Future books

Tamora Pierce is planning several future novels, many of which are to be set in the Tortallan Universe, although some will also return to the Emelanese Universe.

Tortallan Universe

• Tortall Companion Guide: FALL 2014. by All information known about it came from Pierce's other statements on the internet, mostly her public livejournal. Amongst other things there will be included more detailed maps.

• Exile: FALL 2014. The first book will be called The Gift of Power. This duology will feature Numair Salmalín in the time before The Immortals quartet. It'll probably be set both in Carthak, detailing his friendship and estrangement with Ozorne, and in Tortall, showing how Numair managed to survive when he first arrived there. The second volume is set shortly after Lioness Rampant and will therefore also feature a younger Jon and Thayet, showing how their reign was in their early days.

• 2015 TBD: A yet untitled novel featuring Maura of Dunlath, very tentatively scheduled for publication in 2015, the last novel Tamora Pierce is under contract so far.

"2015 TBD: untitled Tortall universe book, about the coming-of-age of Maura of Dunlath, and how she finds her own unique place in the realm, in Random House hardcover in the U.S. and Canada"

—Anouncement on Pierce's website

Tamora Pierce has revealed more details for the novel's plot in April 2009:

"Well, it begins when she's 15, and her guardian, Sir Douglass, breaks the dreadful news to her that her aunt says it's time she acted like a noble, and has summoned Maura to be her lady-in-waiting. Since she's blood family, Sir Douglass doesn't feel he can refuse. So Maura goes to her aunt, along with her counsellors, a wolf, a squirrel, and an ogre (a small one).
It sorta goes downhill from there."

—Tamora Pierce on Random Buzz

• Tamora Pierce is also planning one or two books about Kel seen from her squire's, one of the girls Kel met during the tournament in Squire, point of view. So far Pierce hasn't contracted for this novel, which she plans to write after the Maura books.

Emelanese Universe

• 2015 TBD: An untitled novel featuring Trisana Chandler and her attempt to become a normal mage by enrolling at the University of Lightsbridge.

"2013 TBD: untitled Circle universe book, in which Tris enrolls at the mages' university in Lightsbridge under an assumed name, in an attempt to become an ordinary mage practicing normal academic magic (spells, charms, potions) with no one knowing her real name or power, Scholastic hardcover in the U.S. and Canada"

—Anouncement on Pierce's website