The glitch in the E books in down under locations (Ships of Merior) is being addressed, please check in a few weeks and let me know if the situation has righted itself.
I have copied the disparities in the pre-order info on Initiate's Trial to my editors in London - hopefully that will be addressed as well.
thanks for the heads up - it really helps for me to know and draw attention to the problems straightaway.
I tend NOT to haunt amazon or other book sites; it isn't always helpful to my productive creativity (seeing ratings, etc, can be depressing or exhilarating - and one snide comment can waste a lot of productive emotion better spent on the WORK).
So you guys here - thanks for being my eyes and ears. It really helps a lot more than you know.
originally posted by Annette
I suspect Booktopia where I got all but one of my new versions in the series is not going to have pre-orders available till a few months before release. But then I doubt I could wait for it to arrive in the post. I might just try to see if I can pre-order it from one of the local bookshops, maybe it will encourage them a bit to actually get the entire series. I was ever so annoyed when I wanted to buy the books locally and realised I could not get them. I quickly found an aussie online bookshop with a nice collection of Janny's books. 
Definitely, it helps draw notice/get the books shelved if they are ordered through a brick and mortar store…books that do not get attention from customers don't tend to be stocked.
But a sale is a sale, when bought new, so whatever suits you best is the ticket.
originally posted by Annette
Well I have had no luck trying to convince Booktopia to offer a full series yet, still they say their suppliers are out of stock for Warhost of Vastmark and I first asked about that discrepancy last September, I waited months before giving up and buying it from the UK. I brought the other 7, the 3 related books with the short stories and the Empire series from them, but it seems my interest was not enough to convince them to find a supplier for the missing book. I have said they ever get it I would still buy it from them, I might die of old age waiting though. Hopefully a hardback sale inspires more enthusiasm.
So Janny, back to the story, just out of curiosity if we were to discuss the tempering experiences Arithon needs to obtain his hearts desire where would we start? With Kewar, or earlier, the experience with the lane tides and Rockfell seemed like a tempering experience. Do we only count ones with a positive impact? Do they all have to be so painful, or could some good ones such as the healing with the sunchildren be included.
originally posted by Kirsten Laurelle Wallace
I've been re-reading the series and a thought just occurred to me about the prologue. I wanted to hear what you guys thought. What if the high kings are never restored to power by the end of the series? I mean, if Arithon or his daughter became crowned, wouldn't his history survive? The very fact that the sages are looking for answers implies otherwise. Unless Arithon's daughter or her descendants are crowned without ever realizing their blood ties to Arithon.
What do all of you think?
originally posted by Kirsten Laurelle Wallace
Sorry if I should have posted the above comment somewhere else. I didn't think before hand. Now I realize there is a discussion section for the CoftheMW prologue. I'd still like your opinions though.
originally posted by Annette
Arithon's daughter will never be crowned though, the sorcerers agreed to give up their rights before she was even born. If Arithon is never to know of her existence it would be a bit hard to have her as High Queen of Rathain. That she was acknowledged at all for the sucession, Arithon would know she was s'Ffalenn, and that he had somehow had a daughter.
Davien good as admitted Arithon could choose either path, but still Arithon is unlikely to accept kingship if something more suitable comes along. Davien's plans for Arithon do not include kingship, he is after something a bit more stable than the present compact. If Arithon accepts Davien's alternative, you would think a high king of Athera would still be needed though. I somehow doubt Lysaer will still want the job after he made such a mess of things, I am not really expecting him to survive to the end of the series. Maybe Lysaer has more children, or maybe a s'Lornmein manages to survive. Or there would still be s'Ahelas and s'Ilessid descendants on Dascen Elur perhaps one of them would do if a high king was still needed.
I should think Arithon himself (or perhaps he becomes known as someone else in the last book, bit suspicious of that) is going to survive till the end of the series, Davien seems to have set everything up for him. Every 500 years go for a trip through Kewar and then pay a certain fountain a visit. I doubt Davien is going to all this trouble to only come up with a temporary solution to the problem, he would expect Arithon to live for a very long time.
originally posted by Kirsten Laurelle Wallace
Annette, that was my take as well. I wonder if we'll be right or not. Janny almost always surprises me.
