Now that the series is done, how does it feel and what are you planning to do now?
I feel very satisfied that it’s complete; very sad that it is another occasion for me to say ‘goodbye’ to Robert Jordan. The last five years have been one goodbye after another, and none of them are easy. But I knew that he wanted the series finished, and it’s done , and that’s very satisfying, and also very sad. So it’s sad, happy, bitter, sweet—a whole mix. It goes in and out of these things.
There is still an Encyclopedia for me to do with Maria Simons and Alan Romanczuk; Maria worked with my husband, and now with me, for seventeen years, and Alan has been around for twelve, so they know the material very well and have been…I started the material that will be the Encyclopedia back with The Eye of the World , writing down proper nouns. Then it got to be The Great Hunt , and I said, “Oh Lord.” [laughter] You get pages of the Aiel: who are in which sept, who are in which warrior society, who is married to whom—the whole thing. I think y’all will like it, and we will be turning it in perhaps some time next year…I mean this year. We’re in ‘13 already. By its nature it couldn’t be done until the series was complete. It may amuse you to know that in the contract it says it will be delivered in 2008. [laughter]
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