Artist Alley #06
Robin Hobb is a fantasy novelist residing in Washington State. She is best known for her work in the Realms of the Elderlings, a series of trilogies that began with The Farseer Trilogy and concluded with The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy. The final volume, Assassin’s Fate, was published in May, 2017. From 2023 to 2024, Dark Horse Comic began to adapt Assassin’s Apprentice to comic books and graphic novel format. Jodie Houser is the writer doing a wonderful job of scripting the work. The Dark Horse team includes artist Ryan Kelly, Colorist Jodie Bellaire and Anna Steinbauer doing cover art.
In 2015, Fool’s Assassin won the Dutch Hebben Award, a reader-voted prize, for best translated work. (Translator: Ruud Ball) Her works have been translated into over 20 foreign languages. In 2015, her works were translated into Spanish and Portuguese for the Mexico and South American markets. She is a best-selling author in the UK, Australia, France and the Netherlands as well as in the US. Both The Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders trilogy are available in France as graphic novels from Soleil. Projects in 2018 included a Farseer coloring book to be published by the Dabel Brothers Productions.
In 2017, San Diego Comic Con awarded her an Inkpot award for her works.
She also writes both fantasy and a bit of science fiction as Megan Lindholm. Her best known work as Lindholm is The Wizard of the Pigeons. Her short works have been finalists for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards.
Robin Hobb does most of her writing from a small farm in Roy, Washington, where she also raises chickens, ducks, geese and vegetables. Robin and her husband Fred have been married for over 40 years, and share four grown offspring and seven grand-children.
