Background
Brent Weeks was born in Montana on March 7, 1977.
2012
Subterranean Press Special Guest at ConFusion.
2012
Brent and Kristi Weeks, John and Valerie Ottinger at book signing in Orlando.
2012
Brent signing The Black Prism
2019
Brent Weeks is an American author who is known for his amazing fantasy stories.
Orlando, Florida, United States
Brent Weeks signing The Black Prism for fans in Orlando.
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States
Weeks graduated from Hillsdale College with a degree in English.
(The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durz...)
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Shadows-Book-Night-Angel-ebook/dp/B002TXZRPE/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(In the wake of the Godking's violent coup, both his maste...)
In the wake of the Godking's violent coup, both his master and his closest friend are dead. His friend was Logan Gyre, heir to Cenaria's throne, but few of the ruling class survive to mourn his loss. So Kylar is starting over: new city, new companions, and new profession. But when he learns that Logan might be alive, trapped and in hiding, Kylar faces an impossible choice. He could give up the way of shadows forever, and find peace with his young family. Or Kylar could succumb to his flair for destruction, the years of training, to save his friend and his country - and lose all he holds precious.
https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Edge-Night-Angel-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B002TZ3FG0/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(A new queen has usurped the throne and is leading Cenaria...)
A new queen has usurped the throne and is leading Cenaria into disaster. The country has become a broken realm with a threadbare army, little food, and no hope. Kylar Stern plans to reinstate his closest friend Logan as King, but can he really get away with murder? In the north, the Godking's death has thrown Khalidor into civil war. To gain the upper hand, one faction attempts to raise the goddess Khali herself. But they are playing with volatile powers, and trigger conflict on a vast scale. Seven armies will converge to save - or destroy - an entire continent. Kylar has finally learnt the bitter cost of immortality, and is faced with a task only he can complete.
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Shadows-Night-Angel-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B002TZ3DY4/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. H...)
Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Prism-Book-Lightbringer-ebook/dp/B0041G6RR4/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left...)
Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left - now he's got less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin's got problems on every side. As he loses control, the world's magic runs wild, threatening to destroy the Seven Satrapies. The old gods are being reborn and their army of colour wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole sixteen years ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Blinding-Knife-Book-Lightbringer-ebook/dp/B008H33TXC/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chrome...)
As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who might still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world. But Gavin Guile has been captured by an old enemy and enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse still, Gavin has lost more than his powers as Prism - he can't use magic at all. Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will face a master of shadows as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power. With Teia and Karris, Kip will have to use all his wits to survive a secret war between noble houses, religious factions, rebels and an ascendant order of hidden assassins called The Broken Eye.
https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Eye-Book-Lightbringer-ebook/dp/B00GFHG33A/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Stripped of both magical and political power, the people ...)
Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape. But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen - and only he can save it. As the armies of the White King defeat the Chromeria and old gods are born anew, the fate of worlds will come down to one question: Who is the Lightbringer?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478943459/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromer...)
As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the darkest hour, will the Lightbringer come?
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-White-Book-Five-Lightbringer-ebook/dp/B07QYV569Q/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Brent Weeks was born in Montana on March 7, 1977.
Weeks graduated from Hillsdale College with a degree in English.
After getting his paper keys from Hillsdale College, Brent had brief stints walking the earth like Caine from Kung Fu, tending bar. He started writing on bar napkins, then on lesson plans, then full time. Weeks's first work, The Night Angel Trilogy, was published by Orbit Books. The trilogy centers on the orphan Azoth, who becomes a professional wetboy after training with the fabled wetboy Durzo Blint. Night Angel garnered success by making the New York Time's bestseller list. It has seen multiple printings and been translated in numerous languages.
The first book in his Lightbringer Series was released in 2010. It was originally intended to be a trilogy, but his publishers announced in 2012 that it would span four books, the third of which was released in August 2014. The fifth book in the series, The Burning White, has been announced for a Fall 2019 release.
Weeks lives and works in Oregon.
(Stripped of both magical and political power, the people ...)
2016(As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromer...)
2019(As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chrome...)
2014(In the wake of the Godking's violent coup, both his maste...)
2008(A new queen has usurped the throne and is leading Cenaria...)
2008(Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. H...)
2010(The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durz...)
2008(Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left...)
2012"Fantasy is my first love, but like most writers my reading habits are fairly promiscuous. I love reading history because it breaks you free of some of your own culture’s preconceptions while staying within the bounds of human psychology. If you read something totally outlandish in a fantasy novel, you think, meh, whatever. If you read something totally outlandish in history, you think, how did that happen? How did people accept that? It’s also fun because you find places where other novelists have "borrowed". I was reading about the Borgias in 16th century Italy and it slapped me in the face - Pope Alexander VII was The Godfather, complete with dysfunctional kids. I checked into it, and Mario Puzo readily admits it. I also dabble with mysteries and whatever’s on the best-seller rack, and I’m a recovering literature major."
Quotations:
"I take my inspiration for much of my writing from the same great font that many writers through the ages have taken: that is, the need for food and shelter. Seriously, though, writing is just what I do. It is passion and purpose and paycheck all together. Coming up with ideas, filtering them, screening out the ones that are bad or simply don’t fit me as a writer, gleaning new ideas from everything I read and extraordinary people I meet, or beautiful or ugly life moments I experience – that’s just what I do. That’s simply my shape as a human being. I don’t want to make it sound mystical, but the question tends to flabbergast writers who have come up with hundreds of ways to counter the question, but I think tend to experience life as I do: we ask not “Where do you get your ideas?” but “How could you experience life and not want to make art in response?”
"It’s important to me that every character comes across as honest and vibrant. And I think the very best characters are capable of growth and change, albeit not always in a positive direction. And sometimes our world and our choices can change us positively and negatively at the exact same time."
Brent and his wife Kristi live in Oregon with their two daughters.