Whilst not quite news to some, I am incredibly proud to announce one of our upcoming productions, the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb!!
This is without doubt one of the most phenomenal fantasy series of all time, and Hobb has been lauded for her sophisticated storytelling and the machinations of royal families. Published between 1995 and 1997, by 2018 over 4 million copies have been sold and it has been translated into 22 different languages.
We are very early on in the process and my original plan was to announce this towards the end of the year, but sometimes these announcements don’t go completely to plan!
The plan is to publish each of the three books individually, starting with the “Assassin’s Apprentice” in 2025, and the following two in the following years. Taking up the mantle of illustrating Assassin’s Apprentice is the wonderful Lixin Yin!
Lixin Yin is an incredible painter and operates digitally and has a background that spans movies, games and books. Our reason for going with Lixin Yin is due to his incredible portraiture work. Lixin is a master at capturing the emotion and mood of characters and due to depth of Hobb’s protagonists we thought this a great match for the series.
Our current plan is to have 10 colour paintings by Lixin produced for Assassin’s Apprentice, with an exclusive dustjacket for the Standard Edition.
We will be producing the following tiers and numbers :
Lettered Edition – 26 copies
Deluxe Edition – 250 copies
Standard Edition – 750 copies
