Patrick Rothfusss

[Gyrate]

@DrDeth

Is a copy in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls porch?

I’ll go look it up in my Funk & Wagnalls.

[Alessan]

@DrDeth

Yeah the first two were pretty good, and he wrote a couple of novelettes set in the universe. But yeah, it was all about the KINGkiller chronicles, and altho a couple people mentioned a king being killed, so far, it is all taking place years and tears later, or reminises.

There’s also some ancient evil that has reawakened and is after the hero, an invasion of spider-creatures, and something weird going on with the moon… all of which has been barely touched upon, instead wasting our time with a sub-Nancy Drew murder mystery, sex lessons and tuition fraud schemes. It’s so damn frustrating. I know there’s a good story there, but the author is doing everything except tell it.

[JRDelirious]

@DrDeth

publishers have to start demanding the final book in a series be sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnalls porch

@DrDeth

Is a copy in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls porch?

…hermetically sealed.

@Dr.Strangelove

he could say that this is really a 7-book series

…and then come to a stop at Book 5 instead?

…

But yeah, fantasy publishers may have to simply decide they will not promise the public anything that they haven’t seen evidence of being delivered. Or maybe, authors and editors and publishers could reconsider the notion of the Grand Epic Series as some sort of gold standard for fantasy. Look, guys, write a bunch of smaller in-universe books with the stories you have in you, with the “grand arc” as a connecting tissue, and IF one day you complete the “grand arc” then add framing narrative and have them all compiled into the Massive Trilogy or Pentateuch. I know, I know, then you will NOT get the immediate big advance…

That an author may at some point just run out of momentum and no longer have it in him to go on, is not something unimaginable. The issue many people have is with the created expectations.

[Simplicio]

The irony is that I picked up Name of The Wind a decade or so ago because I was looking to try reading fantasy again, but didn’t want to start on some 12 volume unfinished epic. Someone told me NotW was “just one book” which I guess I interpreted to mean it was a one-off, instead of what the person presumably meant, that the author had just published one book of an intended trilogy. Wasnt till I was most of the way through reading it that I realized the plot wasn’t going to get wrapped up by the end of the volume, and then bothered to read the fine print on the cover and realized my mistake.

So now 10+ years later, Im not only on the hook for another epic fantasy series, but one that seems unlikely to be finished in the next decade as well

[DrDeth]

@Simplicio

So now 10+ years later, Im not only on the hook for another epic fantasy series, but one that seems unlikely to be finished in the next decade as well

Let me fix that-but one that seems unlikely to be finished.

[JRDelirious]

@DrDeth

@Simplicio

Im not only on the hook for another epic fantasy series, but one that seems unlikely to be finished in the next decade as well

Let me fix that-but one that seems unlikely to be finished.

And BTW welcome back, Simplicio.

[nightshadea]

heh it took melanie rawn over 20 years to make a sequel in the promised “exiles” series and as far as I know she has no plans on finishing it

[Simplicio]

Thanks!

[SCAdian]

How long has Koontz been promising a third Christopher Snow book?

[MrDibble]

It’s 29 years and counting that I’ve been waiting for the Third Book of the Art, Barker!