Wheel of Time to be finished by author Brandon Sanderson
11/12/2007 . Source: Jessica Martin 
US science fiction and fantasy publisher Tor Books has said that scifi novelist Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to finish the final novel in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series. Jordan died September 16th 2007 after a battle with the blood disease amyloidosis. As RJ wrote himself, The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time? The new novel, A Memory of Light, will be the twelfth and final book in the fantasy series.
Harriet Popham Rigney, Jordan's wife and editor, said of her decision to have Sanderson complete the last book in The Wheel of Time series, "I have chosen Brandon Sanderson to complete Robert Jordan's great work, and I am absolutely delighted that he accepted. I will of course be editing this book as I have all of the other books of The Wheel of Time."
President and Publisher of Tor Books, Tom Doherty, also expressed his happiness with Harriet's decision, saying, "I am delighted that Harriet has chosen Brandon to complete Robert Jordan's magnificent and timeless epic."
Like Jordan, Sanderson was an avid reader and writer from an early age. His debut novel, Elantris, was an unagented piece taken up after Sanderson, then a college student writing during his late night shift at a local hotel, approached Tor editor Moshe Feder at a fantasy convention. Several months later, after reading the manuscript and deciding he had to have it, Feder tried to find the author, who had since moved. Using the internet, he tracked down Sanderson through a campus directory - and the rest is history.
Sanderson has since gone on to pen fantasy novels: Elantris, Mistborn, and The Well of Ascension, as well as a YA novel, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians.
Jordan himself worked on the final novel daily for the last few months of his life and according to Harriet, "Some scenes were completed by Robert Jordan, and some exist in draft form; he left copious notes and hours of audio recordings."
Jordan had known the ending of the series for a long time and, according to a blog posting by his cousin, Wilson W. Grooms, Jr., on the Jordan fan site http://www.dragonmount.com, Jordan had a few months ago revealed secret details about the end of the series to close members of his family which he had never discussed before.
Sanderson knows that fans are very anxious to read the last novel in The Wheel of Time series and says, "I'm both extremely excited and daunted by this opportunity. There is only one man who could have done this book the way it deserved to be written, and we lost him in September. However, I promise to do my very best to remain true to Mr. Jordan's vision and produce the book we have all been waiting to read."
Now Brandon Sanderson has signed on to complete A Memory of Light, with scheduled delivery of the manuscript in December 2008 and a planned publication date of Fall 2009. |
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