14 March 2010
Reviews and More
SHADOWRISE
PREVIEW OF SHADOWRISE BY TAD WILLIAMS
Flames Rising has a short excerpt from Tad’s new novel.
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GAME LOCUS NETWORK REVIEW
Shadowrise by Tad Williams
Regardless, SHADOWRISE is a wonderfully crafted offering by one of fantasy’s luminary authors and should not be missed (more so because Tad has claimed that this will be his last epic fantasy–we certainly hope that’s just exhaustion talking).
Read the full Game Locus review HERE.
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SEEDLINGS BOOK REVIEW
Shadowrise by Tad Williams
Any fan of Tad Williams or the Shadowmarch series should be completely satisfied. Shadowplay simply represents creative, intricate, well molded fantasy that leaves you with feeling as satisfied as if you've eaten a delicious meal. The book doesn’t drop the plot, nor does it plod along. The characters continue to be interesting and well crafted. And, most importantly, we won’t have to wait as long for the next book! Pure win right there.
Read the full Seedlings review HERE.
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FREE SHADOWRISE WALLPAPER DOWNLOAD
Orbit UK is offering Shadowrise Wallpapers for downloading HERE.
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FANTASYLITERATURE.COM REVIEW
SHADOWRISE by Tad Williams
I said in my review of book one that this series doesn’t match the genius of his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy (it was, after all, “genius”) but is his strongest work since then and compares favorably to nearly any epic fantasy going now (with only a few exceptions). Through three books, I see no reason to change my mind. I’m looking forward eagerly to the book four, the concluding volume.
Read the full review HERE.
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THE DRAGONS OF ORDINARY FARM
READING RUMPUS BOOK REVIEW
The Dragons of Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams & Deborah Beale
All in all, The Dragons of Ordinary Farm is a worthy addition for students interested in fantasy and/or action-adventure stories. The fantasy reader will be held rapt and the action-adventure reader reader will find lots to like too. The ending really packs a wallop and leaves enough room for a sequel or five.
Read the full Reading Rumpus review HERE.
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WARRIORS
Warriors Review: And Ministers of Grace by Tad Williams
Reviewed by Shawn Speakman for Suvudu
Tad is a highly-intelligent man, a writer who brings that into his work. But that is not the only aspect to this new novella. And Ministers of Grace brims with vigor and excitement from beginning to end. Tad has created a very real world of conflict that in many ways mirrors our own, and through that creation Kane walks, a competent killer using all means at his disposal to complete his quest. The realities of both worlds feel real to me as I see them in our own; the science that allows Kane to transform his body into a killing machine was fascinating to behold and just plain cool.
Read the full Suvudu review HERE.
8 March 2010
 THE BOOKGEEKS INTERVIEW: TAD WILLIAMS
Reviewed by The Editor on March 8, 2010
Tad Williams’ debut fantasy series Memory, Sorrow and Thorn sold millions of copies around the world and established him as one of the greatest fantasy writers of modern times. His virtual reality saga, Otherland, and his standalone novel The War of the Flowers were published to similar popular and critical acclaim. The third volume of the Shadowmarch series. Shadowplay, has recently been released (it was going to be a trilogy, but Williams’ fans know his track record with trilogies!), so we caught up with him to ask him about his craft…
Read the BookGeeks Interview HERE
5 March 2010
 BOOKGEEKS REVIEW
Shadowrise by Tad Williams
Reviewed by Simon Appleby on March 2, 2010
. . . Fortunately, the only disappointing thing about Shadowrise is the fact that it doesn’t represent the promised end to the sequence – taken on its own terms, it’s some of Williams’ best work to date. His first fantasy series was a powerful and gripping piece of storytelling but the moral landscape was very clearly defined; the Shadowmarch trilogy quartet still showcases a powerful story, but you’re hard pressed to know who the baddies are, and in that way it reflects some of the changes to the fantasy landscape wrought by the likes of Steven Erikson and K.J. Parker. Ambiguity abounds, as we start to discover the true significance of Southmarch Castle to the increasingly tragic Qar, and the wrongs that the human race have perpetrated against them throughout their history. . .
