I am happy with the response. Though I do want to make the caveat that in my mind, the Wheel of Time fandom is not my fandom. I don’t mean that pejoratively. I mean that I don’t have any assumption that people who read the Wheel of Time books are…
When we made the decision to split the book, I did a blog post on the subject. I won’t rehash it all here, but there are some specific questions have asked since then that it might be interesting to address. Did Robert Jordan totally miscalculate the size his final book?…
Pull up a chair. Get some hot cocoa. This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. In order to explain to you how this book came to be split as it did, I want to step you through some…
My agent did just that, actually. He said he had a lot of trouble through the first half of The Gathering Storm then had a blast with the second half. I honestly wouldn’t suggest it. The Wheel of Time is meant to be an in-depth, immersive experience. There’s a lot…
Long series run into some problems, particularly if they’re a single, ongoing story rather than a sequence of episodes. Robert Jordan ran into some of these problems, as has George R. R. Martin. I think much of it can be mitigated by releasing books regularly. The Wheel of Time reads…
Wikipedia says: Tuckerization is the act of using a person’s name in an original story as an in-joke. The term is derived from Wilson Tucker, a pioneering American science fiction writer, fan and fanzine editor, who made a practice of using his friends’ names for minor characters in his stories….
Will you publish Robert Jordan’s notes?? As for the notes Mr. Jordan left behind, I’m actually trying to come up with a good way that we can release them. The thing is, I know that he was very nervous about people reading his unfinished writing. He wouldn’t even show a…
Since you’re a writer specializing in cool and unique magic systems, how was it to use and write with the magic system in Wheel of Time? Hard or easy? Did you have to come up with new weaves, or did Jordan already have unmentioned weaves written down somewhere? Well, the…
I thought about this quite a lot during the months when I was reading the Wheel of Time again straight through, trying to figure out how I would approach writing the final book. Obviously, this project wasn’t going to be like anything I’d done before. I couldn’t just approach it…
With this project, it’s less that I was trying to find Mr. Jordan’s voice, and more that I’m trying to find the Wheel of Time voice. There’s a distinction there for me. I’m not going to try to imitate Mr. Jordan’s writing. I don’t think that would come off right,…