{"id":2696,"date":"2010-01-12T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2010-01-12T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:45:32","slug":"an-aside-wizards-of-the-coast-buys-six-more-drizzt-books-from-r-a-salvatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/news\/an-aside-wizards-of-the-coast-buys-six-more-drizzt-books-from-r-a-salvatore\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Wizards of the Coast buys six more ‘Drizzt’ books from R.A. Salvatore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From Wizards of the Coast<\/a> (via The Wertzone<\/a>), we’ve got news that R.A. Salvatore<\/a> has signed on for six more novels in his stupidly successful Forgotten Realms<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

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Today, Wizards of the Coast LLC announced a new six-book deal with New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore. Published by Wizards of the Coast, the first book is scheduled to release in 2011 with a new book anticipated to follow once per year after that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve always maintained that I would keep writing Drizzt as long as it was fun and as long as people wanted to read it. Now I understand that this journey with Drizzt is more than just \u2018fun\u2019 for me,\u201d says Salvatore. \u201cWriting Drizzt is an exercise of constantly reminding myself to find new trails and adventures in my own life; the character remains fresh to me because there\u2019s always a new turn, sometimes painful, often joyous, always alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I know. Shocking, huh? I’ve read a handful of the Drizzt<\/em> books and enjoyed them well enough. My heart, though, lies with Salvatore’s work outside of the Forgotten Realms<\/em> world, particularily the early novels in the Demon Wars<\/em> series. As a fan of those books, it’s frustrating to see Salvatore more or less shackled to the Drizzt<\/em> series. Sure, he’s putting out two novels a year, one set in the Forgotten Realms<\/em> universe and one set in the Demon Wars<\/em> universe, but the quality of those books has gone down in recent years and one has to wonder if Salvatore’s not stretching himself a little thin by trying to work on two series for two different publisher at the same time. Still, Drizzt<\/em> pays the bills, and the fans are legion.<\/p>\n

Cue the Drizzt-is-finally-gonne-die-in-the-sixth-book rumours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Wizards of the Coast (via The Wertzone), we’ve got news that R.A. Salvatore has signed on for six more novels in his stupidly successful Forgotten Realms series. Today, Wizards of the Coast LLC announced a new six-book deal with New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore. Published by Wizards of the Coast, the first… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n