| Re: Release date?
GRRM has officially announced ADWD's release date. It is:
When it is done.
He has a (self-imposed) deadline of June 30th. If the book is finished by then, then the book will be published at the end of 2008...in the UK. The US release is looking increasingly doubtful. I've got a funny feeling that history is going to repeat itself and just as exactly ten years earlier A Clash of Kings was released in October 1998 in the UK and February 1999 in the US, the same thing could happen again.
However, according to a rep at the Bantam stall at Comicon, the editors are taking special measures to try and squeeze the book out in the USA before the end of 2008. I get the impression that they've realised that late 2008 will be fairly devoid of big releases and ADWD could clean up if it makes it out, whilst in 2009 it will be up against the big guns of the second Rothfuss novel and the last Wheel of Time book (which is going to be a Big Deal). |