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Interview #15: Letter to Tom McCormick, Entry #5

Question

Do you currently think it will be seven or eight books total, also will the books continue to remain as ‘chunky’ as The Fires of Heaven and The Shadow Rising ?

Robert Jordan

At present I am indeed hoping to complete the cycle in either seven or eight books. I am 90% confident that I can do it in seven, 95% confident that I can by eight. The thing is, as a famous manager of an American baseball team once said: “It ain’t over till it’s over.” I know the last scene of the last book and the resolutions of all the major story lines. I have known these things since the very beginning. It is just a matter of getting there. And I am afraid the rest of the books very likely will be as large as Shadow and Fires . Sorry. I’ve been thinking about asking the publisher to include a shoulder strap. At least I haven’t topped a thousand pages in hardcover yet.

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