Lord Patrek

R. Scott Bakker's The Unholy Consult is 2.99$ on Kindle. The Great Ordeal is also on sale.

Tamsyn Muir's Undercover is 1.99$ on Kindle.

Nicholas Eames' Kings of the Wyld is 2.99$ on Kindle.

Kristen Britain's Green Rider is 4.99$ on Kindle. Volume 2, First Rider's Call, is also on sale.

Kameron Hurley's Future Artifacts: Stories is 6.99$ on Kindle.

My bad, it did make it once and once only after the season finished airing. The Tor Books post came before that and I remember discussing it with Wert back then. But a single week at number 13 is nothing that could explain such a high number of sales. Just a million books sold (and that's a lot!) would have seen TEotW and other WoT titles across bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic. Nearly 5M would have seen a boost in sales akin to that of ASOIAF, and that in multiple languages.

TEotW never made the mm list at any time during the airing of season one, nor before or after. It did good on the Amazon list, but not the rest of the series. For WoT to have sold nearly 5M copies over a 24-month span, it would have appeared on every bestseller list in the world. It would have been akin to ASOIAF during the first season of GoT, with ADWD topping the NYT hardcover list and the other 4 remaining on the paperback list for months on end. The same in the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, etc. 5M copies in so short a span of time is HUGE. Even if spread across multiple installments, they would still have made the big lists for a number of weeks/months. This didn't happen. Around the same time, Dune and The Witcher both appeared on said lists for quite a few weeks. Other than the Amazon rankings, WoT didn't make waves while the episodes aired. Then again, it was so different from the source material and this was bemoaned by many, myself included. So maybe viewers elected to forgo the books. . .

Hard to believe since none of the WoT installments appeared on any bestseller lists in any Western countries. They didn't even top Amazon's top 100 fantasy books during that period. Looks like a marketing lie, just like when Tor posted that TEotW was an NYT bestseller while the first season aired when in truth the novel never did. . .

R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before is 2.99$ on Kindle.

Miles Cameron's Cold Iron is 2.99$ on Kindle.

China Miéville's Perdido Street Station is 2.99$ on Kindle.

Oh shit, I didn't know. It makes perfect sense to postpone the release of the book.

I have a feeling you won't be the only one!

There are no recent stats for that novella. But based on the Goodreads ratings and Mark Lawrence's metric, looks like it sold about a million copies since its release. We'll see this fall how well the new one will do. . .

I'm currently reading the final volume of the Sun Sword series and hot damn it's awesome! For anyone intrigued, I definitely recommend reading these books. Think Steven Erikson's worldbuilding and Robin Hobb's characterization. The Broken Crown, the first volume, is like Erikson's Gardens of the Moon, in that it throws you into a story already in motion and the author wastes no time spoon-feeding you information to make the going easier to understand. But stick with it and by the halfway point you should be hooked! Can't quite believe that so few people are actually talking about West's books!

Given Rothfuss' numbers, even if only 10% of his fans buy the novella the week it comes out, unless another big name releases something that same week, it could nevertheless be more than enough for it to debut at number 1 on the NYT list. What will be interesting to see is whether or not it makes a huge splash that first week, and/or if it continues to sell in steady fashion after that. It's hard to estimate what kind of demand there will ultimately be for this novella. But keep in mind that it's been over a decade and both TNotW and TWMF remain in Amazon's Top 100 fantasy books sold basically every month. . .

That's probably just US stats.

Hmm, could be that the editorial notes demanded more changes than Williams expected. A year's delay is quite rare, especially when a pub date has been announced.

C. S. Friedman's Feast of Souls is 4.99$ on Kindle. This series could well be as good as the Coldfire trilogy!

William Gibson's Virtual Light is 2.99$ on Kindle.

It will be interesting to see how well this new novella will sell. Slow Regard debuted at number 2 on the NYT list because John Grisham released a novel on the same week. Given the anger/disappointment generated by Rothfuss these last few years, how well this new title will do commercially will give us an idea of whether or not he's still a genre powerhouse. You probably recall all the crap thrown GRRM's way for the long delay between AFfC and ADWD, with readers promising never to read ASOIAF again. And Dance spent nearly a year on the NYT list when it came out. . . The difference here is that Rothfuss is rereleasing a new version of an existing story, not the long-awaited third installment in his trilogy.

Finished Jacqueline Carey's Cassiel's Servant and enjoyed it. I was afraid that this retelling of Kushiel's Dart from Joscelin's perspective, that of a righteous and unyeilding Cassiline, couldn't be as good as the original. Phèdre has such a singular voice, after all, one that made the first trilogy what it was. Even though it can't quite compare with the original, this novel made for a totally satisfying reading experience. Kushiel fans will definitely enjoy it. You can read my review here.

Peter V. Brett's The Warded Man is 1.99$ on Kindle.

Michael R. Fletcher's Beyond Redemption is 1.99$ on Kindle.

Michelle West's The Hidden City is 2.99$ on Kindle.