Tower of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows was a big deal for us. Never before in the Song of Ice and Fire community – or, just perhaps, in any fan community of any media property – had the leading
voices from several different publications banded together to create an
in-depth, thought-provoking, but nonetheless fun product, independent of any
major publisher.
This last point is
very important. The publisher of the
ebook, Blue Buddha Press, is essentially run out of editor Marc N. Kleinhenz’s
basement. No media consultants were
consulted. No marketing blitzes were
orchestrated. Hell, not even a dime was
spent on advertising – not a single dime.
In a time when the independents aren’t independent anymore, we’re
ultra-indie.
To celebrate this unquestionable
success over these past six months and to also satiate the near-constant demand
from readers, we’re very happy to announce a special, print edition of the book.
Call it A Flight of Sorrows:
Collector’s Edition.
What makes it so
special? Well, beyond being able to
finally hold a physical copy in your sweaty little hands, we’re packing it full
of additional content that, we feel, makes the second read-through worthwhile. Even better, all this extra stuff will be
exclusive to the Collector’s Edition
– you’ll never see it published anywhere else, on the net or on your Kindle,
for the rest of eternity. Knight’s
honor.
These extra treats
include:
·
Brand-new, full-length essays that delve even further into the
nitty-gritty details of George R.R. Martin’s spectacular world, written by
several of the original authors
·
A behind-the-scenes walkthrough of A Flight of Sorrows’s genesis,
production, and release, narrated by editor Marc N. Kleinhenz
·
New special guest appearances by other big
names from Ice and Fire fandom, which
just may include a surprise or two
What truly makes
this a collector’s edition, however, is the simple fact that it’s going to have
a limited run – a very, very limited
run. Tower
of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows – Collector’s Edition will be made
available on October 1st,
2013, and it will be discontinued on November
1st, 2013 for the rest of time.
No go-backs or redos, no second printings or double-dippings (or would
that be triple-dippings?)… although we may have a contest here and there to
extend the window of availability by a day or two.
Of course, a
birthday celebration – even a half-year one – is all the more fun when more
people cram their way in, so we at the Tower are even happier to make one final
announcement: also due to an
oft-repeated request, we’ll be coming back for a second outing at this whole
ebook thing. In order to live up to the
pretty high bar we’ve already set for ourselves, we’ll be changing up our
lineup of authors, cramming even more content between the digital covers, and
elsewise be having the biggest nerdfest you can possibly imagine this side of
Oldtown (we are particularly excited to be delving into and dissecting George’s
upcoming novella, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here).
Called Tower
of the Hand: A Hymn for Spring, it’ll be released on June 19th, 2014. Who will be in it? Well, we don’t want to put all of our cards
on the table just yet, but we can tell you that Marc N. Kleinhenz will be returning as editor, Amin Javadi of A Podcast of Ice and Fire infamy will be returning
as an author, and Steven Attewell
from Race for the Iron Throne will be joining us as the first of our brand-new
contributors.
We’re already immensely
proud of the material that is starting to shape up, and we can’t wait to share
more of it with you all as the months slowly tick by…
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