When Terry Brooks quit being a lawyer, left Illinois, and moved to a new city to try and fulfill his dreams of becoming a professional writer, he only had his eyes set on one place.
“I had relatives in Seattle back in the early ’70s and came out here when the city was much younger,” Brooks says. “I sort of fled Illinois. I had been in the same place too long. I was in a place that had no writers. Moving out [to Seattle] put me in the middle of a major publishing and author area.”
It’s safe to say that Brooks—who now splits his time between Seattle and
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