The Legends of the First Empire is an epic fantasy series whose original working titles were Rhune, Dherg, Rhist, Phyre, and Fhrey. The first book (Age of Myth) was released on June 28, 2016 from Del Rey (fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House). They released the second title (Age of Swords) in July 2017 and the third book (Age of War) on July 3, 2018. The remaining titles are Age of Legend, Age of Death, and Age of Empyre. Originally, I thought the series would be a trilogy, and now it’s essentially two closely related trilogies under the same banner.
At this point (and before the first book was released) all the books were written, although the fourth book required a significant revamping. This work (as well as subsequent changes to #5 and #6 are now done and we are working on a few minor adjustments and then all three books will go to beta reading.
As mentioned, the first three books of the series have been sold to Random House’s Del Rey Imprint. Contract negotiations with Kensington Publishing (to produce the print versions of the last three books as part of their Rebel Base Select Imprint) ended with no deal brokered, so these remaining books will be self-published. The audiobooks have been sold to Recorded Books (1 – 4) and Audible Studios (5 & 6). Tim Gerard Reynolds will once more be the narrator. Several foreign language deals have been signed including German and Russian.
Extras
Here’s a list of pages that you can find all kinds of goodies about the Legends of the First Empire series:
- Age of Death Typos
- Age of Death: Glossary of Terms and Names
- Age of Empyre Typos
- Age of Legend: Glossary of Terms and Names
- Age of Myth Glossary of Terms and Names
- Age of Swords Pre-order Bonus Material
- Age of Swords: Glossary of Terms and Names
- Age of War: Glossary of Terms and Names
- AoD v1.00 typo list
- AoE-Afterwords
- AoE-Authors-Note
- AoM: Glossary of Terms and Names
- First List of Names – AoE
- List of Names – AoE – 2