Folks, you're going to see this all over the place and normally I don't post a lot of promotional stuff, but I've been digging on Brandon Sanderson since Elantris and it isn't a stretch to say that Sanderson is THE breakout writer of high fantasy today. Where Sanderson is reaching a much wider audience than anyone (including Sanderson himself) could have ever imagined is through picking up the torch from Robert Jordan and finishing The Wheel of Time. His own work, though, continues to improve and impress.
The Way of Kings is the first volume in a proposed ten volume series titled The Stormlight Archive.
There are novels I am as excited about coming out in the next two years, but The Way of Kings certainly is up near the top of the list.
I'm writing this last night (time travel!), but go to Tor.com right now.
Now.
Go.
If that link works, what you are looking at is a three chapter excerpt from The Way of Kings.
If the link doesn't work, it's because I messed up and you will want to use this link and I expect you'll be able to find the excerpt on your own. I believe in you.
Meanwhile, and this is the other thing you will find on a host of other blogs, Tor has graciously allowed blog type folks to post the prelude to The Way of Kings.
So, enjoy. I'm really freaking excited about this book.
(click on the post title to expand and get the prelude)