It was funny, going back and re-reading the first book, because I was reminded of my original assumptions. The first time I read CoftheMW I was certain Arithon was going to die at the end of the series, that Lysaer was going to rule and that his religion would still be around during the time of the sages and that it was the reason they were looking into the past for the truth. Guess my opinion was changed. I like that, that I was so wrong. Makes everything a lot more interesting.
originally posted by Konran
Janny, I just thought you should know that Amazon.com is listing IT's publication date as October 2010, not October 2011. D: Hopefully something can be done.
originally posted by Angela Bawden
haha! gotta love Amazon. 
BUT here's my theory…the entire fellowship of seven and the Koriani order both die out - either one has the ability to record history indefinately. So if somehow both of them were erased, then a search for the true history would then be needed. And since they are using sorcery to find that history then the Art would have to survive somehow. hehe! the possabilities are tantilizing!
And I'm glad the book is finally listed with a sale date.
I make a policy of buying books from physical stores so that bookstores will continue to exist - two of them closed down just this past year in my city, including Borders, which is really depressing! Now my only option is Barnes & Noble. *sigh*
Hi Angela Bawden, welcome here!
STATUS UPDATE: I have just gotten word from the USA distributor - the release IN THE USA will be in hardbound and trade paperback, slated for January 2012 - not what I'd hoped (definitely want to see the US and the British release be simultaneous, sigh). Well, at least we know what's coming.
The listing on Amazon should appear before too much longer, so pre-orders can be made once that happens.
originally posted by Clansman
That's a bit disappointing. I wonder what the rationale is behind completely missing the Christmas shopping season? Books are a huge item for putting under the tree, at least in my family.
Makes me inclined to order it for October from amazon.co.uk, but the shipping: ugh.
originally posted by Trys
Clansman,
The release date schedule from HarperCollins.co.uk:
UK: 27 October 2011
Canada: 01 December 2011
Australia: 01 November 2011
It's only the US release that is January.
Jeff
originally posted by Nicole Silvester
Hi guys,
For those of you in the states that want the book sooner, go to the book depository (www.book depository.com). It's a UK site, so Initiate's Trial is avail in October, and best yet there is free shipping to the US. There is actually free shipping to a large number of countries.
Hope that helps,
Nic.
originally posted by Annette
Thanks Nicole, will keep that in mind just in case the Australian date changes for the worse. Although it takes so long for anything to reach Australia the date would probably have to become as dire as the USA one to get it any earlier.
If Canada can get it ready by the 1st December do not see why the Americans should take longer. Perhaps all those disappointed American fans should write in and remind the USA publisher they want the book for Christmas, not the New Year.
originally posted by Jeff
I just received a notification from Amazon.com that Initiate's Trial is available for pre-order.
I have placed an order with an estimated delivery date of November 5.
originally posted by Theresa
Yay!
Though I have to wonder who wrote that blurb. In my opinion it's probably as bad as the original bad one. Definitely not the Author's Preferred or anything near it. Go Amazon! /sarcasm
originally posted by Annette
Amazon.uk does have the blurb Janny did for Initiate's Trial though. If you check in this forum Theresa you will find it, in the thread down the bottom. I preferred the first blurb, even though it was some what misleading, grabbed the attention and made us want to read the book without giving too much of the actual story away. The clue hunter in me really likes Janny's version though even if it does not read like the blurb to a blockbuster novel.
I know Initiate's Trial is going to be fantastic, I need no convincing.
Theresa - what would you write instead?
Just curious, when a reader thinks a blurb doesn't work - what could have been done to grab your interest (bearing in mind that I try not to spoil the major points, which can be very touchy at this stage…)
I will really be CURIOUS to see how you readers think the blurb should read AFTER you see the contents of the story!!! (You may have no clue, after all… )
originally posted by Sleo
Amazon in US is listing Oct 27 as release date! Wonder if this is a mistake or if the January 2012 date is wrong.