This tale began as a book-within-a-book in the author's latest novel. In Palimpsest, it is a strange book for children written in the 1920s, about a young girl spirited away to Fairyland by the Green Wind, and her adventures there. The author had never planned to write it, but in a bid to pay her bills, Catherynne M. Valente has decided to post a chapter every Monday until the novel is done and let readers pay whatever they think it's worth. Two chapters are already out, so why not try it?

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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The cover image for The Gathering Storm, the twelfth volume of The Wheel of Time series, has been released by Tor Books. The Gathering Storm, which was to be the series finale, is now the first book in a final trilogy to be finished by author Brandon Sanderson (interviewed here) after Robert Jordan's death in 2007.

Tor has also recently announced a four-book deal with Sanderson, who will pen a new fantasy series called The Way of Kings. The advances for the new series are in the six figures, and with sales-related bonuses, could top out at 2.5 million.