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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Terry & Judine



Terry & Judine smile for the camera at Fantasy Con

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Fantasy Con



Terry & fan Sue taking a break at Fantasy Con UK

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Tour Picture



Terry & Mark Farbrother (Assistant Manager and fan at Waterstones Bracknell)

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Monday, September 24, 2007

UK Pictures III

Here are more pictures from the United Kingdom tour, from Terry and Judine's camera:



Terry and fan, Winston Vaugham, at Forbidden Planet signing, London




Forever fan Stuart Finney at Waterstone's, Coventry




Terry, Philip Pullman and Charles Darwin at the Pitt Rivers Museum,
Oxford




Lyra's room (top window, right of tower) in The Golden Compass




Fans at Waterstone's, Nottingham




Terry & artist Steve Stone




Terry & Steve Stone signing The Elves of Cintra to each other




Job complete




Terry & Mark Yon




Terry in Robin Hood country - Nottingham (FantasyCon)

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Saturday, September 22, 2007

UK Picture



Terry and fan Paul — Waterstone's Notthingham, September 22nd

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Ask Terry

The Ask Terry section of the website has been updated with your August 2007 questions.

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Friday, September 21, 2007

New Poll

With Dark Wraith of Shannara coming out in March 2008, I thought talking about its lead-in story is appropriate for this new poll.

Indomitable, the Shannara short story found in the anthology Legends II, is the bridge story between The Wishsong of Shannara and Dark Wraith of Shannara. All three tales feature Jair Ohmsford, Cogline, and Khimber Boh.

So, have you read the epilogue to The Wishsong of Shannara -- have you read Indomitable? If not, are you going to?

Vote: Have you read Indomitable from Legends II?

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

UK Pictures II



Terry and fan Andy at the Waterstone's Bluewater September 19th

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

R.I.P Robert Jordan

James Oliver Rigney, Jr., writer of the New York Times bestselling fantasy series Wheel of Time under the pen name Robert Jordan, passed away earlier this week. He fought a devastating disease with honor and integrity, never giving an inch. He was 58 years old.

It is with great sadness we report this. Robert Jordan is a fixture in the fantasy genre. He helped reinvigorate fantasy and gave it an epic scope never before seen. The genre now has a gaping hole where a very good writer and better man once stood, and it will never fully heal—never be filled by another.

For more on this, please visit Dragonmount.

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Monday, September 17, 2007

UK Pictures

Terry is now in the United Kingdom and has had his first event! Here are two pictures from that event:




Terry signing The Elves of Cintra in the United Kingdom




Terry posing with Simon, one of his UK fans



And here is a late-coming picture from Dragon Con:



Terry sitting with one of his fans at Dragon Con

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Friday, September 14, 2007

Dragon Con Pic

Terry flew to the United Kingdom today to prepare for his tour there. To visit him while there, check the Events page for the dates, times, and bookstores Terry will be visiting. If you do meet him, take a picture and send it in to the website.

Here is a new picture:



Terry posing with one of his best fans, Joel, at Dragon Con

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Monday, September 10, 2007

A Note From Terry

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick letter to tell you about last weekend in Atlanta at
DragonCon and the Decatur Book Festival.

Arrived with Judine on Friday night, Labor Day weekend, to find
lodging at one the DragonCon hotels. Spent most of the weekend
trying to get on an elevator to our room, but other than that things
were pretty much okay. Attended the opening ceremonies that night,
where David Weber, Bill Fawcett and I put our formidable talents to
use in competition with some pros on answering DragonCon questions.
We won, but the fix was in.

Saturday, Judine and I attended the Decatur Book Festival for a
speech and a book signing. It was great fun with a church full of
people who seemed interested enough to stay to the end. Hard to
figure. Everyone was very nice and enthused about the new book and
the series in general. I promised I would come back soon.

Saturday night was the obligatory banquet with awards given for
different things, most of which I have lost track of. But we visited
with other writers and some actors and had a good meal and conversation.

Sunday was a work day at DragonCon with panels, readings,
autographings and a speech beginning at 10 am and not ending until
close to midnight. All were well attended, even the 10 pm panel,
which I would not have gone to if I hadn't been on the panel. Met
lots of people, some of whom asked about your faithful Web Druid and
his book. Okay, many asked. All in all, it was a joy to be there.

Thanks to Bill Fawcett and Chairman Pat and all the rest of the
DragonCon staff and the staff of the Decatur Book Festival who made
the experience so enjoyable.

We are off to England for the continuance of the book tour later this
week. More when we return. Best to you all, Terry.



Terry addresses the faithful from the pulpit at his talk at the
Decatur Book Festival.




Terry finally finds someone he can relate to at DragonCon.




Terry on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.




Terry with Chris Harvey, Regional Director of Development, North &
SW, and Craig Tufts, Chief Naturalist, of the National Wildlife
Federation at their headquarters in Reston, Virginia




Terry visits with web fans Philip, Heather and Jason at DragonCon.




Terry and Judine had dinner with author Eldon Thompson and their
mutual friends Jack and Tracy Smith.

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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Bestselling Novel

The Elves of Cintra will debut at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction this week.

Terry is very excited about the news. Last year, Armageddon's Children placed at #6.

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B&N Picture

On August 28th, Terry had his first event for the release of The Elves of Cintra at a Barnes & Noble in West Seattle. It was a great event with a lot of very nice people. Here are two pictures of some of them; they traveled from three hours away to see Terry:



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Friday, September 7, 2007

Borders Picture

Here is a photo sent in by one of Terry's long-time fans who drove from New Jersey to see him at the Borders in Newark, DE on September 6th:

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Rockville, MD Pictures

The US leg of Terry's The Elves of Cintra tour has completed, but fans are still sending in pictures. Here are two pictures from the Rockville, MD event:





Keep sending them in, folks!

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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Tour Pictures

Here are two more pictures that were taken at Dragon Con 2007:





If you have pictures from one of Terry's 2007 events, be sure to send them in to the website!

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

A Shannara Movie Interview!

Just before the redesign of the news section here on Terry's web site, we posted a link to A Dribble of Ink's interview with Eldon Thompson that took a look at his involvement in the upcoming Shannara movie currently optioned by Warner Bros.

Eldon describes the initial process he went through to produce a screenplay based on Terry's second novel, The Elfstones of Shannara, which eventually went on to be purchased by Warner Bros. He also goes into detail about his experience with the movie industry, why he chose The Elfstones of Shannara instead of The Sword of Shannara and how he balances his time between screenwriting and his own career as a novelist.

He has a lot of great things to say, so be sure to check it out! If you missed the first metion of the interview, this is the perfect time to get up to date on the Shannara movie project!

You can find the interview HERE.

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Monday, September 3, 2007

Dragon Con Pictures

This last weekend was Dragon Con, one of the largest fantasy and science fiction conventions in the world. Terry attended the massive gathering in Atlanta, Georgia, where many fans came out to celebrate the release of The Elves of Cintra and to see Terry himself.

Terry autographed and read from Book Three in the Genesis of Shannara trilogy, as well as took part in several panels about the craft of writing and the fantasy genre.

Below are the first of what will assuredly be many pictures from this event. Enjoy!













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Ask Terry

Every month, this website posts answers from Terry to some of the questions you ask on the Ask Terry section.

But Orbit Books has asked Graeme at Graeme's Fantasy Book Review to accept questions for Terry to answer for his blog in an interview-style format. So if you have a question you'd like to ask Terry, please send them to Graeme at the address above. Happy Questioning!

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