Williams keeps the plot moving along very nicely indeed, spending just the right amount of time with each character before switching perspective, and interweaving the narratives deftly. Both of the Eddon twins continue to develop, and all of the crucial characters move closer to the inevitable denouement at Southmarch Castle that will undoubtedly occupy much of the final volume, to be titled Shadowheart. Williams continues to improve as a writer, in my view, and Shadowrise proves he is still one of the authors to beat when it comes to high fantasy. If only he could count to three…
Read Simon Appleby's full Review HERE
Read an Excerpt from Shadowrise HERE
Order Shadowrise: Little, Brown Book Group (UK) • amazon.co.uk • amazon.ca
IndieBound • Borders • Barnes & Noble • Powell’s Books • amazon.com
 BOOKGEEKS REVIEW
Shadowmarch and Shadowplay by Tad Williams
Reviewed by Simon Appleby on February 26, 2008
It’s beyond the scope of a review such as this to describe the multiple plotlines that make up these books, the characters who we meet along the way and the reverses that many of them have to endure, but I will say this: Williams has devised a more complex plot than his previous fantasy trilogy, and seems to have learned some lessons about momentum. While a few sections drag slightly, and he is still prone to throwing in dream sequences, the frequent switches between characters maintain the pace pretty effectively. Most crucially, at the end of Shadowplay, it’s still not really clear what the overall story arc is – what is the significance of Flint, the boy from beyond the Shadowline? What are the Autarch’s intentions towards the March Kingdoms? Also unlike the earlier works, there are many more grey areas for characters to inhabit and we are not always sure who the good guys are, or what motivates them. This is in contrast to the (very enjoyable) ‘goodies v baddies’ approach in Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.
 Williams writes exceedingly well – he evokes the atmosphere and scenery of a range of settings beautifully. His characterisation is a major strong point (not always something you can say about fantasy writers) and his command of language is better than ever (ditto!).
In the development of this new trilogy, one can feel the influences of writers who have come in to the fantasy genre since Williams started and made a big impact – K.J.Parker for the moral ambiguity, Steven Erikson for the complex mythos that underpins the whole story, and R. Scott Bakker, especially in those parts of the book set in the Autarch’s court. I enjoyed these books immensely, and unusually for a fantasy trilogy, at the end of the second book I have very little inkling of how the story will play itself out. Roll on Shadowrise!
Read Simon Appleby's full Review HERE
3 March 2010
This month Tor.com is celebrating Michael Moorcock and “The Legacy of a Living Legend.” From editor Eric Raab: “Over the next month here on Tor.com we will hear from many who cite Moorcock as an influence, friend, and without a doubt one of the greatest fantasists of all time, including Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, and even some words from Moorcock himself.”
In “In the Shadow of The Jewel in the Skull” Tad writes about how he first discovered Michael Moorcock, how Moorcock’s Multiverse influences him, and how he’ll always be a Moorcock fanboy at heart:
I remember finding my first Michael Moorcock books at a used bookstore in downtown Palo Alto back in the early 70s. I was very young, of course. (So was Michael, I’m sure—a precocious youth. None of us wants to be reminded how long we’ve been writing.)
I don’t remember if the Hawkmoon books were the first or the second thing of his I read. I know that I went through the Elric, Corum, and Hawkmoon books all in short order after I discovered them, and then began systematically tracking down everything else of Moorcock’s I could find, occasionally even splurging on a new paperback instead of waiting for one to show up pre-owned. That was the mark of true love.
Read the rest of Tad’s piece HERE
3 March 2010
 FANTASY BOOK CRITIC REVIEW
Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
Reviewed by Robert Thompson
ABOUT WARRIORS: “People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgamesh, warriors, soldiers, and fighters have fascinated us; they are a part of every culture, every literary tradition, every genre. All Quiet on the Western Front, From Here to Eternity, and The Red Badge of Courage have become part of our literary canon, taught in classrooms all around the country and the world. Our contributors make up an all-star lineup of award-winning and bestselling writers, representing a dozen different publishers and as many genres. We asked each of them for the same thing—a story about a warrior. Some chose to write in the genre they’re best known for. Some decided to try something different. You will find warriors of every shape, size, and color in these pages, warriors from every epoch of human history, from yesterday and today and tomorrow, and from worlds that never were. Some of the stories will make you sad, some will make you laugh, and many will keep you on the edge of your seat.”
