Latest Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm news

The Times published a new article about Robin Hobb yesterday, the 17^th of September. It discusses the fantasy genre vs. main stream literature, ideas behind her previous trilogies, Hobb’s life experiences and introduces Shaman’s Crossing (slight spoilers for the themes and characters). They have an online version of it available, so you can read it at their site. It’s titled Hits and near-myths.
Note from your obsessed webmaster: the quote in the article is by the Fool, not Fitz.

The Dutch translation of Shaman’s Crossing has been released with the title Overgangsritueel (De Boeken van De Zoon van de Krijger).
The publisher has changed to Luitingh Fantasy and Howe’s cover work has been switched so that the forest is in the front cover and the sword is in the back.
(picture of the front cover)

Robin Hobb plans to attend the Taipei International Book Exposition in February 2006.

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Robin Hobb has published the finalized schedule for her first ever US book tour. It starts in Seattle the 6^th of September, continues in Minneapolis Sept 8^th, then Berkeley, CA Sept 10^th and San Francisco/San Mateo Sept 11^th. On Sept 12^th it’s San Diego and then to Beaverton (Portland), OR on Sept 14^th. Finally, there’s Seattle again on September 21^st and Port Orchard, WA on the 24^th of September.

Please visit http://www.robinhobb.com/schedule.html for times and street addresses. There are both reading&signing events as well as just signings. In several locations there are various events.

If you can’t attend any of the events, you can order a signed copy of Shaman’s Crossing from SignedPage.com (signed and personalized) or University Book Store of Seattle (only signed).