. Yesterday on his Twitter and Facebook, Brandon Sanderson announced that he had completed the final draft of the novel which came in at around 328,000 words (The Gathering Storm was about 300,000).
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The book is on schedule for a November 2, 2010 release. At this point Tor needs to take the digital manuscript– basically just a Microsoft Word File– and turn it into a novel. It needs to be copyedited, laid out with the right fonts and margins, artwork needs to be added, review copies generated, and printed. (It can take a long time to print that many books and bind them!)
Brandon is scheduled to go on a book tour for Towers of Midnight in November. Once the schedule is posted, well share it with you here on Dragonmount. Some of you have been asking if we’ll be doing the Storm Leaders for this this year’s tour. The answer is yes, but we don’t have details yet. Applications will probably go online within a few weeks, after DragonCon (Sept 3-6).
In the meantime, be aware that Brandon will be on tour for his other upcoming novel, The Way of Kings. The complete tour schedule for that can be found on this page at Tor.com.
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Posted by
Jason
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August 10th, 2010 in the
Knife of Dreams, Publishing, Tor Books category
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Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of Knife of Dreams, the eleventh book in the Wheel of Time series. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.
With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the “cover”. A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the art team at Tor a chance to provide us fans with a variety of styles.
This month, the artwork is by Michael Komarck. The ebook will be released on August 24th.
(Click each image to enlarge)
As with the previous covers that were released for the ebooks, Tor Art Director Irene Gallo has done a write up about the process behind creating this image. Be sure to check out the full article. Here’s an excerpt:
While Rand is being heroic by saving Min’s life, a fan of the series will come to the image knowing the full story is more multifaceted than that. It is a testament to Jordan’s writing that very little is simple or one-sided. While Rand is saving Min, it is an act that helps ground him, too; Rand being the Dragon isolates to the point that it’s hard to interact with people the way that he used to. Protecting them from danger at once expresses his power and reinforces his connection to close friends and loved ones. This scene is emblematic of the tightrope that Rand must walk to get to Tarmon Gai’don.
Wheel of Time eBook News and release schedule
Tor Books plans to re-release each one of the Wheel of Time novels as ebooks according to the schedule below. Each will have new cover art, specially commissioned for the eBook format. Each will feature a different artist.
So what do you think of this new image? Leave your comments below. Remember, we’ll have a more detailed report on the overall future of the Wheel of Time print-edition covers at a later time.
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Posted by
Jason
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July 14th, 2010 in the
Crossroads of Twilight, Publishing, Tor Books category
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Tor Books has released the cover art for the upcoming ebook release of The Crossroads of Twilight, the tenth book in the Wheel of Time series. Each month, beginning this past October, Tor will release the next book in the series in a variety of electronic formats. See below for a full list of links to the released books, as well as a schedule of the upcoming releases.
With each eBook, Tor is including brand new artwork for the “cover”. A different artist has been selected for each one, giving the art team at Tor a chance to provide us fans with a variety of styles.
This month, the artwork is by Greg Ruth. The ebook will be released on July 20th.
(Click each image to enlarge)
As with the previous covers that were released for the ebooks, Tor Art Director Irene Gallo has done a write up about the process behind creating this image. Be sure to check out the full article. Here’s an excerpt:
With Crossroads, we wanted to show Perrin at his breaking point. After engaging in a despicable act he, in a fit of justifiable rage, finally chooses to throw away his axe of war. The trick was getting the moment right. Attempts to show the action came across a bit cartoony. Instead, we decided to depict the minutes just after. The point was to show what Perrin, in this character-defining moment, was leaving behind.
Wheel of Time eBook News and release schedule
Tor Books plans to re-release each one of the Wheel of Time novels as ebooks according to the schedule below. Each will have new cover art, specially commissioned for the eBook format. Each will feature a different artist.
So what do you think of this new image? Leave your comments below. Remember, we’ll have a more detailed report on the overall future of the Wheel of Time print-edition covers at a later time.
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The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
A Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart
Crossroads of Twilight
Knife of Dreams
The Gathering Storm
Towers of Midnight
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