—from George R. R. Martin’s Introduction
Every story in “Warriors” appears here for the first time. Included are a new Dunk & Egg novella from the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire, a new tale of Lord John by Diana Gabaldon, an Emberverse story by S.M. Stirling, a Forever Peace story by Joe Haldeman, and an epic tale of humanity at bay by David Weber. Also present are original tales by David Ball, Peter S. Beagle, Lawrence Block, Gardner Dozois, Robin Hobb, Cecelia Holland, Joe R. Lansdale, David Morrell, Naomi Novik, James Rollins, Steven Saylor, Robert Silverberg, Carrie Vaughn, Howard Waldrop, and Tad Williams.
Many of these writers are bestsellers. All of them are storytellers of the highest quality. Together they make a volume of unforgettable reading...
5) “And Ministers of Grace” by Tad Williams. Some of the ideas in “And Ministers of Grace” are familiar like colonized planets, implants that transmit messages/advertisements directly to a person’s brain, a “nanobiote”-enhanced soldier who reminded me some of Alex Mercer from the Prototype videogame, and religious themes, but as a whole I was blown away by Tad Williams’ futuristic tale of a Covenant Guardian named Lamentation Kane sent on a mission to assassinate the Prime Minister of Archimedes, and the ensuing chaos that follows... Would love to see the short story expanded into a full-length novel or series.
FORMAT/INFO: “Warriors” is 736 pages long divided over twenty short stories and an Introduction by George R. R. Martin. Each short story is preceded by biographical information about the author and a short description of their contribution to the anthology. March 16, 2010 marks the North American Hardcover publication of “Warriors” via Tor.
Read Robert Thompson's full Review HERE
Official George R. R. Martin Website
Official Gardner Dozois Wiki
Order “Warriors” HERE
Read An Excerpt HERE
18 February 2010
 FANTASY BOOK CRITIC REVIEW
The New Dead edited by Christopher Golden
Reviewed by Robert Thompson
ABOUT THE NEW DEAD: In the world of pop culture, nothing is hotter than zombies right now. Thanks to the commercial success of Max Brooks’ “World War Z”, Seth Grahame-Smith’s “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, the wildly popular video game series Resident Evil, comic books like Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead and Marvel Zombies, and movies like Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Zombieland, and Shaun of the Dead, the living dead are here to stay.
Now in “The New Dead”, Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden has assembled an all-original anthology of never-before-published zombie stories from an eclectic array of today's hottest writers including Joe Hill, John Connolly, Max Brooks, Kelley Armstrong, Tad Williams, David Wellington, David Liss, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Mike Carey, Brian Keene, and many others. Inside are a wildly diverse and entertaining collection of new views on death and resurrection . . . the Last Word on the New Dead...
15) “The Storm Door” by Tad Williams. When I think of Tad Williams, I immediately think of epic fantasy, so I was a little surprised to see the author included in a zombie anthology. Williams more than holds his own though with an impressive tale about a paranormal investigator named Nathan Nightingale who discovers that predatory souls are taking over the bodies of the recently deceased...
FORMAT/INFO: “The New Dead” is 400 pages long divided over nineteen short stories. Also includes a Foreword by the editor Christopher Golden, and biographies on all of the anthology’s contributors. February 16, 2010 marks the North American Trade Paperback publication of “The New Dead” via St. Martin’s Griffin. Cover art provided by Per Haagensen. The UK version will be published on February 18, 2010 via Piatkus Books under the altered title: “Zombie: An Anthology of the Undead”. Subterranean Press is also producing a limited signed edition of “The New Dead” that is already long sold out.
Read Robert Thompson's full Review HERE
Official Christopher Golden Website
Order The New Dead HERE
Read Excerpts HERE (PDF) + HERE (PDF)
INTERVIEW | Zombie Style
with Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, Mike Carey, Tim Lebbon, David Wellington, & Jon Maberry
The Mad Hatter's Bookshelf and Book Review
28 January 2010
 INTERVIEW: TALKING WITH TIM
Deborah Beale on Using Twitter to Preview Tad Williams’ Shadowrise
By Tim O'Shea
This March, Volume 3 in Williams’ Shadowmarch series, Shadowrise, will be released. To whet the appetite of fans anticipating the book’s release, Beale is twittering (as MrsTad) excerpts from the book. The most recent series of tweets started on January 23. I had to ask Beale a few questions about the effort, and she was more than happy to oblige me in this mini email interview. My thanks to Beale for her time and efforts, as always.
