Stone of Tears background research

Terry Goodkind the author of Stone of Tears was born in 1948 and he went through many jobs before he became a writer. When he was in high school he suffered from dyslexia and cause him a lot of frustration and later in college he dropped out. He spent his time after that working as a carpenter, a violin maker, and a restorer of rare and unique artifacts and soon after that he Begin writing his first novel "Wizard's First Rule". It was published in 1994 "Wizard's First Rule" sold for six times the recorded price previously paid for a first fantasy novel and it printed 60,000 copies rather then the usual 3,000 - 5,000 and it became an international bestseller. He continued to write the other 10 books in the series that did equally well, he also wrote one novella that follows the first wizard Zedd from the sword of truth series and it takes place years prior to the events in "Wizard's First Rule". And he is now working on a trilogy and the first book is to be released this September with the title "The Law of The Nine".

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