Terry Brooks retires, Shannara continues

[Isgrimnur]

Terry Brooks Announces Semi-Retirement, Passes Shannara to Delilah S. Dawson

I will no longer be doing the primary writing. My new co-author will take on that task. Instead, I will offer what help I can with providing storyline ideas, revisionary plot suggestions and a thorough overview that will help my co-author to continue to give you the kind of book you would expect of me. I know her well and have been friends with her for years. Both my editor and I have agreed that she is the right choice to take on the task of continuing SHANNARA. That she can provide the skills and inventiveness that is needed to accomplish this is something of which I am sure. She is every bit as professionally capable and committed as I am. What help and support I can give her, I will. That she will give you what you want and expect is something I am certain she will do.

Her name is Delilah Dawson, and she is a skilled professional writer and a delightful person. If you haven’t read any of her work to date, I encourage you to do so now.
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The most recent book, Galaphile, came out [March 11th], and marks the start of a new series called The First Druids of Shannara.

[Scraper]

I honestly didn't even realize that the series was still going. When is it enough? I think I stopped reading them sometime around book 8 0r 9 or so, when they started to really reveal that the series takes place in our own future or something like that. I did read the first 2 books of the Demon runner series as well, which ties in.

[YellowKing]

I'm reading the series now, and I'm up to The Elf Queen of Shannara. I don't really love the series, it's a bit too light for me, but they're quick reads and I own most of them so I've been knocking one out every now and then.

[Smoove_B]

Yeah, I had no idea they were still being written either. I haven't read the original trilogy since high school; might be time to jump back in!