Shari S asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Hello! I am a huge fan of your books! I was wondering how many books are in The Rise & Fall series? I see the third was just published (I use a Kindle) and just want to see how many there are before I begin. Thank you for your time! Shari

Michael J. Sullivan This question falls under the - very late answer but might as well finish it anyway category. So te Rise and the Fall is 3 books: Nolyn, Farilane, and Esrahaddon. Each focuses on a particular time in the history of Elan through the eyes of three important characters. These books are a bit more "standalone" than say Riyria Revelations or Legends, primiarly because they (for the most part) don't share characters and are separated by large spans of time.

The idea here was for this series to be the "bridge" between Legends and Riyria, and as there are 3,000+ years between the two series, that's a lot of ground ot cover so I had to "spread them out."

All that said, recently I have announced a new series "After the Fall" - it, too is a three book series, and it picks up "right after" the last events in Esrahaddon and the fall of the great Novronian empire - but that was pretty muchh a "gimme" by the title of the series.

So if you get done reading the last book of The Rise and Fall - Esrahaddon - and you want to know more, then you'll have it soon. Book #1 is written, and it's next steps are:

- August beta reading,
- September - making changes from beta read
- October - copy editing
- December - book layout
- January - gamma reading
- June - audio book recording.

This is a book that I've written with a co-author (Lorian Ellis), and it will be her debut novel. Robin and I couldn't be happier with how it came out. And we can't wait to share it with everyone.

That said,

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