And last time we talked, we went into a little bit of a discussion about how you didn’t have time to look at the internet, and so going back and forth on the fan sites wasn’t something that you did, but…you have a blog! You have a blog…Robert Jordan has a blog!
Yes I do, and as a matter of fact, I posted six or seven times in the ten days prior to going on tour.
How has that experience been?
It’s interesting. A lot of comments from the fans, and it all came about because I had time, having finished this book earlier than I normally do in the cycle, I had time to actually browse some of the sites, and I commented to Jason Denzel who runs Dragonmount about something I had seen, and he said, “Would you like a blog?” And I said, “Well, sure.” And people have rushed in to give comments, and I make a post, and go back the next day, and there are already forty, fifty, sixty, seventy comments already up, and I don’t know whether that’s high for blogs, or low, or what, but it’s astounding to me.
What kind of…is it a dialogue? Are they observations?
It’s a dialogue, really. It was going to be a very infrequent posting when I thought I had something to say to them, and right away I had to quash a rumor that I had cancer.
What??
Yes, yes, yes; apparently there was this rumor that I had cancer, and sometimes it was in remission, and sometimes it wasn’t, and that’s why the books were taking so long.
[laughs]
Come on guys, it takes a long time to write a 700-page book!
There are 761 pages of text in here!
Yes. So, I had to go back almost immediately and put up another post saying, “No, I do not have cancer, and I never have had cancer,” and there were a couple of questions that had been posted at the same time, and so I answered those questions, and it began a sort of dialogue which has ranged from philosophical questions about the things in the books down through “Do you wear boxers or briefs?” I told the lady that asked that that there was only one way for her to find out, and she would not like Harriet’s reaction, and neither would I.
I’m certain that’s true.
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