Just finished The Broken Eye - now I'm plagued with waking dreams about the possible repercussions for each character and can't think about much else or get any work done. So thank you for that! Questions: Is there a release date for the 4th book yet? Could it get large enough to need to be split out into a 5th book? (I hate waiting but that would be amazing!) Lastly, how do you suggest I fill my time while I wait?

Brent Weeks Hi, Bethany! Thank you. Um... yes, it is possible. I'm doing my best to wrap it up in four books. A couple of very important main characters want two books' worth of development and action. I'm trying to stuff them back down and get done. This is partly because I've felt abused as a fantasy reader by books that did nothing except extract another $30 from me. I hated that as a reader, and I really don't want to be accused of it as an author. That said, I'm going to write the scenes every day that make this the best series I know how to write, and give the best reading experience I know how to provide. Where editors choose to split that, and what we have to do with the pages afterward is something I try not to focus on too much. Currently, I'm working through a really, really bad situation with... ahem... Gavin... and it's taking all my focus!

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