The Guild Wars Novel

Posted on 09:22, April 14th, 2009 by Matt Forbeck

I’ve been officially cleared to announce that the novel I’m currently working on is Guild Wars: Fall of Ascalon, to be published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. It’s a tie-in novel based upon the hit MMORPG Guild Wars. As ArenaNet (the game’s developers) mentioned last year at PAX, the novel focuses on the time period between the original Guild Wars games and the upcoming sequel Guild Wars 2.

I’ve been working closely with the crew at ArenaNet on this book, and they’ve been a real delight. They count a number of excellent novelists among their staff, so they grok how a novel works and how to best braid it into the ongoing development of the computer game.

I can’t say much more about the book at this stage. However, I can report that the information about the book that you can find on some bookstore websites—like the page count, release date, and so on—seems to be placeholder material taken from the ISBN (book code) database. Don’t trust any of it yet.

More news when I can tell it.

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8 Responses to “The Guild Wars Novel”

Eleri on April 14th, 2009 at 11:29 am

Congrats! I’m really looking forward to it, and I’m hoping that there will be more GW books. I’ve always thought there was more backstory there than they let on.

The Alliterates » Advanced Book Announcement on April 16th, 2009 at 1:29 am

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Alan on September 5th, 2009 at 3:50 am

I’m really excited. I’m a great fan of Guild Wars lore and can’t wait for this to add on to the storyline. Hoping to be able to get it the day of release.

Simon on September 15th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Huge fan of guild wars. Would love a set of completed books but only if Galrath is in it (lol). “Anyone looking for me I’ll be up in the wizard’s tower.”–last words of Saul D’Alessio.

lance on December 9th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

hey awesome will it be released as an ebook?

Matt Forbeck on December 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

I don’t know for sure. That will be up to the publisher. I sure hope to see it in that format though.

Conner on January 4th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

Cant wait. Has any more info about a release date been annouced?
Matt Forbeck on January 4th, 2010 at 1:30 pm

Nothing official yet. When there’s something I can say, I will.