Suvudu reports that Tad Williams has finished writing Shadowrise. The book has a tentative March 2, 2010 release date. This is going to be the first of two parts, as Shadowrise is going to be split into two volumes.

You can preorder the novel today on Amazon.com.

Shadowrise, third book in the Shadowmarch series by Tad Williams will be released March 2, 2010. The cover for the book, created by Todd Lockwood has got to be one of the finest fantasy book covers I have seen to date.

Few weeks ago we wrote about Shadowrise being split into two volumes. Fourth book of the series will have a separate title and supposedly is going to be released quickly after the Shadowrise. I hope that Todd will make a great cover for this one as well!

According to Pat from Pat's Fantasy Hotlist Tad Williams announced recently on Facebook that his last book in Shadowmarch series, Shadowrise, will be split into two volumes. Here are his words as quoted by Patrick:

?Jell-o brain, Night Two. Just got back from New Jersey and a story conferencing day. All good work, but it?s now three a.m. and my brain ? well, you know. Wibble-wobble-wibble. However, one piece of news for the Tad readers. Shadowrise is definitely going to have to be two volumes, but only a few months apart.?

It seems that this is becoming industry trend, first Wheel of Time, now this...

SF Scope reports:
Tad Williams sold a new urban fantasy series to long-time editor Betsy Wollheim at DAW, via agent Matt Bialer of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. Bialer's assistant, Lindsay Ribar, says that "as this is his first urban fantasy series, each book will be significantly shorter than his usual epic fantasy fare."

Read more about the new series below.

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957, San Jose, California) is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers.

We tell lies when we are afraid, ...afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

To Green Angel Tower, Tad Williams

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957, San Jose, California) is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers.

The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series established Tad Williams's preeminence in fantasy. Now, after an absence of more than a decade, the New York Times bestselling author has returned to high fantasy with his Shadowmarch trilogy. Exciting, ambitious, intricate, and insightful, Shadowmarch: Volume 1 demonstrates that Williams is still America's best high fantasist.

Tad Williams' new book has recently been published. It is called Shadowmarch and it'll be the first book of a trilogy. Williams became known by his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy.

A good deal of time ago SFsite.com published an interview with Tad Williams. For those of you who missed it we're reposting it:

On the Shadowmarch.com website you will find the genesis of what is now Shadowmarch, Tad Williams’ new fantasy epic. Please dig around in them if you are interested in Tad’s work, because there is some exceptional fantasy art, plus short fiction from Tad published nowhere else.

This sprawling, spellbinding conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Dragonbone Chair weaves together a multitude of intricate strands, building to a suitably apocalyptic confrontation between good and evil. Prince Josua wins a first victory against the forces of his brother, Elias, who rules as High King in Osten Ard.

In this panoramic, vigorous, often moving sequel to The Dragonbone Chair , the scattered allies opposing the pirate Elias, high king of Osten Ard, and Ineluki, the Storm King, struggle toward a meeting at the Stone of Farewell in the ancient, deserted city of Enki-e-Shao'saye.

Williams, author of Tailchaser's Song (NAL, 1986), scores with the first book in another fantasy trilogy.