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Brandon Sanderson / Signing in Paris, France @ WHSmith in November
« on: October 11, 2010, 10:46:59 AM »
Hey you guys, my devious plan to get a bookstore in Paris to invite Brandon Sanderson seems to have worked!

Brandon will be doing a signing at WH Smith in Paris before or after the utopiales con. Thanks to them for setting this up and to Brandon for accepting. Details will be posted on their events page once its confirmed, but I wanted to mention it here already for interested people since its not that far off!

Their home page page (http://www.whsmith.fr/indexE.htm) currently says:
"Brandon Sanderson, author of The Gathering Storm and The Towers of Midnight, will be at WH Smith Paris in November. Please check our website regularly for the date and time."

I'm very happy about this because I will get to come to this signing and because it should be LOTS easier for folks in UK/Netherlands/Spain/Belgium and other countries surrounding France to come if you want.

This is a very good bookstore specializing in English books and I like it a lot. Their staff all speak English by the way.

If you are going to come, please consider ordering your copy of TofM from them, or buy another book or something else at the signing.  You might want to call in advance to order the book you want to buy. You can get a 5% off card by signing up for their newsletter: http://www.whsmith.fr/formulairenewsletter.htm

FYI this is also one of the only places you can find reces pieces and other US/UK food not ordinarily sold in France!

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Dan Wells / Serial Killer book 3 release date?
« on: September 12, 2010, 03:52:23 PM »
Does anyone know when serial killer book 3 will be released?  I'm looking forward to it!
Will there be an audibook version?

Has dan sold any additional books we can look forward to yet?
Thanks for the info.

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Brandon Sanderson / Galivar: "The Parshendi? That makes no sense."
« on: September 09, 2010, 05:00:47 PM »
Why did galivar think that it makes no sense that the parshendi were trying to kill him?

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Brandon Sanderson / WOK: MAP of Roshar online?
« on: September 08, 2010, 10:44:49 AM »
Is there a map of roshar posted anywhere online? 
Thanks.

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Brandon Sanderson / WOK Audiobook/Illustrations (NO SPOILERS)
« on: September 02, 2010, 01:01:49 PM »
Hi, so I got the WOK audiobook but I realize that there will be no illustrations in it.
Is there a place to see the illustrations outside the audiobook and how do I know when I should/should not look at them to not get spoiled by something I haven't read yet? 

No spoilers in this thread please.  Thanks.

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Dan Wells / What did you think of the bad guy in Mr. Monster (SPOILER WARNING)
« on: August 26, 2010, 04:45:31 PM »
First, I enjoyed this book and I enjoyed the characters who I thought were strong and interesting to read about.  I had some issues with a few of them.

I don't know why, but for most of the book, I expected that the bad guy in this book was going to be a human instead of another demon and I was surprised and somewhat dissapointed when I found out that this was the case. 

I felt like having a human killer would have forced John to make a more difficult moral choice than killing another demon (Can I actually kill another human being who is a murderer?).  When confronted with the demon, it seemed too easy of a choice for John to kill this second evil monster rather than confronting a human serial killer and deciding whether he was capable of coming to terms with whether or not he was capable of killing this person or not. 

OK, sure, he was presented with the opportunity to kill Curt who was not a very nice person, but Curt was not a murderer, just a person who hit his girlfriend once, and Curt was defenseless, so this seems like a much easier choice to make.

I also felt like there should have been perhaps some more foreshadowing of the fact that there could be more demons as I was totally blindsided by the existence of the second demon.

I also thought that brooke's reaction at the end of the book was unrealistic - sure she feels traumatized but she also understands that John saved her from a very bad situation.  I think it would have been more realistic for her to say something like she appreciated him saving her but she wanted to spend some time apart just to be able to forget about it for awhile.  I was quite upset with her after reading this part.

What do you think?

In the next book, I hope we learn more about the origins and motivations of the demons, that there will be more interesting conflicts and that the relationship with John and Brooke will be further developed.

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Dan Wells / Website name (Fearful Symmetry)
« on: August 26, 2010, 03:57:51 PM »
Edit:
Just some suggestions about the fearful symmetry website for Dan, if you find this irrelevant feel free to delete.
By the way, I really like your books.

Where did the fearful symmetry name come from?
You might want to change the website name to something with your name in the URL itself such as: danwells-author.com, or dan-wells.com. If a search keyword is included in the name of the website, that website is much more likely to come up higher in the results.

2) You could include a Meta Description in the code of your page, just something very simple like:
<meta name="description" content="The blog of Dan Wells, American Horror authro.  Daily blog updates, store, biography,  forum, contact" />
Its just one line of code to insert in your webpage, below the <title>tag.

When a Meta description contains the keyword that the user is searching for, the search engines like google tend to display this text in the search results rather than some random text from your site, allowing you much more control over how you are presented to online searchers.

Here's what it looks like now when I search for Dan Wells and find your site:
Dan Wells
I'm pleased to report that the “Let Dan Wells kill you” auction was the big ticket item of the whole event, going for a final bid of $500 to a handsome ...
www.fearfulsymmetry.net/

If you changed the meta description tag to the above, someone searching for you would probably see:
Dan Wells
The blog of Dan Wells, American Horror authro.  Daily blog updates, store, biography,  forum, contact.
www.fearfulsymmetry.net/

Finally, some of your foreign readers might not know what "awesome swag" means, you might want to change it to "Store of awesome swag"

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Brandon Sanderson / Petiton for Brandon to do a Wheel of Time Question of the Week
« on: December 03, 2009, 03:16:39 PM »
I have loved reading the transcriptions on dragonmount.com forums of the questions and answers brandon did on the gathering storm book tour about the wheel of time.  See here (warning: contains wheel of time spoilers of course): http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/board,278.0.html

It reminded me of when Robert Jordan used to do "questions of the week".  These were great and gave awesome new insight into the Wheel of Time.   I eagerly awaited the new question and its answer every week.

Here's an archive of Wheel of time questions of the week for the curious:
http://13depository.blogspot.com/2009/03/tor-questions-of-week.html

Please post here if you'd like Brandon to answer a wheel of time question of the week on his blog or website.  I'd love to see it.

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