Read the full interview here: Talking with Tim
05 November 2009
 THE DRAGON BOOK: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy
Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
From Ana’s review on Books for Sale:
The Dragon Book contains 18 short stories and you know what? All of them are pretty good (although some better than others of course), which should come as no surprise since the stories are written by luminaries of the Fantasy genre, most of them with a lot of experience in writing short stories. There is obviously, a thread that links all stories in this collection – all of them feature dragons – but that is the only thing they have in common. The stories are as diverse as they can possibly be: some are set in medieval times, some in a contemporary world for example; some are funny, some are dark. Some have a fable feel with a moral lesson, some are surrealist explorations of what ifs. There are alternate history stories and stories set in a different world altogether. Some feature good dragons, other bad dragons, some even have dragons as the narrator.
A Stark and Wormy Knight by Tad Williams
How I loved this story! This is strictly from the dragons’ point of view, as mother dragon tells a story to help her dragonling to fall sleep. The story is about the fearful old days, when there were horrible, bad Knights going about killing their ancestors…and how their great-grandpap faced one of those terrible knights. But these days are gone, and dragons need to fear no more, because there are greater things that scare humans these days.
Additional Thoughts: there is a website for the book which includes all the authors and editors’ biographies and an excerpt of the book. Check it out: The Dragon Book
Verdict: If you like: Fantasy, Short Stories and Dragons, look no further than this book. It has a great variety of tales.
Rating: 8 – Excellent
Read the full review here: Books for Sale
11 October 2009
 TAD TALKS WITH
MICHAEL A. VENTRELLA
VENTRELLA: Has the publishing industry changed as dramatically as everyone says since that time?
WILLIAMS: It’s always been a small-margins business, but the advent of electronic media and the internet have really confused things. Nobody knows what publishing’s even going to look like in ten years, but I think it’s likely it will be less vertical — that is, one company buying books, editing books, designing books, printing books, binding books, warehousing books — and more of a collaboration between smaller businesses. Also, electronic media are only going to become a bigger part of the industry.
Read the full interview here: Michael A. Ventrella’s Blog
12 August 2009
THE NEW YORKER
Seven Essential Fantasy Reads: Going to Second Base
“The Dragonbone Chair,” the first book in the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, by Tad Williams. . . .
This one has everything you’d expect from epic fantasy—magical swords, dragons, an elvish race, a dwarvish race, love of a princess, internal mythology, and strong drink spread over three books and several thousand pages. And it’s easily the best in the genre—if you want to read a classic epic fantasy series that is not the Lord of the Rings, start here. Williams has several other books (the Otherland series, “The War of the Flowers”) that are also worth reading.
09 August 2009
OTHERLAND GAME: DRAGONFLY CONCEPT ART 3D
05 August 2009
Shadowrise
Book Three of SHADOWMARCH
Shadowrise will be released in two volumes, a few months apart.
From Tad, via the Message Board:
At present, the full last piece (two volumes, now) is at about 1300 pages ms., with another two hundred perhaps to come. That means about 750 pages each in first draft for the new, split books. The first two books published were each about 800 or so in manuscript, so we're talking about two more very similar sized volumes to SHADOWMARCH and SHADOWPLAY.
Shadowrise will be the third volume in the series. The working title for volume four is Shadowheart.
03 August 2009
From Tad, via his Facebook:
Jell-o brain, Night Two. Just got back from New Jersey and a story conferencing day. All good work, but it's now three a.m. and my brain...well, you know. Wibble-wobble-wibble. However, one piece of news for the Tad readers. Shadowrise is definitely going to have to be two volumes, but only a few months apart.
And Deborah, via her Facebook:
Yes, it's happening: Shadowrise will be 2 books, published mere months apart. So now all of Tad's trilogies are tetralogies - ha
03 August 2009
 BY BLOOD WE LIVE
Edited by John Joseph Adams
Tad's short story, “Child of an Ancient City” is included in the new anthology, By Blood We Live, “33 of the most haunting vampire stories of the past three decades, from some of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.”
Read more about the new anthology here.
02 August 2009
New Interview:
Seven Questions with Tad Williams on WritingRaw.com (PDF)
29 July 2009
 LOCUS Magazine, July 2009
Excerpts from the interviews with Tad & Deborah are now online at locusmag.com
Tad Williams: Things Go Away, Things Come Back
“The other reason my books tend to be long is that I have my own ideas about how you make people immerse themselves in an environment, and one of the ways is that you have to give the environment a certain amount of credibility in itself, and that means you have to spend a certain amount of time introducing it and acquainting people with it as you go along.”
