Wise Man's Fear

LaMattie

LaMattie

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Hi everyone,

Does anybody know when Patrick Rothfuss's next book is coming out??
I remember I saw the release date on amazon sometime ago, but I searched for it again I couldn't find it....
 
Hi LaMattie,

I'm afraid even Rolthfuss doesn't know when his next book is going to make it to the shelves. He's still working on it according to his blog, and I wouldn't like to bet on it being out before this time next year.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...:eek:
 
bah! cos play.com said it should be out now! and im waiting and wanting and . . . *cry*
 
Hmmmm. Shades of GRRM? Is Rothfuss becoming Mr. Re-Write Junior?

It will be worth it if the next book is better. The first showed a lot of promise, and a lot of raw talent, but at some point he needs to start writing in the present, second-person tense, which is what I am waiting for. He needs to speed up young Kvoth's development. The most intriguing bits of the first book occurred in the bar, where Kvoth tells his story. The first person mechanism was getting a little thin by the end (if that is what you can call it) of The Name of the Wind. Still, this author really is one to watch.
 
noooooo! i love first person, and i loved that it was all looking back at his life. the best bits were not teh bar bits, for me. i didn't care less about a bunch of people in a pub. i liked him at university and in the city. i guess that's because im more interested in characters than i am in action. im happy enough to read a book about absloutly nothing, as long as the characters are interesting.
although im mostly waiting for when he means the faerie types :) bast is lush :)
 
Clansman said:
Hmmmm. Shades of GRRM? Is Rothfuss becoming Mr. Re-Write Junior?

It will be worth it if the next book is better. The first showed a lot of promise, and a lot of raw talent, but at some point he needs to start writing in the present, second-person tense, which is what I am waiting for. He needs to speed up young Kvoth's development. The most intriguing bits of the first book occurred in the bar, where Kvoth tells his story. The first person mechanism was getting a little thin by the end (if that is what you can call it) of The Name of the Wind. Still, this author really is one to watch.
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I thought that aside from the overlong dragon hunting episode at the end, it was a pretty flawless debut. The school and the city were fascinating, though I'll agree that more needs to be devoted to the present. There was a sense that there is something going on in the present that is important or impending and not enough sense of that mystery was provided I thought. It could have used a bit of foreshadowing. In general though, I loved the first-person reflection style it gave. I do kind of hope the growing up moves a bit quicker in book two though. We got a good setup and feel for Kvothe as a character and now his progression as a man is what I'd like to see.

I do share your concerns though. In the author's defense, given the hype and praise his first book got, he has to be feeling enormous pressure to deliver a very strong follow up. I'd feel a pretty powerful need to revise it myself. However, part of what drew me to this series was the promise (or so I had thought) that the series was done and was simply being released one per year. The fact that he doesn't seem to just be revising and is adding a lot of text doesn't bode well. It had a great pace in book one and I'd hate to see that momentum lost to the desire to expand and expound endlessly (the trap that destroyed WoT). Still, I loved book one and will definitely give the second a chance.
 
According to Rothfuss' blog, he'll be finishing off the completed draft any day now and submitting it to his US editors. He's then going off on a European book tour and will be back in the USA at the start of June to do the minor rewrites and edits that are part of the normal publication process. At that point we should get a publication date locked in.

It will be no earlier than February 2010 in the UK since Gollancz have locked their schedule in place now and as successful as Rothfuss has been, I don't think he's at the GRRM or Jordan level where space can be cleared at short notice for him. The US publishers may be more flexible, but I think they're unlikely to publish before the start of 2010 either.
 
bah! and *cry*
and i bet he won't visit this part of europe (wales) very few people ever do! *cry again*
 
Here is his projected itinerary as listed in his blog:


For years now, I've had folks in the UK and the rest of Europe saying things like, "When are you going to be coming to [insert name of foreign country here]??!!?"

Well now's the time.

I'm more that willing to do signings at the cities I'm stopping at. But since this is happening on the spur of the moment, I don't have time to go through official bookstore channels, or perform the typical courting dances with foreign bookstores: first researching, then calling around, then playing phone tag, then trying to convince them that it would be worth their while to order a dozen of my books and set up a card table....

By the time I finished that, I'd already be back in the US.

So here's where you come in.

I'm posting my itinerary below. What cities I'll be and where. If you own a bookstore (or work in one) and you'd like me to come in and do a signing, lovely. Drop me a message off the contact form and we'll set something up.

If you don't work in a bookstore, but you know a cool one you think would be interested, ask them if they might be interested. Then, if they are, drop me a message. Or have them do it.


May 8-11 Rome
May 13-15 Amsterdam
May 17-19 Paris
May 21-25 London (And environs.)

May 27- 28 Edinburgh
May 30 Glasgow






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see? no one comes to wales :( not that he's doing that much of england either! wish i was still in edinburgh!
 
Whenever the train and the ferry was cheaper than flying, I used to do Galway to London semi-regularly for publishing events. Wales isn't that far from London :p
 
I see Australia is off the list so far, so will just have to make do with reading his new book, whenever it arrives! Already put my name down on the 'order form' at my local bookshop.
 
So if the editor jumps on it right away, and Pat okays the editorial changes and sends the final copy back right away, and they can find a spot in the printing schedule, then... December???
 
K. Riehl said:
So if the editor jumps on it right away, and Pat okays the editorial changes and sends the final copy back right away, and they can find a spot in the printing schedule, then... December???
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IN YOUR DREAMS!!! Nine months minimum for pre-production. He still has to do some minor re-writes, and did you see the size of the manuscript?!? It's huge. Werthead indicated above that next February is the earliest likely date. At least the manuscript is done, unlike another author, and who has been complained about ad nauseum (oops. There goes another Stark).
 
Well, when it comes to Bestsellers they get expedited priority in the printing process. They will put several readers on it. It will depend on Rothfuss getting into some more "tinkering" that may slow things down. If the publisher wants or needs a bestseller in the prime Pre-Christmas release schedule then they can make it happen.
 
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