First off, to all of you have said thank you, in so many ways, for writing these books, you’re welcome. And also thank you. You have given me what every writer wants, a readership that is truly involved and interested. Thank you, very much.
Some of you have expressed worry over my lurking and a fear that I might take offense at some of the posts. I don’t. Not even at the trolls. Please feel free to keep on saying whatever you have been saying. I am not the thought police.
For Seriana Sedai, don’t worry. I won’t be discussing spam here. To tell you the truth, I skip over it very quickly.
DomA asks whether I feel sadness at the hatred of Cadsuane. No, nor do I feel sadness over those who dislike Egwene or Elayne or Faile or insert name here. The characters are who I want them to be. Some, people will like, and others people will dislike. In any case, I’ve noticed that even Faile has her supporters. As for her, I like her a lot. But then, I like all of my characters, even Semirhage. Even Padan Fain. As a character, anyway. As for Faile, she is a tough woman with a lot of gumption. Taken prisoner, enslaved in truth, caught in a cleft stick by the threats of Galina and Therava, she has (1) tried to get her people to freedom as she could and (2) worked toward an escape for the rest. However tough her situation gets, she wastes zero time on moaning about it. She gets on with trying to make it better. And Cadsuane? She’s the tough maiden aunt a lot of us have had. Not the one who tries to keep you a child your whole life. She’s the one who began expecting at least some adult responses out of you at about age six, the one who was willing to hand you responsibilities that everyone else thought you were too young for. You probably had a more nerve-wracking time, and more excitement and adventure, with her than you did with any three or four other adults in your life.
Now then. Isabel. Does your mother know you’re posting at 1 AM? Do I need to ask her to supervise your online activities? Well, I suppose it might be 1 AM Eastern time, or Pacific. And you are in the Netherlands. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. And thank you for the spirited defense. I probably won’t answer plot-related questions, but who knows. I might slip up and do one now and then.
For Rohit and Mand680, Robert Jordan doesn’t come out of Hemingway. In fact, when I first made the connection, I had already written three books under the name. My pen names have all been chosen from three lists of names using my real initials. It has been a matter of one from column A and one from column B, or maybe column C. One pen name actually managed to contain all three initials in a first name and a surname.
For Cloverleaf, my next set of books after The Wheel of Time will also be fantasy, entitled Infinity of Heaven. The writing style will remain the same, though I will keep trying, as I always have, to get better. There are no plans to publish a collection of my raw notes, but Harriet, with my incidental help, will be doing an Encyclopedia of WoT which will have a lot of stuff out of the notes.
For llm (hope I have that spelled correctly), I do daily backups using Nero and keep the backup discs in a safe place so that if something drastic happens to my main computer, all I need do is pick up a laptop, pop in the discs, and go on working.
For JBunG, I will definitely be spending a lot more time writing than on the blog. Now, I put in an hour now and again on the blog, every few days. When I go on tour, the blog will go silent for a while. And when I come back and go to full work days on Book 12, I’ll probably post no more than once a week unless I have something I think really needs to be said.
And for MJJ, as posted by DomA, pillow friends are not just good friends. Oh, they are that, too, but they also get hot and sweaty together and muss up the sheets something fierce. By the way, pillow friends is a term used in the White Tower. The same relationship between men or women elsewhere would be called something else, depending on the country.
Well, enough of that. Some of you are probably getting afraid that I intend to post daily screeds by this time. I have a list of questions to answer already, and I’ll try to get to the rest of them, and any others that pop up, before I go on tour.
Take care, guys.
All my best,
RJ
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The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
A Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart
Crossroads of Twilight
Knife of Dreams
The Gathering Storm
Towers of Midnight
New Spring
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May 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
August 16th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Hello Mr Jordan
I just wanted to say a little word from France. I hope my english won’t be too terrible.
OK. You have big fans here in Paris, and even if we hate the translaters for beeing too lazy (we’re only at tome 7 translated!!) we should thank them because we have to read english and improve our reading, speaking etc etc…!!!
