Erik’s answer to “When can we expect a release date?” > Likes and Comments

Just wanted to point out that cover art for big titles is often done months and months before the manuscript is even turned in. We had the cover for GRRM's A DANCE WITH DRAGONS years before it came out.

As the guy who saw the cover, I can also state that it's more or less generic and doesn't really have anything to do with any particular storyline.

I can also say that I was shown the cover art for TWMF when I visited the Daw offices in NYC a few years back, and that several months before it was annonced that the book would be pushed back for about a year.

The book will be released when it's ready. Rothfuss and Betsy Wollheim won't permit anything that's not his best effort to be published. . .

in the 5 years or so

We can expect the book anytime now that the cover art is done...

Four years later...Are you feeling like Patrick's b!tch yet?