WOR finished (OFFICIALLY) - Launch date confirmed

[Natans he/him]

Hello friends to everyone that don't follow tweet, I bring good news =)

 

Brandon tweeted that he finished Word of Radiance (kind) and confirmed the release date =)

 

 

Brandon Sanderson ‏@BrandSanderson2h

So yes, the March 4th release date is pretty much set in stone now. It could shift by a week or so if marketing decides, but not much more.

 

 

Brandon Sanderson ‏@BrandSanderson2 h

For those wondering at Words of Radiance progress, I sent in the first chunk for copyedit yesterday. That means we're entering production.

 

 

Michael Montazeri ‏@mamontazeri2h

@BrandSanderson What does production mean?

 

Brandon Sanderson ‏@BrandSanderson2h

@mamontazeri Copyediting, typesetting, all of the things that take it from digital file to book on the shelf.

 

 

And unfortunally WOR are bigger then WOK  (such a shame)

 

 

Brandon Sanderson ‏@BrandSanderson2 h

I promised Tor that Words of Radiance would be shorter than Way of Kings. The new scene I added to day made it officially longer. Sigh.

 

So, to soon to make arrangement to the release party ?

 

 

PS: To everyone how gonna buy the hardcover, it's time to hit the gym and prepare yourself for lift an +1100 pages book for days =)

 

 

Now it's official =)

 

Brandon Sanderson ‏@BrandSanderson47 m

Just sent the last revision of Words of Radiance to my assistant so he can format it and send it off to Tor. The book is officially done!

Edited December 6, 2013 by Ookla the Puro

[bartbug he/him]

What do you mean, days. I intend to be finished before 12 noon on the fourth of march.

(I buy the ebook at midnight, read as far as I can before the hardcover arrives from amazon, and then I continue. Then I wait for him to come along and sign it.)

[Natans he/him]

What do you mean, days. I intend to be finished before 12 noon on the fourth of march.

(I buy the ebook at midnight, read as far as I can before the hardcover arrives from amazon, and then I continue. Then I wait for him to come along and sign it.)

 

 

o.O +1100 pages in a day ? 1100pg/24h=45.833 pages per hour, your are a machine man =)

 

I will read in a week or so, I have to study and work....... and sleep, eat,.....

 

Edit. Tks again Shardlet

Edited November 21, 2013 by Natans

[Arook he/him]

o.O +1100 pages in a day ? 1100pg/24h=45,833 pages per hour, your are a machine man =)

 

I will read in a week or so, I have to study and work....... and sleep, eat,.....

 

He said done by noon, 91.67 per hour

[Natans he/him]

91.67 per hour? Just a word =)

 

[Shardlet he/him]

1100pg/24h=45,833 pages per hour

 

European decimal conventions always confuse us Americans.  We read 45,833 as forty five thousand eight hundred thirty three rather.  For us it is 45.833.

Edited November 21, 2013 by Shardlet

[Natans he/him]

European decimal conventions always confuse us Americans.  We read 45,833 as forty five thousand eight hundred thirty three rather.  For us it is 45.833.

 

Didn't know that =) Tks

 

Here we only use dots to separete  big numbers like this  R$1.000.000,00 (one million)

[Cartith he/him]

Hm, 12 hours sounds about right, depending on whether I have classes/work that day. I'll be requesting the day off if I can XD. My brain is itching waiting to devour WoR now. 

[Shardlet he/him]

Didn't know that =) Tks

 

Here we only use dots to separete  big numbers like this  R$1.000.000,00 (one million)

 

 The convention is opposite here: $1,000,000.00.

[Sasukerinnegan he/him]

Can't wait...... i'll probably finish it on the first day itself.

[bookspren]

Thanks for the info, Natans. Can't wait. It will probably take me two days to read through it, then I'll turn right around and start a reread or two...or three.

[Shardbearer he/him]

 The convention is opposite here: $1,000,000.000.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

Edit: And there's no way I could read it that fast even if I didn't have work/kids/wife/bathroom urges.