Deborah Beale: The Arc of Life
“When I got into publishing, I had a brief period (thankfully) when I wanted to work with literary fiction. I read for Sonny Mehta when was the head of Pan, and when he was acquiring for the Picador list, and I quickly learned that not very good literary fiction is just really bad fiction, and that by contrast, I was really interested in stuff like young adult fiction and popular fiction. I was the lowliest of a number of editors working on So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish, and that was a trip. It was actually the first Douglas Adams I'd read, and I literally fell out of my seat laughing, and then all these anxious sales people, plus Sonny, came to cross-examine me about how funny was it really, and was it truly going to work.”
23 July 2009
INTERVIEW: TALKING WITH TIM
Tad Williams and Deborah Beale on The Dragons of Ordinary Farm
By Tim O'Shea
22 July 2009
 SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH: STORIES IN HONOR OF JACK VANCE
Edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
From Adam Whitehead’s review on The Wertzone:
Millions of years hence, the Sun has grown old, bloated and red and is about to go out. In these dying days humanity, now capable of great feats of magic, shares the much-changed Earth with hostile races such as the deodands and pelgranes. This is the vivid setting of Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, four books (now usually published in one volume, Tales of the Dying Earth) which now stand as one of the cornerstones of modern fantasy.
Songs of the Dying Earth is an all-star ‘tribute album’ by some of the biggest names in modern SF and Fantasy, featuring twenty-three stories set in the Dying Earth setting. . . .
“The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or The Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee” by Tad Williams is another highlight of the book. Fake wizard Lixal Laqavee, having tired of his life as a conjurer in a circus, decides to learn some real magic, with troublesome results that force him into a highly hazardous alliance with a deodand of dubious reliability and a ravenous hunger for human flesh. Simply put, brilliant.
 Songs of the Dying Earth (****½) is an exceptionally strong collection, a rich and sumptuous banquet of tales from the end of time. The weak links here are not enough to dilute the impact of the best stories in the collection, and the best stories are thought-provoking, memorable and sharply funny. The book is available now from Subterranean Press in the USA and will be published by HarperCollins Voyager in the UK on 1 October 2009.
Read the full review here: The Wertzone
22 July 2009
 THE DRAGONS OF ORDINARY FARM
From Nicola’s review on Novels Now:
I had a great time reading this. I loved the motley crew of characters. The plot is a lot of fun and the dragon side story is unique and well, who doesn’t love a good dragon story? The story is nicely wrapped up yet there is a bigger plot running along which will continue through the series and the book leaves us with a satisfying ending but also knowing the children will be returning to Ordinary Farm again.
Get in at the start with this series folks, it’s quite likely, imho, that this is going to become a popular one. I’m really looking forward to book two.
Read the full review here: Novels Now
17 July 2009
 INTERVIEW WITH OMNIVORACIOUS
Tad Williams and Deborah Beale on The Dragons of Ordinary Farm
By Jeff VanderMeer
02 July 2009
 THE DRAGONS OF ORDINARY FARM
Now available in the UK
amazon.co.uk
01 July 2009
LOCUS Magazine, July 2009
Featuring interviews with Tad and Deborah
Available Now
19 May 2009
 THE NEW DEAD
Edited by Christopher Golden
Tad’s story: The Storm Door
To be published by Subterranean Press late 2009
and St. Martin’s/Griffin February 2010
Update: Limited edition Sold Out in less than 1 week.
12 May 2009
Win a copy of The Dragons of Ordinary Farm
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist is holding a giveaway contest for Tad and Deborah's new book. Three copies are up for grabs.
To enter, send an email to reviews@(no-spam)gryphonwood.net with the header "ORDINARY FARM." (Remember to remove the "no spam" thingy.) Your email must contain your full mailing address (that's snail mail!), otherwise your message will be deleted. Multiple entries will disqualify whoever sends them. And please include your screen name and the message boards that you frequent using it, if you do hang out on a particular MB.
For more details, click here.
07 May 2009
New: Die Drachen der Tinkerfarm at Klett-Cotta's website.
04 May 2009
THE NEW SPACE OPERA 2: REVIEW BY IO9
Via io9:
Another pleasant surprise from a writer usually not associated with spaceships is Tad Williams. He uses some of the world-building skills evidenced in his Otherland series in "The Tenth Muse". It's a nod to Old School Star Trek with comic touches and some actual opera that rises above mere farce.
