Dragons of a Vanished Moon Novel by Acclaimed Authors Weis and Hickman is Finale to Their Best-selling War of Souls Trilogy

Business Wire, May 31, 2002

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Pivotal Dragonlance Novel Alters the Largest Fantasy Series Ever

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14-City Author Tour Kicks off June 20

Best-selling author team Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman shoot for the moon with Dragons of a Vanished Moon: War of Souls, Volume III, their highly anticipated novel collaboration that fans will find on bookshelves in hardcover nationwide June 18 (MSRP $27.95).

The new book is the most recent installment to the largest fantasy world ever created and follows more than 100 predecessors in the 18 years chronicling the Dragonlance fantasy series, and will be a critical release for all Dragonlance fans.

Dragons of a Vanished Moon is the stirring climax to the best-selling War of Souls trilogy that saw both prequels, Dragons of a Fallen Sun and Dragons of a Lost Star, on the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal best-seller lists. Dragons of a Vanished Moon transforms entire areas of the Dragonlance setting and brings the world-shaking War of Souls epic to a close. The thrilling conclusion introduces fans to new heroes that band together to battle a remarkable Joan of Arc-like villainess and her army of the dead.

A national author tour and publicity campaign is scheduled to kick off June 20 near Miami to support this much-anticipated release and will include media interviews and book-signing appearances by the authors in 14 cities by July 11.

Scheduled tour stops:

Thursday, June 20 (Weis only)         Borders Books and Music
                                      19925 Biscayne Boulevard
                                      Aventura, Fla. (Miami area)
                                      7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Friday, June 21 (Weis only)           Books-A-Million
                                      (Orange Park Mall)
                                      1910 Wells Road, Space C-25A
                                      Orange Park, Fla.
                                      (Jacksonville area)
                                      12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

                                      Borders Books and Music
                                      600 North Orlando Avenue
                                      Winter Park, Fla. (Orlando area)
                                      7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 22 (Weis only)         Borders Books and Music
                                      650 Ponce de Leon
                                      Atlanta, Ga.
                                      4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 23 (Weis only)           Borders Books and Music
                                      3637 Peachtree Road NE, Suite C
                                      Atlanta, Ga.
                                      2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

                                      Books-A-Million
                                      150 Pearl Nix Parkway, Space D-9
                                      Gainesville, Ga.
                                      6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Monday, June 24 (Weis and Hickman)    Quail Ridge Books
                                      3522 Wade Avenue
                                      Raleigh, N.C.
                                      7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, June 25 (Weis and Hickman)   Little Professor
                                      4139 Park Road
                                      Charlotte, N.C.
                                      7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Wednesday, June 26 (Weis and Hickman) Davis-Kidd (Joseph-Beth)
                                      387 Perkins Road Extended
                                      Memphis, Tenn.
                                      6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 27 (Weis only)         That Bookstore in Blytheville
                                      316 West Main
                                      Blytheville, Ark.
                                      5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 29 (Weis only)         Borders Books & Music
                                      3131 Veterans Memorial Boulevard
                                      Metarie, La. (near New Orleans)
                                      2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 30 (Weis only)           Barnes & Noble (Summit Store)
                                      4100 Summit Plaza Drive
                                      Louisville, Ky.
                                      2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Monday, July 1 (Weis only)            Joseph-Beth
                                      161 Lexington Green Circle
                                      Lexington, Ky.
                                      7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 11 (Hickman only)      Borders Books and Music
                                      2190 North Rainbow Boulevard
                                      Rainbow, Nev. (near Las Vegas)
                                      6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.