Latest Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm news

On January 10^th, the University Book Store in Seattle will be celebrating it’s 110^th anniversary and Robin Hobb is one of the many authors that will attend. The event runs from noon to 5PM and Robin will be there from 1PM to 3PM. What’s more, there will be celebratory booklet composed of 110-word-long stories from 110 local authors—among them both Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm! The collection is free with purchase of one of the contributing authors’ books while supplies last and what’s best—the offer is eligible for online orders as well!

To find out more, visit Robin’s livejournal post and the bookstore’s info on the event and the booklet.

… The Inheritance! This is the much awaited collection of stories from Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, both previously published and completely new ones. Robin just wrote that she has “completely edited and proofed it except for the last Hobb story” so hopefully we’ll have more publication details soon. The title seems to imply that it does include a very rare existing story set in the Realm of the Elderlings, The Inheritance, which has previously been available only in a promotional limited edition anthology and as as an Amazon.com short.

Voting for the David Gemmell Legend Award has been opened and Robin Hobb’s Dragon Keeper is on the longlist. Voting will continue until March 31^st, so you still have time to vote even if you’re waiting for the US edition to read (the US hardcover edition of Dragon Keeper will be published January 26^th 2010). Voting is open to all and the top 5 novels will form a shortlist and there will be another voting later in 2010 to pick the winner.

G.R.R. Martin’s latest not-a-blog informs us that the anthology previously known as “Star Crossed Lovers” has been renamed Songs of Love and Death and is very close to be delivered to the publisher. The anthology is set to be published in 2010 and has a great line up of writers including Diana Gabaldon, Peter S. Beagle, Neil Gaiman and of course Robin Hobb. Visit the wiki for all the details we have about the book and the story so far.

Robin’s most recent book, the Dragon Keeper, is listed on amazon.co.uk’s best science fiction & fantasy of 2009!

The Dragon Keeper was published in the UK in June, and it is available in hardcover and as an audio book. UK paperback edition will be published in March the 4^th 2010, which is also the UK publication date of the second and final part of the Rain Wild Chronicles: Dragon Haven (hardback)—both are already available for preorder through the links.

The US hardcover edition of Dragon Keeper will be published in January 26^th 2010 and the second part, Dragon Haven, May 11^th. Both parts can be preordered now.