Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Three

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Three Beldre is a Normal Person The point Spook makes about Beldre being normal is an important one in this book. I think that readers might be overly harsh on her for her innocence and the way she ended up getting captured. (Though there is more going on there than the…

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Signing in Eagle Mountain + Updates

Signing in Eagle Mountain + Updates This Saturday I will be signing at a recently opened independent bookstore in Eagle Mountain, Utah called Dragons & Fairy Tales Books and Games. It’s not listed on my events page yet, but there is an event listing on Facebook. Since the store is located in such a new…

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Mistborn Movie News

Mistborn Movie News I’m holding off on my regular Monday update until tomorrow in order to talk about the Mistborn movie deal press release that went out today and has popped up on a few genre news sites. When it comes to optioning my adult fantasy novels for the big screen, I’ve occasionally gotten nibbles…

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Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Two

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Two This Book’s Epigraphs The epigraphs from this book are quite a bit different from the ones in the previous two volumes. These are a much more scientific, and—unlike the first two sets—are not from the past, but from the future. (Though, like the other two, they’re from a written record…

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Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-One

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-One Elend Fights the Koloss in the Village This chapter gets my next award for favorite chapters in this book. (I think this is number four.) The next few Elend chapters run him through the ringer—and yet at the same time let him shine. He’s alone, forced to work through his…

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Hugo nomination season, GoodReads Q&A, Pat Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders charity drive, Updates

Hugo nomination season, GoodReads Q&A, Pat Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders charity drive, Updates This year’s World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) will be held in Melbourne, Australia from September 2nd through September 6th. Unfortunately, I won’t be in attendance since I’ll be going to Dragon*Con in Atlanta that same weekend. However, every year the members of Worldcon vote…

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