Terry Brooks printed the primary ebook within the epic fantasy sequence Shannara in 1977. After writing dozens of bestselling titles and promoting greater than 25 million copies of his books, he introduced at Emerald Metropolis Comedian Con 2025 that he’s retiring from writing.

On the Comedian Con panel, Terry Brooks defined he spent a 12 months “fiddling round with a manuscript that by no means went anyplace,” and that’s when he determined at hand the reins of his beloved fantasy sequence over to a different author. Delilah S. Dawson, who was within the viewers of the panel, will take over writing the Shannara sequence. Dawson is the creator of Kill the Farm Boy, The Violence, Bloom, and plenty of others, together with Star Wars novels. She was additionally born in 1977, the identical 12 months the Shannara sequence started.

After this announcement, Brooks stated that whereas most handovers of sequence occur after an creator’s loss of life, he want to see the place it goes after he places down the pen. He has labored effectively with Dawson previously and added that she has the chutzpah to tackle the problem—to which Dawson replied, “Wait, you’re going to be troublesome with this?”