J'ai Lu have recently released Robert Silverbergs Legends II, entitled Légendes de la Fantasy, Tome 1. It contains the Short Story - The Messenger  by Raymond E. Feist, find out more under Short Stories.

Ray today announced on the Feistfans-l mailing list, the finalised title of the next book, and the first book of The Demonwar Saga

From: Raymond E. Feist
Date: 20 April 2008

The official title is now "Rides a Dread Legion."

Best, R.E.F.

We have added a page of Trivia about the books. For those curious enough to look, we hope that you may find it interesting, if not food for thought. It can be found under FAQ or Fact under Total Trivia.

The paperback of the US edition of Murder in LaMut co authored by Joel Rosenberg is due for release in June. We have just uploaded the cover which is slightly different from the trade paperback which was released last year. Find out more about the book here

Wrath of a Mad God's ratings for 7 April 2008

Amazon.com:

19th in the Science Fiction & Fantasy category.

Amazon.co.uk:

11th in the Science Fiction & Fantasy
78th in all categories

the.honoluluadvertiser.com lists Wrath of a Mad God by Raymond E. Feist at #7 in the Hawaii best-sellers Fiction category for the period March 27 to April 2 2008.

The list is a rotating compilation by local booksellers. This week: retail sales at Barnes & Noble, Kahala

Wrath of the Mad God will be listing in the Times Best Sellers List of 13th April 2008 at number 16. This is the first time one of Ray's books hase been on the list for a number of years.

We are pleased to announce that after discussions with Ray and HarperCollins, raymondfeistbooks.com has joined the crydee.com fold of websites.

There is a video interview with Raymond E. Feist at mondedulivre . The interview was recorded in the offices of Bragelonne on Friday, March 14 2008 during his recent trip to France for the Paris Expo.

Many thanks to Marc Varence for providing the link

We have posted the next exciting installment of Raymond E. Feist Talks. This is where Ray occasionally indulges himself  in holding forth on one topic or another, some having to do with the craft of writing, others just opinions on Life, the Universe, and Everything Else.

This time we have 'On The Subject of Politics and Characters', we hope you will enjoy.

Raymond E. Feist will be signing his book, Wrath of a Mad God, at Mysterious Galaxy Books, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302. San Diego, on Sunday, March 30th 2008, at 2:00 PM.

This is a numbered event. Numbers for the signing line are available with purchase of Wrath of a Mad God from Mysterious Galaxy.

Contact staff for furtehr details.

Now for its 5th week on the London Times Bestsellers list, Wrath of a Mad God is still doing well, though it has moved to #13.

Remember Hardcovers don't last in stores for ever, so grab a copy while you can.

We have added information on the Kindle format books to the eBooks section. Most titles from Prince of the Blood have been released.

Raymond E. Feist will be attending the 2008 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA on Sunday 27th April 2008.

Ray will be participating in PANEL 2011 at 10:00 AM
The Outer Limits: Horror & Science Fiction
with
Mr. Kevin J. Anderson
Mr. David Brin
Mr. Joe Hill
Moderated by Mr. Nick Owchar

Find out more about the event at the Los Angeles Times.

Please check for updates at the organisers website to avoid dissapointment if the event schedules change.

If you happen to be attending and take some photographs, please contact us as we would like to add them to the Photographs section of Crydee.

Raymond E. Feist's Wrath of a Mad God meets the London Times Bestseller list.

In its debut week of publication, (week begining 2 March 2008) it reached #9.

Subsequent weeks
9 March 08 #19 Week 2 ( UK Mothers Day),
16 March 08 #7 Week 3
23 March 08 #9 Week 4

Note: The list is anounced the Tuesday preceeding the Sunday of printing

We have added several photographs from the Paris Book Fair of 2008 kindly taken and provided by Ghislain Maury. They can be found amongst other events in the Photographs section, or go direct here.

Ray posted the following about the comic book adaptation to the Feistfans-l Mailing List

From: Raymond Feist
Date: 09 March 2008

OK, Marvel is publishing through issue 18, which will finish Apprentice.  We are talking about doing Master, which is all I can say right now.

Best, R.E.F.

Admin Note
So good news for all, we will see the end of apprentice, and maybe Master too

HarperCollins e-books & e-audio are giving away a free download of the Flight of the Nighthawks eBook by Raymond E. Feist, book one in the Darkwar Saga. It is available in Adobe, Microsoft and Mobipocket formats. There are restrictions as to who may apply. For more details see the website here

The offer is valid until April 30th 2008

We have uploaded information on the upcoming release of the Magician Apprentice Comic Book Volume 2. It can be found in the US section of Comic Books. Below you will see the two different covers that are being used

The UK hardback of Wrath of a Mad God is officially released today. It is believed this also applies to the Australian and New Zealand editions.

