Thread: What happened to wizarding novels?

Although wizards are cliched, I love stories with them, and want to read as many as I can. However, recent ones are very hard to find. It took me forever to find one. I found one, but it's more about a dragon than a wizard. I like the sensory details, because they seem to help me with my writing. Like talking animals, are wizard stories hard to sell today?

It's probably just the nature of the genre, things become "hot" and things become "not". It'll probably come back in due time, but if you're a fan of it, the wait kills. Have you read Forgotten Realms Elminster series?

What's the series about?

It starts as Elminster as a teenager (I think) and follows him as he learns magic and becomes a wizard. There's 7 books and I remember it being a good, fun read. So, if you want wizards, this one's chock full of em'. Hit amazon or wiki it

The novel sounds interesting.

Horribly cliched teenage "vampire" romance novels took prevalence. It's a sad thought, but it happened. And it looks like the next "big" thing in novels is gritty distopian stories about generally unlikable but strong female leads fighting against tyranny. I ask the same question about Star Wars: what happened to the character driven stories about a fight for peace? It was replaced by space pseudo-Buddhists and a horrid cycle of making each main space Buddhist bigger and badder than the last one.

@Beanlord56 Sorry to hear that.

Back in the 50s and 60s (way before my time lol) there were comic books like "Tin Tin", "Wizard of Oz", "Asterix" and "Rupert Bear" etc. although maybe not those ones specifically, where the story might involve a wizard now and then.

I remember the simple essence of those stories with much affection.

Wizards have a way of separating people into character groups. Those who, on discovering a real wizard in real life, would seek to discover all the wizard's powers and possibly even exploit them in some way while others may prefer to watch in wonder and amazement, to see what happens next.