Hi. We’re speaking with author Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series, and the newest book is Lord of Chaos . And . . . welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me.
And you’re here on a publicity tour, and you’re in Atlanta now. We’re talking to you just prior to your signing at Oxford Books. Briefly, if you can—I know your series sort of defies brevity in a way—tell us a little about the series and the place of the newest book in the series. It’s a very large question.
It isn’t really possible to tell you a little bit about it at this point. When the third book was published, I was asked to do a one-paragraph synopsis of each of the first two books. And I said that isn’t possible. And then I was asked, “well then, can you do a one-page synopsis of each of the first two books to send out with the third one to reviewers?” And I said it really isn’t possible. You don’t realize, I’m doing War and Peace here, except that I’m doing it for an entire continent, not one nation, and I’m doing it in a fantasy world that never existed, so everything is being created. It isn’t possible to do it that quickly. A bare bones outline of each of the first two books was ten to twelve pages, and that was very bare bones. Not possible to do a short outline, no.
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