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What do a signed edition of Storm Front by Jim Butcher (graphic novel), a signed edition of The Warded Man by Peter Brett a signed edition of The City & The City by China Miéville and a signed edition of The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia have in common?

We’re giving one copy of each away to celebrate our 1-year anniversary! So, it breaks down this way:

1 Winner per prize x 4 Prizes = 4 Winners

And all you have to do is this: tell us (via email) which Suvudu post is your favorite. Once you do that, you’ll be entered into the pool of entrants for the prizes above. You have until midnight on July 25 (Saturday) to enter. Then, on Monday, July 27, we’ll select 4 entrants at random to be our winners!

As always, you can read the legal for more details.

It’s easy! You already know your answer!

I love it when some of my favorite things come together into one great collectible item!

• Peter V. Brett is one of the nicest and most fun writers you will ever meet.
• Subterranean Press is a small specialty press producing some of the highest quality fully illustrated editions of fantasy and science fiction books in the marketplace.
• The Warded Man, titled The Painted Man in the UK, is one of the breakout debut books of 2009.

Put all of those together with a gorgeous cover, and one great book is forthcoming!

Subterranean Press announced today that they will be producing The Great Bazaar and Other Stories, a collection of short stories set in the same demon-ridden world as The Warded Man. It will contain a long new sotyr, as well as several outtakes from the first novel in the series—really, standalone short stories themselves—as well as additional material to flesh out Brett’s bravura storytelling.

In addition to the small trade hardcover, Subterranean Press is producing only 200 signed numbered copies, which, given Brett and epic fantasy’s popularity, are certain to sell quickly!

The Great Bazaar and Other Stories will be released in January 2010.

Also announced today is a very cool limited edition of Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, the first volume of one of the grittiest, most exciting, bloody epic fantasy trilogies to come down the pike in over a decade. As Joe is also one of the best fantasy writers going right now, read more about the Subterranean Press edition HERE!

I love beautiful special editions! Nice job, Subterranean!

The blogosphere allows authors to reach out to their fans in very cool ways!

And Peter V. Brett has done just that!

Going on right now until June 17th, Peter is accepting haiku for a contest that could land you signed copies of the Japanese translation of The Warded Man or perhaps a signed US copy of The Warded Man! What do the haiku have to be about?

Click HERE to discover the rules and how to enter!

It will take you two minutes to complete it!

And possibly win you a very cool prize!

Whew! Talk about an energetic chat, eh? Peter V. Brett and Robert V.S. Redick covered everything from writing and research, inspiration, movie deals, book sequels, and gave us a look at some really awesome artwork! So, maybe you’d like to take them home with you…in chat window form, that is.

Be our guest! You can find the embed code for the archived chat below. Just an FYI, in the future, instead of doing these quick posts with the embed code, I will be adding it to the bottom of the chat window post. So look for it there in the future! In the meantime, enjoy all the goodness that was:

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In just two hours Robert V.S. Redick (The Red Wolf Conspiracy) and Peter V. Brett (The Warded Man, or internationally The Painted Man) will be chatting live here on Suvudu. These two authors represent two exciting new voices in fantasy fiction and we’re thrilled to be able to bring them to you live.

There’s still time to submit your questions early, if you’d like to do so. You can send them in to us at info@suvudu. Or, you can hang out and ask the questions yourself during the live chat. The choice is yours.

So use these next couple of hours to tidy up your loose ends for the afternoon, shuffle your calendar, and get ready to chat with a couple authors (and all around cool guys). We’ll see you there…soon!

Catch the Live Chat here: Peter V. Brett and Robert V.S. Redick Live Chat

Oh, and the legal here: Official Sweepstakes Rules

So, tomorrow Peter V. Brett (author of The Warded Man) and Robert V.S. Redick (author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy) will be live chatting with Suvudu and you! We’re really excited to be able to bring them here as they are, in our humble opinions, exciting new voices in the fantasy genre.

