The manuscript for Lord Sunday, the final book in the seven-part The Keys to the Kingdom series, by Garth Nix, has been delivered to the publisher (Scholastic Press). Nix recently updated his website to reflect this.
There is no final publication date as of yet, though it “right now looks likely to be early-ish in 2010.” The editing process is just beginning, and will likely take some time, and after which there will of course be other things to be done before the book goes to print.
Nix says that he hopes “that the first two chapters or so will be put up online in the next few months, to ease a little of the pain of the cliffhanger at the end of SUPERIOR SATURDAY.”
Hopefully the author will be able to start work on his next book in the Sabriel series in the near future, now that The Keys to the Kingdom is almost out of the way.
Update: The release date has been announced. It’s March 4th, 2010 for the U.S., but the Australians should already have it, as their date is listed as February.
Aaron July 2nd
2010!
The books have come out every July here in the UK, now we have to wait another 7/8 months for it!
Bummer!
Aaron July 30th
i think i wrote the comment above, it seems like how i did type lol
i agree tho, wiv me or other aaron, Bummmer!!!
dangthing August 26th
I wait and wait and wait and then I wait and wait and wait and wait and search google and search google and search google and get lie after lie after lie and now I find one piece of truth and I finally know that I might not see the next book until 2010? That just sucks. Although I am glad it is being written withing the next year and not in like 2 years.
Shay September 4th
…I first read that it, Lord Sunday that is of course, was coming out this month (September) and I was totally pumped for it. So I jump online to see if it’s out yet and I find this.
I don’t mind that Nix is taking his time with the book. What I do mind is that it’s taken forever for the public to be given a final date. Which they still haven’t really done anyway. “Earlyish 2010.”
…Oh good grief.
maxman September 7th
Im so angryy that garth nix cant just post the book already
O.o September 9th
Uhhh… I just read a part of the book, It seems that monday’s dusk (now noon) uhhhmmm………. I CAN’T SAY IT
James September 30th
it comes out March 1st 2010
gRIMrEAPRER December 16th
I know that I keep looking for this “Lord Sunday” book and I keep getting lies and bogus tales and then I finally get the truth and I think I prefer the lies…(it’s a sad truth… but I can’t wait until the book is actually out!!!)
lord dawn December 30th
it says on wikipedia that sunday will be out on march 16 2010 but i think there should be an unexpected twist on the book that makes it harder or easier for arthur for example the architect returning, the return of all the trustees, the piper making arthur a pipers child and so on.
who agrees?
also what shape does the 7 part of the will and key take
ArthurFan January 31st
Grrrrrrrrrr…….You know, Lord Sundays comeing out in austrailia TOMORROW!!! I wish there was a mister Monday so he could just POOF go to austraila and buy it 4 me then POOF bring it to me. And maybe i could be dying when he came to me and maybe he could give me the minute hand key too. Then maybe I would forgive Garth Nix for taking sooo long to write th STUPID (yet awesome) BOOK!!!!!
cmasterno 1 February 4th
that SOOOO wasn’t funny ‘ArthurFan’ ok guys SPOILRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
‘1). The Trustees of the Will failed to execute the Architect’s Will, as it would lead to their own demise, as well as the annihilation of the Universe. This questions whether their disobedience was betrayal. Furthermore, it was revealed the Will had slain Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday, as well as Sir Thursday and Lady Friday – not Superior Saturday as had long been suspected.
After Arthur returns from the unknown Universe he believes to have landed in his bedroom on earth. As he searches his house he finds his mother in the living room. As he approaches her he realizes that she can’t see him. As he looks out side he can’t see anything bust the windows as it has green leaves draped upon them. Soon after a Piper’s child enters the house with a flaming pitchfork. Arthur grabs it and forces the boy to lead him out of the house. As the boy leads him out he asks if he knows who he is.
2).As they leave the house they are ambushed by Sunday’s Dawn and Noon and the Piper’s child turns into Lord Sunday. They then take Arthur to a replica of the clock face that the Old One is trapped to. Arthur, unable to use the Keys to free them as Sunday captured them, tries to se his powers to form something out of the Nothing. His child hood toy, Elephant, comes to life and goes in search of the Keys. Hours later the Keys are sent to him and Arthur is able to free himself.
Arthur battles with Lord Sunday, who also has to contend with Saturday’s invasion, and the Piper’s invasion at the same time. Eventually, Saturday is overpowered by the Piper, having lost nearly all of her power when she lost her Key (and thus a conduit for her sorcery), and her forces combine with his. Arthur manages to claim the Seventh Key and free the Will; they respectively takes the forms of a small key and an apple tree, akin to the one in the Garden of Eden. When Dame Primus bites into the tree, the Will is made whole, Arthur unknowingly becomes its channel for its intended purpose – the destruction of the House, so the Architect can also return to Nothing. Arthur survives, discovering he is the New Architect; something the Architect planned, so the Universe would still exist.
3).After the New Architect creates the New Universe, he releases Arthur making him human once again and sends him and Leaf back to the remade Earth, but as the New Architect could only recreate the Universe as it was recorded seconds before in the Compleat Atlas, he was unable to save Arthur’s Mother, who was trapped in a time loop in the Incomparable Gardens by Lord Sunday.
4).In the new Creation of the Universe by the New Architect, Suzy reveals her desire to be the new Lady Sunday.’
ENJOY BITCHES!!!
You’re flippin’ welcome.
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ANDJ March 14th
they key takes the form of a small golden key and the will turns into a (apple?) tree.
Zexalia September 29th
Erm, Cmasterno 1, that explanation bout the NEW ARCHITECT was confusing. you mean there r 2 arthurs? and y did the will wanna kill the other trustees?
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