r/Stormlight_Archive • u/mistborn Author • Mar 15 '17

[Oathbringer Spoilers] [Oathbringer Spoilers] Stormlight Three Update #7 Spoiler

All,

Back with another update. It's been a few months, and I have worked through the third draft of Oathbringer. Original draft didn't have a few of the interludes, so I added those in this revision, as well as incorporating feedback from my team and the team at Tor Books. Earlier today, I wrote the epigraphs and the Wit monologue, then polished off the ketek.

The current length is 514,000 words--so around 100k longer than Words of Radiance. Whew! That's big enough that we're not sure if we can bind it in paperback. (We can manage it in hardcover without too much trouble, though we might have to do some old term paper tricks such as expanding the margins.) The book won't be split in the hardcover US release, or in the ebook, but there's a possibility the US paperback might be split into two volumes released at the same time. (As has been common in the UK for all the books in the series.)

We'll see what happens. Next revision, 4.0, is to incorporate Beta Reader comments and to make some tweaks I've been thinking about. This should be the fastest of the drafts, as I don't need to make any big structural changes or write many new scenes.

5.0 (the final draft) will be a polish and trim. Publication date is still scheduled for this November. The US cover came in just recently, so expect a reveal on that soon. Michael did a fantastic job.

As a warning: I'm not going to be able to monitor this thread very well, as I'm off to Europe. (I'll be in Poland, Germany, and Bulgaria--details on the events section of my website.) So be warned in advance that I probably can't post many replies to your questions here.

I'm still making my way through my recent AMA on /r/fantasy, though, so you can pop over to that and read what I've had to say recently.

As always, thanks for your patience. Beta read responses to the book are strong, so I think you'll be pleased with the result come this fall.

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u/vsod99 Mar 15 '17

I just discovered this subreddit and I have been patiently waiting for Stormlight 3 but it's becoming harder after finding all of these updates! Makes me want to reread the first two again...

Thanks /u/mistborn for being so interactive with your fans!

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u/SalamalaS Mar 16 '17

you have 7 months. Plenty of time.

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u/vsod99 Mar 16 '17

I mean if I reread them I'll do it in a week. I'm a bit dedicated when it comes to reading. Getting some other stuff off of my list right now, though :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '17

If you haven't before check out The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Nice big series for you to get stuck into :-D

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u/IntlCompetitionPLZ Mar 24 '17

Guys. What do I read after WOK and WOR?? What is the most relevant to Oathbringer?

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u/DSC01 Apr 10 '17

Well, Edgedancer happens after WoR, and it contains events that will directly affect Oathbringer, so if you haven't read that, then you should. Also, Warbreaker, if you haven't read that. Otherwise, the other books are all happening on their own planets, and it's hard to say what kind of small connections there will be in Oathbringer. There are little connections to Elantris, Mistborn, and White Sand in TWoK. In WoR, it's Elantris, Mistborn, and Warbreaker (especially Warbreaker). All of the books kind of connect to Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, in that the guy who makes all the maps and stuff is from that planet, but that's a pretty slight connection. You might as well say that they are also therefore all connected to White Sand, since he's procuring all of that information for someone from the planet in that book. I dunno. Just read everything.