What was the biggest challenge in keeping all this straight and just getting the work done? You obviously had some materials Robert Jordan left for you, and your own skills as a writer that you’re bringing to the table, but you’re also bringing those fan expectations to the table. So there was a lot more performance anxiety for this project than any book before that.
I’m kind of a stepfather, in a lot of ways. This story doesn’t belong to me it belongs to the fans. I do what I feel is best, and I just write the story.īut with this project, I didn’t feel that was right. In a lot of ways, as a writer, when I write something, normally I feel beholden only to myself.
That last book, A Memory of Light, was published in January to rave reviews and a spot on the top of the New York Times bestseller list.īrandon Sanderson: Yes, it does. (Jordan had once said the last book could run 2,000 pages the finale trilogy collectively ran more than 2,500). A longtime fan of The Wheel of Time, Sanderson was tasked with turning Jordan’s partially-finished manuscript, pre-written ending and extensive notes into something that would successfully conclude the series, which eventually was split into three novels. Jordan’s death in 2007 while working on the planned 12th and final volume of The Wheel of Time caused an uproar among those seeking to know the fate of hero Rand al’Thor and the other characters.Įnter Sanderson, the prolific young writer of the acclaimed Mistborn series. That was the challenge set before young writer Brandon Sanderson when he was called upon to complete The Wheel of Time, a series of doorstop-sized fantasy novels published from 1990 to 2005 by Robert Jordan, a pen name for James Oliver Rigney, Jr., that have sold 44 million copies worldwide. Now imagine you’re the one who has to come in, bring the epic to a satisfactory conclusion, resolve dozens of dangling plot threads, all while dealing with a passionate and demanding fan base who’ll never let you forget it if you fail. Martin passes away before completing A Song of Ice and Fire, the bestselling series that’s also the basis for HBO’s Emmy-winning Game of Thrones.
Rowling had died before finishing Harry Potter, or if (as some fans fear) George R.R.
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