26 April 2009
Deborah and Tad are currently working on the marketing and publicity as the run-up to the publication of The Dragons Of Ordinary Farm begins. Chapters from novel will be mailed out soon: we currently plan two mailings of four chapters followed by three chapters, in May.
04 April 2009
OTHERLAND MMO WEBSITE LAUNCHES
Click here to check out the new screenshots, catch the latest news, and sign up for the newsletter to stay up on the game's development.
03 April 2009
NOIR FANTASY THRILLER SERIES COMING FROM DAW
Via Publishers Marketplace:
Tad Williams's SLEEPING LATE ON JUDGMENT DAY, HAPPY HOUR IN HELL, and ANGELS RUSH IN, a new urban fantasy series about an afterlife investigator who searches for a missing soul and finds himself caught in a battle much larger than he could have imagined, to Betsy Wollheim at Daw, in a major deal, by Matt Bialer at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (NA).
and SFScope.com:
Tad Williams sold a new urban fantasy series to long-time editor Betsy Wollheim at DAW, via agent Matt Bialer of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
Bialer's assistant, Lindsay Ribar, says that "as this is his first urban fantasy series, each book will be significantly shorter than his usual epic fantasy fare."
In the series, "Doloriel is an angel. He doesn't know who he used to be back on Earth, but now he works as an afterlife investigator for the Heavenly Host, making sure the souls being judged haven't inflated their claims. It's a minor job, but a cool one, since it means he often gets to go back to Earth to investigate, wearing a body and calling himself Bobby Dollar—or Bobby D. Doloriel's latest assignment as Bobby D is supposed to be routine: figure out what happened to a recently disappeared soul, finish the paperwork, and make it look good for the folks upstairs. But a series of not-so-coincidental encounters—including one with a terribly attractive demon named Sennaie—makes him sure that there's more at stake here than one missing soul.
"Knowing that he's in over his head, Bobby D tries to pull out, but his bosses won't let him. Somehow, his identity—more specifically, his identity from his former life back on Earth—is the key to the entire mystery, and he has to find out who he was before he becomes an unwitting pawn in a game of power that could end in the destruction of the entire human race."
29 March 2009
OTHERLAND: 14 NEW SCREENS
Via WorthPlaying.com:
MMO fans can also expect a fascinating gameplay experience. Based on the globally successful novels, the Otherland gameplay is distinguished by a unique narrative structure. Rather than retelling the story, players will experience their own individual stories within the Otherland universe and will encounter many of the familiar characters from the books. The game world will change dynamically around them during the course of the game.
See new screenshots here.
29 March 2009
Short Fiction
 THE NEW SPACE OPERA 2
Edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
Tad's story: The Tenth Muse
To be published by Eos (US) and Harper Collins Australia, June 30, 2009
Available for Preorder now.
 THE DRAGON BOOK: MAGICAL TALES FROM THE MASTERS OF MODERN FANTASY
Edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
Tad's story: A Stark and Wormy Knight
To be published by Ace Hardcover/Penguin US, November 3, 2009.
Available for Preorder now.
Click here to watch a video of Tad reading his short story, "A Stark and Wormy Knight" at the Calgary Public Library as part of the World Fantasy Con '08.
WARRIORS
Edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin
Tad's story: And Ministers of Grace *
Hardcover to be published by Tor Books US, March 2010
* Watch out for this one. It's blistering.
04 March 2009
Deborah is busy putting together final mailing lists for Ordinary Farm promotion, and all things Tad. Email her at the address at the bottom of the page if you want to be sure of inclusion.
14 February 2009
We've been a bit quiet on this page because we were focussing on the revisions to the home page. The work news is this: Tad is closing in on finishing Shadowrise – today he wrote 30pp of the manuscript plus a 15 page short story. (And he wasn't too tired at the end of the day, either...) Deb is about 60% through the first draft of A Witch At Ordinary Farm. The Collins part of Harper Collins died this week, bringing us both heartache and new beginnings – The Dragons Of Ordinary Farm will be published by Katherine Tegen Books, also part of Harper Collins (or is it just Harper now?). As far as we know, the publication date is the same, i.e. June 09 for the US edition.
14 February 2009
Click here to see Subterranean Press' page for the upcoming (August) Jack Vance-themed anthology featuring Tad's story The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or The Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee. If you miss this special publication, don't forget the paperback will be appearing in 2010 from Tor Books.