Edited November 22, 2013 by shardbearer

[Shardlet he/him]

IDK, shardbearer.  When you're talking about a million dollars, I don't think that tenths of cents really matter that much.

[dyring]

Fixed that for you.

 

Edit: And there's no way I could read it that fast even if I didn't have work/kids/wife/bathroom urges.

 

You mean you _don´t_ bring the book to the bathroom?

 

I used to read faster then I do now, used to read several books a week, now I only read maybe one or two a month, and my reading speed have gone down noticeable too as a result. Doubtful if I make 100 pages /hour now, but would have been easy back then.

 

The more you read the faster it goes;)

 

As for americans, I dont care so much about that dot thing, but dates..... the amount of times Iv gotten dates wrong cause you americans can´t write it right...

 

22/10/13 today , day month year, small to large. Large to small can be somewhat logical too, but not middle small large.

Edited November 22, 2013 by dyring

[The Rooster he/him]

I haven't really been active here as a big Cosmere release has come out.  Will the WoR sub-forum continue?  Do people post partial spoiler groups?  Luckily the Stormlight Archive books are divided by parts so those will be obvious points of dissection. 

[The Count he/him]

I am planning to take a long weekend after the release and spend four days on the sofa with a never-ending stream of Tea and biscuits until I am finished.

 

I get quite obsessive with new books, it took me about 20 hours (over 6 days) to read A Memory of Light cover to cover. I think I will probably allocate 24 hours of reading time over the 4 days (Friday - Monday) to complete WoR.

 

@agrooster: I would guess there would have to be a deadline whereby you need to assume people have read the book if they are on the forum. I would guess keep the WoR subforum open for, say, a year? Maybe until spoilers for book three start getting released?

 

Eventually the WoR knowledge will have to become assumed general knowledge of the world.

Edited November 22, 2013 by MadRand

[WeiryWriter he/him]

I believe the policy is for the spoiler forums to remain up for 6 months.  I think that is what happened with The Emperor's Soul, and it is the spoiler-period on the wiki...

[Shardlet he/him]

22/10/13 today , day month year, small to large. Large to small can be somewhat logical too, but not middle small large.

 

I agree that the dates make nore sense dy/mo/yr.  Sucks for me though because for work I have to try and keep track of which countries use which convention.  It gets real tricky sometimes to interpret the date when the publication date of a document is before the 13th of the month.

[Natans he/him]

I agree that the dates make nore sense dy/mo/yr.  Sucks for me though because for work I have to try and keep track of which countries use which convention.  It gets real tricky sometimes to interpret the date when the publication date of a document is before the 13th of the month.

 

 

There is some logic in this kind the date sytem? Or it's only a cultural thing. I ask this because i really never understood why in the seven hells put the months before the days, to me it always looked a very odd choice. (funny cultural diferences )

[Shardlet he/him]

My only guess is that it was originally used in a specific application where it made more organizational sense to have the month first and then it caught on from there to its present day prevalence.

[WeiryWriter he/him]

There is some logic in this kind the date sytem? Or it's only a cultural thing. I ask this because i really never understood why in the seven hells put the months before the days, to me it always looked a very odd choice. (funny cultural diferences )

 

I think it has to do with how we say dates, which is Month Day Year, i.e. today is November 22, 2013 as opposed to the 22nd of November 2013.

[Fistsofrage]

The site has finally changed from 10% to 41%. Wonder what that means...

[Shardbearer he/him]

IDK, shardbearer.  When you're talking about a million dollars, I don't think that tenths of cents really matter that much.

 

Oh...egg on my face. I was seeing that as a billion with a zero left out when it's actually a million with two decimal places included.

[cem he/him]

There is some logic in this kind the date sytem? Or it's only a cultural thing. I ask this because i really never understood why in the seven hells put the months before the days, to me it always looked a very odd choice. (funny cultural diferences )

I have it on good authority these things are decided by a small monkey who has been fed an exceedingly large amount of gin.

[PeterAhlstrom he/him]

Brandon didn't say that he is finished with the book. But the draft for copyediting will be finished by December 6th.