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Spellwright’s last quotation, well worth the wait.

The first fantasy that ever touched me to the quick was “The Elfstones of Shannara,” the second in Terry Brook’s beloved series. I can’t remember exactly how old I was. I was still completely illiterate and so must have been about ten. My father had picked the book up on a whim. It was late summer and we were staying at my grandmother’s cabin on Lake Nacimiento. When my father experimentally read a chapter out loud, he saw that how captivated I was. Keen to foster my interest in books, my mother and father took turns reading it before bedtime. We would camp down by the lake’s edge, my sister and I rolled up in sleeping bags, one my parents reading by flashlight and swatting the moths away. I vividly remember my mother’s voice quavering at the book’s touching conclusion. I remember falling asleep slowly after the reading, listening to the dark green water lapping on the shore and feeling my mind race with wonder. It was a pivotal moment in my life, sparking a love for fantasy that would drive me on to discover so many more authors and ultimately inspire me to overcome dyslexia enough to learn to read. That is why I am honored, humbled, grateful, and in danger of grinning so damn hard my head might split in half as I report that Terry Brooks has read SPELLWRIGHT and offered the quotation below:

“Think that words can’t hurt you? Sometimes, they can kill. The spells of textual magic of this enthralling tale will demonstrate just how.”

–Terry Brooks, 22 time New York Times Best Selling Author of the Shannara Series