This article commemorates the life and work of bestselling author Herbie Brennan who passed away a year ago. It highlights his prolific career, encompassing various genres, and his international success with series like GrailQuest and Faerie Wars Chronicles.
Turtle Bunbury celebrates the life of his prolific, bestselling author friend, who died a year ago today. Herbie Brennan : Over the course of his 83 years, he wrote almost 120 books, of which he sold more than 10 million copies in at least 50 countries.One year ago today, I awoke to a throat-tightening message on my phone. Herbie had died six hours and 31 minutes into the new year. It was not unexpected, but we had hoped he might bounce back, as he had done before.
He was, after all, a man of wizardly skills. He was also an astonishingly prolific author. Over the course of his 83 years, he wrote almost 120 books, of which he sold more than 10 million copies in at least 50 countries. His subjects embraced everything from extra-terrestrials to the Stone Age, the occult, dreams, druids, horror, ghosts, cats and, latterly, long-dead Egyptian pharaohs. In the 1980s, he hit the international jackpot when he penned the enormously successful GrailQuest series. Based on the Arthurian legends of old, the eight game books propelled him to global stardom at the height of the genre’s Dungeons and Dragons golden age. Then came the Faerie Wars Chronicles, a series of five fantasy novels aimed at young adults. In 2003, the first of these “malevolent, humorous, action-packed novels” reached No 4 on the New York Times best-seller list. The series achieved bestseller status in more than 20 countries, selling four million copies in France alone.Herbie was subsequently inducted into the Wall of Fame at the Lucca Comics and Games, the largest comics festival in Europe. He shares the honour with, on July 5th, 1940, the son of grocers James and Sarah Jane. He worked for the Portadown News in his early years, as a journalist and as an editor. He also dabbled in hypnotherapy, counselling and marketing, being the director of various advertising and public-relations firm
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