While I eagerly await the next novel in The Stormlight Archive I recently read your description of The Rithamist as “It’s kind of like playing magical chalkboard Starcraft, in a gearpunk world, told through the eyes of the unmagical son of the cleaning lady.” and was instantly intrigued. How is the progress on it going?
zas678 got it below. The Rithmatist MIGHT come out this year, if I have spare time to revise it. I don’t know that I will, as other projects come first. It feels bad to leave it hanging all of this time, but my real worry is that it had an ending that implied more books (which is the type of ending I like to write.) That is bad at this juncture. A cool stand-alone is fine, yet another series people will wait to see more of is bad. So I can’t release it until I can either support it, or until I can fix the ending to not imply more volumes. That, plus the book needs a heavy draft.
From what I’ve heard, he wrote it a couple of years ago, but it needs a good 3-4 months of Brandon revisions. So it will be a while, because he really feels like he needs to get out WoT and then Stormlight Archive 2. After that he may write it.
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