I started reading Terry Brooks' new novel, Galaphile, this morning. On the weekend he announced it will be the last novel he will write and that a new author, Delilah S. Dawson, will finish out the trilogy this book begins.
It feels strange to be reading a new book by him for the last time. My father had his books on a shelf while I was growing up and I was drawn in by the covers before I sat down to read them. I read every book he released over the years and some of them are still favorites of mine. He's probably the writer I've read the most novels by in my life.
I met Terry once, when he did a reading and signing at a local university. He was very friendly and asked me what I had been reading lately. When I mentioned Charles de Lint his eyes lit up and he mentioned how very nice his interactions with Charles had been.