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Alcatraz 5 isn't on hold. It's not scheduled at all. Scholastic decided not to publish it. Brandon will finish the series by some other method at some later date.

Ah, well that answers why Scholastic isn’t publishing the third and fourth Alcatraz novels in paperback. Of course I could be wrong, but it appears there is something that’s gone wrong in the working relationship between Brandon and Scholastic.  That’s a shame.

I am certain Brandon will find a publisher to finish the series, but it's too bad we will never see books 3 and 4 in paperback as Scholastic holds the publishing rights.

Well, that would be odd if they didn't. I mean they released the first two in paperback.

Peter, has Scholastic Press given any indication why?

It’s good to be back again. The forum was down whenever I tried visiting in the past, but it looks like it has been up for awhile now. It is good to see up and going again.

But to the topic of my post,  I have read the first two Alcatraz books, and although on the light side because of what ages they are aimed at, they are good reads. However, I would like to purchase the third book, Alcatraz Versus The Knights Of Crystallia, in paperback. But for whatever reason, it is still not available even though the hardcover was released in December 2009.

Does anyone know or heard from Brandon on what the hold up is? I would like to purchase the third book and continue with the series, but really would like to do so in paperback.

Quote from: Hobbun on September 11, 2010, 04:56:11 PM

Thanks for that post, Rhuan. It is obviously a lot more informational than mine in regards to the Q&A and has better pictures, as well.   

The post I linked to is not mine.

I was more just thanking for you posting the link.

What time did you end up leaving?  I assume you stayed to at least to have your book signed and then took off?

This Q&A was nice in that it seemed we had a lot more time this time around (than when he was here for TGS). But unfortunately, I don't remember a lot what was asked.   

I remember someone had brought up that Brandon had mentioned in the past that Mistborn is a trilogy of trilogies and that down the road, one of the trilogies will involve sci-fi. The person's question led to when that does happen, how does he plan to handle the allomancy in space. Brandon basically gave him a RAFO as he didn't know yet himself.

What my question was since it has been said many times that The Stormlight Archives is a planned 10 book series, I assume he has an outline of all the books already to have an idea it will be 10 books? Brandon said he does have one, a very detailed one, to be honest. To give an idea how detailed, he said the outline is as thick as WoK. 

There was a question that everyone knows here already, when the next WoT book comes out. Which we know as Nov. 2nd. Someone else had also asked when the final book is going to be released. Brandon said he is still hoping for late next year, but could be as late as Spring 2012. But stressed again they are still shooting for late 2011.

Hmm, what else. There was a question in regards to how he handles linguistics as well, but I can't really recall what the answer he had given now. I believe he had indicated he handles it different ways, depending on what kind of society he is trying to build.

Oh, and for those who might not have heard it on his previous tour stops, but it appears Brandon plans to put out two books for every 3 yr span for his Stormlight Archive series. So if it stays with the planned 10 books, we are looking at 15 years.   

Finally, I asked Brandon later at the hotel if he has started A Memory of Light and he had said not yet. He is planning to take a short break until January 1st, which is when he would go right back into it. I said "Well, you deserve the break from any writing, even if only a few months." He responded with "Oh, not completely stopping writing, it would be like stop breathing for the next few months." He finished with saying he'll probably be writing a few short stories.

That's all I can think of right now. I asked him some other questions at the hotel, but they were more in conversation than any big news to splay online.

I played Archenemy against Brandon at DragonCon a few times, so I've seen a lot of his deck.  Brandon's Archenemy deck focuses a lot on Eldrazi.  I think he's got all of the legendary Eldrazi (Emrakul, Kozilek, Ulamog, etc.), plus Eye of Ugin, 4 Eldrazi Temples, 4 Cloudposts, 4 All Is Dust (1 of which he got by trading with me at DragonCon ), and 4 Not of This World.  I don't remember much of what else he's got, but he has quite a few of the old no-drawback dual lands.

This is pretty much what he played against us tonight in Chicago. And just obliterated us with it. He is now 8-0 with this Archenemy deck.

That 15/15 flyer that has protection from every color and destroys 6 permanents is game over. It's what killed me.

Is all of this related to WoK?  If so, not to sound rude, but if you wouldn't mind, I would appreciate it you started up another thread about it. I have not read WoK yet.


(Moderator Edit: I moved all the discussion veering into Way of Kings talk into another thread where you can continue talking about the connections between Elantris and WoK if you'd like. Thanks!)