Rushi Patel
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Michael J. Sullivan:
Hi Michael, I am really enjoying your books. I know people asked questions about riyria chronicles, but i want to know is there any future for riyria revelation to continue?
Michael J. Sullivan
Hey Rushi,
I'm glad you are enjoying the books. Thanks for reading them. When I wrote The Riyria Revelations it was conceived and written as a story with a well designed start and end. It took me a long time to write that plot and when I finally got the ending I wanted, I didn't think I would write anymore Royce and Hadrian. Period. I told the tale I wanted telling and I was moving on to other things.
But my wife, and a good number of readers had expressed how sad they were that the tales were over. As the series ended "just as I wanted them to." I felt that "tacking on" to the end of a series that I worked so hard to get "just right" might ruin what I had accomplished. It was this reason (plus the fact that the "origin story hadn't been told before) that I did Chronicles and went back in time.
You are not the only person who wants more "post Revelations" - and yes I have a lot of ideas of plots and adventures that could happen in that time line. But there are other things I want to get too first.
1. I want to show the "True" story about Nyphron and how he saved mankind and formed the First Empire -- I just got done with these books (5 of them, called...The First Empire).
2. I want to tell Essrahadon's story and detail the collapse of the empire (The Fall of Percepliquis).
3. I would LOVE to do a series with Nevrik and Jerish as the are on the run just after the Fall of Percepliquis.
4. I would like to have a book where where Yolric and Kile finally meet and settle their scores.
5. I would like a book with Mercy and Allie.
6. I have a book based in Calais that I outlined two years ago and still haven't had a chance to write.
7. And I could see a post Revelation story.
8. More Riyria Chronicle tales (assuming people still want more with Royce and Hadrian).
That's a lot of books - especially given I also want to write "non-Elan" novels as well. I'm not sure what order I'm going to do things in. The First Empire stuff was top on the list but I've finished those now.
That's a long way of saying...yes there is a possibility...but there are also a lot of competing stories to tell and only so many hours in the day. So, we'll see.
I'm glad you are enjoying the books. Thanks for reading them. When I wrote The Riyria Revelations it was conceived and written as a story with a well designed start and end. It took me a long time to write that plot and when I finally got the ending I wanted, I didn't think I would write anymore Royce and Hadrian. Period. I told the tale I wanted telling and I was moving on to other things.
But my wife, and a good number of readers had expressed how sad they were that the tales were over. As the series ended "just as I wanted them to." I felt that "tacking on" to the end of a series that I worked so hard to get "just right" might ruin what I had accomplished. It was this reason (plus the fact that the "origin story hadn't been told before) that I did Chronicles and went back in time.
You are not the only person who wants more "post Revelations" - and yes I have a lot of ideas of plots and adventures that could happen in that time line. But there are other things I want to get too first.
1. I want to show the "True" story about Nyphron and how he saved mankind and formed the First Empire -- I just got done with these books (5 of them, called...The First Empire).
2. I want to tell Essrahadon's story and detail the collapse of the empire (The Fall of Percepliquis).
3. I would LOVE to do a series with Nevrik and Jerish as the are on the run just after the Fall of Percepliquis.
4. I would like to have a book where where Yolric and Kile finally meet and settle their scores.
5. I would like a book with Mercy and Allie.
6. I have a book based in Calais that I outlined two years ago and still haven't had a chance to write.
7. And I could see a post Revelation story.
8. More Riyria Chronicle tales (assuming people still want more with Royce and Hadrian).
That's a lot of books - especially given I also want to write "non-Elan" novels as well. I'm not sure what order I'm going to do things in. The First Empire stuff was top on the list but I've finished those now.
That's a long way of saying...yes there is a possibility...but there are also a lot of competing stories to tell and only so many hours in the day. So, we'll see.
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