Podcast: Alera Love Call-In

Hey guys!
In preparation for an upcoming “Alera Love” podcast, I’d like to throw the doors open to folks calling in and leaving us a short voicemail message talking about what they love about the Codex Alera, and why.
If you think you’d like to leave a message to be played back on the podcast, just follow these guidelines:
– Call 301-6377-HAT (301-637-7428)
– After my smarmy message plays and you get the beep, tell us your name (and/or your forum name) and where you’re calling from
– Then tell us what you love about the Codex Alera! Try to keep it to 5 minutes at most (we’ll have to edit down or just not use particularly long calls).

Are you selling me on eBay? and other news

Jim has donated an enticing set of Dresden and Alera goodies for a charity event supporting the American Cancer Society! It includes:

  • the audiobooks of Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, and Summer Knight, read by James Marsters.
  • autographed copies of Death Masks, Blood Rites, and Dead Beat in paperback
  • autographed copies of the three Codex Alera novels: Furies of Calderon, Academ’s Fury, and Cursor’s Fury
  • an autographed copy of No Regrets by Shannon K. Butcher, Jim’s wife.

Place your bids here! All proceeds from the auction will go to the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life.
We also now have a release date for My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, sequel anthology to P.N. Elrod’s My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. You can read Jim’s Dresden Files short story “Heorot” on December 26, 2007, right in time for those lovely after-Christmas sales! Preorder it on Amazon here, and discuss it on the forums here.
Finally, many of you have written in, pointing us to this article from The Edmonton Journal. It states that Edmonton is slated to be the new home of either The Dresden Files or the Showtime series Masters of Horror, though the decision had not yet been made as to which one. Well, while we’d like to stay optimistic, it looks like we may have a disappointment coming our way. SyFy Portal correspondent Michael Hinman reports that industry rumor points toward Masters of Horror being the likely winner. Hinman assures us that “Nothing is locked into stone yet, and no official announcement is expected until next week,” but it doesn’t look good. Discuss these stories on the forums here.

Far and wide gave it the name…

Thanks to P.N. Elrod’s livejournal post on the subject, we now have the title for Jim’s story in the upcoming anthology My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon! It will be called “Heorot,” which is the name of the mead hall Beowulf defended from Grendel in the great epic. I think I’m even more curious about the story now!
Read more about the anthology and its contributors here. We don’t yet have a release date for it and it’s not available for preorder, but you can buy its predecessor My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding or preorder Many Bloody Returns, the other upcoming anthology featuring a short story by Jim, on Amazon.com.
Discuss the story here!

Saturday Signing in Shawnee

Jim and Shannon will both be signing books Saturday, June 16th, at 2:00 PM in Shawnee, KS. They’d love to see you there! Here’s the address:
Borders Express #1661
WESTBROOKE VILLAGE
7311 QUIVERA ROAD
Shawnee, KS 66216
913-962-1428
Talk about the signing on the forums here!
Additionally, for those of you outside of the US who want the Dresden Files buttons (check out the offer in this post), order them here. Jim supplies the store with buttons, which are free, but you will have to pay the store a fee to cover the international shipping expenses. For questions, contact the shopkeeper at wizard@wizardsharry.com.