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Re: AMOL Split
« Reply #135 on: April 03, 2009, 05:42:23 PM »
lol, I'm not sure how to get to his forum.. like I said, I'm kinda new on this website. And I'm glad other people agree with me too :) Good point about the book labels though. I was just thinking they would all say Wheel of Time, but I guess he is going to do these different .Oh, well =)

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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #136 on: April 03, 2009, 06:52:05 PM »
When the author has been dead for about 70-80 years I forget what the actual time limit is. There are sequels to Wizard of Oz being written now as an example. Some consider the Extended Universe of STar Wars books to be canon, even though none are written by George Lucas.

WAY off topic, but all Star Wars books are required to be authorized by people at Lucasfilm. They do a pretty good job of keeping everything very consistent from book to book and avoid contradictions. There have a been a few (some that are freaking HUGE) but hey there are some in the movies. Remember how Leia remembers her mom yet her mom lived all of about 8 seconds after her birth :-) For that I say they would be above fan fic (much like what Brandon is doing now, but the 'creator' hasn't passed away.

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Re: AMOL Split
« Reply #137 on: April 03, 2009, 07:11:38 PM »
This thread should be locked, there is already one on this topic and another one on it that has already been locked.  Go here for further discussion please.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #138 on: April 03, 2009, 07:50:12 PM »
yeah, Star Wars is a different beast. it is Writing for Hire. the authors are hired to write a predetermined story arc that has been approved by satan Lucasfilm.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #139 on: April 03, 2009, 08:00:46 PM »
There is a topic for this argument.

@Bookstoreguy - I totally agree the artwork is kind of lame, but what can you do?  I think it is right that they kept the same artist all the way through, the art style changing half-way through the series would have been weird.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #140 on: April 03, 2009, 08:24:51 PM »
oh, no doubt. it would have been awful to change artists in the series. this is part of what happened to Erikson. the thought on cover artists is to have 1 artist (good or bad) for an entire series. the next series than an author writes should have an entirely different artist.

however, it must be noted that due to Sweet being the artist for Jordan, having him as the artist for the likes of Farland and Modesitt have helped their sales. it was the buyers psychology of, "same artist, same theme! yay!"

but yeah, WoT covers are icky. except for books 1 and 3. those look like normal fantasy covers. book 11 is horrid. nothing says epic fantasy like a planning session - amirite?
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #141 on: April 03, 2009, 08:33:05 PM »
I have to say I really hope they don't do the AMoL vols 1, 2 & 3.  If the books are finished enough to publish separately they deserve Names of their own.  AMoL sould be reserved for the last volume.  Of course the first volume books have to be at the printer already if they are planning on Oct or Nov releases.  It would be hard to distribute enough copys to stock the Borders and B&Ns in all the little towns that will be clamoring.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #142 on: April 03, 2009, 08:38:41 PM »
I have to say I really hope they don't do the AMoL vols 1, 2 & 3. 
It's already been confirmed that that's how they ARE going to do it.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #143 on: April 03, 2009, 08:48:20 PM »
That's sad.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #144 on: April 03, 2009, 08:58:06 PM »
Yeah but those aren't the titles themselves they aren't bolded or anything the LARGE PRINT for the first one is Gathering Storm
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #145 on: April 03, 2009, 09:05:59 PM »
I understood orginally they would be

A Memory of Light: Gathering Clouds
A Memory of Light: Shifting Winds
A Memory of Light: Tarmon Gai'don

http://brandonsanderson.com/article/56/Splitting-AMOL

Now I understand that book stores didn't want the AMOL part in there so I'm guessing that each one will change somewhat with TG actually being AMOL.

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Re: AMOL Split
« Reply #146 on: April 04, 2009, 04:35:49 AM »
This thread should be locked, there is already one on this topic and another one on it that has already been locked.  Go here for further discussion please.

There are already TWO threads.
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Re: AMOL Split
« Reply #147 on: April 04, 2009, 05:08:34 AM »
I agree, but I'll merge instead of lock.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #148 on: April 05, 2009, 07:58:24 PM »
As long as the stories get wrapped up, i don't care how many books or how long it takes.

I just wish it were split into two books instead of three.  Thirteen is a prominent number in the series, and it would have been fitting to get thirteen books.
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Re: Breaking news on A Memory of Light: three volumes (maybe) & cover art
« Reply #149 on: April 05, 2009, 08:21:21 PM »
Well if you count the prequel, then more than 1 book is too many.
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