In the second installment of Assassin's Apprentice, Fitz is given a mission to infiltrate a nobleman's estate for signs of treason, the kingdom is plagued by Red-Ship Raiders, and the fate of the realm hinges on Fitz's choices. Tensions rise, and a determined stranger's arrival adds to the uncertainty. When King Shrewd decides that Fitz must learn The Skill, the harsh training of the Skillmaster Galen will bring Fritz to a breaking point. Fitz's journey of resilience and self-doubt takes an emotional toll, while Burrich and Molly offer support.
Dark Horse Comics is proud to present part 2 of Robin Hobb's
Assassin's Apprentice!
Collects
Assassin's Apprentice II #1-#6.
Author: Jody Houser, Robin Hobb
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781506728988
About the Author
Jody Houser decided she wanted to be a writer when she was eight years old and never looked back. For better or worse, no one ever suggested that she stop. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston, where she completed her master's thesis in screenwriting and was a winner of the Rod Parker Fellowship for Playwriting.
Starting in 2006, Jody began experimenting with webcomics. She is the creator behind the webcomic
Cupcake POW!, which launched in 2010 and is currently available on comiXology Submit.
Jody has written
Faith for Valiant Comics,
Max Ride: Ultimate Flight and
Agent May for Marvel, and
Orphan Black for IDW. She has been a contributing writer to numerous comic anthologies including
Avengers: No More Bullying,
Vertigo CMYK: Magenta, and both
Womanthology series.
Robin Hobb is a New York Times best-selling fantasy author. She is published in English in the US, UK and Australia, and her works have been widely translated. Her short stories have been finalists for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, as well as winning the Asimov's Readers Award. Her best known series is
The Farseer Trilogy (
Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and
Assassin's Quest.)
Robin Hobb was born in Oakland California, but grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska. She has spent her life mostly in the Pacific Nortwest region of the US, and currently resides in Tacoma, Washington State, with her husband Fred. They have four grown offspring, and six grandchildren.
Robin Hobb is a pen name for Margaret Ogden. She has also written under the name Megan Lindholm.
She published her first short story for children when she was 18, and for some years wrote as a journalist and children's writer. Her stories for children were published in magazines such as
Humpty Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children,
Jack & Jill and
Highlights for Children. She also created educational reading material for children for a programmed reading series by SRA (Science Research Associates.) She received a grant award from the Alaska State Council on the arts for her short story "The Poaching", published in
Finding Our Boundaries in 1980.
Fantasy and Science Fiction had always been her two favorite genres, and in the late 70's she began to write in them. Her initial works were published in small press 'fanzines' such as
Space and Time (editor Gordon Linzner). Her first professionally published story was "Bones for Dulath" that appeared in the Ace anthology
AMAZONS!, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson in 1979. A short time later, a second Ki and Vandien story entitled
The Small One was published in
FANTASTIC in 1980.
During that time period, she and her family had moved from Alaska to Hawaii, and subsequently to Washington State, where they settled. She had various money making occupations (waitress, salesperson, etc.) while striving with her writing. Her husband Fred continued to fish Alaskan waters and was home only about 3 months out of every year. The family lived on a small farm in rural Roy where they raised lots of vegetables, chickens, ducks, geese and other small livestock.
In 1983, her first novel,
Harpy's Flight, was published by Ace under the pen name Megan Lindholm. Her later titles under that name included
Wizard of the Pigeons,
Alien Earth,
Luck of the Wheels, and
Cloven Hooves.
In 1995, she launched her best selling series of books set in the Realm of the Elderlings. At that time, she began writing as Robin Hobb. Her first trilogy of books were about her popular characters, FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool. The Farseer Trilogy is comprised of
Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin and
Assassin's Quest. These books were followed by
The Liveship Traders trilogy, set in the same world. The
Tawny Man trilogy returned to the tale of Fitz and the Fool. Most recently, the four volumes of the
Rain Wilds Chronicles were published:
Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons and
Blood of Dragons.
In 2013, it was announced that she would return to her best-loved characters with a new trilogy,
The Fitz and the Fool trilogy. The first volume,
Fool's Assassin, will be published in August of 2014.
Other works as Robin Hobb include
The Soldier Son trilogy and short stories published in various anthologies. A collection of her shorter works as both Lindholm and Hobb is available in
The Inheritance.
She continues to reside in Tacoma, Washington, with frequent visits to the pocket farm in Roy.
