New cover art from Sanderson & Abercrombie

Tor have revealed the American cover art for Shadows of Self, the fifth Mistborn novel from Brandon Sanderson and the second of four books featuring the characters of Wax and Wayne. The book will be out in October this year and will rapidly be followed by its sequel, Bands of Morning, in January 2016.

Meanwhile, Del Rey have unveiled the American cover for Half a War, the concluding volume of The Shattered Sea Trilogy. This book will be out on 16 July in the UK and 28 July in the USA and concludes the story begun in Half a King and Half the World.

No word yet on if Abercrombie and Sanderson will ever collaborate on a novel, possibly one where swearing forms the basis for an imaginative magic system.

Two new MISTBORN novels signed

Tor Books have announced that they have signed two new Mistborn novels from Brandon Sanderson. These two books will continue the adventures of Wax and Wayne, who first appeared in The Alloy of Law.

The first of the new books, Shadows of Self, is already partially written and will be published at the end of 2014, with the third book following a year later. Sanderson will continue to write Stormlight Archive novels in the meantime, with the second, Words of Radiance, due to come out in March 2014. Whilst the new Mistborn books will be somewhat self-contained, they will foreshadow the second proper Mistborn trilogy which will be set 75 years after the events of the Wax and Wayne books.