Tad Williams, author of the “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” books, today posted an update on his progress with The Witchwood Crown, volume one of “The Last King of Osten Ard”, sequel series to “MS&T”

The current manuscript is over 1,000 pages, comprised of 54 chapters. (Williams is no stranger to very long manuscripts, many of his novels clocking in at around the same size. The third “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” book, To Green Angel Tower, is one of the longest novels in the English language.)

Williams wrote:

Here are my much-delayed revised chapter titles. These are still subject to change, but they all have something to do with their chapters now. (Often I will start a chapter with a title, but decide to deal with something different instead of my original plan for that chapter, then forget to change the title.) Anyway, make of them what you will. It will be a while until I have a good cast list to share. THE WITCHWOOD CROWN

Volume One of THE LAST KING OF OSTEN ARD Foreword PART ONE: WIDOWS Ch. 1 – The Glorious

Ch. 2 – Conversation with a Corpse-Giant

Ch. 3 – Brother Monarchs

Ch. 4 – Island of Bones

Ch. 5 – An Aversion to Widows

Ch. 6 – The Finest Tent on the Frostmarch

Ch. 7 – Audience with the Ever-Living

Ch. 8 – A Meeting On Lantern Bridge

Ch. 9 – Heart of the Kynswood

Ch. 10 – The Third Duke

Ch. 11 – Ghosts of the Garden

Ch. 12 – Baroness Alva’s Tale Ch. 13 – Hymns of the Lightless

Ch. 14 – At the Top of the Holy Tree

Ch. 15 – A Passage of Arms

Ch. 16 – A Hand In The Snow

Ch. 17 – No Shadow

Ch. 18 – A Bad Book

Ch. 19 – Unnatural Birth

Ch. 20 – His Bright Gem

Ch. 21 – Crossroad

Ch. 22 – Death Songs

Ch. 23 – Testament of the White Hand PART TWO: ORPHANS Ch. 24 – Terrible Flame

Ch. 25 – Example of a Dead Hedgehog

Ch. 26 – The Small Council

Ch. 27 – Noontide At The Quarely Maid

Ch. 28 – Cradle Songs of Red Pig Lagoon

Ch. 29 – Bones and Black Statues

Ch. 30 – The Slow Game

Ch. 31 – A High, Dark Place

Ch. 32 – Rosewater and Balsam

Ch. 33 – Secrets and Promises

Ch. 34 – Feeding The Familiar

Ch. 35 – The Man with the Odd Smile

Ch. 36 – A Foolish Dream

Ch. 37 – Two Bedroom Conversations

Ch. 38 – The Factor’s Ship

Ch. 39 – A Grassland Wedding

Ch. 40 – Watching Like God PART THREE: EXILES Ch. 41 – Hern’s Horde

Ch. 42 – Forest Music

Ch. 43 – Into Deeper Shadows

Ch. 44 – Charms and Tokens

Ch. 45 – A Nighttime Sun

Ch. 46 – River Man

Ch. 47 – Hidden Chambers

Ch. 48 – The Little Boats

Ch. 49 – Blood As Black As Night

Ch. 50 – Stolen Scales

Ch. 51 – Several Matters of State

Ch. 52 – Homecoming

Ch. 53 – The Queen’s Pleasure

Ch. 54 – Voices Unheard, Faces Unseen

There are some inconsistencies with the chapter titles; for example, Chapter 27’s title, referring to the Quarely Maid, is not the name of the inn chosen by readers on the official message board last year. But of course, these chapter titles are subject to change or revision. The Witchwood Crown is expected to be released in Spring 2016, followed sometime thereafter by Empire of Grass and The Navigator’s Children.

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