To resume, thank you for writting all these great stories, I hope you will be as fine as it can be, I send you all my good vibrations
you rock!!!!
Adrien
P.S.: on vous adore en France!!!
June 8th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I have been downloading and listening to all of your Wheel of Time books (unabridged). I get them through Audible. I have been through the first 7 books and can find books 9, 10 and 11. Why does no one have the unabridged book 8? I have been to every audio book outlet and they all have every book but 8. Is there something unique about this particular book that no one is allowed to sell it?
AdamC
May 7th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I happen to like Nynaeve, in fact ^.^ (on the other hand, Cadsuane… too much for me, I suppose).
I began to read The Wheel of Time 3 years ago (my cousin’s fault ¬¬). I’m Spanish, and at that time I would have not been able of reading the books in English. I am now, so yesterday I bought the first four titles in English language. I must confess I did it in Ebay (hey, don´t look at me like that, man), because I think I did my contribution to the cause by buying the 18 other books. You know, the Spanish publiching house has divided your series in quite a strange way, so… Now I think of it, I´ve already paid almost FIVE HUNDRED euro, and I´m really poor (believe me, I am a university student, I´m hungry). All I wanted to tell you is that I really enjoy your books, and that I don´t care if I would have to pay 400 euro every time I wanted to read them again (lucky me, that won´t happen).
However, that was not my point when I began writing this, so I will cut it. We have to be serious now, because this is a threat, and you’d do well to be frightened. The point is, you had better write at least as nice as the Spanish translator, and she is the f*cking mistress. That´s all I´m going to say but, believe me, if you don´t, I will go anywhere to chase you. I will.
Andrea
PS: Take care, too.
April 14th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Interesting comments.. :D
April 9th, 2007 at 4:37 am
Good site!!!
March 16th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
pagine piuttosto informative, piacevoli =)
February 19th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I know you’ve been told this many times. Thank you. Thank you for all your books, not just the WoT.
I am quite eager for Book 12 of WoT. Although I have the patience of a stone. So take your time.
As for liking this or that character in WoT. I like them all to be honest. The good, the bad and the ugly! My favorites are Cadsuane, Egwene, Aviendha and most definately Mattrim Cauthon! Rand has come a long way…..a very long way. He was once a shy, innocent respectful boy. To become a bully, scandrel and hard as steel. However we still get a insight into his mind and heart once in awhile to know that he’s still human.
The one character I find so intrigueing and hope to get a better glimpse of is Noal. He’s so mysteriouse, yet clearly a tortured man.
Nynaeve is the one that makes me most laugh even when she is in full temper. The fact that she thinks everyone else is wool headed stubborn besides herself is too funny.
However if I had to choose a character to portray or one most like myself. I find I can relate most to Perrin. He and I are similar while I have the temper and bravado of Aviendha.
Yes, I am most definately looking forward to Book 12.
Sincerely,
Claira
December 28th, 2006 at 5:03 am
Hello,
Firstly, i just want to say thank you for The Wheel of Time Books, i only started reading them 2 years ago, i have to admit though, i did own a copy of The Eye of the World for about a year before that and after reading the first page of the Prologe “Dragonmount”, i just cound’nt get into it (To my Shame!!!!). But after a year or so passed i picked the book up again, and wow, i just could’nt put it down. Following that i went out bought the next four and so on, and i am completly hooked.
I Loved “The Dragon Reborn” and my personal favorate book was “The Shadow Rising”. I loved the battle of Dumai’s Wells in “Lord of Chaos”, and the cleansing of saidin in “Winters Heart”.
I don’t know why some people seemed to dislike “New Spring”, i personally thought it was refeshing to read between “Crossroads of Twilight” and waiting for “Knife of Dreams”.
Anyway, the real reason for posting was to wish you a heartfelt goodluck in regards to your illness, and like i said at the top of my post, a very big thank you for books.