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<div class="submitted">Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Jennifer Liang</div>
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<p><strong>What will Book 13 & 14 be called?</strong></p>
<p>Book 13 will be TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT. Book 14 will be A MEMORY OF LIGHT.</p>
<p><strong>When will they be published?</strong></p>
<p>Tor is publishing TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT on November 2nd, 2010. According to <a href="http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/925/Another-Long-and-Rambling-Post-on-Future-Books">Brandon Sanderson's blog</a>, he intends to begin work on A MEMORY OF LIGHT in January 2011 and anticipates it's release no later than Spring 2012. This will be the final Wheel of Time novel.</p>
<blockquote><p>And so, we're entering the "refresh and work on side projects" stage of the writing process. I did this after <i>The Gathering Storm</i>, and I really need it now. I am therefore taking time off between now and January first. I get to write anything I want. It will probably be bizarre and unexpected; things that keep me fresh, things I haven't tried before.</p>
<p>I ask your forbearance. I do believe that as a writer who has begun series, it is my responsibility to see that the other pieces of the story are written in a timely manner. However—and it may seem odd—I need to work on these other things to keep my next Wheel of Time and Stormlight installments good. It's how my process works.</p>
<p>So, that's the first warning. I'm taking a break for three months. The second warning is that I can't promise I'll hit the final deadline on the Wheel of Time series. (The last one was supposed to be out in November 2011.) The problem is this: starting January, it will have been three years since I read the Wheel of Time series start to finish. That's too long. I'm starting to forget things. I won't feel comfortable starting the final book until I've done another re-read, and this is going to slow me down by three or four months. It's an unexpected delay I didn't fit into my original projections of how long it would take me to write the books.</p>
<p>If I miss the deadline (which is more likely than not) it won't be by much. A few months, likely the same amount of time it takes me to do the re-read. But it is what must be done. So, I'd suggest that we set MARCH 2012 as the expected date of <i>A Memory of Light</i>. I suspect there will be some grumbling about this, but I feel I should let you know now, rather than later. It won't be an enormous delay, however. If my previous track record earns me anything, I hope it is the benefit of the doubt when it comes to me promising the release dates of books. I won't leave you hanging too long.</p>
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