12/12/2023 0 Comments Osten ardPosted in #OstenArd, Binabik, Characters, epic fantasy, Interviews, Isgrimnur, Memory Sorrow and Thorn, Nascadu, Osten Ard, Tad Williams, The Last King of Osten Ard, The Witchwood Crown | Tagged Memory Sorrow and Thorn, Osten Ard, Tad Williams, The Witchwood Crown, TLKOOA, video interviews, Ylvs Tad Williams, The Witchwood Crown, and the Gardenborn calendarĪrly this morning, Tad Williams released the latest edition of his newsletter, where he talks about his writing, specifically with regard to The Witchwood Crown and the Gardenborn calendar. The Witchwood Crown, the latest Osten Ard novel, will be released on June 27, 2017. Williams also discusses both Binabik and Duke Isgrimnur, two beloved characters from the original series, as well as a 45-foot crocodile in the swamps of the Wran. He also discusses the problem of the Norns, and how challenging it is to write sympathetic characters who do monstrous things. In this interview, Tad Williams discusses his new Osten Ard novel project, including his thoughts on Tolkien, whether or not new areas of Osten Ard (such as Nascadu and Khandia) will be seen, as well as whether or not he regrets killing off characters (and if he’s ever tempted to resurrect some of them). Posted in #OstenArd, Binabik, epic fantasy, Fantasy, Interviews, Memory Sorrow and Thorn, MS&T, Osten Ard, Tad Williams, The Last King of Osten Ard, The Witchwood Crown, TLKOOA | Tagged Deborah Beale, epic fantasy, Memory Sorrow and Thorn, Osten Ard, Tad Williams, The Witchwood Crown Tad Williams discusses New! Osten Ard! Novels! (Part 2)Įre is Part 2 of our video interview with legendary fantasy and science fiction author Tad Williams, author of the now-classic “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn” series the questions from the interview were submitted by readers from and forums. It is available for pre-order on Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers. The Witchwood Crown will be released on June 27, 2017. We at Treacherous Paths were honored to be mentioned in the Q&A session, the full version of which can be read here. So Williams’ aging has helped inspire the new books. So every moment I was aging, and moving from one country to another, and becoming a parent, and so on, I was actually creating a plot for new Osten Ard books without realizing it. That set me to thinking, and within one night the first rudiments of the story for “The Last King of Osten Ard” (the title for the whole series) had begun to take real shape. I sat down one time to list off for Deborah (my wife and business partner) all the reasons I had no more stories about Simon and Miriamele and Binabik and the rest, I realized that I had left most of the main characters still very much in the bloom of their youth, and that after decades of life and growing responsibility-which I had undergone myself since I wrote it-they must all look at the world very differently. He also reveals why it took him so many years to return to the world: Layers upon layers.” (Those layers are no surprise to longtime readers, who have compared the Osten Ard novels to the layers of an onion: peeling one layer reveals another). Tad was asked about how he felt returning to his old world and the old characters in the Q&A session, he says he had forgotten “how much effort and thought had put into Osten Ard in the first place, so many years ago. The novel takes up the story more than 30 years after the characters were last seen in the classic Osten Ard novels. Williams, the author of more than twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, will be returning to his beloved realm of Osten Ard at the end of June, with the release of The Witchwood Crown, the first volume of a new series of books called “The Last King of Osten Ard”. N there is a new Question and Answer session regarding the author’s long-awaited return to the world of Osten Ard.
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