Not really sure how this slipped past us, but Hunter Wentworth has been diligently raising for his Robert Jordan documentary. With only three days left on his deadline, he’s within several hundred dollars of his goal. Let’s see if we can get him over the top.
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April 20th, 2008 in the
JordanCon category
Pre-registration for JordanCon is now open. JordanCon is the first convention dedicated to exploring Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series and his rich, literary legacy. It will be held April 17-19, 2009 at the Alpharetta Embassy Suites in Alpharetta, Georgia. Our Guest of Honor is Harriet MacDougal, Robert Jordan’s wife and editor. Our Fan Guest of Honor is Wilson Grooms, Jordan’s cousin and frequent contributor to his blog on Dragonmount.
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Jason
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April 16th, 2008 in the
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On April 18th, Tor.com will be making some WOT artwork images available to the public. As I understand it, they will be high resolution images that you can download and use as desktop wallpaper, etc.
Wheel of Time wallpapers available for the first time on April 18th
Two Wheel of Time wallpapers will be available for download this Friday, April 18th, at tor.com (www.tor.com). This will mark the first time that these WOT wallpapers have been legally available for download.
Anyone who visits tor.com can download the WOT wallpapers. Anyone who signs up at tor.com will also be able to download Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn novel in PDF, HTML, and Mobi e-book formats at some time in the next several weeks.
Tor.com is an exciting and highly interactive science fiction and fantasy site soon to come. Watch the Skies. www.tor.com
Update:
The first two wallpapers are available on Tor’s website. You can download them in sizes appropriate for an iPhone all the way up to 1600×1200 resolutions.
The Citadel, the military university that Robert Jordan attened, will be honoring him on April 8th with a permanent display in their library. The event is open to friends, family, and local fans. Here are some details:
You are invited to a special event at The Citadel honoring Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr., Citadel class of 1974, Honorary Doctor of Literature 1999). The dedication of a permanent exhibition of photographs, artifacts, and mementos of his life and career will take place on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 6:30PM in the Daniel Library
The event will also feature a panel presentation on Rigney’s work as a fiction and fantasy writer. Panelists will be:
David Drake, author of the Hammer’s Slammers series of military science fiction and Lord of the Isle fantasy series (david-drake.com).
Michael Livingston, Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at The Citadel, and a recent winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (michaellivingston.com).
Brandon Sanderson, author of several books of fantasy in his own right, including Elantris and the Mistborn series, and who is currently completing the final book in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. (brandonsanderson.com)
There will be a reception after the panel discussion.
Harriet and Wilson will, of course, be there as well. We’ll probably have a report of the event after it occurs.
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Jason
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March 28th, 2008 in the
Robert Jordan category
In a new short documentary focusing on Charleston writers, filmmaker Hunter Wentworth had the opportunity to interview Robert Jordan at his home just a few months before he passed away. The footage from the interview is wonderful; you can see clearly how, even in his final days, RJ presented himself with dignity and his clever wit.
The complete documentary is available below. Before viewing, please read this message from the producer:
The following film was my thesis at the Savannah College of College of Art and Design. I went out to try to find out what defined southern writing and embrace the city of Charleston on film. Early on in the process the answer came to me. Jim Rigney told me that the most common image in all of southern writing was that of the dead mule. At that point my film was directed towards where it was going and all thanks to my family friends Jim and Harriet Rigney.
Over the next four months I interviewed a dozen writers, shot hours of b-roll footage, went to reading, and traveled to DragonCon in Atlanta to make the movie. During all this time I knew that my favorite piece was the interview with Jim Rigney. He was very supportive of me and kept in touch and was eager to see the finished film. Sadly that was not meant to be.
Just as I was starting to edit the film, Jim passed away. To my shock I found out later that my interview with him was the last piece of footage ever filmed of him. I didn’t know what to do whether to cut him out, structure the whole film around him, or replace him. My editor Shannon and I decided that Jim gave us a direction to go in, and we should stick to that. The film remained as I intended, a film about Charleston and its writers. With the film dedicated to Jim. I hope that fans of his books will like my film and appreciate the interview with him.