Anyway, how would you like to win a copy of either The Warded Man or The Red Wolf Conspiracy? All you need to do is send in a question for either Mr. Brett or Mr. Redick to be entered into a sweepstakes to win one copy of their book*. To be clear, we’ll be selecting two people from those who submit early questions; one will win a copy of The Warded Man and one will win a copy of The Red Wolf Conspiracy. Pretty cool, no?

Also, be sure to attend the chat to see your questions answered by the authors and/or to follow up with them live. Send yourself a reminder using the form below and we’ll see you back here for the chat tomorrow!

Read the Official Sweepstakes Rules here!

As you may have heard, we’re doing this new thing around here: inviting authors to sit down and have a conversation with you (and with us, because we’re fans too, ya know). Anyway, we realize that sometimes the outside world interferes with your plans to veg out on science fiction and fantasy (stupid “need to remain gainfully employed”). So, if you can’t make it to the chat, you can submit your questions in advance to info@suvudu.com.

Also, while you’re here, why not sign up to have an email reminder sent to you? You can use the form below to take care of that:

It’s going to be a great chat and we Suvudu-ites look forward to seeing you there!

The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett has now made its splash on this side of the pond, in the United States.

And it seems like it was a large enough splash to create more than a few ripples!

A great deal goes into a book release, and even more goes into a great book release both here in the US and in the UK. A fantastic cover in both countries. Check. An artful book layout in both countries. Check. Excellent publicity in both countries. Check. But above all, a great yarn!

Check!

Well, some bloggers out there on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are heralding The Warded Man and I had to share what some of them are saying! Here are some short excerpts from bloggers who have reviewed The Warded Man (titled The Painted Man in the UK) with links to their reviews, followed by some thoughts from Peat about the Wards that make up his series:

• A Dribble of Ink: “As debut novels go, Brett’s The Warded Man stands among the best.”
• Grasping For the Wind: “I cannot recommend The Warded Man highly enough.”
• Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review: “Not only did I enjoy what I’d read but I’m left in the position of eagerly waiting to find out what’s to come…”
• Dave Brenden’s Fantasy & Sci-Fi Weblog: “You will find yourself reading late into the evening, hoping beyond hope that the wards will hold, hoping that you will not be cored when you finish the novel, you may find yourself thinking that the wait for Book Two may be too long.”
• Blood of the Muse: “Let’s get this out of the way first. The Warded Man is the best debut novel since Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind.”

Here is Peat on the magic in his book:

Read a Special Extended Excerpt with introduction from Anne Lesley Groell, Senior Editor Del Rey/Spectra.

Don’t you think it is time to read The Warded Man and see for yourself!

Here is a list of other book, DVD and theater new releases for this week!

BOOKS

• The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

DVDS

• Escape to Witch Mountain (Special Edition)
• Howard the Duck
• Pinocchio (2-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition)

IN THEATERS FRIDAY

• Race to Witch Mountain

There are so many cool things to do at a Comic Con, it’s hard to even list them all.

But one of my favorites has to be the publisher booth signing!

Del Rey Books asked a dozen of their Comic Con visiting authors to swing by and sign for an hour. The other sci-fi/fantasy publishers, from Eos to Orbit to Tor to Spectra, all had signings as well, giving books away to promote their writers and allowing those writers to sign for anyone who would walk up.

It is a smart way to advertise, especially now with the internet(s).

If you give away 200 books for one writer and 100 read the book, enjoy it and tell others online to go buy it and those buyers tell others to buy it (see my Mr. Madoff pyramid rationale here?), the publisher booth signing can be a great, relatively free publicity tool with far reaching sales possibilities.

But for the writers, I think, the booth signings are just fun—as they were for Peter V. Brett and Robert V.S. Redick!

One of the best and finest aspects of the internet(s) is the amount of sci-fi/fantasy blogs out there, all catering to the writers, editors and publishers who make up the publishing industry but all bringing their own voice and opinions and ideas to the masses.

I really like featuring them whenever I can.

And this is one of those instances!

Aidan Moher over at A Dribble of Ink has conducted a very amusing, informative and free-flowing Interview with Peter V. Brett, author of the debut novel The Painted Man (UK) /The Warded Man (US).

Definitely go check it out! It is worth the read!