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Patrick Rothfuss and Nathan Taylor team up on Patrick’s
first fantasy novel THE NAME OF THE WIND
When Patrick Rothfuss entered a
small portion of his first novel in the L. Ron Hubbard
Writers of the Future Contest under the title of The Road
to Levenshir, in 2001 he had no idea that it would lead
to the selling of his entire 3 novel universe to DAW books
4 years later.
Patrick Rothfuss has gained critical acclaim for his first
fantasy novel to hit the marketplace in March of this
year. The critics are raving. Here are just a few examples
of what is out there right now:
“The powerful debut novel
from fantasy’s next superstar. A high-action story
written with a poet’s hand, THE NAME OF THE WIND
is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the
body and mind of a wizard.” – Borders
“This fast-moving, vivid,
and unpretentious debut roots its coming-of-age fantasy
in convincing mythology.” – Polly Shulman,
Entertainment Weekly
"THE NAME OF THE WIND is the
mountaintop for fantasy work so far this year. All other
novels, especially first ones, will have an extremely
difficult time in finding a way out of the shadow of this
extraordinary tome. Rothfuss has sent up major flares
that will serve as a warning to the big names like Martin,
Goodkind and Jordan. Whether you are a reader of fantasy
or simply a lover of a great story, you owe it to yourself
to take up THE NAME OF THE WIND and spend some time with
brilliance." – Stephen Hubbard, Bookreporter.com
Since Patrick stepped out of the week long workshop which
is an intensive study of “how to write,” based
on several articles by L. Ron Hubbard and under the tutelage
of the contest judges, Patrick has been promoting Writers
of the Future, and the Illustrators of the Future contest
as well.
Patrick met an artist by the name
of Nathan Taylor at Washington State University right
about the time he entered the contest. They fast became
friends and Patrick then encouraged Nathan Taylor to enter
the Illustrators of the Future contest.
Nathan entered twice and his second
time around won the contest.
Patrick asked Nathan to draw the
map that appears in the beginning of THE NAME OF THE WIND.
The map assists readers to enter the universe that Patrick
has created.
So we now have our first COLLABORATION of writer and illustrator
winners from the contest.
We are sure this will not be the
last.
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