19 November 2008
Click here for a copy of Tad's speech as Toastmaster at the recent World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Canada. Click here for a lamentably shaky video of the event. Click here for video of Tad at the convention, reading the Prologue to Shadowrise, third and final novel in the Shadowmarch series.
27 October 2008
World Fantasy Convention appearances: Wed. night, Welcome to Guests function (location: hotel.) Thursday lunchtime - Calgary downtown library (2 blocks from hotel) - Tad plus other authors, reading.
More appearances/panels to come as we know them; you may also check the World Fantasy 2008 website.
11 October 2008
Recently Tad sat down with MMORPG.com to talk about the MMO incarnation of OTHERLAND and his involvement with the project.
Watch the interview here.
27 September 2008
The Dragons of Ordinary Farm has recently been sold to publishers in the UK (Quercus), France (Editions Pocket Jeuness) and Russia (Exmo).
21 September 2008
Tad back from Singapore. Big big announcement coming October 1st!!
22 August 2008
Short Fiction
Tad has a number of short stories forthcoming. We will add precise publication dates when we receive them.
SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH
Stories set in Jack Vance's world
Edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin
Tad's story: The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or The Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee
To be published by Subterranean Press (special signed and illustrated edition) followed by Tor Books (US) and HarperCollins (UK) in 2009
WARRIORS
Edited by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin
Tad's story: And Ministers of Grace *
To be published by Tor Books (US) 2009 or 2010
THE DRAGON BOOK
Edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Tad's story: A Stark and Wormy Knight
To be published by Penguin Books (US) 2009 or 2010
THE NEW SPACE OPERA II
Edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
Tad's story to be delivered
To be published by Eos (US) and Harper Collins (Australia) 2009 or 2010
* Watch out for this one. It's blistering.
July 2008
New Releases
MIKE MIGNOLA'S HELLBOY: ODDEST JOBS
Tad's Story: The Thursday Men
Dark Horse: July 2008
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-59307-944-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-944-4
VARJOJEN LEIKKI 1: ÄÄNIÄ METSÄSSÄ
Shadowplay Vol 1, Finland
Karisto Oy: July 2008
ISBN-13: 978-951-23-5015-5
VARJOJEN LEIKKI 2: MUSTAN MAAN SALAISUUDET
Shadowplay Vol 2, Finland
Karisto Oy: July 2008
ISBN-13: 978-951-23-5016-2
26 July 2008
New Interview with Tad at Literatopia.de (English); (German)
26 June 2008
Tad and Deb back from New York. Highlights of trip include meetings with agents Matt Bialer and Teri Tobias, Tad's US publisher DAW Books, Brenda Bowen at Harper Collins, publisher of The Dragons of Ordinary Farm; plus television interest, and meeting with Katya Pendill (for web consultancy.)
23 June 2008
Brenda Bowen has given the thumbs-up to the second draft of The Dragons of Ordinary Farm. Cover artwork has been finalized and jacket is in production.
21 June 2008
Tad has delivered his short story, The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or The Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee (length approx. 10,400 words), to George R R Martin for inclusion in his forthcoming Jack Vance-themed anthology.
21 May 2008
Deb's finished her revision to The Dragons of Ordinary Farm: Tad's now revising for consistency of voice and more "muscularity" in the tone. Draft of cover copy received today from Brenda Bowen. Tad's arrived in France after an unfortunately difficult journey.
20 May 2008
Sketch for cover artwork for Odfarm received from Brenda Bowen at Harper Collins. Tad, Deb and Matt the Wonder-Agent all delighted. Tiny revisions requested.
2 May 2008
Tad Williams and Deborah Beale have recently sold The Dragons Of Ordinary Farm, their five-book young-adult fantasy series, to Klett-Cotta in Germany and Brenda Bowen at Harper in the US, for her new imprint, The Bowen Press. UK sale currently being negotiated.
2 May 2008
Tad currently 40% through first draft of Shadowrise. Deb almost done with editorial revisions to The Dragons of Ordinary Farm.
1 May 2008
New interview with Tad at FlamesRising.com. Monica Valentinelli, project manager for Flames Rising, asks Tad "the" burning questions she's always wondered about. Tad talks about his writing style, favorite villains, and his new young adult fantasy series co-authored with Deborah Beale.
1 May 2008
Paul Storey exhibition in France – May 23 - Sep 22, 2008
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