"He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind, was gone."

A Memory of Light is the title of the forthcoming conclusion to The Wheel of Time saga. Like The Gathering Storm and Towers of Midnight, this novel will be completed by Brandon Sanderson, based heavily on the notes left behind by Robert Jordan before his death in 2007.

Release Schedule
The hardcover and audiobook editions of the book will be published on January 8, 2013. The ebook will be released on April 9.

Prologue and First chapters
The opening portion of the prologue is available for for free right here on Dragonmount.

The full prologue will be made available to fans before the full book is released. No date has been set for this. It's likely that it will be made for sale, as previous prologues have been.

Finally, Tor.com is likely to provide at least one or more chapters for free after the prologue has been released.

Artwork
Darrell K Sweet was commissioned to paint the book cover. Unfortunately, Mr. Sweet passed away before he could complete it. He did complete a first draft of the painting, which he referred to as a "color sketch." Here is that image:

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After Mr. Sweet's passing, the commission was given to renowned artist, Michael Whelan. Mr. Whelan's cover is shown below. You can find wallpaper versions of this image on Tor.com.

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Here's a video of Brandon Sanderson talking about his experience in reading the final scenes of the novel, as written by Robert Jordan.


This is an older video from May 2011, which provides some additional development news (now outdated) on the novel. It also includes some theories on what we can expect to see.

In anticipation of this final book, Tor.com has been running a series of articles discussing a wide range of fun topics. They include interviews with Dragonmount webmasters Jason Denzel and Jennifer Liang. Click here to see the whole series of articles.

        

• Robert Jordan came up with the title of this novel as late as 2005. He shared this fact with fans while on book tour for Knife of Dreams.
• Robert Jordan frequently said that the final scene of the series was one of the first that he imagined at the very beginning of his story development process in the 1980's.
• According to Brandon Sanderson, this final scene was written personally by Robert Jordan before he died and will be in the book exactly as he intended it.
• In an online interview, Robert Jordan stated that the last word of the final book would probably be "time".
• The quote at the top of this page was originally written by Robert Jordan about Rand al'Thor. When Jordan died, Harriet took the quote and put it on his funeral prayer card. She later shared it with his fans via his blog.