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Hey everyone! It’s time to announce the results of last week’s Warded Wednesday.

Once again, the selection was random. This week’s winner got points for giving a reason for their choice:

My favourite ward would have to be the Flame Demon ward. To me, it appears to dance and shimmer with heat and tongues of fire.

Congratulations, Jono! We’ll be contacting you shortly about your prize.

Check out some of the other entries we got!

My favourite ward would have to be ‘Light’. Visually it looks similar to the Japanese hiragana character ?. It is the phonetic character ‘o’ and can be defined as ‘Honourable’. I think that the visual relationship between the Japanese character and the ‘Light’ ward to be more than coincidental as honour is frequently represented by light. -Ben

Gotta go with Pressure. I like how calligraphy-like it is and the way it gets used in the series just really cements who Arlen is and what he does. -Justin

Visually my favourite ward is the Wind Demon Ward. It looks like a giant dragon-like creature beating its wings to stand in mid-air, tail extended towards the ground. Also (I don’t know why) it looks purple to me, like the night and there is something terrifyingly majestic about it. -FP

Thanks so much to everyone who sent in their submissions! Our next Warded Wednesday is TOMORROW, so if you have any suggestions for future Warded Wednesday questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below.

Badali’s sale on Demon Cycle jewelry ends on Saturday. You can check that out here!

Posted on April 26, 2016 at 8:00 am by Hannah
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Posted by Karen

Hey everyone! On Peat’s German Tour, he did a bunch of interviews. One of them was with the awesome people at SF-Fantasy.de who recorded it in podcast form! Volker spearheaded the interview and did an absolutely amazing job.

You can find the whole interview here along with dual-language introduction text and a German synopsis. I’m listening to it right now and the quality (both sound and questions) are really good.

There’s only a few days left to take advantage of Badali’s April sale on Demon Cycle Jewelry. You can check that out here!

Posted on April 25, 2016 at 8:00 am by Hannah
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Posted by Karen

Hey everyone! The Dream Covers Exhibition is just what it sounds like. And it is AWESOME. Here’s how it’s going down…

Lauren Panepinto is curating a gallery show where famous professional artists paint their “Dream Covers”. They pick beloved novels and re-imagine covers for them. Artist Allen Williams (who, among other things, designs Kaiju for Pacific Rim) chose to do Warded Man.

Peat dragged Myke Cole to see it while they were in town for Emerald City ComiCon and it was seriously amazing:

Thanks so much to Lauren for putting this all together. We’d also like to give a special shoutout to Julie Baroh and the rest of the Krab Jab Crew for their help in making it happen!

Dream Covers a must-see show. If you’re in Seattle, it’s definitely worth checking out.

Featured artists include: Marc Scheff, Tran Nguyen, Rebecca Yanovskaya, Jeremy Wilson, Laurie Lee Brom, Brom, Wylie Beckert, Dan Dos Santos, Dave Palumbo, Scott Fischer, Allen Williams, Chris Buzelli, Rovina Cai, Vanessa Lemen, Winona Nelson, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, Anthony Palumbo, and Kimberly Kincaid.

The Dream Covers Exhibit runs from April 9th to May 7th. For more information, visit their official website.

Demon Cycle jewelry is on sale for the rest of April. You can check it out here!

Posted on April 22, 2016 at 8:00 am by Hannah
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Posted by Karen

Hey everyone! A little while ago we were contacted by Vujica Ognjenovi. He wanted to do an interview about how literature helps to deal with fear and we were more than happy to oblige. On March 5, the interview was published by the Croatian newspaper Vijesti.

You can find the whole interview on Vijesti’s website.

We’ve got two shoutouts this time. One goes to Vujica for reaching out to us and writing the questions, the other to Vijesti for publishing it.

This is seriously awesome and we’re grateful to everyone who made this possible, so from all of us involved with The Demon Cycle world—Thanks.

You can get your copy of The Warded Man here!

Posted on April 21, 2016 at 8:00 am by Hannah
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Posted by Karen

Hey everyone! You know how this goes.

Today we’re asking you to think about all the different wards in the Demon Cycle world. There are a bunch of different types and each one serves a different purpose.

The question for this week’s giveaway is:

What’s your favorite ward?

This can be the look, the function, or anything else. Bonus points for letting us know your reasons. For a full list of wards, check out the Ward Grimoire.

The prize for this giveaway is a Warded Man trade paperback!

This giveaway book was provided by our friends at Del Rey. The Warded Man is where everything begins. If you’d like a copy signed by Peat himself, go ahead and enter.

Remember, we can only pick your comment if you respond to our post on the blog. We’re looking forward to your answers.

Giveaway answers will be accepted until Monday. The winner will be announced Tuesday.

You can get your copy of The Skull Throne here!

Posted on April 20, 2016 at 8:00 am by Hannah
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