Latest Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm news

A new mass market paperback of The Fair Folk was published yesterday, the 18^th of December. This is a World Fantasy Award winning anthology that contains the Megan Lindholm story Grace Notes.
Ace’s page with details.

Robin Hobb has posted the first dates for her Renegade’s Magic US book tour in 2008.
So far the dates include
* Jan 13, 2 PM PST : Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego
* Jan 16, 7 PM PST: University Bookstore, Seattle
* Jan 18, 7 PM PST: Bay Book & Tobacco, Half Moon Bay CA (Bay Area)
* Jan 19, 3 PM PST: Borderlands, San Francisco
* Feb 1, 7 PM PST: Powell’s, Portland/Beaverton
* Feb 7, 7 PM: Borders at 4477 S. Lamar, Austin

Sources: newsgroup, myspace, newsgroup.

Renegade’s Magic will be available in US January 8^th, 2008. If you can’t attend any of the events, you can order a signed and personalized copy through signedpage.com.

//Edited to add the Austin date.

Actusf which did a series of Hobb related interviews back in October in French has now republished one of them, the actual Robin Hobb interview, in English. You can read it here, no big spoilers.

A blog called Fantasy Book Critic is running a giveaway competition with Robin’s US publisher EOS Books. You can win a whole set of the Soldier Son trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage and Renegade’s Magic. Anyone can enter, the giveaway is not limited to US citizens although the books are the US editions.
Enter here before January 8^th!

The schedule at the official Robin Hobb site has been updated. Next year’s events include a US book tour in January and the French Imaginales festival in May and possibly also the Dutch Elf Fantasy Faire in April. Keep updated with Robin’s MySpace blog.