Excitement around the impending release of The Gathering Storm, the new book in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, has hit fever pitch, with the book hitting online retailer Amazon.com’s top 10 list based on pre-release orders.
The last three books in The Wheel of Time are being written by established fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who was selected by the widow of the original author, Robert Jordan, after tragically passed away in September 2007 to finish Jordan’s masterpiece. The first book, The Gathering Storm, will be published internationally on October 27.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, The Gathering Storm just broke into the top ten on Amazon,” Sanderson wrote on his Twitter account today.
According to Amazon.com, The Gathering Storm has been in its top 100 list for 61 days, based on pre-orders. Number one on the list is Stephen King’s new book, Under the Dome, a sci-fi thriller that is slated to be released on November 10. Dan Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol is number four on the list, and has spent 188 days in the top 100, based on pre-orders.
Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan had a “maze-like” filing system, according to Alan Romanczuk, one of Jordan’s staff, who appears on a new video posted on YouTube consisting of short snippets of people associated with the production of Jordan’s masterpiece.
Speaking of the amount of background material Jordan had to the series, Romanczuk said “this translated in his filing system into something I’ve never encountered before. He had what I can only describe as a maze-like hierarchical system of files.”
The last three books in The Wheel of Time are being written by established fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who was selected by the widow of the original author, Robert Jordan, after tragically passed away in September 2007 to finish Jordan’s masterpiece. The first book, The Gathering Storm, has already been finished and will be published internationally on October 27.
