I’ve really enjoyed reading the annotations you have on your website and my question is two parts related to that, have you been keeping, or will you be writing annotations for the Wheel of Time books you’ve been working on and then, will ever try to release an actual annotated volume of any of your works?
Ok, the question is twofold. The first one is: mentioning the annotations I do on my website, I’ve annotated a large number of my books chapter-by-chapter on my website, so if you like behind the scenes stuff, particularly on the Mistborn Trilogy, there’s a lot of really good information there. I did do annotations for Alloy of Law that we’ll eventually start releasing. I’ve not done them for Way of Kings yet. And so the question was, will I be doing them for the Wheel of Time?
Once the book is out, I would really like to do a collection of Robert Jordan’s notes—it alternates with annotations, with me saying, “Here is what he left me, you can now read these notes, and here is why I decided to adapt it the way I did, and here is a hole in the notes, so you can see what I did.”—essentially do an annotation that way, a book about the process. I don’t know if Harriet will want to do that. It’d be up to her, and she has a really good reason for not wanting to do that, and that is that she doesn’t want people’s last memories of Robert Jordan to be the unfinished. He was very…he didn’t like showing his material to people, when it was in an unfinished state. He liked showing them finished things, and so it made him uncomfortable when people would read early drafts, and it would have to release some early drafts in that. And so, it would really be her call, and I can’t make that call for her. If she lets me do it, I’ll do it.
I would like to release some annotated editions of my books, maybe for the tenth anniversary of Elantris , we’ll do an annotated edition, and then a sequel the next year. That’s kind of what I’m hoping to do, if I can.
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