I’ve actually had a couple topics I wanted to talk about, but my desire to post anything online, here or elsewhere, waned dramatically this month. One of those topics had to do with Del Rey finally publishing mass market paperback editions of the last two books in Terry Brooks’ High Druid of Shannara trilogy. I [...]

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Here’s a smattering of what’s going on:

Got the logo for Eternal Warlords: Arena designed (see below)
Had the file system on the EWA server crash
Got caught up on Terry Brooks’ Shannara series (I’d been holding out for the mass market release of the last two books of the High Druid series)
Signed up for the 2008 Hood-to-Coast [...]

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I don’t normally participate in memes, but I’ve seen this one on quite a few author blogs and it’s definitely topical.
1. According to my mother, I came home after the first day of kindergarten, plopped down on the couch with a book, and started to cry after only a few moments of flipping through pages. [...]

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One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about Terry Brooks from his critics is that he borrowed liberally from Tolkien’s work. It’s not hard to see the similarities between certain characters and plot devices as I’m reading through Sword of Shannara.
Terry readily admits that Tolkien is his biggest influence. His sister gave him Lord of [...]

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I read an interview with Terry Brooks last week, done by his publisher Del Rey to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of The Sword of Shannara (back in 2002). The last question, and more importantly Terry’s answer, struck me the most:
DR: Okay, last question: the first two volumes in the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara [...]

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