We have updated some of the covers for the books from Norway, you can find them under Publication Information.

Panini the German publisher of the comic adaptation of Magician Apprentice has just released the combined comic book adaptation of The Wood Boy, by Ray Feist and The Burning Man by Tad Williams you can find out more in Comic Books.

It has been reported that Wrath of a Mad God has been seen in some stores in Australia, so if you want a copy, nows your chance

Ray advised to the Feistfans-l Mailing list the titles of the upcoming books. Thes emay be subject to change though.

From: Raymond Feist
Date: 27 February 2008

The next one is running a bit late due to the move, but I expect to have it done soon.  It's the first in a new series, a two booker called The DemonWar Saga.  It's untitled right now, but I'm leaning towards Comes A Terrible Legion, but haven't quite fallen in love with that one yet. The second one is Return of the Demon King.  After that comes the ChaosWar Saga: A Kingdom Besieged, A Crown Imperiled, and Magician's End.

Then I take a vacation.

Best, R.E.F.

We have added information on Wrath of a Mad God in eBook format , due for release at the same time as the Hardcover. You can find out more in the eBooks section

We have updated the publication information for the books from Japan to include the second part of A Darkness at Sethanon, which is due next month. Part one was released at the beginning of this month

The UK Hardback of Wrath of a Mad god has already been seen in the wild. So you may be able to pick up a copy at your local store.

Many thanks go to Raymond E. Feist for taking the time to answer a few  questions we posed on writing and his latest book Wrath of a Mad God You an read the interview here

Raymond E. Feist indicated on the Feistfans-l Mailing list that he will be attending the Paris Expo which takes place 14-19 of March 2008.

To find out more anout the event, and who will be there, visit the organisers website .

Please check the exact days Ray will be present before you visit , this will avoid dissapointment. 

Following on from a question on the Feistfans-l mailing list today. as to how many books remain. Ray provided the following response.

Two more books in the DemonWar Saga, then three in the ChaosWar Saga.

So, from Magician to Magicians End (title of last book), 30 novels in The Riftwar Cycle.

Best,  R.E.F.

The important thing to note there is the title of the last book has been revealed 'Magician's End'
(Though I would suspect that untill it is released, there is still a chance it could change)

We have added two new covers for the French Faerie Tale. These are older covers from 1989 and 1991 that have only just been found. Find out more in the France section of Publication Information 

We have updated the Chinese cover art with higher definition images, if you would like to see them look for them under the Books menu.

The Turkish publisher has released Daughter of the Empire (İmparatorluğun Kızı ). It uses the Later Geoff Taylor art. You can find out more in the publication Information section under Books. If you want to purchase the book, check out the sources under Links

During the second half of last year Japan started to re-release the Riftwar Saga. We have uploaded the publication information and covers for you to see.

In the near 8 years of Crydee's existence we have seen continual growth in visitors.

For January 2008, a daily average of 8532 pages have been viewed by 1204 visitors.

We would like to thank those who visit Crydee for their patronage, and hope we will continue to provide the quality of imformation expected.

One last  little fact, over 2 million pages have been served in the last year.

We have updated many of the German cover art with higher definition images, if you would like to see them look for them under the Books menu

We have started to add book synopsis in languages other than English.

They are accessible from the normal Synopsis page which can be found under the Books menu.

We have updated the early Russian cover art with higher definition images, if you would like to see them look for them under the Books menu

The UK hardback of Wrath of a Mad God is in production, and on schedule for its release date

We have just added a picture for the Chinese version of Return to Krondor, in the Computer games section

The exhibition has been renamed entitiled "Fantasy and Wildlife Art". It will be held at the Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness between 2nd June 2009 to 30th August 2009

At present it is still un-known if any of the art used on Raymond E. Feist books will be present, as soon as we know we will post it here. Even if its not, this is still a great chance to see some of the Geoff's cover art in real life, where you will likely notice a lot of detail not seen in the covers.

'Damm förlag', formerly B. Wahlströms part of the Forma Publishing Group, have indicated that when they have completed the Conclave of the Shadows, they will be continuing on with the Darkwar Sage. So expect to see them in the not to distant future

I just received confirmation from Harper Collins US that the US printing of Wrath of a Mad God is on schedule for its March 25th 2008 release.

Assuming publication goes ahead as expected this will place the UK edition as the True First Edition, being released a couple of weeks earlier.