Timewaster's Guide Archive

Hello! I have two quick questions that I was hoping someone could answer. Yes or no will do fine, but details would be nice.

1) On Dan's Twitter, he said, "Guess what, manuscript I've been revising for months: PWND. The latest draft of my new book, PAIN OF GLASS, is done and sent to my editors." Since he's sent the manuscript to his editors, does that mean it's been bought by a publisher?

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2) I read on the comments section of the blog post "A Whole Nother Book: Literally" (http://www.fearfulsymmetry.net/?p=338), Dan said, "Nightbringer will still happen, I’m just stopping to write [Extreme Makeover: Apocalypse Edition] first." Does that mean he plans on writing Nightbringer next or just at some point in the future?

Thanks for taking the time to look at this. Dan's books are amazing and I'll be excited for whatever he decides to publish!

Is it just me, or are shardblades remarkable similar to The Subtle Knife? (Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy)

I think of a shardblade as a lightsaber minus the sounds and light. It appears to do just about the same thing, at least from what you get from the prologue. (I'm sure it'll get much more complex in the book.)

I imagine he signed it.

According to his Twitter he signed all they had and place a surprise in one. I just want to know what the surprise is.

I know back on TGS tour it was usually things like bumper stickers.

Do you think he'd place a bumper sticker or something like it in the Warbreaker paperback?

Ask Brandon what he would say if Harriet McDougal asked him if he'd like to write THE INFINITY OF HEAVEN after WoT is finished. I'd like to see if he would consider it. (I know on the WoT FAQ it says that they (Team Jordan) don't feel the urgency to have it written in Robert Jordan's absence, but Brandon didn't say if he would or wouldn't if asked.)

Keep in mind he has drafts at various levels of progress for a lot of his "Cosmere" works.

That makes me excited. 

I had also heard of the two SA, one non-SA, but I wasn't sure if he'd try to do Dragonsteel (7 books, right?) while he's also doing SA. That would seem like a lot.

And when he says two SA, one non-SA, does he mean that there will be one year where there is no SA or does he mean that two books will come out in the same year, with only one of them being SA? So would that mean if he tries to do a trilogy that there will be a one to two year gap in between them?

So...is anyone going to comment on the Kalad/Kaladin thing? Is it intentional? (Kalad led the rebellion long ago in Warbreaker and Kaladin is a character in The Way of Kings, but their names are strangely alike.)

You know, if Preservation in Mistborn was the mists, then wouldn't it make sense for the Shard in The Way of Kings to be the storms that frequently hit Roshar?