For those of you not subscribed to Random House newsletters, Terry sent out a Holiday message to all his fans. He's talking about what happened in year 2009 (his 65th birthday) and what are the plans for future (hit 66 and write more books! ;-) ). In specific, he talks about the books (possible sequel to Princess of Landover and new three-book Shannara mini-series, which will take place sometime after the conclusion of the events of the books in High Druid of Shannara).

Terry also mentions movie rights for the Shannara series and for Magic Kingdom. Warner Brothers still holds the rights, however it's only a year until they expire and as of this moment there is no director and no script. That alone doesn't sound too good, however Terry says: There are some other developments in the works, but I don't think I am ready to talk about them just yet. I wonder what could that mean?

If you want to read the whole letter, take a look below.

He's done this once before and it was a great fun as well as grand charity event. The character from The Princess of Landover (see the cover) was named after Mr. Shoop, who has won the auction. Today Terry Brooks is aiding World Association for Children & Parents again by auctioning off a character name from his next Shannara book.

You can find the auction right here. If you want to learn more about the previous time Terry auctioned off a character name, read below the letter from Random House announcing the auction.

Each month Terry Brooks (Shannara series) time from his busy schedule to answer the questions sent to him by fans. Whether it's a question about his new book, a character, or more general question about writing, Terry does his best to give the answer. The questions can be submitted through his website, under the "Ask Terry" section.

Terry's website contains a full archive of questions asked through the nine years since "Ask Terry" project started. There's a great deal of information there!

Giving readers a free taste of the series seems to be the thing to do recently. Not to long ago we reported that Robin Hobb made first book of The Farseer Trilogy, Assassin's Apprentice available for free download through the Suvudu Free Library. Today, following Robin's footsteps is Terry Brooks with the first book of his Magic Kingdom of Landover series: Magic Kingdom For Sale - Sold! .

Suvudu Free Library is a place where reader will find the first books of many fantasy and sci-fi series for free download. The idea is to give readers opportunity to decide which author, which style of writing they like and then go and buy the rest of the series. It's a great project!

If you'd like a sneak peak into new book by Terry Brooks, The Gypsy Morph, you can visit his website. There are two chapters available, one in text format (chapter 1) and one (chapter 8) in form of recording of Terry Brooks personally reading it in front of an audience.

For more information on The Gypsy Morph go to www.TerryBrooks.net .

A Princess of Landover is the 6th novel in Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom of Landover series. The official Terry Brooks website released a cover art for UK edition of the book and the synopsis.

Princess Mistaya Holiday hasn?t been fitting in too well at Carrington Women?s Preparatory. People don?t seem to appreciate her using her magic to settle matters in the human world. So when she summons a dragon to teach a lesson to the snotty school bully, she finds herself suspended. But Mistaya couldn?t care less - she wants nothing more than to continue her studies under Questor the court magician and Abernathy the court scribe. However, her father Ben Holiday, the King of Landover, has rather different plans in mind for her. He thinks he?ll teach her about perseverance and compromise by sending her to renovate Libiris, the long-abandoned royal library. How horribly dull. But before long, Mistaya will long for the boredom of cataloguing an unfeasible number of derelict books - for deep within the library there lies a secret so dangerous that it threatens the future of Landover itself ?

For those of you who would like to meet Terry Brooks in person and get a Shannara book signed, here is the list of places he will be visiting in near future. Each location comes with a list of activities scheduled which may include: Reading, Question and Answer session (Q&A) and book signing. Take at the list below:

The rights to a film adaptation for all of the Shannara novels have been sold to Warner Bros until 2010. The Elfstones of Shannara, the first planned film, will be directed by Mike Newell, who was also responsible for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Elfstones is expected to start filming in 2009 and finished sometime during 2010. Terry Brooks believes that this is the best starting place for adapting the Shannara novels.

www.terrybrooks.net : For many years the only chance that a fan had of speaking to Terry was to meet him at tour events after a book was published. Terry can only do a few events a year and that restricts the chance for a fan to ask him about his novels, his writing, and his life.

Now with the establishment of this website, Terry can answer several questions a month from his fans! Terry will accept two questions from each fan per month. On the last day of the month, five questions will be randomly drawn. Terry will answer these five questions and they will be posted monthly for your enjoyment.

Amazon has started a new program called Amazon Shorts where the huge online bookseller invites authors of all genres to submit a short story of any kind. Terry was one of the first people they asked to be a part of this electronic program, and Terry delivered into their hands Why I Write About Elves.