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There’s a month and a half left to go before The Way of Kings hits the bookstores.  Signup for the Tor giveaway ends tomorrow night, so pretty soon there will be 50 really excited, happy fans… but still a lot of people wishing they were one of the 50.  Well, we have something for people anxious to get the book, and something for people anxious to talk after reading the book!

If you’ve gotten an ARC and want to talk about it without having to hold back, join our forum and send me a private message to let me know you’re an ARC reader, and we’ll get you into our pre-release forum!

If you haven’t gotten a copy yet, we’d like to invite you to sign up for the Stormblessed Way of Kings giveaway by registering for the forum and posting twice by 11:59pm US Central time on August 4.  2 ARCs and a retail copy will go out to random members!  The ARCs can mail out before release; the winner of the retail copy will have to wait a few more weeks.  Sorry, but it is still free!  (Winning members will be notified by email and forum message, and must reply with a valid shipping address to receive their copy). If you’re not sure what to say with your posts, you could greet someone in the Introductions, comment on the preview chapters available at Tor.com, or share your favorite moment from another Brandon Sanderson book.

Update 8/11/2010:

Our three names have been drawn, winners notified and responded, and Tor has shipped the books directly to them.  Three lucky Stormblessed members will have Way of Kings copies sometime next week!

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Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 12:44

The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson - Book 1 of The Stormlight Archive

Prelude to The Stormlight Archive

Kalak rounded a rocky stone ridge and stumbled to a stop before the body of a dying thunderclast. The enormous stone beast lay on its side, riblike protrusions from its chest broken and cracked. The monstrosity was vaguely skeletal in shape, with unnaturally long limbs that sprouted from granite shoulders. The eyes were deep red spots on the arrowhead face, as if created by a fire burning deep within the stone. They faded.

Even after all these centuries, seeing a thunderclast up close made Kalak shiver. The beast’s hand was as long as a man was tall. He’d been killed by hands like those before, and it hadn’t been pleasant.

Of course, dying rarely was.

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Last Updated on Monday, 1 November 2010 04:13