As seen on Tor.com!
“More Than 200 Fantasy Authors “Vandalized” Nicholas Eames’ Kings of the Wyld for Patrick Rothfuss’ Worldbuilders Charity.”
to be raffled off this DECEMBER, 2019
All proceeds to benefit Worldbuilders charity organization
What started out as a joke turned into this amazing project. A group of us were trying to get Nick Eames to come to an SFF conference, ConFusion, in January of 2019. When he said he couldn’t make it, we threatened to sign his books for him. Next thing we knew, everyone was signing a copy of Kings of the Wyld (with many taking credit for writing it!), and #KINGSGONEWYLD was born, (all credit to T. L. Greylock for coming up with the hashtag ;).
Flashforward through many cons and author get-togethers, and we have 217 signatures from many of the biggest names in SFF today, and now including bookplates from some folks we weren’t able to see in person. AND YOU COULD HAVE IT ALL! The book and bookplates will be raffled off all together by Worldbuilders during their big annual fundraising push that begins December 3, 2019. Updates and links will be posted as we progress.
Check out all the pics and the full list of authors below, and keep an eye on #KINGSGONEWYLD for your chance to win!
UPDATE: October 27, 2019: The book has been sent off to Worldbuilders, and the building of the #KINGSGONEWYLD team page on their site has begun! And now, in addition to the 217 signatures we already have, there are now signed and doodled bookplates from Josiah Bancroft, Myke Cole, Megan Haskell, Peter McLean, Matt Moss, Derek Siddoway, and M.L. Spencer. But there’s more! Bookplates are also on the way from John Gwynne, Mark Lawrence, Ed McDonald, Benedict Patrick, Anthony Ryan, Timandra Whitecastle, Evan Winter, and the man himself, Nicholas Eames!
UPDATE, September 10, 2019: Back from TitanCon/EuroCon Belfast and DragonCon—we now have 217 signatures! And not just signatures, but doodles, drawings, and wonderful snarky comments as well. Just a sample of some recently added: George R. R. Martin, Patricia Briggs, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Steven Erikson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Joe Abercrombie, Jody Lynn Nye, Joe Hill, Jim Butcher, Scott Lynch, and Kings of the Wyld editor Lindsey Hall. (See below for complete updated list and photos).
UPDATE, September 12, 2019: Wha?! Tor.com picked up on a post about #KINGSGONEWYLD on Reddit Fantasy and did an article on it! “More Than 200 Fantasy Authors “Vandalized” Nicholas Eames’ Kings of the Wyld for Patrick Rothfuss’ Worldbuilders Charity.”
UPDATE, August 22, 2019: 76 signatures added at SRFC London and WorldCon Dublin, for a total of 177!—and TitanCon/EuroCon Belfast begins today. Next stop after this, DragonCon! Updated author list and pics below—and this is just a sample of the many signed pages :)
UPDATE, July 24, 2019: We have 101 signatures! Pics below were taken today. Full list of authors farther down. Next stops: SRFC London, WorldCon Dublin, & TitanCon/EuroCon Belfast!
Special thanks to Taya Latham (T. L. Greylock), Phil Tucker, Kareem Mahfouz, Sadir S. Samir, Daniel Kelly, Davis Ashura, Bryce O’Connor, and Phil Exxon, Cherry Markham and the rest of the SRFC gang, for helping obtain signatures!
A sample of the many autographed pages
Full list of Author’s
