Latest Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm news

UK reprints of a classic Megan Lindholm tale, the two-part The Reindeer People / Wolf’s Brother, were officially published today—although some early copies were already available in Supanova earlier this month.
You can buy copies form amazon.co.uk or the BookDepository (TRP, WB). The new cover art for these reprints was done by Jackie Morris.

I’ve probably forgot to post this here : Publisher’s Weekly gave a starred review for the Inheritance and Other Stories! More recently, the Australian Herald Sun published an article about Robin/Megan and the French Wikinews posted an interview done at Trolls&Legends in Belgium (try a translation).
Also a new addition to the appearances calendar, the Garfield Book Company in Tacoma, WA announced they’ve booked Robin to appear for a signing—the date is May 18^th at 7pm.
It’s less than a week to the US publication of The Inheritance! Have you preordered your copy yet?

What with Robin doing a lot of touring and the UK and US release dates for the Inheritance being so close to each other, there’s a lot of buzz for the book online right now. Here are links for you to enjoy—let me know in the comments what I missed!

Here’s a really great radio interview by an Australian radio channel, a nice interview by Dymocks (a .pdf file) and a reader’s report from the Supanova.

At io9.com you can read excerpts from the stories in the Inheritance and if you’re a US resident and have an account at librarything.com you can request an Early Reviewer copy of the Inheritance and Other Stories (but act before April 28^th!)

The UK edition is now also available as audio book read by Saskia Butler. You can listen to an excerpt and buy the Inheritance at audible.co.uk.

Robin Hobb will be attending the Trolls & Legends festival in Mons, Belgium from April 22^nd to 24^th. This year’s theme at the festival is dragons!
Also attending will be Laurent Sieurac who illustrated the first two parts of the Farseer graphic novel adaptation and Gilles Francescano, a French illustrator for many Robin Hobb book covers.

I’m really excited to announce the very first contest here at theplenty.net! We’re teaming up with HarperCollins in anticipation of the US publication of The Inheritance and Other Stories which is an anthology of ten classic as well as brand new tales from Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm.

One winner gets this amazing prize package courtesy of HarperCollins publishers:

• a US paperback edition of Dragon Keeper
• a US paperback edition of Dragon Haven
• a galley copy of the upcoming The Inheritance and Other Stories
• a beautiful dragon figurine

And here’s what you need to do to win:

1) Reply in the comments with your name and email address and the answer to this question: what is the connection between the character Ronica from the Liveship Traders trilogy and the short story “Homecoming” that is included in the Inheritance collection? (hint: you can find the answer on this site!)

2) Spread the word about this contest. You can post to forums, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal communities etc, just make sure that the place where you post is not a locked profile or community.
- Remember to include a link to this contest in your posting.
- Add proof (= links) of your postings to your comment here.

You gain 1 point for every documented posting you make and 1 point for the right answer to the above question. The contestant with most points wins. If there is a tie, the winner’s name will be drawn. The contest ends on Sunday the 10^th of April at 11PM GMT+2 (convert to your local time).

Good luck!

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