New Book and Series Titles! for Terry Brooks

Subject: New Book and Series Titles! for Terry Brooks Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:04 am

Quote :: New Book and Series Titles!

Del Rey and Terry have decided on the final titles of the next book/series.

The next book will be called Bearers of the Black Staff, Book One of the Legends of Shannara duology.

Bearers of the Black Staff takes place 500 years after the events in The Gypsy Morph, where the descendants of the valley survivors are finally confronted with the outside world and its multitude of dangers. The book is written and edited and is as we speak with the production editing team at Del Rey. Artwork has just been commissioned and after several months hopefully we'll have something to show you.

Terry is as we speak writing the second book in the duology. It has a tentative title I cannot yet reveal but I think it matches up nicely with the first one. Terry hopes to be finished with the second book by April or May 2010. More about this will be revealed in the 2009 Holiday Letter, to be released soon.

As you have probably surmised, the Genesis of Shannara series is complete at three books. Legends of Shannara will push the pre-First King of Shannara novels forward. There will be at least one or two more series after Legends that will bring the timeline up to Galaphile and the First Druid Council. We'll have to wait and see how Terry does it.

In the meantime, I think you all are going to enjoy Bearers of the Black Staff! And in a month, around the New Year, Terry and I will be giving you all a fun gift. Get ready!

Source: http://terrybrooks.net/archive/index.html

I am very much looking forward to this Duology!