Although a great deal of footage of Jim was cut from the final product I felt that fans should see the whole interview that we did of him. My Cinematographer AJ suggested a feature length Documentary about Jim Rigney, which would use more of the footage that we used for “The Written Path” and a tribute to him. I talked to his widow Harriet early on about the idea and with her blessing we started planning the film. For the next year or so I will be raising money, conducting interviews, shooting b-roll, and researching the film. With the help of fans like you we can make a wonderful film. I hope you all enjoy my film and would love to hear back from you at my email: ozzy176524@yahoo.com.
Share and Enjoy,
Hunter Wentworth
Thank you, Hunter, for sharing this with everyone.
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Kathana
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March 16th, 2008 in the
JordanCon category
Age of Legends, LLC is pleased to announce the guests for our inaugural JordanCon will include Harriet McDougal as Guest of Honor and Wilson Grooms as Fan Guest of Honor. JordanCon will be held at the Alpharetta Embassy Suites April 17-19th, 2009. Information about badges will be forthcoming.
Harriet McDougal is the wife of the late Jim Rigney, best known as “Robert Jordan” and the editor of her husband’s works. An accomplished poet, as well as editor, she has worked in publishing houses such as ACE and was the editor-in-chief at Tor Books. In late 2007, she hand picked Brandon Sanderson to complete the final volume in Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series.
There is arguably no bigger fan of Robert Jordan than Wilson Grooms. Wilson is a cousin of the late Jim Rigney. He typically describes himself as the “fourth of three” Rigney brothers. Wilson is known to fans of the The Wheel of Time as “that guy that updated RJ’s blog when he couldn’t”.
The Alpharetta Embassy Suites has been selected as the host hotel for JordanCon. Suites are available at the convention discount of $115 per night. Please be sure to ask for the JordanCon block when booking, otherwise you may be quoted a higher rate or told the hotel has sold out. Room codes for online booking will be available shortly.
JordanCon is the first fan convention dedicated to The Wheel of Time series and its fans. For more information, please see our website. http://www.ageoflegends.net
Amazon.com is now accepting pre-orders for the 2009 Wheel of Time Calendar. This calendar is being published by Tor Books as the result of the competition that Robert Jordan himself began before he passed away. RJ hand-chose the winning entries just weeks before he passed.
Proceeds from this calendar will be going to the Mayo Clinic charity fund to research cures for Amyloidosis, the disease Robert Jordan fought in his last days.
Brandon Sanderson, the author chosen to complete A MEMORY OF LIGHT, is scheduled to attend Dragon*Con 2008.
Brandon’s current fantasy series is the Mistborn Trilogy, the final volume of which will be published in October 2008. His first novel, ELANTRIS, was picked by Barnes and Noble editors as the best fantasy or science fiction book of 2005, and is forthcoming in fourteen languages. He released his first children’s book, ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS, in 2007. Brandon lives in Provo, Utah, where he is hard at work on A MEMORY OF LIGHT, the twelfth and final book of the WHEEL OF TIME. He teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.
Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US. Dragon*Con 2008 will be held Labor Day weekend (August 29 - September 1, 2008) in Atlanta, GA. This will be Brandon’s first appearance at Dragon*Con.
Jennifer Liang, (aka Kathana) is featured in the latest “Dragon in Georgia” podcast where she talks about this year’s DragonCon, as well as next year’s eagerly awaited JordanCon.
Jennifer is a long-time Dragonmount admin, head of the White Tower Organization, webmaster of AgeofLegends.net, director of the Wheel of Time Fan Track at DragonCon, as well as the founder of the up coming JordanCon convention. In other words, she’s got a lot to say about WoT fandom, and you can hear some of it in the podcast.
The “Adventures in Scifi Publishing” podcast has posted a show in which they have a great conversation with Brandon Sanderson. In it, he talks about being hired to write A Memory of Light, the upcoming final novel of the Wheel of Time series.
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A Memory of Light
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