Four years after releasing the first half, fantasy writer Michael Johnston is concluding the story he began in 2017’s Soleri with his new companion novel Silence Of The Soleri (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). Though as he reveals in the following email interview about it, this may only be the end of the first story.
In the fantasy realm, it seems like most novels are set in medieval Europe-esque place (J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings), savage times (Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories), or the modern era (J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter). But for his new fantasy novel Soleri (hardcover, digital), writer Michael Johnston has chosen a different setting: Ancient Egypt. Though it talking to Johnston about this book, and the untitled series it begins, it seems he’d prefer Soleri not end up like Tolkien’s, Howard’s, or Rowling’s books as well.