I guess on the bright side, for all intents and purposes SA is two 5 book series, so the first series will be done by 2024 if that helps. :D
It does? Damn I had no idea. I thought that with the book being done after all the drafts and reviews, they just print it and done. There you go.
This also assumes he sticks to that. He already changed the timescale between Stormlight releases because they took a lot out of him IIRC. Still, with it being two arcs with a hopefully satisfactory ending each, the wait should sting less.
Yeah with both the leatherbound and ROW last year I think his team had to work a lot of extra hours so I'm sure he wanted to give them a break
The other thing that I can think of besides the lead times mentioned above is that Tor is publishing Alcatraz 6 (which has actually been finished for a while now) in mid-2022, with a planned rerelease of the first 5 books in paperback leading up to its release. Different audiences and imprints, but maybe they want to spread out their Sanderson releases.
I am grateful that Sanderson, for the most part, makes an effort to avoid cliffhangers and have an actual resolution for each book too. It is less about the wait itself and more about the abstract, mild terror of any 20+ year commitment, and including Dragonsteel/Mistborn 4, possibly 30+ years. It's real midlife crisis material!
True enough. I'm accustomed to that feeling because I've thought about that since I first learned of his plans for the Cosmere, which I think was for around 36 books at the time and six had been released, one of which had been unplanned and eventually became its own series 😆
It's really good and they're shorter reads but yeah that makes sense.
Yeah, the "it is not what you're thinking... no, it's not that either" is vague enough of a tease to set my brain racing.
I'd rather not give Epic any money or my personal details ever again. Took me three months of near daily emails to get my account deleted and I suspect even then they never actually deleted it. Anyone but Epic, please.
