Shroud of Eternity

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Shroud of Eternity is the second installment in Terry Goodkind's The Nicci Chronicles , Goodkind's new series set in the same world of his now-concluded Sword of Truth . The novel follows Death's Mistress , and was released on 9 January 2018. [1]

Goodkind himself described the cover of the just-published novel as "laughably bad", and invited his fans to mock it, offering free copies of the book to ten randomly selected responses on Facebook. Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme identified himself as the uncredited artist, describing Goodkind's behavior as "totally disrespectful", and defending the art as "exactly what I was told to do" by the publisher. Goodkind subsequently apologized, [2] [3] but later characterized the work as "hackneyed", stating that the character's boots were "sexist". [4]

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References

  1. "Shroud of Eternity | Terry Goodkind | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  2. "Terry Goodkind Apologizes to Artist After Trashing Cover to Own Book - Bleeding Cool News And Rumors". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  3. Cain, Sian (2018-02-26). "'Laughably bad': Terry Goodkind apologises after insulting cover of his own book". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  4. Elderkin, Beth. "Fantasy Writer Terry Goodkind Now Claims He Hated His Book Cover Because It's 'Sexist'". io9. Retrieved 2018-03-04.