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Celebration Giveaway (Bags & Bookmarks)
Written by Steve
Wednesday, 6 July 2011 04:26
Celebrating Brandon Sanderson’s Gemell Legend Award for The Way of Kings – and Stormblessed ‘s 1st birthday (July 5!), we have 2 ways for you to win a Way of Kings promotional bag (those small blue ones from Tor) and bookmark.
Last day to enter is July 11.  This is open to people from anywhere.  Some bags will be signed, some unsigned.

How to enter:
1 – Follow us on Twitter and use hashtag #stormblessed to tell something you like or would like to change about our site.
OR
2 – Join our facebook group and post on our wall something you like or would like to change about our site.  (We have not been converted to the new group format yet, so you may need to re-join later after that happens – but you can still enter and win a bag whether you want to rejoin or not)
Comments on this post will not count as an entry.
Watch your Facebook or Twitter messages next week – we’ll need your mailing address if you win!
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 July 2011 04:28
Why Stormblessed?
Written by Steve
Monday, 13 September 2010 04:27

Why start a site so soon?

Stormblessed.com opened to the public on July 4, 2010.  As Brandon Sanderson said in a blog post 8 days later, “A fansite for a book that isn’t even out yet is a bit baffling to me.”  The Way of Kings was released internationally on August 31, 2010 and immediately burst onto the New York Times bestseller list (#7), the Amazon top 100 (for hardcover and Kindle), and #1 on Audible.

Usually, a fansite starting up before a book release would be pretty crazy and impractical.  But this time was different.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 06:47
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