Robert Jordan's Blog

Apparently he's told a few people how the Wheel of Time series is supposed to end, so it may be finished by ghostwriters, but he did not live to finish it himself.

Just told my DH, he's a fan of those boat anchor books (that's what I call something that large). So sad, I understand he was an amazing writer.

How very sad. I read the first six books and tried to read the 7th but it had just been too long since I had read the others. I didn't feel like trying to read them to figure things out again so I passed it and book 10 on to a fan of his work.

My hubby has spent the last year reading his series and is hoping that he finished the 12th book before he passed.

So sad!!! :cry: I've known the prognosis wasn't good for the last year or so, but he said he was doing better so I read book 11 to send good vibes this summer. :(

As for the last book.... From what I can gleam from the website, the final book, A Memory of Light, was tentatively due out in 2009 (the publisher wasn't pushing him for speed given the hard time he was having with his treatments). And yes, book 12 is really the last book -- finally! Back when he first got sick, RJ said he made legal arrangements that if he couldn't get his story finished then no one could -- guess he didn't want anyone messing it up! But he seems to have had a complete turnaround as the reality of the situation due near and his fan base proved so supportive and so eager to know the ending. As physically writing proved harder and harder, he turned to dictating info on the story onto recordings so the book could be written as close to the way he'd intended as possible. It didn't mention who would be doing the fill-in writing, but somewhere I saw a quote about the dictation being for "an army of writers," so possibly by more than one person(?).

This is so sad as he was one of the best writers today. Love his books.

If you read his blog it also says that he told the family members who update the blog the rest of book 12.

It seems from what I read that he was actually "writing" book 12 as he dictated... so it would just have to be transcribed... and then in the last week of his life he told the rest of the story to his family, so the book could be finished.

They've picked the writer who'll be finish A Memory of Light!

Brandon Sanderson, who wrote Elantris, which I've heard good things about, and now I see he's written several other things which sound yummy too...