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Hey, all. Hope those of you who celebrate it had a fun, fantastic, and food-filled Thanksgiving.

As the holiday gift-giving season is now barreling down on us like a rhinoceros being chased by a freight train, I thought I would offer a gentle reminder that The Conqueror’s Shadow is due out in paperback late next month–just in time for a (very slightly belated ;-)) Hanukkah and/or Christmas gift. And it’s available for preorder now, so you don’t need to wait and risk forgetting at the last minute.

Aren’t I helpful? 😉

I’ll also be running a new contest soon, with more chances to win a number of signed books, so keep your eyes open.

Esteemed fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind, is doing a charity drive called "Worldbuilders," to support Heifer International. He’s also giving a number of novels to selected folks who donate, including–among many other books by any other people–both The Conqueror’s Shadow and The Warlord’s Legacy. Click on over to his blog, and take a look. It’s a chance to do some real good, and possibly win a heap of fiction in the process.

So if you’re still dithering as to whether to pick up The Conqueror’s Shadow, perhaps this will help you make up your mind: a 50-page excerpt, available from the Suvudu site (Random House’s blog), absolutely free. No charge, no obligation; just a free sample. Just click and read.

And if you decide you like it, remember that the paperback edition of the book comes out in less than a month. 🙂

I’ve just added two new short stories to my list. "Tithe" is my contribution to the Human Tales anthology, while "Twenty-One-Oh" is my contribution to Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero, a combination fiction and anthology and musical soundtrack. You can click around to see more about each of ’em.

I’m actually not certain when either anthology is due out on shelves, but I’ll let people know as soon as I do.

I hope to have more news–both short story-related and other–in the near future. Check back, same mouse time, same mouse channel.

The upcoming issue of Black Gate (that’s number 15, I believe) contains a review of The Conqueror’s Shadow. While I don’t expect any of you to pick it up just for that, if you’re at all a fan of sword-and-sorcery fiction, you owe it to yourself to check BG out. It’s one of the finest sources of short fantasy fiction around today.

And speaking of The Conqueror’s Shadow, I want to remind everyone that the mass market paperback printing is available for pre-order right now, and should be hitting shelves at the end of December–making it a perfect book to order as a holiday gift for your friends and relatives. (Plug, plug, plug. 😉 ) Seriously, if you’ve wanted to take a look but didn’t want to pay for the hardcover–well, as they say, someday your prints will come. And that day has arrived.

(I know. Bad, Ari. Bad! No biscuit!)

Esteemed fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind, is doing a charity drive called "Worldbuilders," to support Heifer International. He’s also giving a number of novels to selected folks who donate, including–among many other books by any other people–both The Conqueror’s Shadow and The Warlord’s Legacy. Click on over to his blog, and take a look. It’s a chance to do some real good, and possibly win a heap of fiction in the process.