Stephen Donaldson delivers last-ever THOMAS COVENANT novel
Stephen Donaldson has delivered the third and final draft of The Last Dark , the fourth and concluding novel in The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant . This will be the tenth Thomas Covenant novel overall, and is planned to conclude the entire series. According to Donaldson: I have just delivered the third draft of THE LAST DARK. Under the circumstances (the circumstances being that Putnams has already put the book on their schedule for October), I have no doubt that this will constitute D&A. For me, the next step will be copyediting; but of course my publishers have a variety of things that they need to get done. Just to provide a frame of reference: this draft is 932 pages (not counting WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE and the Glossary). I've done some rather draconian cutting, all of which I believe was necessary. I deliberately wrote the first draft *long* because I wanted to be sure that I didn't leave anything out. But the result was an unusually high number o...