1 Ben Aaronovitch 2 Joe Abercrombie 3 Michael Anderle 4 Kevin J. Anderson 5 Liz Argall 6 Dyrk Ashton 7 Davis Ashura 8 Graham Austin-King 9 R.J. Barker 10 Sara Dobie Bauer 11 James Beach 12 Daniel Bensen 13 Marie Bilodeau 14 Stephen Blackmoore 15 J.D. Blackrose 16 Jennifer Blackstream 17 Joseph Brassey 18 Jonathan Brazee 19 Chaz Brenchley 20 Peter V. Brett 21 Patricia Briggs 22 David Brin 23 Rhett C. Bruno 24 Jim Butcher 25 Christine Taylor Butler 26 Justin Call 27 Miles Cameron 28 Ramsey Campbell 29 M.R. (Mike) Carey 30 Christopher Carney 31 Gail Carriger 32 Melissa Caruso 33 S.A. Chakraborty 34 Dawn Chapman 35 Michael Chatfield 36 Mike Chen 37 Cinda Williams Chima 38 Luke Chmilenko 39 Paige Christie 40 John Chu 41 Wes Chu 42 A.C. Cobble 43 Ellen Datlow 44 Cory Doctorow 45 A.K. DuBoff 46 Anthony Eichenlaub 47 Shannon Eichorn 48 Eva L. Elasique 49 Steven Erikson 50 Laure Eve 51 Stacey Filak 52 Michael R. Fletcher 53 MacKenzie Flohr 54 Laura Frankos 55 Jonathan French 56 Sarah Gailey 57 Ben Galley 58 M. Todd Gallowglas 59 William Gibson 60 Jason Gilbert 61 Mel Gilden 62 Laura Ann Gilman 63 Heide Goody 64 Stephan Granade 65 Iain Grant 66 Jason T. Graves 67 Simon R. Green 68 Taya (T.L.) Greylock 69 J.L. Gribble 70 Joe Haldeman 71 Lindsey Hall (KoW editor) 72 Duncan Hamilton 73 Alwyn Hamilton 74 Gareth Hanrahan 75 John Hartness 76 Sam Hawke 77 Rob J. Hayes 78 Sean Patrick Hazlett 79 K.M. Herkes 80 Joe Hill 81 Stark Holborn 82 Miranda Honfleur 83 Stuart Hotston 84 Lucy Hounsom 85 Jonathan L. Howard 86 Keith Hughes 87 Laura M. Hughes 88 Chris Humphreys 89 James A. Hunter 90 Kameron Hurley 91 Alec Hutson 92 Kevin Ikenberry 93 Chris A. Jackson 94 Cameron Johnston 95 J.C. Kang 96 Daniel Kelly 97 J. Gregory Keyes 98 Jeffrey Kohanek 99 Mary Robinette Kowal 100 Dakota Krout 101 R.F. Kuang 102 Derek Künsken 103 Shemer Kuznits 104 Mur Lafferty 105 A.K. Larkwood 106 Nick Larter 107 David D. Levine 108 Henry Lien 109 Kjell Lindgren 110 Todd Lockwood 111 Marin Lostetter 112 Scott Lynch 113 Mike Lyons 114 Megan Mackie 115 Devin Madson 116 Kareem Mahfouz 117 Craig Martelle 118 George R. R. Martin 119 Larry Martin 120 Gail Z. Martin 121 Taran Matharu 122 Josef Matulich 123 Amy McCulloch 124 Ian McDonald 125 Chelsea Meuller 126 Michael R. Miller 127 Juliana Spink Mills 128 Brian M. Milton 129 David Thomas Moore 130 Cassandra Morgan 131 J.D. Moyer 132 T.O. Munro 133 Dominick Murray 134 Bobby Nash 135 Emma Newman 136 Jeannette Ng 137 Larry Niven 138 G. David Nordley 139 Jody Lynn Nye 140 Bryce O'Connor 141 Megan E. O'Keefe 142 Quenby Olson 143 Melissa F. Olson 144 Mark Oshiro 145 Martin Owton 146 David Thourson Palmer 147 Ada Palmer 148 Den Patrick 149 Andy Peloquin 150 K.K. Pérez 151 Sarah Pinsker 152 Daniel Potter 153 Gareth L. Powell 154 Lettie Prell 155 Cat Rambo 156 Zandra Renwick 157 Rebecca Roanhorse 158 Patrick Rothfuss 159 Dianna Rowlands 160 Steve Saffel 161 Brandon Sanderson 162 John Scalzi 163 Lawrence Schoen 164 Ken Schrader 165 Luke Scull 166 Adrian Selby 167 Mike Shel 168 Peng Shepherd 169 Scott Sigler 170 Rosemary Claire Smith 171 Gavin Smith 172 James Smythe 173 Lucy A. Snyder 174 Anna Smith Spark 175 Shawn Speakman 176 Michael A. Stackpole 177 Jason Stanford 178 Mark Stay 179 Ferrett Steinmetz 180 Anna Stephens 181 Glynn Stewart 182 Charles Stross 183 Michael J. Sullivan 184 Tasha Suri 185 James Sutter 186 Shanna Swendson 187 Jeremy Szal 188 Bryan Talbot 189 Mary Talbot 190 Howard Taylor 191 Adrian Tchaikovsky 192 Patrick Tomlinson 193 Mark Tompkins 194 Tom Toner 195 Tracy Townsend 196 William C. Tracy 197 Phil Tucker 198 Cadwell Turnbull 199 Harry Turtledove 200 Michael Underwood 201 Carrie Vaughn 202 K.S. Villoso 203 R.R. Virdi 204 Alicia Wanstall-Burke 205 R.B. Watkinson 206 Angus Watson 207 Dan Wells 208 Will Wight 209 Yudhanjaya Wijerate 210 Fran Wilde 211 Gray Williams 212 Phil Williams 213 Walter Jon Williams 214 John Winkleman 215 James Worrad 216 David Wragg 217 Jo Zebedee 218 Joe Zieja
bookplates
BOOKPLATE AUTHORS
Peter McLean, Josiah Bancroft, Derek Siddoway, Megan Haskell, M.L. Spencer, Myke Cole, and Matt Moss, with more to come from John Gwynne, Mark Lawrence, Ed McDonald, Benedict Patrick, Anthony Ryan, Timandra Whitecastle, Evan Winter, and the man himself, Nicholas Eames!