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.

 

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Flashforward$9.99 add to cart

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and TV Guide , ABC has ordered 13 episodes of a new series based on Robert J. Sawyer's FlashForward.

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Busted Flush: A Wild Cards Novel$27.95 add to cart

Wild Cards series editor George R.R. Martin announced on his blog that Tor, the series' most recent publisher, will be reissuing the first three volumes in what is now the longest running shared universe in fiction. What format these new editions of Wild Cards, Aces High and Jokers Wild will take is still up in the air. But as an added bonus, the first book will feature three new stories by authors Michael Cassutt, David D. Levine and Carrie Vaughn (interviewed here.)

Read reviews of the first two books in the most recent Wild Cards triad, Inside Straight here, and Busted Flush here. The concluding volume, Suicide Kings, is due in December.