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I never know where to put news about authors that doesn't really fit anywhere else, so I figured we may as well have thread for news about anyone who might be of interest to us.

This was prompted by a moderately sad post by Terry Brooks coming out of ECCM (Emerald City Comic Con). In short he's stepping back from his writing as at the age of 81 he's come to realize that his stamina, endurance, and faculties are starting to fail him and he's realized that he would not be able to keep up his pace (and I would hope that he'd just want to spend his time with his wife, kids, and grandkids at such an age). So he's stepping back, and has handed the reins of Shannara to another author who will handle the writing, and he will step back to an advisory capacity. That writer is Delilah S. Dawson (I've only read her Star Wars work, but I enjoyed it).

It's sad because I don't want to see an author I've enjoyed since my teen years age out of his job, but at the same time him realizing that he can't produce the same quality and speed of output anymore, and handing his series over to another author he trusts is incredibly thoughtful and forward thinking....this isn't a Robert Jordan "I'm dying, Brando please finish my series", it's just more of a realization that he wants his world to go on and he's happy to guide someone else doing it.

So tomorrow's release of GALAPHILE (a Shannara prequel, first in a new trilogy) will be the final Terry Brooks novel and everything going forward including the 2nd and 3rd GALAPHILE novels will be penned by Delilah.

So I'm sad he's stopping, but I'm happy he's chosen someone take over...and since the last few Shannar novels even Terry acknowledged weren't his best work, perhaps the fresh voice will reinvigorate the series.

Anyways, I had GALAPHILE on pre-order, so I'll be starting it tomorrow.

Hey Abyss, I split this off into the discussion forum as I felt it might be annoying people that it was in the happy thread. Let me know if that's offsides.